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🗓️ 21 May 2025
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0:00.0 | The spring storm season has been deadly and dangerous. |
0:09.0 | Over the last week, the central United States has been walloped. |
0:15.0 | 108 million people are in the bullseye for tornadoes damaging winds and giant hail. |
0:21.4 | CBS is Nicole Valdez. |
0:24.0 | It started out with thunderstorms. |
0:26.8 | Then tornadoes. |
0:28.9 | Good morning, Katie. |
0:29.7 | I can see a lot of damage right there behind you. |
0:32.8 | More than two dozen people are dead in Kentucky and Missouri, following tornadoes on Friday that uprooted trees, leveled buildings, and flipped cars. |
0:41.3 | In some sections, the tornado hacked a path that was half a mile wide. |
0:46.4 | On the eastern side of the forest. |
0:47.8 | Pictures tried to convey the scale of what happened. |
0:52.0 | But honestly, when storms travel hundreds of miles from St. Louis, Missouri |
0:57.0 | to London, Kentucky, it's hard to fit all that destruction in a single frame. |
1:04.0 | So this is where you hid. This is where we is at, right here. His home of 47 years now scattered across his lawn. |
1:16.6 | What happens now seems obvious, right? The aid rolls in. It is, or starting to. |
1:24.3 | But the question is how much the feds are going to kick in. In fact, at this very moment, |
1:30.5 | there are people on the ground trying to assess whether these storms were destructive enough. |
1:36.7 | There has to be a survey, on the ground survey, where FEMA officials and state officials and |
1:43.0 | local officials look at the damage, and they |
1:45.7 | try to put a number on it. In other words, what's the cost to repair this and to see, does the |
1:52.2 | number meet a threshold that FEMA sets? Does it have to be a certain kind of expensive to get the |
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