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Deadly Tornados: Kansas, Missouri Hardest Hit
Aired May 05, 2003 - 07:01 ET
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HEIDI COLLINS, CNN ANCHOR: Hardest hit by the storms, though, were Kansas and Missouri, with the largest tornado touching in Leavenworth County.
Our Ed Lavandera is there now and has the very latest.
Hi -- Ed. What are you seeing?
ED LAVANDERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Heidi, we're in a subdivision in Kansas City, Kansas, and what you see behind me is a row of about eight homes, the first three of which you see here sawed basically in half by the storm that rolled through here yesterday. And this is a subdivision, where we've seen throughout the early morning hours here emergency crews working on power lines and trying to clean up the streets as best as they can at this point. But you can see the homes that were ripped apart here. Many people in this area are still without power.
If we swing around back over this way, you can just see the massive power lines that the homes have -- this storm left here as it rolled through yesterday. This is kind of back across from the subdivision here. And here are the power lines we're talking about, and this is what crews are going to be working so desperately throughout the day to fix up well.
So, a lot of damage here, as you can see, throughout the area along Eastern Kansas and western Missouri -- Heidi.
COLLINS: Ed, I realize the sun is just coming up there, but I imagine people got, you know, obviously no sleep last night. Have you had a chance to talk with any of the people to find out how they're doing and what the next step will be for them as far as, I'm sure, trying to gather their belongings, what they can find of them anyway?
LAVANDERA: Well, what we've seen here in this particular subdivision this morning is mostly just the crews working on the streets. We haven't seen many of the residents that live in this particular area. Perhaps they'll be coming back here in the next couple of hours as the sun continues to come up.
We do know that we have seen several people that were checked in to local hotels, just because simply you can't live in a home when it looks like this -- Heidi.
COLLINS: All right, Ed Lavandera in Leavenworth County this morning -- thanks so much, Ed.
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Aired May 5, 2003 - 07:01 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
HEIDI COLLINS, CNN ANCHOR: Hardest hit by the storms, though, were Kansas and Missouri, with the largest tornado touching in Leavenworth County.
Our Ed Lavandera is there now and has the very latest.
Hi -- Ed. What are you seeing?
ED LAVANDERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Heidi, we're in a subdivision in Kansas City, Kansas, and what you see behind me is a row of about eight homes, the first three of which you see here sawed basically in half by the storm that rolled through here yesterday. And this is a subdivision, where we've seen throughout the early morning hours here emergency crews working on power lines and trying to clean up the streets as best as they can at this point. But you can see the homes that were ripped apart here. Many people in this area are still without power.
If we swing around back over this way, you can just see the massive power lines that the homes have -- this storm left here as it rolled through yesterday. This is kind of back across from the subdivision here. And here are the power lines we're talking about, and this is what crews are going to be working so desperately throughout the day to fix up well.
So, a lot of damage here, as you can see, throughout the area along Eastern Kansas and western Missouri -- Heidi.
COLLINS: Ed, I realize the sun is just coming up there, but I imagine people got, you know, obviously no sleep last night. Have you had a chance to talk with any of the people to find out how they're doing and what the next step will be for them as far as, I'm sure, trying to gather their belongings, what they can find of them anyway?
LAVANDERA: Well, what we've seen here in this particular subdivision this morning is mostly just the crews working on the streets. We haven't seen many of the residents that live in this particular area. Perhaps they'll be coming back here in the next couple of hours as the sun continues to come up.
We do know that we have seen several people that were checked in to local hotels, just because simply you can't live in a home when it looks like this -- Heidi.
COLLINS: All right, Ed Lavandera in Leavenworth County this morning -- thanks so much, Ed.
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