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IS GOING TO BE ON THE QUIET SIDE. ERIC: WELL, THIS MORNING, PEOPLE ACROSS THE STATE ARE PICKING UP AFTER A POWERFUL STORM HIT IOWA HARD. ALYX: ����vlog’S TOMMIE CLARK IS LIVE OFF OF ASHWORTH AND EIGHTH. WHAT ARE YOU SEEING NOW? TOMMIE: THE MAJOR PROBLEMS ARE OF COURSE THE POWER OUTAGES AND ALL OF THE DEBRIS WHICH IS IN THE FRONT YARD BUT MAJOR TREE LIMBS CAME DOWN ON TOP OF THIS BUSINESS. THIS IS A COMMON SEEN IN THE AREA. LOTS OF BRANCHES HAVE FALLEN, COVERING YARDS. MOST OF THE STREETS HAVE BEEN CLEARED. MIDAMERICAN CREWS ARE WORKING 24-7 SHIFTS RIGHT NOW TO GET POWER RESTORED. THEY REQUESTED 2,000 PEOPLE TO COME TO IOWA FROM OTHER PARTS OF THE MIDWEST TO HELP OUT. BUT THAT COULD BE AN ISSUE BECAUSE OTHER STATES ARE ALSO SEEING WIDESPREAD DAMAGE. THEY SAY IT COULD TAKE A FEW DAYS FOR POWER TO BE RESTORED IN SOME PLACES, DEPENDING ON THE TYPE OF DAMAGE. ����vlog CAUGHT UP WITH THOSE IMPACTED BY THE STORM. >> I LIVE IN THIS CONDO, SO I WAS LOOKING OUT THE BACK AND ALL I SAW WAS WIND AND RAIN AND DIDN’T SEE ANY DAMAGE UNTIL I CAME OUT. LOTS OF WIND, LOTS OF RAIN, LOT OF BAD WEATHER. PRETTY SCARY. TOMMIE: YOU CAN SEE WE ARE GETTING A BETTER PICTURE OF THIS DAMAGE. THE -- SOME WILL GO WITHOUT POWER. ALSO VALLEY WEST DRIVE, THIS IS THE AREA WE ARE SEEING BLOCKS OF OUTAGES AND RIGHT NOW A LOT OF PEOPLE DO NOT HAVE POWER AND HAVE TO CALL HOTELS AND BOOK ROOMS. THE HOTELS ARE COMPLETELY BOOKED BECAUSE SO MANY PEOPLE ARE WITHOUT POWER. LIVE IN DES MOINES, I’M TOMMIE CLARK, ����vlog 8 NEWS, IOWA’S NEWS LEADER. ALYX: THANK YOU, TOM B. WE ARE SEEING SLOW IMPROVEMENT RIGHT NOW. RIGHT NOW MORE THAN 86,000 PEOPLE ARE STILL IN THE DARK. CREWS SAY THEY’RE WORKING AROUND THE CLOCK TO RESTORE POWER. THIS MORNING, PEOPLE IN MARSHALLTOWN ARE WITHOUT POWER AND IT COULD BE DAYS BEFORE IT’S BACK ON. POWER LINES ARE BENT AND SNAPPED ALL OVER TOWN. TREES ARE TOPPLED ONTO CARS AND HOMES. A TREE EVEN SLAMMED ON TOP OF A RECYCLE TRUCK. THE MAN INSIDE WAS FLOWN TO A NEARBY HOSPITAL WITH SERIOUS INJURIES. CLEANUP WILL BE UNDERWAY FOR DAYS, BUT THIS IS NOTHING NEW IN MARSHALLTOWN. THE CITY SURVIVED A DEVASTATING TORNADO JUST TWO YEARS AGO. >> IT DEFINITELY BROUGHT UP SOME HARD MEMORIES, BUT WE ARE GOING TO BE OK. MARSHALLTOWN IS A STRONG COMMUNITY. GOOD PEOPLE. GREAT PEOPLE. SALT-OF-THE-EARTH PEOPLE, AND WE WILL BE OK. ALYX: I WINDS ARE RESILIENT. MARSHALLTOWN’S MAYOR DECLARED A CIVIL EMERGENCY. MARSHALL COUNTY OFFICIALS SAY NO ONE DIED IN THE STORMS. THERE IS WIDESPREAD PROPERTY DAMAGE. TISIA: IN OTHER PARTS OF THE METRO, PART OF THE ROOF ON THE BUCCANEERS ICE ARENA ON HICKMAN ROAD WAS PEELED OFF. THE PRESIDENT OF THE HOCKEY CLUB SAYS EVERYONE WAS ABLE TO GET TO SAFETY BEFORE THE STORM HIT. NO ONE WAS HURT. THE CLEANUP EFFORT STARTED RIGHT AFTER THE STORM PASSED. IT WAS A CLOSE CALL FOR A MAIL TRUCK DRIVER. HE’S SHAKEN UP AFTER A LIMB FELL ONTO HIS CAR WHILE HE WAS INSIDE. THIS IS NEAR 54TH AND INGERSOLL. THE OAK TREE LIMB SMASHED AND PIERCED THROUGH THE WINDSHIELD. THE DRIVER SAYS HE WAS SCARED BUT WILL BE OK. THE STORM ALSO CAUSED A NUMBER OF CRASHES ALONG INTERSTATE 35 BETWEEN AMES AND ALLEMAN. NOW, ONE CRASH INVOLVED A SEMI-TRUCK HAULING PIGLETS THAT FLIPPED ONTO ITS SIDE. THE ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE SPENT THE AFTERNOON TRYING TO RESCUE OVER 3,000 PIGLETS FROM THE WRECK. IN DALLAS COUNTY, WE’RE GETTING A BIRD’S-EYE VIEW OF THE DEVASTATION THERE. PHIL STRONG SENT US THIS VIDEO OF SEVERAL DOWNED TREES IN THE AREA. YOU CAN ALSO SEE WHAT’S LEFT OF THE TIN PIG TAVERN. THE STORM RIPPED ITS ROOF OFF AND SENT BRICKS CRASHING TO THE GROUND AND INTO AN SUV. ERIC: ALL OF THAT DAMAGE IS GOING TO HAVE TO BE PICKED UP. CITIES ARE MAKING ARRANGEMENTS TO HELP YOU GET RID OF THE DEBRIS ON YOUR STREET. DES MOINES PUBLIC WORKS WILL WAIVE THE STICKER REQUIREMENT FOR BRANCHES AT CURBSIDE PICKUP FOR THE NEXT TWO WEEKS. THE BRANCH BUNCHES CANNOT BE HEAVIER THAN 40 POUNDS OR LONGER THAN 4 FEET. THIS WEEKEND, YOU CAN DROP OFF THE LARGER TREE LIMBS FOR FREE AT A SCRUB EVENT. YOU CAN GO TO DSM.CITY FOR INFORMATION. IN ANKENY, YOU CAN DROP OFF YOUR BRANCHES TODAY THROUGH SATURDAY AT PRAIRIE RIDGE AQUATIC CENTER FROM 8:00 TO 4:00. CURBSIDE PICKUP WILL ALSO START THERE TOMORROW. IN JOHNSTON, CURBSIDE PICKUP WILL START NEXT MONDAY. IF YOU WANT TO GET RID OF YOUR DEBRIS SOONER, YOU CAN DROP IT OFF AT TERRA PARK WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. CLIVE WILL PICK UP STORM DEBRIS ON PEOPLE’S NORMAL PICKUP DAY STARTING TODAY. IN WEST DES MOINES, PICKUP STARTS MONDAY. YOU HAVE BEEN SENDING US INCREDIBLE PHOTOS OF ALL OF THE STORM DAMAGE. SO MUCH DAMAGE. THIS IS ON LOOMIS AVENUE ON DES MOINES’ SOUTH SIDE. PLENTY OF TREES SNAPPED IN HALF DUE TO THOSE HURRICANE-FORCE WINDS. A ����vlog VIEWER SENT US THIS PHOTO FROM THEIR BACKYARD IN ANKENY. THAT IS A BIG TRUNK. YOU CAN SHARE YOUR STORM PHOTOS ON U LOCAL OR ON OUR FACEBOOK PAGE, AS WELL. THIS IS ALL ABOUT THE BIG STORMS THAT MOVED THROUGH YESTERDAY. BREE: IT IS CALLED A DERECHO AND IT MOVED ACROSS IOWA, PAST OUR WAY AND THEN INTO ILLINOIS AND INDIANA. IT IS A LONG-LIVED WINDSTORM WITH A PATH OF DAMAGE OVER 250 MILES LONG. THIS WAS A LONG-LIVE STORM AND THE WIND GUSTS NEED TO BE 58 MILES, AND THAT IS WHAT WE HAD YESTERDAY. WE EVEN HAD THE ISOLATED WIND GUSTS OVER 100. THEY STRETCH ALL ACROSS THE STATE INTO ILLINOIS AND INDIANA. A LOT OF TREE DAMAGE. THE GRAND, 106 MILES PER HOUR -- LEGRAND. TAKE A LOOK AT THIS, CALM THI