TONIGHT. STACEY: ADAM, MID-AMERICAN ENERGY IS MAKING PROGRESS GETTING THE POWER BACK ON. ADAM: THEY ARE. A CREW JUST LEFT FROM BEHIND US. WE’RE IN ANKENY, IN THE MIDDLE OF A NEIGHBORHOOD. YOU CANNOT TELL BECAUSE THEY ARE STILL WITHOUT POWER SO IT IS EERILY DARK. CREWS ARE WORKING A 24/7 SHIFTS RIGHT NOW, AND THEY ASK FOR YOUR PATIENCE. THEY SAY AT ITS PEAK, ABOUT 132,000 CUSTOMERS IN THE DES MOINES AREA WERE WITHOUT POWER AND THIS WAS ONE OF THE MOST IMPACTFUL STORMS TO THEIR SYSTEM, EVER. EARLIER TONIGHT WE SAW MULTIPLE CREWS OUT FIXING LINES MAINLY IN AREAS WITH LARGER TREES DOWN. MID-AMERICAN SAYS IT 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 SAYS IT COULD TAKE A FEW DAYS FOR POWER TO COME BACK AND BE RESTORED IN SOME PLACES, ALL OVER I WILL, REALLY DEPENDING ON THE TYPE OF DAMAGE. , >> THERE ARE SITUATIONS WHERE WE CAN’T START REPAIRING UNTIL A TREE CREW COMES IN AND REMOVES A TREE BRANCH, OR ENTIRE TREES THAT ARE OVER LINES OR ARE THREATENING LINES. ADAM MID-AMERICAN ENERGY : UNDERSTANDS THE FRUSTRATIONS RIGHT NOW, BUT THEY SAY THEY WILL RESPOND TO EACH CUSTOMER AND RESTORE POWER. IT’S ALSO IMPORTANT TO NOTE IF YOU DO COME ACROSS A DOWNED POWER LINE, ALWAYS ASSUME IT’S ENERGIZED, AND GIVE MID-AMERICAN A CALL. LIVE TONIGHT IN DES MOINES, ADAM -- IN ANKENY, ADAM BROWER, KCCI 8 NEWS, IOWA’S NEWS LEADER. RHEYA: CREWS WITH DES MOINES PUBLIC WORKS WILL BE WORKING TO CLEAR ROADS OVERNIGHT. ABOUT 40% OF NEIGHBORHOOD AREAS ARE BACK OPEN BUT POWER LINE ISSUES ARE SLOWING THINGS DOWN. BUT ALL MAJOR ROADS HAVE BEEN OPENED FOR EMERGENCY VEHICLE ACCESS, AND PUBLIC WORKS EXPECTS TO HAVE ALL RESIDENTIAL ROADS FULLY OPENED TOMORROW. STACEY: IN MARSHALLTOWN EVERYONE IS WITHOUT POWER TONIGHT. AND IT COULD BE DAYS BEFORE IT IS BACK ON. KCCI’S LAURA TERRELL IS THERE LIVE WITH A LOOK AT THE DAMAGE. LAURA: EVERY SINGLE STREET LOOKS LIKE THIS. TREES DOWN, POWER LINES DOWN, THE WHOLE CITY IS DARK, AND IT’S UNCLEAR WHEN THE LIGHTS WILL COME BACK ON. CLEANUP WAS UNDERWAY IMMEDIATELY AND MARSHALLTOWN. EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK ON EVERY STREET TREES SNAPPED LIKE TOOTH , PICKS AND TOPPLED ONTO HOMES. THIS HOUSE NEARLY SLICED IN HALF. >> IT WASN’T FIVE MINUTES AFTER I LEFT WHEN THIS THING HIT. LAURA: HOMEOWNER NICK CARL HAD JUST LEFT TO GO THE BANK. THE NAVY VET NOW RELIEVED HE RETURNED HOME ALIVE. A FEW BLOCKS AWAY A TREE SLAMMED ONTO THIS RECYCLE TRUCK TRAPPING ONE MAN INSIDE. >> HE WAS CONSCIOUS AND ALL THE NEIGHBORS CAME OUT, EVERYBODY WAS TRYING TO LET HIM KNOW IT WAS GOING TO BE OK. LAURA: NEIGHBORS SAY IT TOOK FIREFIGHTERS TWO HOURS TO GET HIM BEFORE HE WAS AIR LIFTED TO A DES MOINES HOSPITAL. >> THEY TOOK TO -- WHEN THEY TOOK HIM OUT, HE HAD LOTS OF INJURIES. LAURA: EVEN THE FIRE DEPARTMENT WAS DAMAGE, AND ALL OF MARSHALLTOWN REMAINS WITHOUT POWER, AND THIS IS WHY. BENT POWERLINES, DESTROYED BY POLICE WERE KEPT BUSY WITH 433 CALLS FOR SERVICE, AND MORE THAN 50 GAS LEAKS. NOW THE ONLY THING LEFT TO DO IS CLEAN UP. >> I THINK WE BOTH LOOKED AT EACH OTHER AND ASKED EACH OTHER, WE DON’T REALLY KNOW WHERE WE ARE SUPPOSED TO START. LAURA: HEATHER AND JAY GROBE RE-EMERGED TO FIND THEIR BACK YARD LIKE THIS AFTER RIDING OUT THE STORM IN THEIR BASEMENT. >> EVERYBODY SAYS YOU HERE A FREIGHT TRAIN. I’M PRETTY SURE IT WASN’T A FREIGHT TRAIN. LAURA: IT’S A FAMILIER SOUND HERE BECAUSE MARSHALLTOWN HAS BEEN THROUGH THIS BEFORE. IT IS STILL RECOVERING FOR A TERRIBLE TORNADO 2 YEARS AGO. >> IT DEFINITELY BROUGHT BACK SOME HARD MEMORIES. WHAT WE ARE GOING TO BE OK. MARSHALLTOWN IS A STRONG COMMUNITY. GOOD PEOPLE, GREAT PEOPLE, SALT OF THE EARTH PEOPLE. WE ARE GOING TO BE OK. LAURA: FALL ALL THE RESIDENTIAL AREAS LOOK LIKE THIS WITH DAMAGE AND TREES DOWN, THE GOOD NEWS TONIGHT IS THAT THE DOWNTOWN AREA AND THE COURTHOUSE WAS NOT SIGNIFICANTLY DAMAGED LIKE IT WAS TWO YEARS AGO IN THE TORNADO. SO MINIMAL DAMAGE, BUT NOT A LOT THERE, SO THAT IS THE SILVER LINING HERE TONIGHT AND MARSHALLTOWN.