NEWS LEADER. RHA:EY NEARLY HALF OF VIOLENCE ARE ELIGIBLE F SORTATE AID TO HELP REBUILD FROM THIS WEEK’S WINTER WIND STORM. HOMEOWNERS CAN APPLY FOR UP TO $5,000 IN STATE ASSISTAN AERCE DECLARATION YESTERDAY. 49 OF IOWA’S 99 COUNTIES ARE INCLUDED. NOW, NOT OYNL WAS THAT STORM UNPRECEDENTED FOR DECEMBER, IT IS NOW IN DECLARED A DERECHO. AS IT WAS COMGIN HE WERE MAYBE THINKING IT COULD BE ONE. JASON: YEAH, JUST HOW INTENSE IT WAS GOING TO BE WITH THE WHOLE TRACK OF IT. WE THINK OF DAMAGE OVER DISTANCE. THAT NEEDS TO BE 250 MILES, AND THAT IS WHAT WE SAW. FROM ABOUT 4:00 TO 80:0 WEDNESYDA ME, ANNE, AND CISHR WERE TRACKING THE DESTRUCTIVE STORMS AND WARNING OF THOSE WHO WERE IN ITS PA.TH THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICEAS H CONFIRMED 13 TORNADOES HIT OUR ATE.ST SIX OF THEM WERE CONSIDERED STRONG, WITH WINDS OF UP TO 120 MILES PER HOUR. BEHIND THE INITIAL LINE, WINDS GUSTED UP TO 74 MILES PER HOUR. THAT IS THE HIGHEST NON-THUNDERSTORM WIND GUST EVER RECORDED IN DES MOINES. THIS STORM WAS BUILT DIFFERENTLY THAN THE ONE THAT HIT BACK IN AUGUST OF LAST YEAR. WHILE THAT DERECHO PACKED WIND SPEEDS OF UP TO 100 MILES AN HOUR, IT WAS FUELED BY SMEUM ATHE AND HUMIDITY, WHEREAS WEDNESDAY’S WAS BY STRONG WINDS D ANSHEAR. ERIC: THESE STORMS HIT LAL ACROSS THE MIDWEST ANDRE A RESPONSIBLE FOR KILLING FIVE PEOPLE AT LEAST, INCLUDING ONE IOWAN. THE IOWA STATE PATROL SAYS A COUNCIL BLUFFS MAN WAS THROWN FROM HIS TRUCK AND DIED WH AEN STRONG GUST OF WIND BLEW HIS SEMI OVER ONTO ITS SIDE NEAR CEDAR RAPIDS. A N MAIN SOUTHEASTERN MINNESOTA DIED AFTER A TREE FELLN HI O , AND THREE MORE DIED IN KANSAS, WHERE A DUST STORM REDUCED VISIBILITY TO NEAR ZERO. RHA:EY FRIENDS, FAMILY, AND MPCOLETE STRANGERS ARE NOW HELPING PEOPLE IN GREENE COUNTY CLEAN UP. NEW DRONE VIDEO SHOWS JUST HOW POWERFUL THESE STORMS WERE. WE NOW KNOW AN E.F. 2 TORNADO HIT GREENE COUNTY, JUST SOUTH OF JEFFERN.SO WINDS THERE TOPPED OUT AT 120 MILES AN ONE GREENE COUNTY HOUR. FAMILY LOST EVERYTHING, AND THE TORNADO TORE THROUGH THEIR HOME, RIPPED THE FARM EQUIPMENT, TRUCKS, AND OUT-BUILDIN.GS >> IT’S JUST AMAZING HOW PEOPLE MECO TOGETHER FOR TERRIBLE SITUATIONS LIKE THIS. PEOPLE JUST WANT TO HELPND THAT IS VERY MUCH APPRECIATED. RHA:EY THE FAMILY HAS MOUNTAINS OF DEBRIS TO CLEAN UP, SO GETTING BACK TO ANYTHING NEAR NORMAL WILL TAKE SOME METI ERIC: PEOPLE ARE COMING TOGETHER, THOUGH. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE YSSA ANOTHER EF2 TORNADO TORE THROUGH WEBSTER COUN.TY THE STORM DESTROYED TREES, RIPPED GROUPS TO SHREDS, AND DEMOLISHED BUILDINGS. THE TORNADO THREW DEBRIS A MILE AWAY ACROSS HIGHWAY 175. DESPITE THE WIDESPREAD DAMAGE, KNOW THERE WAS HURT A LOT OF PEOPLE IN PELLA ARE COUNNGTI THEIR BLESSINGS FOLLOWING THE STM.OR THEY SAY THEY HEAV SEEN VERY LITTLE DAMAGE IN COMPARISON. WE SPOKE TO SOME RENTERS WHO SAY THEY HEARD TREES CRASHING ON THE ROOF JUST MINUTES AFTER EYTH HEADED TO THE BASEMENT. ATTH FORCE CAUSED THEIR CEILING TO CAVE .IN RHEYA: YESTERDAY WE MENTIONED HOW A COMMUNITY OUTSIDE OF MASON CITY IS COMING TOGETHER TO SHELTER THOSE WITHOUT A HOME. THE STORMS LEVELED MOST OFHE T SMALL TOWN OF RUDD IN FLOYD COUNTY. NEW THIS MORNING, HEARTBREAKING IMAGES OF THE TOWN’S LIBRARY. AN E.F. 1 TORNADO HIT THE AREA WEDNESDAY NIGHT, TEARI TNGHE ROOF OFF. SOME BOOKS MANAGED TO WEATHER THE STORM, PERFECTLY IN LINE ON THEIR SHELVES. THE LIBRARSHY ARED ON FACEBOOK THAT THANKS TO SOME AWESOME VOLUNTEERS THEY SALVAGED WHAT THEY COULD FROM THAT RUBBLE. THE TOWN IS EXPECTED TO BE WITHOUT POWER AND WATER FOR AT LEAST A FEW DAYS. IT IS THE THIRD DESTRUCTIVE WEATHER EVENT TO HIT THE AREA IN THREYEE ARS. THE UNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL IOWA IS ASKINGOR F DONATIONS OF MITTENS AND SNACKS FOR THOSE TAKING SHELTER AT THE RUDD-ROCKFORD-MARBLE ROCK SCHOOLS. STUDENTS AND STAFF BEGAN FEEDING AND OFFERING SHOWERS THERE YESTERDAY MORNING. ERIC: OUT NEAR SIOUX CITY, PILES OF DEBRIS COVER CURBSIS,DE INSULATION SCATTERED ON THE ADS.RO FAMILIES IN KINGSLEY SAY THEY SPENT MOST OF YESTERDAY HELPING EACH OTHER CLEANP. U LOOK AT THOSE MFARULS THERE. ANOTHER FAMILY IS HOPING THERE’S MORE GENEROSITY ON THE WAY TO HELP WITH ALL OF THE REPAIRS THEY NEED. >> WINDS WERE HIGH. FURNITURE DEEND UP CLEAR BEHIND THE HOUSE. >> AS SOON AS I NOTICED THE BARN, THAT WAS MY ONE THOUGHT. MY GOD, UYO KNOW, IT JUST KLEILD MY ANIMALS. ERIC: AREN DAHL AND KSTRYLE POULSON JUST MOVED INTO THEIR HOME SIX MONTHS AGO OUTSIDE SIOUX CITY. THEY WERE SO EXCITED TO LIVE ON A FARM, AND WERE CRUSHED WHEITN WAS 20 PIECES BY THAT STORM. REBUILDING THE FARM IS CEREDOV BY INSURANCE, BUT THEIR ROOF IS NOT, AND THEY ARE ASKING FOR DONATIONS. RIGHT NOW, CREWS ARE WORKING TO RESTORE POWER ACROSS THE STA.TE RHEYA: AT THE HEIGHT OF THE STORM TENS OF THOUSANDS OF CUSTOMERS LOST ELECTRICITY WITHIN THE LTAS HOUR HUNDREDS OF MEN AMERICAN CUSTOMERS GOT THEIR POWER BACK. 1800 ARE WITHOUT A. THEY EXPECT TO HAVE EVERYTHING FINISHED BY 6:00 P.M. TOMORROW. ER:IC ALLIANT ENERGY SHOWS 3600 CUSTOMERS WITHOUT POR STATEWIDE. THAT MEANS AUTBO 300 CUSTOMERS WERE HELDPE SINCE 5:30 THIS MORNING. THEY HOPE TO HAVE EVERYTHING RESTORED BY THE END OF TODAY. RHEYA: IN RURAL AREAS, IT APPEARS REC CUSTOMERS DO NOT 2000 HAVE POR.WE THE WORST AREAS ARE IN WEBSTER AND GREENE COUNTIES. YOU CAN COUNT ON KCCI WHENEVER SEVERE WEATHER COMES OUR WAY.