Severe Storm Aftermath

>> SEVERE STORM AFTERMATH METRO DETROIT CLEANING UP FROM POWERFUL WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN. TREES TOPPLED. AND TENS OF THOUSANDS LEFT IN THE DARK. YOU KNOW, HE'S PROBABLY JUST >> BOEING BY EVERYTHING. PROBABLY HEAVY WINDS TO SUBSIDE. IF YOU WANT OH, MY THIS MORNING WE HAVE TEAM COVERAGE AS META. DETROIT PICKS UP THE RYAN MARSHALL HERE IN SOUTHFIELD. THE SUN IS BEGINNING TO COME UP AND YOU CAN BEGIN TO SEE THE OTHER DEVASTATION DOWN POWER LINES AND MASSIVE TREES IN THE MIDDLE OF STREETS. WE'RE GOING TO SHOW YOU WHAT THIS DEVASTATION LOOKS LIKE. COMING UP, WE'RE IN BEVERLY HILLS ON LOCKERBIE ROAD JUST OFF OF SOUTHFIELD ROAD. AND WHEN WE'RE TRYING TO GET INTO THIS COMMUNITY, THIS TREE BLOCKING LOCKERBIE ROAD IS THE FIRST THING WE WERE MET WITH. >> WE'RE GOING TO SHOW YOU THE DAMAGE BEHIND THE TREE. PLUS, WHAT PEOPLE LIVING HERE ARE SAYING THAT'S NEXT. >> A 4TH STRAIGHT DAY OF HEAT. AND THERE'S MORE TO COME AND I'M TRACKING SEVERE WEATHER THREATS THAT COME ALONG WITH IT. I'LL LET YOU KNOW THE TIMING OF THESE STORMS WHEN THEY ARRIVE AND ALSO HOW MUCH OF A PUNCH THEY COULD PACK. WELL, GOOD MORNING AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR WAKING UP WITH 7 NEWS DETROIT THIS MORNING. I'M KEN SMITH AND I'M ALICIA SMITH. AND WE KNOW SO MANY OF YOU ARE WAKING UP TO STORM DAMAGE THIS MORNING OR WITHOUT YOUR POWER. YOU MIGHT BE WATCHING US ON YOUR PHONE. AND FOR THAT, WE SAY THANK YOU. >> I'VE BEEN KEEPING AN EYE ON THE LATEST OUTAGES RIGHT NOW. AND CURRENTLY DTE IS REPORTING NEARLY 39,000 CUSTOMERS WAKING UP IN THE DARK AND THIS IS DUE IN LARGE PART TO THE WIDESPREAD REPORTED TO DOWNED TREES AND POWER LINES OUT THERE. TAKE A LOOK AT THIS VIDEO FROM SHANNON MCCRAY. SHE WAS SHOPPING AT A PARKING RATHER AT A SHOPPING CENTER LOT ON A 12 MILE AND GRATIOT AND ROSEVILLE. >> SHE WAS CAUGHT. THE SEVERE STORMS BROUGHT DOWN. WINDS AND HAIL THAT JUST SHOOK HER CAR. AND PAUL SENT US THIS PHOTO OF A MASSIVE TREE BLOCKING EMERY STREET JUST OFF MARTIN ROAD METS ALSO IN ROSEVILLE. NOW WE DO HAVE TEAM COVERAGE OF THE SEVERE STORM AFTERMATH. >> AND 7 0ST ALERT. METEOROLOGIST MIKE TAYLOR. YOUR BEEN TRACKING WHEN THE NEXT ROUND OF STORMS WILL MOVE IN. RYAN MARSHALS FINDING DAMAGE IN SOUTHFIELD, BUT WE START WITH BRITNEY TO LISTER IS LIVE IN BEVERLY HILLS. AND BRITTANY, WHAT KIND OF DAMAGE ARE YOU SEEING THERE? >> ALICIA KEENAN, EVERYWHERE WE LOOK, WE CAN SEE SOME TYPE OF DAMAGE, WHETHER THAT'S BRANCHES ON THE GROUND LEAVES ON THE GROUND ARE FULL ON TREE LIMBS WHERE YOU CAN SEE THIS ONE RIGHT BEHIND ME. A FALLEN TREE IS BLOCKING THE ROAD OR ON LOCKERBIE, JUST OFF OF SOUTHFIELD ROAD. AND THIS IS LOCKERBIE HERE. IT'S COMPLETELY IMPASSABLE NOT ONLY BECAUSE OF THIS TREE BECAUSE OF A LITTLE MORE. I'M GOING TO SHOW YOU BEFORE WE GET THERE. I WANT TO LOOK UP TO THAT TREE BACK THERE. NOW THAT THE SUN IS OUT, YOU CAN SEE THE SURROUNDING TREES TO YOU CAN SEE A PIECE OF TREAT DANGLING BENEATH THAT. THERE'S A BIG BRANCH IN BETWEEN THESE 2 HOMES. AND IF YOU LOOK BETWEEN THESE 2 HOMES, YOU CAN ACTUALLY SEE ANOTHER BRANCH RIGHT IN THIS PERSON'S BACKYARD. WE'RE GOING TO STAY OFF THEIR PROPERTY. JUST DANNY IS GOING ZOOM IN ON IT. YOU CAN SEE THAT BRANCH COMING FROM THAT TREE RIGHT BEHIND IT. AND IF WE SWING THIS WAY AND LOOK ONTO LOCKERBIE ROAD, YOU CAN SEE THE SECOND DOWN TREE. THIS TREE RIGHT HERE WAS SPLIT INTO THIRDS. ONE OF THE PART OF IT STILL STANDING IN THE OTHER 2 ARE SPLITTING LOCKERBIE, SPLITTING THAT TREE. AND YOU CAN SEE JUST BRANCHES COMPLETELY BLOCKING THE STREET. WE TALKED SOMEBODY FROM THE VILLAGE WHO IS HERE ASSESSING THIS DAMAGE. THEY ONLY HAD A SNOW PLOW ON THE FRONT OF THEIR TRUCK AND BASICALLY TOLD US WE'RE GOING TO NEED A BIGGER BOAT. THEY'RE GOING TO COME BACK WITH SAWS TO BREAK UP SOME OF THE STREET SO THEY CAN REMOVE IT. AND EVEN JUST MAKE THIS BLOCK PASSABLE AND OUR CREWS TALKED TO PEOPLE LAST NIGHT. WE HEARD TRANSFORMERS BLOWING OVER THE WIND AND EVEN ONE PERSON WHO WAS BARELY MISSED BY A FALLING POWER LINE. >> DRIVEWAY. >> THE POWER LINE. THEY GOT IT OFF RIGHT BEHIND ME. AND IT LUCKILY WENT DEAD. SO I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING. THEN TREES WERE FALLING IN MY BACKYARD AND WON, GOT STABBED THROUGH MY KITCHEN AND WENT THROUGH MY ROOF. MY KITCHEN. >> AND JUST BEFORE TALKING WITH YOU GUYS, I CHECKED DTE OUTAGE MAP AND IN THE BEVERLY HILLS AREA ABOUT 2500 PEOPLE DO NOT HAVE POWER. THAT'S ABOUT 40% OF THEIR CUSTOMERS HERE. WE TALKED WITH ONE MAN OUT ASSESSING THE DAMAGE. JUST LIVES IN THE AREA. HE SAYS HE DOESN'T HAVE POWER AND WE ACTUALLY WATCH ONE WOMAN WALK INTO ONE OF THESE HOMES WITH 4 BAGS OF ICE AND WE HAVEN'T TALKED TO HER YET, BUT WE'RE ASSUMING IT'S TO KEEP ALL OF THE FOOD IN HER FRIDGE AND FREEZER FROM GOING BAD BECAUSE IT IS HOT AND IT IS STICKY OUT HERE IS, WELL, IT'S ONLY 06:30AM, IN THE MORNING AND IT IS STICKY AND THE BUGS ARE OUT. SO IT'S ONLY GOING TO GET HOTTER FROM HERE. BUT FOR NOW, LIVE IN BEVERLY HILLS, I'M BRITTANY 2 LISTS FOR 7 NEWS, DETROIT THIS MORNING. ALL RIGHT. TELL YOU WHAT IT IS. IT'S GOING TO BE A TOUGH DAY FOR SO MANY PEOPLE. BRITTANY, THANK YOU FOR YOUR LIVE UPDATE. >> 70'S DETROIT REPORTER RYAN MARSHALL JUST FOUND MORE DAMAGE IN SOUTH HILL FOR US THIS MORNING. RYAN, WHAT ARE YOU SEEING THERE? >> WELL, OTHER DEVASTATION IS WHAT WE'RE SAYING. GOOD MORNING TO YOU GUYS WERE HERE AT THE CORNER OF LONG CREST IN PEERS JUST SOUTH OF 13 MILE NEAR 13 MILE SOUTHFIELD ROAD. AND I GOT TO TELL YOU, WHEN THE SUN IS COMING UP, PEOPLE ARE COMING OUT AND THE COMMON MG. THEY'RE LOOKING AT ALL OF THE DAMAGE, INCLUDING THIS RIGHT HERE, A NEARLY 200 FOOT TREE COMPLETELY UP ROUTED OUT OF THE GROUND AND INTO THIS GENTLEMAN'S HOME RIGHT HERE. HE TELLS ME THAT HIS 4 YEAR-OLD GRANDSON WHO NORMALLY SLEEPS IN THE HOME WAS NOT THERE. THIS TREE GOES RIGHT THROUGH HIS HOUSE. NOT ONLY DID THE STREET GO THROUGH THIS HOUSE AND CAUSE SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE. THERE ARE POWER LINES SCATTERED ALSO THE YARD IN HIS BACKYARD. THERE WAS A BROKEN GAS LINE OUT HERE LAST NIGHT WHEN THE STORM CAREENS THROUGH THIS AREA AND THIS NEIGHBORHOOD, A VERY HEAVILY WOODED AREA. >> AND STACEY TUCKER, WHO LIVES IN THIS HOME. >> SHE WAS IN. >> AND THE ROOM I HEAR THE FIRST ONE WAS MY GRANDBABIES ROOM AND OTHER ROOMS. HER AND A GRANDDAUGHTER. WITH THANK KNOW WHAT THEY WERE IN HERE. IT JUST LEFT THE NIGHT BEFORE. AND IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE HERE, BUT THEY'RE ONE HERE. SO MY DAUGHTER MY 2 >> AND BACK HERE LIVE IN SOUTHFIELD, YOU CAN SEE THIS TREE GOING RIGHT THROUGH THIS HOME. STACY TOLD ME THAT THERE WAS NO CLEAR PATH TO GET OUT OF THIS HOUSE. WHAT HE HAD TO DO WAS HE HAD TO CLIMB THROUGH HIS GARAGE TO BE ABLE TO GET OUT. IT WAS SO DARK. ALL OF THIS HAPPENING LAST NIGHT. YOU SEE THE DEVASTATION. LOTS OF DAMAGE PEOPLE GIVING. THEY WHEN THEY SEE THIS. THEY'RE NOT EXACTLY SURE IF THERE'S ANYBODY ALIVE. WHEN WE GOT ON THE SCENE, WE WEREN'T SURE IF ANYBODY WAS ALIVE. WE SAW 2 WOMEN STANDING OUT HERE ON LONG CREST JUST IN ALL OF WHAT WAS HAPPENING. WE ASKED HIM, IS THERE ANYBODY IN THE HOUSE WHEN MY PHOTOGRAPHER WENT KNOCKED ON THE DOOR, A MAN CAME OUT AROUND AND SAID, YES, IN FACT, WE ARE ALIVE AND THANKFULLY EVERYBODY IS SAFE HERE. BUT THEY'RE NOW HAVING TO CLEAN UP FROM THE DAMAGE WERE HERE IN SOUTHFIELD. I'M RYAN MARK. >> RYAN, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT LIVE UPDATE IN BRINGING US THAT. WE'RE GLAD TO HEAR THAT EVERYBODY GOT OUT SAFELY. KEN. >> ALL RIGHT. BY ME, KEEPING A CLOSE EYE ON DTE ENERGY'S OUTAGE MAP. AND RIGHT NOW IT STILL SHOWS MORE THAN 39,000 CUSTOMERS IN THE DARK THIS MORNING. BUT LET'S BREAK IT DOWN BY COUNTY, FOR INSTANCE, IN OAKLAND COUNTY. RIGHT NOW, WE HAVE MORE THAN 24,000 HOMES AND BUSINESSES WERE ACHING UP IN THE DARK, FOLLOWED BY MACOMB COUNTY HAD THE SECOND HIGHEST NUMBER OF OUTAGES RIGHT NOW IN MACOMB COUNTY, NEARLY CUSTOMERS ARE WITHOUT POWER. WAYNE COUNTY, YOUR NEXT NOW THERE'S A BIG DROP-OFF. 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