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SHOTLIST 1. Wide exterior of damaged house 2. People clearing away debris near damaged house 3. Man sawing tree pan to another man sawing 4. Wide of damaged truck next to pile of debris 5. Close-up, damaged truck and debris 6. SOUNDBITE: (English), Kathryn McCracken, resident: "Well, first my husband... he was okay. Shook up, but he's okay." 7. Various of broken window 8. Wide of damage, pan down to mangled siren 9. Warning siren, on leaning post 10. SOUNDBITE: (English), Shannon Rushton, resident: "And all of a sudden you could just hear the roar start, and my wife said we got to get in the basement and we were about six feet away from the basement door. By the time the kids got there, she got there, and I came behind her, I tried to shut the door and didn't get the door shut, and it sucked it away from me and threw me down the stairs through a wall on the side of our stairs." 11. Mid of Television set outside house, covered in dirt 12. Woman carrying out shovel of debris 13. Damaged house, trees 14. SOUNDBITE: (English), Shannon Rushton, resident: "I've got people helping clean up our place here that I don't even know. And, I'm thinking probably two hundred phone calls in the last 12 hours and people offered to send things or do things and we don't want them to think we're ungrateful but there's so many here you don't want people to have to come and just stand around. It's just human kindness at it's best." 15. Volunteers working through debris 16. Men pushing up sheet of plywood 17. Woman finds shirts in pile of debris UPSOUND (English): "You guys, I found some shirts in good shape..." 18. Woman handing over shirts to another volunteer and carrying on with her search 19. Clothing hanging in tree branches STORYLINE: A tornado carved a devastating path through an eastern Colorado town, as spring storms swept across the Western US from the Rockies into the central Plains, killing at least four people in three states, US authorities said on Thursday. Sixty-five tornadoes were reported in Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Colorado and Nebraska on Wednesday, the National Weather Service said. Some of the worst devastation was in Holly, Colorado, 235 miles (378 kilometres) southeast of Denver, where at least eight people were injured. The massive storm system stretched from South Dakota to Texas on Thursday morning, threatening flash flooding in central Nebraska and Kansas and more severe weather further south. As the day wore on, volunteers helped dig the victims out of the rubble. One woman was amazed that her husband emerged alive from their heavily damaged home. "Well, first my husband... he was okay. Shook up, but he's okay," said Kathryn McCracken. Dozens of homes were damaged when the twister hit the town late on Wednesday and the streets and yards were littered with broken power lines, tree limbs and debris. One resident said the town had no warning. Twisted warning sirens lay on the ground while the ones still intact failed to sound any warning. Residents thought the storm had just hit too fast. Even in the midst of the devastation, homeowners found something to be thankful for - the kindness of strangers. One man said he had taken 200 phone calls in 12 hours and turned volunteers away at the risk of seeming ungrateful. "There's so many here you don't want people to have to come and just stand around. It's just human kindness at it's best," said Shannon Rushton, who lost much of his home. Three months earlier, a succession of blizzards and subzero temperatures killed more than 10-thousand animals on farms in Holly. Two tornadoes touched down in northwest Kansas, severely damaging three homes, said the Cheyenne County sheriff's department. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/9bb27de976043e20eaec81147d08109b Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork