OMAHA- Gov. Jim Pillen joined leaders from the Omaha, Bennington, Elkhorn, and Waterloo areas at a press conference Saturday, thanking them for listening to Friday's weather forecasts and directing their respective constituents. "It is an extraordinary miracle that we've had this kind of cell come through," said Pillen of the destructive storms, "and no categories of serious injuries, and no loss of life."

Pillen said during the press conference that he had missed a call from President Joe Biden on Friday night, who left a message offering whatever assistance Nebraska needed from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. State and local emergency management officials are still surveying the damage, which largely occurred in Douglas, Lancaster, Saunders, and Washington Counties.

On Sunday, just a day later, Gov. Pillen issued a post-tornado emergency declaration, which allows the use of an emergency fund established under the Nebraska Emergency Management Act, to respond to the storm damage. The Governor directed the Nebraska Adjutant General, who also serves as the State Disaster Coordinator, to activate the appropriate state emergency plans and take the steps necessary until the threat to life and property has been alleviated.

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