Several tornadoes touch down in Omaha metro area. Here’s where aid is available. Live updates here [Video]

Below are Friday’s live updates of storm damage after several tornadoes ravaged parts of the Omaha metro area.

For Saturday’s live updates on the cleanup and aftermath, go here.

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‘It’s hard’: Tornadoes tear through Bennington

After venting its fury on Elkhorn, the storm headed north and cut a swath through the rolling hills southwest of Bennington.

Jeannie Brown never saw the tornado before it tore through the yard of her hilltop home on 186th Street just north of State Street.

“I was in the basement because I heard it was going to hit Waterloo and Elkhorn. Then we lost power. We had a lot of wind. We came upstairs to this,” she said, waving her hand toward her yard. “All of our trees are gone.”

Her brick home was intact, at least, though it was splattered with mud. Some …