After the Michigan Wolverines won the National Championship in men's basketball for the first time in 37 years, fans flocked to get new merchandise to celebrate.

Watch Glenda's video report below Michigan national championship swag hits the shelves

Alumni and freshmen alike were in Rally House Ann Arbor, getting their gear to commemorate the team.

"It's great to be a Michigan Wolverine!" one fan told me. "We waited since 1989 for this, thankfully it happened. The whole town is buzzing, it's phenomenal."

"I was at my sister's house, had a watch party at her place," one freshman student told me, recounting where he was when Michigan won the National Championship. "The second we won, I ran straight to South U and that was just electric."

Rally House has been the home of the Wolverine rally cry on South Street today, as merchandise commemorating this incredible moment flies off the shelves.

"We re-opened last night with two shirts out once the clock hit zero, we opened the doors, a lot of students were running around but we had them getting shirts right away," general store manager DeArron Haygood told me. "We are really having a party in here, Michigan men's basketball national champions, how can you not be excited?"

While we all witnessed Dusty May and his team make history on Monday night on the court, one second-year Master's student and a graduate of the athletic training program, got to see the hard work first-hand behind the scenes.

"This is what we work for as athletic training students," she said. "We go in every day, we see them, we see the ups and the downs, we just pick up the pieces. It has been one of the longest seasons ever, but it has also been so rewarding and so fulfilling, and I was just so thankful to be a part of it.

A few fans we talked to came straight to buy merch after leaving Indianapolis this morning, following the victory.

"We drove back this morning, because it was a pretty good party in Indianapolis, so we didn't want to get on the road last night, so we just got back," one uncle told me.

"This is not going to be a responsible financial day at all," his nephew told me. "But when you wait 37 years, it's a long time coming, lot of heartbreak, you have 1992, 1993, 2013, 2018, 0-4 in final games. Finally, to get one to go, we made the investment to go up there as a family to witness, and it was nip-tuck until the end, and it was well worth it.

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Macomb County is home to the third-largest emergency dispatch center in the state of Michigan. The center has a birds-eye view and the ability to help half the county instantly.

Brandon Lewis, the Macomb County director of emergency management and communications, took us inside the heart of the operation for a close look at how information flows.

Watch the video report below: Inside look at Macomb County's emergency operation center

"We have this 20-by-50-foot video wall that we can use for situational awareness. So, we can see with our own eyes what's going on during any critical event," Lewis said.

Lewis says the dispatch center sometimes sees whats going on in the field before first responders arrive.

We can see camera feeds from approximately 350 different traffic cameras in Macomb County, he said. Pretty much if you can think of it, we can figure out a way to put it up there.

For severe weather situations, they have the tools to assist in real-time.

Like today with the threat of severe weather, you can see we have The Weather Channel going on one of our panels, we have weather radar going on one of the panels, Lewis said. so that we can see whats going on there in real time and we can make response decisions based on what we're seeing.

So we're actively monitoring. We're communicating with all of our community partners, letting them know what we're seeing and kind of watching what's going on.

The dispatch center covers every part of the county except the city of Warren, with nine different areas of operation that crews can come from and hi-technology.

We have about 800,000 residents that we're looking out for, Lewis said.

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Lewis described tornadoes in southwest Michigan late last week as tragic and surprising.

Its just tragic. First of all, you don't see that type of tornado with that type of intensity often in Michigan at all and then to see it in March and to see how it caught everybody by surprise with so little warning, Lewis said. It's tragic and my heart goes out to the residents on the west side of the state.

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DTE says crews are ready and staged to respond to any outages.