her child. 71 other people were injured, but as morning breaks and the sun comes up, we may get new reports of injury and damage. the same storm that brought tornados brought 11 inches of rain to place like oklahoma. and residents are being told to stay inside because of the storm threats. missouri s governor has declared a state of emergency. the main airport there in st. louis is open again. it closed last night, so they could clear debris from the runways. a tornad touched down nearby and the storms brought 70 miles per hour winds and damaging hail. we begin our coverage out of oklahoma with george howl, and he is in one of the communities hit hard by the storm. george, you have been out there all night and what are you seeing in terms of damage?
live coverage friday morning, our coverage starts at 4:00 a.m. eastern time, watch it, dvr it, be a part of the international viewing party. we re going to get back to st. louis here in just a moment. can you believe flights are actually expected to take off again today from the st. louis airport. they are still trying to clean up and recover from the tornado that struck on friday night, the damage didn t stop though just at that airport. look at this stuff, folks, neighborhoods just blasted, dozens of people return home and there wasn t much of a home left. n our environment. or zero dependency on foreign oil. this is why we at nissan built a car inspired by zero. because zero is worth everything. the zero gas, 100% electric nissan leaf. innovation for the planet.
the base of the stairs and he said, breanna, i m looking up and i can see the sky. i went up, climbed up the stairs carefully, because there was glass and insulation everywhere, and i just got to the top of the stairs and i saw my roof in front of my face. tough to hear, but still the upside there, amazing, she wasn t injured, people in her house not injured, nobody killed, minor reports, a blessing there. we have bonnie schneider with us this weekend. i m starting to hear, more details about the tornado. you told me this was unusual, the way it behaved yesterday. um-hum, it really is. these large, long-lasting tornadoes do not make up most tornadoes. we don t typically see a tornado on the ground for 22 miles. at 7:55 friday night that s where it started in a suburb of st. louis. the storm intensifies as it approached maryland heights, ef-3, it wasn t until it got closer to the airport, that s when things really got intense,
also learning more about the tornado that hit late friday night. look at this, this is in st. louis at the airport. you know the airport got hit and hit hard. this is some of the latest video we are seeing of what was a spectacular and unfortunate night for st. louis, but the good news, a blessing, no one was killed there. we ll give you the latest out of st. louis. meanwhile we need to start on the international front, another deadly day for protesters in syria, they keep pushing for change and the government is pushing back with deadly force. ten people killed saturday when syrian security forces opened fire on the crowd, this happened in a suburb of damascus. people had gathered there for funerals, witnesses say government forces fired from rooftops as thousands marched through the streets. also change appears to be coming to yemen, months after protesters took to the streets there. the president, ali abdullah saleh agreed to step down as part of a deal brokered by neighboring nat
the slammed the airport. what does it look like inside the airport, this is surveillance video. first it looks like a couple pieces of debris but suddenly everything starts whipping about the hallways, the security team ducking for cover, a pole blocks a line, debris, parts of windows, incredible damage sustained to the airport because the storm was so long. if that line looked long it was, 22 miles long and just under half a mile in terms of width. the storm at its highest intensity the wind gusts were high between 166 and 200 miles per hour, that is so unusual, only less than 1% or 2% of tornadoes are this intense and this long. generally tornadoes are much weaker. as we mentioned earlier the flood threat for today continues, lighter rain for st. louis, heavier rain hitting southern indiana right now, the beginning of a big flood threat for today, tomorrow and into tuesday, just steady rain every day, several inches will