a police helicopter shot by urban snipers videoing the scramble to avoid the crash landing and up close and personal with the cops hunting down the gunman. hello, everyone. i m don lemon. the news begins right now. frightening new images of a tornado that tore through st. louis. shot by some people in the car who got way too close for comfort. oh, my god. it hit that transformer just to the right. the tornado is right in front of us. oh, my god. dude, another one. dude, another one! power lines! i don t know if we should go any further. i m stopping, dude. there are power lines down. oh, my god. we can t get passed. we can t get passed. hello? do you want to back up a little bit? dude, there s a [ bleep ]! do you hear that rain there? these guys were actually chasing the tornado and they definitely found it about two miles west of lambert airport. flights are coming and going again at the airport less than 48 hours after the powerful tornado patched
reporter: this is the st. louis town of bridgeton. this tornado tore down the entire street. tell me about your house. gone. the roof was sitting on the vehicles or out in the street. inside the house was open to the storm. the back portion of the house is blown out. reporter: ironically, chuck greene lost his emergency service business, too, since he worked at home. today is calming down my wife, have a good meal and regroup starting over on monday morning. reporter: as if you needed evidence how powerful the storm was, this is from the frame of a house. this is a 2 by 4 piece of wood driven right through the radiator of this suv. until you see it in person, i think it is even more devastating. reporter: one person finds humor in all this misery. a for sale sign in front of a destroyed vehicle. dan simon is joining us live now from missouri, dan, look at