A veteran criminal defense attorney has taken office as the first chief public defender for Alexander and Iredell counties. Seth J. Johnson was sworn in by Superior Court Judge Joseph N. Crosswhite in a ceremony at the Iredell County Courthouse in Statesville, says a release published last week by the Office of Indigent Defense Services.
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Practiced in drills many times. math teacher rhonda was helping her students with a game. damien klein is a fourth grader. she told us to get our math book and bag. why did she tell you to get a math book or bag? so we could put it over our head. reporter: a fifth grade teacher saw the funnel cloud approaches and yelled for everyone to get into bathrooms and closet. you have to get them in there. i said i ll stay outside. she said you re getting in there too. reporter: she was crouched over four children and did what teachers do. i love you, ms. crosswhite. please don t let me die. i said we are not dying! we are not dying today! quit saying that. i did the teacher thing we are are probably not supposed to do and i prayed outloud. what did you say?
But there she was taking care of them. another teacher who was at a preschool and the kids were understandably very upset. some of them were crying and some of them were yelling. and she had taught them this song you are my sunshine and got them all singing the song so they would stay calm and nobody would try to run away and they would all be safe. i think that s just more of the remarkable stories. it reminded me so much of newtown and the heroism of teachers and how under the most stressful circumstances they seem instinctively, and i m sure through training obviously as well, they know what to do. so do you, chris jansing. thanks for that great reporting. it s great to have you on the ground when something good or bad happens. thanks for being here. nbc s savannah guthrie spoke with rhonda crosswit. that s a teacher of plaza towers, an elementary school that chris jansing mentioned. crosswhite protected her stude students as we heard from chris by lying on top of them and
Comforting with them throughout the deal. crosswhite reunited with one of those students during her interview with savannah. here it is. i was in a stall with some kids. it started coming down. i laid on top of them. one of my little boys said, i love you, i love you, please don t die with me. please don t die with me. i never thought i was going to die. the whole time i just kept screaming to them, quit worrying, we re fine, we re fine, we re fine, we re fine. reporter: i do have a student here who wants to say thank you to you. this is damian klein. and his mom, brandy. i told you we were going to be okay. alfredo corales, maria and vivian luna survived yesterday in their storm shelter. thank you. tell us your decision to build a storm shelter. what works or doesn t in these ef-5 tornadoes? the only thing i can say about the storm cellars, that s