we moved to a side street and you can see this is a residential area and homes and as far as i can see the homes are destroyed and there is a hill that is probably close to 200 yards away and i can see the trees snapped there. one of the things we are starting to see are images coming in an image of a church here and before picture and the after picture and get an idea of what happened to some of the structures. it is difficult to come to a place base you do not know what it looks like before. you can see here another church that has the roof blown off, the tree that is mangled and you go across the street and this is part of the school that was destroyed of the 39 people certified that school when the tornado hit and you lock at perts like this, of the tornado, of the damage, it is hard to
clayton: and now to like coverage from another hard hit area in harvest, alabama, but, first our chief meteorologist, rick? rick: exactly what you just said . (inaudible) clayton: we are having satellite issues as you can imagine. and now over to harvest, alabama. how does it look, elizabeth? reporter: they say light anyone doesn t strike twice but with tornadoes we are living rough it does, if harvest, alabama, the homes were brand new, they were rebuild from the tornadoes back in april of 2011 people saying they were just
but the number is expected to rise. as day lit dawns cross the country. 14 people killed in kentucky and indiana on top of the 13 early this week. homes, businesses, schools, destroyed, nothing was spared from destruction. some people glad to be alive this morning. i looked up. i talked to my daughter and i looked up and i seen debris everywhere. clayton: the devastation is days after another round killed 13 people in twisters. and our chief meteorologist is in henryville, indiana, but, first, to elizabeth in harvest, alabama. now the sun is up how does it
sending in their last checks to contractors to rebuild the homes and get new cars after they literally were wiped off the map 11 months ago and we got a taste of it yesterday when we arrived people were starting to put tarps on their home and trying to get their lives back together after the first round of storms hit at 9:30 yesterday morning. and, then, the sirens went off and we were brought to a storm shelter and we have video of people would were in the middle of cleaning up, they had to stop what they were doing because there was another round of tornadoes and a woman that was in the storm shelter with us, her home was destroyed and she had a tarp on the roof. listen to what she had to say. you can see the storm over her shoulder. sometimes you look at the want ensure and say it will not hit but this one time, i now when i came out of the house it
of town. a couple of houses still standing. 3.3 kilometers from the sea. almost 2 miles from the coastline. you can have a sense there of just how strong this tsunami was, to be able to destroy homes, boats have ridden on the tsunami, came all the way up here. there was a huge truck carried on the wave all the way up as well. 3.3 kilometers. there were 18,000 residents here. we spoke to a couple of them that have come back to see what s left of their homes and try to start the impossible cleanup. they ran when they heard the tsunami warning. one woman says she knows some of the neighbors stayed in their home. and inevitably they would not have survived. it s impossible to see how many could have survived in those