i just kept grabbing for the first thing i could find, and that was the faucet. some debris fell on me and kind of held me down. and you ended up for a couple hours staying in the bathtub? i m not sure how long it was. and you saw a friend of yours in the fire department walking down the street? yes. i was peeping my head out there, looking for people. i saw josh anderson from one of the fire departments. i played softball with him and i hollered at him and he kept looking around and found that i was there. and then they got other folks, another detective friend came over trying to get me out. gary tuchman is at a shelter with a couple hundred people who are now in a basement because of the storm. just for people here in joplin, what is what s this been like? you know, everybody is different. i talk to as many people as i can, some people are devastated. some people are trying to figure out what they re going to do next, how they re going to get through it. based on my ex
hours staying in the bathroom? i m not sure how long it was. and you saw a friend of yours in the fire department walking down the street? yes. i was peeping my head out there, looking for people. i saw josh anderson from one of the fire departments. i hollered at him and he kept looking around and found that i was there. and then they got other folks, another detective friend came over trying to get me out. gary tuchman is at a shelter with a couple hundred people who are now in a basement because of the storm. just for people here in joplin, what is what s this been like? you know, everybody is different. i talk to as many people as i can, some people are devastated. some people are trying to figure out what they re going to do next, how they re going to get through it. based on my experience going through katrina and helping out there and some of the other things i ve done with the national guard, i m just trying
you held onto the faucet? yeah, i felt myself being pulled up in the air? because the roof is already off your house? absolutely. unbelievable. what is that like? that has to be terrifying. i was kind of numb to the feeling. i was just trying to figure out what i was going to do to keep there. some debris fell on me and kind of held me down. and you ended up for a couple hours staying in the bathroom? i m not sure how long it was. and you saw a friend of yours in the fire department walking down the street? yes. i was peeping my head out there, looking for people. i saw josh anderson from one of the fire departments. i hollered at him and he kept looking around and found that i was there. and then they got other folks, another detective friend came over trying to get me out. gary tuchman is at a shelter
there. i just kept grabbing for the first thing i could find, and that was the faucet. some debris fell on me and kind of held me down. and you ended up for a couple hours staying in the bathtub? i m not sure how long it was. and you saw a friend of yours in the fire department walking down the street? yes. i was peeping my head out there, looking for people. i saw josh anderson from one of the fire departments. i played softball with him and i hollered at him and he kept looking around and found that i was there. and then they got other folks, another detective friend came over trying to get me out. gary tuchman is at a shelter with a couple hundred people who are now in a basement because of the storm. just for people here in joplin, what is what s this been like? you know, everybody is different. i talk to as many people as i can, some people are devastated. some people are trying to figure out what they re going to do next, how they re going to get
the driver escaped with his life. it was not the only tornado on the ground. at least four people killed west of oklahoma city in canadian county. at one point the national weather service had to evacuate its norman oklahoma storm prediction center. take a look. wow. woe got lightning really close. where is it? yeah. okay, we got another tornado on the ground. we re going to have to get out of here, guys. we can t stay around here. multiple vortex tornado on the ground. where s the location towards the south? don t worry about it. we re good, we re good. we ll be all right. here s a remarkable view from reporter david payne. reporter: there it is on the ground. it s getting stronger. elephant trunk tornado on the ground. from i-40 and highway 102, where is it from you, where is that tornado? reporter: take my begin two. northwest of i-40. big elephant trunk. elephant trunk tornado, it s just northwest. it s over it s north of i-40. you ll see it in