that. it s a scary eerie feeling. i heard that whistling and that freight train noise first time. and, i mean, i really i can t explain it. it s scary. i m grateful and blessed my house didn t get touched. this came from over there from that house, from the roof from that house from all the way damage the side of the wall. what do you think about something like this? devastating. first time, first experience, devastating. all right. living through a hurricane very frightening. to help those affected by the storm visit our website cnn.com/impact. i m fredricka whitfield. thanks so much for watching our special coverage continues with a ana cabrera after this.
tornado to happen. a lot of people have asked the same sort of question, can this happen again. i mean, we re on day one of maybe four or five days of rain and wind and that sort of stuff. are you worried you go to sleep tonight you won t even know something like this is going on. it s not over yet. it s scary. it s the second time something like that s happened and we didn t see a touchdown last time. but get in the closet or get in the bathtub, they say get in the center part of your house, get away from the windows, all that. it s a scary eerie feeling. i mean, i heard that whistling and that freight train noise first time and, i mean, it really i can t explain it. it s scary. i m grateful and blessed my house didn t get touched. this came from over there from that house from the roof from that house from all the way damage the side of the wall. what do you think about something like this? devastating. yeah. first time, first experience, devastated. joining us now te
the tornado was coming through. we ve seen the side of your mother-in-law s place. were you surprised this had happened? i couldn t believe it. i thought it was just there was going to be some rain and maybe the hurricane, but not expecting no tornado to happen. a lot of people have asked the same sort of question. can this happen again? we re on day one of maybe four or five days of rain and wind. are you worried that you go to sleep tonight and you won t even know that something like this is going on. it s scary. it is the second time something like that happened. we didn t see a touchdown last anytime. but get in the closet or bathtub. get away from the windows and it s a scary, eerie feeling. i heard that whistling and that freight train noise the first time and it really i can t explain it. it s scary. i m grateful and blessed my
survived. it it s by the grace of god, absolutely. we were in prayer the entire time it was going on. i felt like really honestly that we were making we were in our last seconds here. i mean, absolutely. and we were just praying for god to take us quickly, without pain. and then all of a sudden the freight train noise started to go away, and we saw just a little bit of light from underneath a little bit of rubble that was left. we were still caught underneath. so the storm has passed. is it now quiet? this was the part that was really, really tough because once we were able to crawl ourselves out, we could hear cries and screams for help. the part that was difficult is then we began to get hail and we began to get lightning and we began to get a really heavy rain. the lightning was actually zapping around the ground around us. and i instructed as many people as i could, i had to get one person out who was trapped under
for us, as we pine away for john king s 300th home run. carol, can you believe that? he caught that thing, right place, right time, a little bit of talent. i got hit in the head with a foul ball once, but never caught one. so that explains it! exactly! i m kidding, carol, good to see you. have a great day, thank you so much. good morning to you. it s the heart of tornado alley. you know what i m talking about this morning. the devastation in joplin, missouri, is shocking. take a look at why. my gosh. oh, my gosh! there it is. it was massive. at least 89 people are now confirmed dead. the death toll is expected to grow as crews pick through the wreckage. as much as 30% of the city of joplin damaged or destroyed. that includes some 2,000 homes and businesses. one of those, the st. john s regional medical center, that s in the heart of town, triage centers were set up outside to treat the crush of victims. those are the terrible facts. it is difficult to descri