from the foundations. they took refuge in a local hotel and during another round of warnings tuesday night. the next morning, jim met with his insurance company to assess the daniel. we ve got three bedroom, two bath. we re going to get them paid either today or tomorrow. the richards have not decided whether they re going to use their insurance proceeds to rebuild here or relocate but they say the next house they live in will have a basement for better protection from tornadoes. the job lynn tornado damaged or destroyed thousands of buildings and emerging from these ruins, there are, of course, these stories of terror, heart break, survival. take the yogurt shop where employees and customers saved themselves at the very last minute. here s cnn s jeanne meserve. just nine days after opening joplin s new cherry berry yogurt shop was reduced to this. surveillance tape shows a normal
one on each. i could feel the dog s crate lifting up. i got on the floor holding the dog s crates and i had one other dog under my arm and things started to land on me. and i actually did get trapped. i remember thinking the next thing that lands on me, i m going to probably die. jim! stacy was pinned for about 20 minutes unable to contact her husband or son. my son texted me and said are you okay. and it was the most awful thing because i couldn t tell him no, i m not. and that was awful. laying there screaming and screaming and screaming and it was horrible. stacy and her three dogs survived, rescued by a neighbor. i have no idea how she walked out of this. battered and bruised, she still has a sense of humor. i feel like dorothy in kansas. i felt like stacy in joplin with a house that was ripping off
what happened. cnn s casey wian is in joplin with one family s dramatic story of survival. a beautiful house in a joplin, missouri, suburb, reduced to a memory. it belonged to jim and stacy richards who are just now telling a harrowing tale of survival. jim was at work when the tornado struck. i started to come home. i got a text from my wife. the first couple were gibberish and finally it came through saying help, roof snund then came a desperate voice mail from stacy. jim hasn t been able himself to listen to all of it until now. help! there was this kind of pressure in my ears. and the next thing i know is the dirt and grit and stuff was hitting me in the face. i realized that the roof was coming off. and she was in between those two kennels. these two kennels yes, trying to have one hand on top of each.
it s hard to put into words the sheer force of the monster tornados that have hammered the midwest this week. look at this amazing twister caught on tape in chick cache, oklahoma. it s crossing the road white where we were [ bleep ]. slow down. get out your window. get out your window. i am. that i can that shed. watch behind you. you re good. don t push. oh, my god! back up. oh, no. stop. oh, no, what did it destroy? running back. slow down. no, slow down. debris. and near sean knee, oklahoma, more video of a tornado literally ripping this giant semi to shreds. the 29-year-old driver believes he was either sucked from the window or fell out as it was happening. he was treated for a fractured shoulder bone and some scrapes. other than that, he s fine. in joplin, missouri, the sight of the killer tornado that s captured the world s attention, one pastor survived, says he doesn t know which was louder, the wind outside his church or the praying inside. our lisa sy
better than anyone, but he did not break the law. the government s theory is wrong on the facts and wrong on the law. that from greg craig. they really feel like if you were talking about campaign contribution, we re talking about donations going to john edwards, then this is really a matter for the fec, the federal elections commission, and not a matter for federal prosecutors. guys? jim, thanks very much. it s a complex story but one you re on top of. we ll follow it with you. thanks, jim acosta. coming up, we re all kind of fascinated by the new digs that dominique strauss-kahn because it s far cry from rikers island. yes. luxurious digs. the monthly rental on a place like this is more than a average family makes in a year. when you think about what money it takes to put yourself in a big townhouse in tribeca. we ll talk about that. do you have these credit cards in your wallet? because you don t want them. [ male announcer ] in 2011, at&t is at work,