and he was the last one if. he was telling me, i didn t know this, but that he was actually starting to be sucked out, lifted up, and two of the girls that worked for him held onto him and kept him from because a month ago now the winners they couldn t close the door because of the wind was so bad. he was about to get sucked out. from my other show america s john, is this store policy, your policy? got talent heavy blue singers have you practiced this, everybody in the cooler? michael grim and the show s host, nick cannon. this is a company policy, listen to what he has to say kroger is really good. they have all of these different about his wife mariah carey and policies out. their new baby twins. they believe in safety first. tell me about your lovely wife who is i have to say my store manager, mindy, she s delightful. adamant within the store to make thank you. sure everybody knows where she makes me laugh. she looks sexy. they re supposed to go in the i hate when
in the store as the storm approached. they join us now. i believe it s the first time you ve seen each other since last sunday. fy have this right, that is when rick, you said, i m leaving and john said, no you re not, is that about right? well, yes. i publicly repented on last tuesday with t.j. in an interview that i had been one of those people that just, you know, would hear the sirens go off and i went into the store to and just ignore them but i went into the store to get milk and the sirens went off and john got on the pa and said, everyone need to get into the produce cooler. my thought is, i ll just get in my home and drive home, which is right down 20th street, which is the path the tornado was taking at that very moment. i got to the front door and he was pleading with me. he says, sir, you don t want to go out there. and i didn t. because i didn t, i m alive. rick, he saved your life, right? basically? he did, he did. he saved my life.
the tornado sucked him out through the sun roof. his father survived. it is the survivors trying to make sense of the catastrophe that up-ended their lives and destroyed almost everything around them. as casey wian tells us, some are fining faith and hope at a red cross shelter. reporter: blown away. a town, a community torn apart. he lost his hospital, his home and nearly his father. i was just calling him out. i was yelling his name, dad, dad, are you there? he nearly lost his life. i thought i was going to die, truthfully. reporter: like so many trying to pick up the pieces of their life in joplin, missouri, this doctor and john ness have been ravaged by this disaster. but they have both found faith and purpose at this makeshift
us. reporter: as the injured flooded to the hospital for care, mcdaniel was desperately trying to get his grandmother out. they took us down to the second floor and there was about ankle-deep water, and we were trying to push wheelchairs and everything through it to get people out. reporter: they wheeled thinks and flagged down a passing car to drive them home. there was no crying, there was no screaming. reporter: the st. john staff kept working, laser focused on their patients. we did what we had to do. and we all stayed, even though people were worried about their families. i m just a very short period of time we were able to evacuate over 200 patients to a safer parking lot and then transport them to area hospitals. this finger here was lacerated wide open. reporter: patients like paul johnson were stabilized in makeshift triage centers. they were making do with what they had. so, i tip my hat to them. it was that fast they set up a system that fast that took ca
to see this behind you, it s just it s like the end of the world. it s devastation. i don t know. it was terrible. we were all just in shock. just shock. i don t know what else to call it. i came back, walked home and came back later that night about midnight to see if my car, which was just completely trashed in the parking lot and see if there was anything left in it worth anything and there s not. that was the car you were going to drive home in. that s the car. oh, it s just crushed down. it s just i mean, the roof is completely crushed in. it s just really bad. when we got there, we talk with people and some guards that were there and i brought my son with me and we were walking away. and john was walking back from his house. i said, there s the man that saved my life.