you were dismissing some of the staff. did you intend to fire me too, especially me. go on having doing the mary tyler moore show because i love it so much. mary tyler moore enterprises decided to end the show while it was still good. the television station where mary works is bought out. everyone is fired. i think we all need some kleenex. there is some near your desk. how do we leave this room? saying good-bye to the show and to each other. it s still emotional after
you were dismissing some of the staff. did you intend to fire me too? especially me. i would have been happy to go on doing the mary tyler moore show for an eighth year because i loved the job so much. but mary and grant and mary tyler moore enterprises decided to end the show while it was still good. the television station where mary works is bought out. everyone is fired. i think we all need some kleenex. there s some on mary s desk. [ laughter ] how do we leave this room? we were saying goodbye to the show and to each other. it s a long, long way to
which in tuscaloosa is not unusual. what makes it unusual her home was damaged two weeks before. the place where mary works was also heavily destroyed by this storm. then her car was also destroyed. the church she attends was also damaged by this tornado. mary is also a nurse. she joins us right now. mary, i understand the day the tornado struck you happened to be here at this church, you came here for safety and able to help, i guess roughly 100 people? yes, sir. reporter: take me back to the day of the tornado and tell me how you got here? my daughter-in-law s home was damaged wednesday morning of the storm. i have three grandchildren and she wanted a safe place for my grandchildren to be during the storm. so she had asked me if we could dome the church and seek shelter. so that s what we were doing here. reporter: you got here an hour before storm took place.