of survival. if you look behind me inside those two cars, there were three adults and three children when the tornado struck and thigh survived to tell the story. with terrifying ferociousness, tornadoes tore through chicago. i am scared to death of storm. i was watching everything. i feel like it s a bad dream. something i d be watching somewhere else, not in my neighborhood. reporter: one tornado cut a 22-mile path through this flatland, the town of fairdale. a small dot on the map, but a tornado tore right through it. the town does haven t tornado siren. who elderly women were killed, dozens of homes destroyed. those who survived like andy kedelson know how lucky they are. it happened in two seconds. reporter: he rode the storm
we go forward here. captain nash, thank you very much. good to have you here. martha, congress clearly intended for these people to be made whole. for the army to disregard that and stack angels on the head of a pin wondering what the definition of is, is, in the language should have gone back to the congress for clarification of their intent. martha: understood. captain nash, thank you very much. yes ma am. bill: we ll take you back there live as event get underway in texas. meantime they re picking up the pieces in illinois after severe storms spawned at least two deadly tornadoes there. [bleep]. he is over it. [bleep] go go! bill: storm chasers catching some incredible video of that monster flipping a tractor-trailer, a monster storm, before flattening 20 homes in a town 80 miles outside of chicago. authorities say a dozen people trapped in hour 1/2 in a cellar in avant that collapsed on top
announcer: from abc news, this is world news now. good morning, everybody. what a night it was. here we are on this friday. i m t.j. holmes. thank you for being with us. i m reena ninan. it is breaking right now. the midwest cleaning up after another day of severe storms. hardest hit was northern illinois where several tornadoes touched down. at least one person has died and there are numerous injuries. firefighters say every single structure in the town of fairdale, west of chicago, is damaged. nearby restaurant, demolished. patrons and workers took refuge in the basement. some had to be dug out by firefighters. we re only told there are minor injuries from that restaurant. it was huge. reporter: what s going through your head as you see this monster roaring past your home. first i m hoping it doesn t turn north and of course that s a selfish thought and then it is i hope everybody else in its path is okay. reporter: it left a 50-mile
we have a power line down here, our cameraman standing right next to it. we also have a car that was flipped, tossed by the massive tornado that went through the town. you can see it back there. when appears to be insulation from a home thrown just all across this area. this is just, it gives you an idea how powerful this storm really was and this tornado came through the area. it was a large wedge tornado. they develop very rapidly and started rotating producing tornadoes. why it is important that people take the warnings very seriously and heed them. we do have a risk for more severe storms today. doesn t appear as the tornado risk was high as yesterday across parts of illinois. we had multiple reports of tornadoes and reports of severe weather as well. this really was a very powerful large storm system. the risk for severe with today stretches across parts of texas and parts of the mid-atlantic and the southeast coast
damaged. the insulation hanging in the branches. another vehicle that had been turned over by the force of the storm. as we look toward ways really the center of town, that s the center of this small farming community of 200 people. everyone knows everyone. that s where the 67-year-old woman was killed. she was a mother and grandmother. they know her kids and grand kids. this is where you have the rescuers gig one more search house to house. martha: what a path of destruction that ripped through that town. there was a zoo that was hit as well. what can you tell us about that. that s the belvedere zoo.