the difference in whether or not a home survived. this house is in pretty good shape. but just on the other side of the street, most of them are a total loss. what are you going to do? move. somewhere where the wind doesn t blow as hard? i just can t look at this every day. it s too much. so i ll stay around, just not here. randal matthews of asheville, alabama, is also still here, and that s no small achievement. living in this trailer with his wife and 5-year-old son, randal took his family to what he thought was a more secure place to ride out the approaching tornado. a neighbor s solidly built home. we all got in the house and we wasn t in there two seconds i seen glass flying and just a big explosion. when i woke up, we was all on the ground. this is what s left of that
just keep your hands on us and stay with us. tonight, from tuscaloosa, brian williams reports on the storm s path of destruction. and later tonight ann curry reports from london on the ceremony that made history. i william arthur philip louis. a royal couple gives us a dash of romance just when it s needed. magic and majesty. there was a huge sense of love and joy and friendship. the inside story of the wedding that s enchanted the world. reporter: and good evening, everybody, from tuscaloosa, alabama, where we re going to start off tonight because way too many neighborhoods look just like this one. this is a city and a state reeling from what is officially the deadliest outbreak of tornadoes in this country since the depression era. more than 300 people are dead, hundreds, really thousands, have been injured. and almost everywhere you look in certain parts of this city, this region, it s been reduced to a wasteland. the pictures are unforgettable. some of the
tonight from tuscaloosa, brian williams reports on the storm s path of destruction. and later tonight, ann curry reports from london on the ceremony that made history. i william arthur phillip louie. a royal couple gives us a dash of romance just when it s needed. magic and majesty. there was a huge sense of love, joy and friendship. the inside story of the wedding that s enchanted the world. and good evening, everybody, from tuscaloosa, alabama, where we re going to start off tonight because way too many neighborhoods look just like this one. this is a city and a state reeling from what is officially the deadliest outbreak of tornados in this country since the depression era. more than 300 people are dead. hundreds, thousands are injured, and almost anywhere you look in parts of the city and the region, it is reduced to a wasteland. the pictures are some of the most dramatic we ve seen. the damage among the worst we have seen in u.s. contemporary history, and rem