americans. i was just, like, wow! lik is incredible! captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news bsith scott pelley. pelley: good evening. rescue teams are going door to ooor in alabama this evening, thiching for survivors of rare winter tornados. the storms struck early this morning while most people were still asleep. at least two were killed and more than 100 injured. in all, 24 tornados were reported across the south. but it was jefferson county, alabama, that got the worst of it. stat same storm system now t totches from the gulf coast to the great lakes and is moving east tonight. mark strassmann is on the ground un the town of clay, alabama. mark? reporter: we ve heard so many ve hing stories of survival, scott. n m standing in what was the front bedroom of a 73-year-old woman who was home alone. the tornado knocked down all the lllls of that bedroom and neighbors found her over here, her head still on the mattress she was. her head on the pillow c
minutes before this happened he was in that bed. reporter: and this is the bathtub where she and her husband roy orr darted for cover with her two-year-old son mitchell. we got in the tub, he got on top of us and we just. we just prayed our way through it. it s like the only thing in the house still standing is that bathroom. reporter: what were you doing? just praying. we just laid down in the bathtub and started praying. the only thing i could think so that i couldn t hold on to them strong enough. my grip wasn t tight enough because it kept feeling like i was losing them. the grip kept loosening every time i squeezed. that s the only thing i could think about was just holding tight. reporter: the storm sliced through subdivision in clay and left behind a swath of ruin a half mile wide. national weather service survey teams called it an ef-3 tornado, a severe storm. once we thought it was over and my husband got up and tried to walk through the house and i jus
captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. pelley: good evening. rescue teams are going door to door in alabama this evening, searching for survivors of rare winter tornados. the storms struck early this morning while most people were still asleep. at least two were killed and more than 100 injured. in all, 24 tornados were reported across the south. but it was jefferson county, alabama, that got the worst of it. that same storm system now stretches from the gulf coast to the great lakes and is moving east tonight. mark strassmann is on the ground in the town of clay, alabama. mark? reporter: we ve heard so many amazing stories of survival, scott. i m standing in what was the front bedroom of a 73-year-old woman who was home alone. the tornado knocked down all the walls of that bedroom and neighbors found her over here, her head still on the mattress she was. her head on the pillow covered in bricks. but she was unconscious but alive. th
field goal that would have sent the game to overtime. one day later, cundiff stood at his locker in owings mills and vowed that the miss will make him better. these kind of situations, they don t define a person, but it s the response, in my opinion, that defines somebody. so i can either go ahead and roll over, or i can pick myself up and know that the sting is going to sting. but i m going to get back to work and prepare for next year. reporter: a clean-shaven joe flacco also met with the media. he was better than tom brady sunday, but still ended up on the losing side. it s a defeat that flacco is still trying to understand. you don t really know what to think and how to feel. so i think he kind of just, every now and then, you get different feelings. and as the day goes on, i think, you know, at one second, you re like, okay. you know, we gave it all we had. and the next second, you re kind of frustrated that we didn t pull it all through. reporter: and from the b
this is the cbs evening news. good evening, i am anthony mason, with just three days to go before the first primary of this election year in new hampshire, the republican candidates are gearing up for a 1-2 punch of televised debates. round 1 is tonight in manchester, with all eyes on the front runner and the rivals who hope to block his path. jan crawford is in manchester tonight, good eastern, jan. tonight and tomorrow we have it all here in new hampshire, a front run whore is looking to cement his status, we have the surging challenger trying to grab the lead and a couple of former front runners who are fighting to get back in. it is setting the stage for what is shaping up to be let s say a real melee in manchester. desperate to stop an early mitt romney knockout, newt gingrich is pummelling the former massachusetts governor. i think there is a remarkable difference between a reagan conservative and a massachusetts moderate. ron paul is jabbing at a surging ri