good morning. buenos dias and welcome to cnn this morning, saturday, january 14th. i m boris sanchez or as amara called me earlier, sorbi. i think i said sorez. close enough. i like that better. sounds like a dinosaur. a mixture of sorry and boris. are you my boris saurus, sound like a dinosaur. welcome, everyone. thanks for being with us. appreciate your starting your morning with us. great to be with you as always. we begin in the southeastern united states where recovery efforts are under way after severe storms killed at least nine people thursday night in alabama and georgia. at least 37 tornadoes were reported with one twister wrecking parts of selma, alabama, a historic american city known for its role in the civil rights movement. seven of those confirmed fatalities were in neighboring atauga county, alabama, where the storm caused widespread damage to homes and businesses. it was scary, and i thought about you said it was coming, and we just didn t know exa
there wasn t any floor system there anymore. it s a foundation, it took that end of the house completely off. i was going out of the kitchen into the living room, and this as i stepped into the living room, the floor disappeared under my feet, and i went straight to the ground. and had to crawl back up into the end that was still standing, the end of the hallway. they were in the hallway. my goodness. how are you feeling this morning? are you do you feel like it s a miracle that you survived? yeah. scrapes and bruises i ve got doesn t compare to all of us lives and everything that were saved. that s minor. and tiffany, you must have been beside yourself trying to find your father and your grandmother, because that was your grandmother s home. tell me what you went through. right. he called me right before it
happened, and whenever i did try to call him back, i couldn t get in touch with him. and i finally got this touch with my cousin, and asked him if everyone was okay, she said, yes, but the house is good news is. all i could think about is i have to get to him. i left work and immediately tried getting in it took me three hours to get ten minutes up the road because of the tree damage and paramedics, ambulance, everything. and i just knew i had to get to him. tell me, tiffany, when you saw the house what your reaction was, what s left of it, and where everyone is staying now. they are staying with my uncle as of now until we can figure out a more permanent solution. we don t know where to start to be honest. whenever i saw the house, i had to park a mile and a half up the road and run to the house.
here. and georgia governor brian kemp has confirmed that one of those nine deaths included a state employee killed while responding to thursday s storm, as well as a 5-year-old bow who died when a tree fell on top of a car. an alabama family says it s a miracle they are alive after that powerful round of storms and tornadoes ripped through their state. i want to show what s left of the house randall mcleod called home. they were trapped under all this debris for three hours until first responders were able to get them. joining me are randall and tiffany mcleod. really appreciate you joining us and thankful that you survived this. first of all to you, randall, i just reading your story is heart-stopping. tell us what happened to your house, what you saw, what you felt when this tornado touched down and you were in the middle