through illinois iowa and missouri. while many families scramble to hide. others grabbed cams to catch the twisters as they ripped into towns across the region. watch this. oh [bleep] it s over. it s over. oh [bleep] go go. trailer rig. now with the storm s leeing out families returning to see what, if anything they can salvage. some of them finding a lifetime worth of memories, piles of soggy trash. we re getting more now from some of the survivors on the tornadoes in illinois. raymond craner and his wife, bete were dr area minutes before the storm hit. she told him to pull the car over and headed inside a restaurant while that decision may have end up saving both their lives. the owner told everybody, get down in the storm cellar where they stayed until the tornado passed. raymond and betty kramer join us
was clipped by a tractor/trailer rig and ultimately forced off the road. passengers, though are telling a different story. julie bandaras joins us now. she has the latest details. what about the driver s story is not adding up, julie. reporter: a lot about the story. i also want to tell you about that 15th victim. we are told it was a 70-year-old man, he died this morning, his name among the 14 others that were killed in this crash, their names not yet being released. as for the driver s story, certainly it s not meshing with what witnesses said on the scene. according to the driver he said this a tractor/trailer had clipped him on the side which then sent the bus careening into the side of the street, and we have video of the aftermath. it sent it careening into a road sign which then literally sheared the top of the bus off, front to back causing gruesome head injuries, causing that death, that 15th victim this morning. now witnesses are saying not only did they not see any such