happy that, you know, a lot of people survived because, you know, it wasn t looking good for them folks on that plane, for sure. when you let s talk a little bit about that orange dust again. does it dust or did it appear to be an explosion? because there wasn t a fire at first as you said, right? because that orange dust it was, you know, it was i mean, the noises that we heard sounded like a plane hitting the ground and just, you know, the sound of a plane just crashing in to the ground and we didn t hear a distinct bomb go off or anything like that. as far as i could tell, you know, it was just the plane impacting the ground and every time the wind hit or when the tail hit and then the nose hit,
our headquarters building south of the airport. neil: we were getting reports that the damage in dallas-ft. worth, the tornado, i m sorry, certainly at the least, severe wind hit that airport and did damage but i got no confirmation of that. guest: i do not know of any significant damage at the airport. i cannot tell you with absolute certainty there 70 there isn t some damage here or there, a roof or something like that but nothing of a major issue. neil: all right, thank you, be safe, yourself, and good luck looking at your own people. guest: we will do that, we have been through this type of thing before but we ask folks to please understand and bear with us we will get things up and going as fast as we can. neil: i think they will indulge you that.
survivors. don benson is one of those who made it through the storm in tennessee. his house did not. definitely i thank the lord for sparing as many people as he had. and i know these things can all be replaced. but like everyone else here, it s going to take a while. it s going to take a lot of construction to help out. it s important to note that this destruction storm system is not over yet. hitting parts of the deep south right now. more on that in a moment. all right. meantime, bp will pay about $7.8 billion to federal lawsuit with victims of the 2010 oil spill in the gulf of mexico. thousands of fishermen, hotel owners, and gulf coast residents will get a payout in april of 2010. the deepwater horizon oil rig exploded killing 11 people and causing the worst oil spill in u.s. history. and gas prices are going up again, the average price of a gallon of regular jumped more than a penny and a half in the last 24 hours. now nearly 3.76 a gallon, 30 cents more than la
letter ureport. and fox news.com/youreport. and we ll put it on the area. get to storm chaser. roger hill is live now with a first hand report. how are things looking? we are on the south end of the area. a bunch of houses bilt on stilts right on the beach and the storm surge is high enough here there is a couple of houses that are leaning back wards where the wind hit them hard. i am watching one house that is really, really leaning back. it has the look like it is ready to collapse on the stilts . pieces of siding has blown off and one house, the chimney
you suddenly see lightning and, bam! reporter: at the time the winds in the area were 56 miles per hour. shepard: given the extent of the damage a lot of observers were surprised how low the number of hurt people was. reporter: you can see that. and it blew back as you can see, not forward. if it blew forward it would have slammed into the crowd and amazingly the band members on the stage when it happened were not injured. the manager said out of nowhere the wind hit and he said it was huge. it blew everything around like symbols and he heard the rivets popping like the titanic. they were all running. thankfully it was just a miracle no one was killed and he says, of course, gear can be replaced. but people cannot. and an investigation is now