9:00 a.m. pacific. this as several employees at a candle factory in mayfield, kentucky, that was destroyed by a tornado tell nbc news, supervisors warned them they would be fired if they left before the twister hit. the company denies the allegations. meanwhile, families are just starting to pick up the pieces. i want to play for you part of my interview with a family who lives just two miles outside of downtown mayfield. they lost everything. but they survived the storm by riding it out in their bathroom. >> what were you thinking? >> i was thinking that i wasn't -- we were not going to survive. i thought -- i was just waiting, any minute, to the ceiling to come on top of us. and i was just praying to god, saying, like, please, god, if you want to take me, take me, but don't take my granddaughter. and i was so scared. and i thought we were going to die. we were not going to make it. it was so hard. something like, when we were in the hall, it was like -- i went