it was a lot of luck honestly. me and my wife actually were at our house. where our house actual didn t get hit by the tornado. my oldest boy was at my mother-in-law s house. we went over to try to be in her house because it was an actual house. so we felt like it would be stronger. we all just cooped up in the bathroom. we put my two boys in the bathtub, put pillows on top of them.n we sat down beside the bathtub and put pillows on top of us. we had our 2-month-old baby in the car seat, left in that thinking it would be more protection. we even had our dog in there with us. it was just thcrazy. it s the most traumatic thing i ve ever been through. i felt like i was helpless in protecting my kids against it. it just picked us up and just
prevent this from happening in the future? one thing we really need to do is start building more resilience into our regions that are experiencing more frequency of storms than they did maybe in the last century. and that means having safe places you can go that are stronger. building better warning systems. the national weather service has increased its enhanced fujita scale warning system. they have much better ways of tracking. also, we can have people be safer, get to safe places, and really don t go out and watch a tornado. watch it later on television or watch it on your phone while you re in a safe place. brenda, we ll have to leave it there. thanks for joining us. still to come, new data on how booster shots protect against omicron. plus, the rise in covid cases and deaths prompting some states to deploy the national guard and others like new york to impose a new mask mandate. toe
ceremoniously, they ve handed it to her. she s determined to put that flag back upsh in this town whe they rebuild this to the may field she knows. we have a long road ahead of us, but still holding up hope for good news. we want to go over to morgan chesky in edwardsville. at least six people have died there at that ma amson facility. reporter: good morning. officials are saying this recovery effort is still on going. they had a press conference yesterday evening in which they said they reev searching for an signs of life as they comb through that debris outside this massive warehouse north of edwardsville here. this is a building that essentially took abu direct hit from this tornado. this was not the quad state tornado that hit mayfield. it was one of the more than 30 others that sprung up across
might be there. at last check we don t know if they were able to reunite with her. meanwhile, there are some incredible survivor stories. in fact, there was one woman who was trapped inside the factory for two hours and live streamed pleas for help. fortunately she was able to get out alive, coincidentally on her 40th birthday. she certainly has a new lease on life this morning. we also spoke with another group of workers. they were injured. they were crawling in the dark and crawling across a mountain of debris, but they were also able to make it out. it was just hard to hear their stories. they were saying they were hearing cries for help as they were trying to also find help and trying to get out after the tornado struck that factually. we know that there are emergency responders literally from neighboring jurisdictions all around here. i spoke with firefighters out
out for is when those warm air masses are coming and you have a cold air mass, safe, from the arctic region coming through, some of the conditions for these strong storms lead to clashing of these types of weather fronts. and where these storms are occurring, when a tornado it s a very small phenomenon, very hard to get a handle of. it s not just the warm, moist air, which fuel greater power. you also have other conditions, such as vertical wind shear and a capping layer at the top that has to be warm, but not too warm and dry. so you need these ingredients and when they come together, if you have warmer, moist air at the surface in the mix, we re finding that it can be very dangerous and it s a time when you have to pay attention to weather forecasting in your area. i appreciate you explaining it in a way that i cansup. brenda, what do we need to do to