this baby boy in china has proven to be a fighter the world is routing for. he s just a couple of days old. this newborn survived being flushed down a toilet. and then got stuck in a hala gorani has the story. you will not be able to turn away. the dramatic rescue began after cries from a fourth floor apartment toilet. alarmed neighbors saw a tiny foot and called the fire department. unable to pull the baby out, rescuers went to the floor below and sawed away the entire section of sewer pipe. but still, the baby remained
everyone here has a story. i was in the tornado shelter when it came. i was home hearing the news. it was time to duck and cover and i got my dogs and got in there behind the house. reporter: first an ef-4 tornado tore through the town of shawnee, killing two. oh, my god. reporter: the next day an ef-5 tornado hit moore, mangling communities, destroying an elementary school full of students. we were there during the desperate search for survivors. they re saying that we had kids in this school to go look for them. i would imagine as parents you are incredibly thankful to have your children right here right now. yes, i thank god that i got there in time to pick up my nieces, my nephews, my son. i don t know what i would have done. reporter: 24 people died that day. ten were children, among them kyle davis, whose funeral was this weekend. there should be a place that if this ever happened again
the moneys protected. reporter: those who know the women say they re drawing on the same strength that helped them survive so many years in captivity. they re exceptional human beings, having gone through the ordeal and to be able to come out of it and start to heal and move forward so quickly is amazing. reporter: in addition to the hundreds of thousands of dollars already raised for the women, there have been dozens of offers for free services like college tuition for four years, dental care, spa services, but the biggest need remains financial help. if you want to learn how to help the girls, go to cnn.com/impact and click on the cleveland courage fund. brooke? pamela brown, thank you very much for us there in cleveland. from that story to another huge story. i was in moore last week. we still have crews here as people are picking up the pieces and their lines. w we check in with george howell with an emotional survival story there. don t miss it. ñe
him, our weather guy here, has been on, like, 20 cruises. loves to cruise. but, i mean, it is a huge surge in popularity. has the industry safety standard though been able to keep up with that growth? i think it has. last year the cruise industry grew 5%. this year, forecasting 2% to 3%. and you know, the more ships you put in the water, the more likely it is that we ll have an incident. it is just, you know, statistics 101. we see a lot of regulations, a lot of improvement in safety over the years. so but i think, again, we just there needs to be accountability, some getting out ahead of the story. jay herring let s make passengers feel lucky to be on a ship that has a mishap. because the compensation is so great. that nice. jay herring, we re not on that ship. the author of the truth about cruise ships. thank you so much. i appreciate it. thanks, brooke. up next, a big win for the prosecution in the case against george zimmerman.
since that explosion leveled the local fertilizer plant. investigators still don t know what caused it. 15 people died in the explosion, many of whom were first responders running to the scene to help. ed lavandera joins me live from west. ed, you talked to this volunteer firefighter who survived the explosion. what did he say? reporter: it s an amazing sto story, brooke, when you consider so many first responders were killed in that blast but a lucky few who responded and were seriously injured could walk away and talk about it nearly six weeks later. right in the middle of the chaos was firefighter robert payne, which makes seeing him now, six weeks later, all the more remarkable. the explosion, do you remember it? i don t remember it at all, no. i watch it in video and see how