i couldn t move. it was really rough. what was going through your mind? i swore we were going to die. all i could do was pray. half of the death toll centers in one small town. 9,000 people live in harrisburg, illinois, six people died there. don lemon is there. the national weather service says the tornado was the second most powerful on the rating scale. how widespread is the damage this morning? reporter: ef-4. it s huge. pan around here and look. this is a neighborhood, a fairly new neighborhood. go left here to show. if this had happened in the afternoon when it was full of people, there would have been probably many more injuries, many more deaths here. luckily there were only six and i m saying luckily because every single person we ve spoken to, even the person who lost his mom said he can t believe at that only six people died in all of this. they say they re going to pick up the pieces. the red cross is here. they have lots of help. this he could use more he
starting with the mall. there s a big walmart over there. here is a strip mall. this was a cell phone store if you walk in here, you can see there they are, cell phones, all the inventory still here. it is well guarded with police help. i have to tell you, instead of looking at the daniel and destruction like this here s what people are looking forward to, to the clean-up as you can see the workers over there cleaning this town up. they re putting on new roofs, they re securing what they have. and all the things that are not in the good enough conditionton withstand a little bit of wind, they re going to bull doze it and tear it down. here s the interesting thing though that we re hearing, brooke. you can talk to chad meyers about this. another storm system is brewing, and they re preparing for that one, as well. yep, we re hearing friday, don lemon. thank you so much. want to move long next on reporter roulette. nick paton walsh is in afghanistan for us. two more american