so reaching out to local authorities. saying hey, you know what, we re calling from a church or synagogue or school, wherever you are, and asking them, inviting them over, will you come over and speak to us about this and will you speak to our staff about this. this way, everybody is trained. something as simple as making sure your emergency doors work can save lives. it s not just one door. know where multiple doors are. walk those doors. teaching them what s cover, what s concealment. that way, when you re an environment and something does happen, you can respond. you don t have the time to stop and think what do i do. because those seconds count. those seconds matter. it s super important for these communities. invite them, create relationships with them. also, they can train them what to look for. anything odd or any suspicious behavior or anything that might
reporter: we embedded with the louisiana state fire marshall and his team going door to door looking for survivors. search and rescue! reporter: the doctors and nurses at bay medical center. the emergency doors blowing in. the hurricane force winds racing through the e.r. the windows were blowing in. and the doors were blowing in. and then miraculously, patients just start showing up. even during the latter part of the storm. i don t even know how they got here. reporter: walking into the e.r.? walking in, carrying babies, carrying the wounded. reporter: and on the upper floors of the hospital, you can see the hole right through the glass here. cardiac patients, some awaiting surgery, they had to get them out. you can see the water still on the floor. the doctors working to get those patients out to other hospitals. among them a mother in premature labor with twins. tonight we have just learned she gave birth to two healthy babies. and then there was rob who showed us kit
premature labor with twins and a man waiting for bypass surgery. we also embedded today with search and rescue teams today going door to door in the neighborhoods. this is the catastrophic damage of hurricane michael. the storm surge in apalachicola taking over streets and homes. in st. joe beach, a family, including father and son, rescuing people from their roof shortly after the eye of the storm passed. here in panama city, this stunning drone footage revealing a school destroyed. today we drove past streets littered with debris. cars smashed. stop lights out. there is no power here. a tractor trailer flipped over on its side. then we arrive at bay medical center. where we are told there is an urgent effort to get the patients out. the most critical moved first. the hospital is hit, the windows breaking and the power going out. the emergency doors blown in and the wind racing through the e.r.
advantage® ii. fight the misery of infesting fleas. next tonight here to an american airlines flight and a man allegedly trying to open a cabin door as the pilot prepared to land. the fbi on this tonight, and here s abc s david kerley. reporter: these are the moments just after passengers were screaming as a man allegedly tried to open one of the jet s doors in flight. i hear some yelling. this gentleman is standing in the middle of the aisle, and he is saying, i m going to punch him if he opens the door. i didn t know what was going on. i thought, you know, we were being hijacked. reporter: the american airlines jet was preparing to land in minneapolis. and once on the ground, police boarding and escorting the man in sunglasses off the aircraft. opening the door while in flight, that kind of scared me a lot and the passengers next to me. reporter: while there was plenty of fear among passengers on saturday, those emergency doors can t be opened in flight.
if you look at the aerial shots, we were about half of the way or two-thirds of the way down the runway and i think that would probably take 10 or 20 seconds to do. were people calm once the plane stopped? was it chaos? because those chutes department deploy off the wings like they re supposed to it seems. i would say people were remarkably calm. all the passengers were calm. there was not a specific announcement as to brace for impact or anything like that and i would say the flight attendants did a great job to keep people calm and off their cell phones which was a good thing. as emergency vehicles came we opened the emergency doors that you never think you re going to use. i m glad you re okay and the other passengers as well. thank you for being with us. ahead, the dangerous winter storm disrupting travel across the country. hundreds of cars stranded overnight. take a look. can you imagine being stranded overnight on this kentucky interstate? we also just learned there s a