gray and then light. how it often looks after a storm. but we're still getting heavy rain, had hail for awhile. just really a bad situation. >> janet, stay with me. want to show pictures of st. louis under a tornado warning now, seeing pick youtures. we see damage to what looks like a home, house has debris in the front yard, from that house or another, we don't know. severe weather has in fact touched down in st. louis today. janet, want to go back to your experience this afternoon. it must have been a little scary even as a seasoned journalist to be herded underground. how did people handle it. >> reporter: people were fairly calm. not entirely, but you hear go underground. so this was as underground as you get, and it is a corridor about a third of a mile long, so it can accommodate plenty of people, it is not that wide. airport folks did a great job, came through with a megaphone, there are two systems he said, we are in the direct path of one, we are under warnings for them both. one point they said this is it, put your hands over your head, move away from what few windows were down there. we felt, you could feel the force of