i want to bring in ben mcmillen, storm chaser and emt. pull 15 people from a building that collapsed next to the hospital. i want to ask you about them, but when you first got there, what was the scene like? could you hear people crying for help? >> well, erin, we followed mile-wide tornado northbound up i-35, there was debris showering down all over our vehicle. if that wasn't enough on top of the situation, we saw a hospital had been leveled. at that point, with my emt training, i felt the best thing to do would be to aid the cross-exami victims. fire crews were not on scene yet. there was a particular building in between a bowling alley and the moore medical center main structure that collapsed. it was a large concrete slab that fell on top of nurses and other medical staff. when we first came on the scene, there was folks yelling for help that there was 18 people trapped. we were able to get a lot of them out. it was a sight i hope to never see again in my life. >> what was the condition of those people that you rescued? >> most peopl