. >> reporter: and carol buck was at home when disaster struck. >> we held our heads down. we didn't say too much. you could see things flying. coming in. the roof caving in. bricks flying from the hot fireplace. >> reporter: marie colby couldn't believe her eyes. >> you could see all the stuff flying through the air. big, huge chunks hitting the car. and they we saw a semitruck in front of us flip over and another one up and over a little ways get picked up, thrown in ]> the air and actually tossed over into the ditch. >> reporter: but no one knew the enormity of the destruction till daybreak. well over 100 and counting among the confirmed dead. six miles of debris. more than 2,000 buildings damaged.xd to give you an idea of the path and the power of this tornado, take a look at what it did to a massive chunk of the roof of this walmart. just lifted it completely off. but then look at the incredible swath that it cut. some three to four miles. in the tattered distance, that tiny little building is, in fact, the seven story st. john's hospital. destroyed cars lined streets.

like carol buck, whose husband held on to her mother for dear life. >> we had to look up once in awhile. you could see things coming in. flying. the roof caving in, or blowing off. bricks flying from the fireplace. i was hanging on to my grandmother's antique dining room table. it had big legs. >> were you being pulled? >> kind of. >> did you feel like you were hanging on for dear life? >> yeah. >> reporter: and a red cross responder who saw trucks tossed into the air. >> we could see the debris wall coming toward us. there was really nowhere else to go except underneath the overpass. you could see the stuff flying through the air. huge chunks hitting the car. and then, we saw a semitruck in front of us flip over. then another one up and over a little ways get picked up, thrown into the air, and tossed over into the ditch. >> reporter: daybreak has arrived. we'll find much worse. but i do want to introduce you to three who did live through this. this is jody, his wife christina, and their son, uriah. where were you and what happened? >> we were in a hallway. i could hear the roof and th

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