mike? they must have left. herbie, herbie. herbie jean. [ whistling ] come on. they re not in the basement? no, i don t think so. sarah, mike! they re not down there. you can t see anything. they did not find sarah at home but they did find sarah. aaron and sarah join me now. very nice to see both of you together. can you guys hear me? one, two, three, four. yes, sir. you can hear me? yes. all right, cool. it s great to see you guys together. aaron, what was going through your head when you grabbed the camera and ran outside? had you ever been through anything like this before? nothing like this.
aaron, sarah, you can hear me? yes. all right, cool. it s great to see you guys together. aaron, what was going through your head when you grabbed the camera and ran outside? had you ever been through anything like this before? nothing like this. i mean, i m not sure anybody has with what they re saying about this kind of tornado. when we left the house, we had no idea it was like this. i took the camera thinking there would be some downed trees and stuff like that. but the time we had to abandon the car because of the debris, you realized the severity of everything and i already had the camera running. so we had it running as every block you went in deeper, the worse and worse it got and the severity of it set in. aaron, you had trouble figuring out where you were, even though it s a neighborhood you probably know very well. yeah. i ve lived in joplin my entire life. you know, i ve been to my sister s house obviously plenty of times. but everything was so leveled. you had
i mean, i m not sure anybody has with what they re saying about this kind of tornado. when we left the house, we had no idea it was like this. i took the camera thinking there would be some downed trees and stuff like that. but the time we had to abandon the car because of the debris, you realized the severity of everything and i already had the camera running. so we had it running as every block you went in deeper, the worse and worse it got and the severity of it set in. aaron, you had trouble figuring out where you were, even though it s a neighborhood you probably know very well. yeah. i ve lived in joplin my entire life. you know, i ve been to my sister s house obviously plenty of times. but everything was so leveled. you had no idea where you were. with the street signs gone, there was no houses, no trees, no nothing. it was just completely barren. so we kept having to ask people where we were. even the people that lived on the streets were so dazed had a
aaron s sister in a neighborhood that was a neighborhood in name only. take a look. look at all this. you guys okay? are you guys okay? yeah. holy crap! they raced to the home of aaron s sister, sarah. a tree across the street was burning. sarah s house was badly damaged. look. sarah, mike! sarah, mike. mike, sarah! check the basement. sarah, mike? mike, sarah? you guys down here? mike?
that s when my fiance said, we re definitely in a tornado. so it was pretty terrifying. aaron, how did you finally find sarah? after we didn t find them at the house, we didn t know what to do. but people pointed us to the walgreen s saying that was where they had a triage center set up. they weren t there, so we started walking down main street, or what was left of main street, trying to get a cell phone signal, which was not existent. we were asking people if we had seep them, yelling out their names. finally we happened to walk into cell coverage and her fiance mike got a phone call through to us, that lasted about ten seconds, saying they had made it to our parent s house, they were okay, and then the phone cut out. but that s all we needed to hear, thankfully. later tonight, we re going to take you to libya to the besieged town of misurata and talk to marie colvin, a british reporter there who has a story that s just it s hard to