Amazon Wareh News Today

>> reporter: yeah, most of the folks that were in the facilities behind me, they had perhaps eleven minutes after that warning was issued to try to get to a safe space. just so everybody knows, we learned there were 46 employees, amazon employees or amazons partners that clock in on friday night. six of them never made it home alive. one of them, you mentioned his name, clayton cope, a 29-year-old navy veteran, served his country honorably, and returned to his community in southwest illinois whe...

Question of whether or not more could have been done to ensure the safety of the people inside the building, just to try to paint a very disturbing picture of what took place on friday, according to witnesses, what happened is this tornado basically set its sights on that building behind me and tore through a portion of the building there, and that caused the collapse of some of those concrete walls that came crashing down on some of those employees, leading to those six deaths. what we heard fr...

On saturday, her husband spoke to cnn. he was just sobbing as he said he had frantically been searching for his wife at that site. >> district judge brian crick was killed when the tornado struck. the 43-year-old judge leaves behind a wife and three children. in illinois, clayton cope, a 29-year-old navy veteran was working at that amazon warehouse in edwardsville, when a tornado slammed into that building. his mother says her son was big hearted and would do anything for anybody. and 26-year-ol...