ruined briar wood elementary school with one of the first responders from the urban search and rescue team john blumenthal. he told me when he arrived he heard from somebody at the front of the school that the entire second grade was trapped. he followed them back to a classroom at the back of the school with all of the walls collapsed, he found 18 children. and two teachers. and both he and the fire chief remarked that it was absolutely remarkable that no one died at briar wood elementary. but when i talked to la donna cobb she said not everything turned out great for her because one of her prek students died in a home away from the school. here is how she reflected on that. i feel so bad for those families and can t even imagine if right now instead of hugging my babies i was having to plan their funeral. she told me that she was grateful to be alive. she was grateful that her family was alived. but she told me she did
that school with a member of the urban search and rescue team in just a second and show what you it looks like inside. first of all, the story of a briar road elementary school teacher and the terrifying ordeal that she and her entire family went through inside that school. at briar elementary teachers salvaged what think could before the school is demolished. i honestly didn t think we were going to make it. cobb and three children barely escaped with their lives. their thoughts are with those at the other school homes where one of her students didn t make it. i feel so bad for those families cafnted even imagine if instead of hugging my babies i was planning their funerals. this is some of the classrooms. this it is remarkable that there weren t any deaths at briar wood elementary says the fireman as i takes me through the shattered school.
option, then death is the option that the family wants. they want her to it be on death row. shepard: she added today that not surprisingly the victim s relatives have having a really hard time. the mayor of toronto does not spoke crack. that s the word from the mayor of toronto. he held a news conference a week after starting we started hearing about a video that reportedly shows the mayor inhaling from a glass crack pipe. we have not seen that video ourselves. the mayor, rob ford says lawyer had within been advising him not to comment on the whole thing. today he publicly denied using crack and said the media is out to get him. one counselor says he doesn t buy the mayor s story and called for the mayor to resign. the deadly tornado hit two schools several chirp died at plaza towers elementary. now they say it s remarkable that everybody at briar wood elementary survived.
today. about a mile and a half away from plaza towers and also in the tornado s path. john roberts toured what s left of briar wood elementary and tomorrow he will tell us the story of the teacher who got hurt while saving the students lives. there is breaking news now on fox news channel. we have a verdict in the case of the murder jodi arias. the jury has now decided whether jody will recommend that jodi arias lives or dies. there has been a lot going on in that courtroom today. at one point as you know the jurors said we can t come up with a decision. the judge sent them back. we knew that they were convening people in the courtroom now. relatives of the victim have been there and many of the court watchers as well. everyone is in the courtroom now and there is a verdict. so our live coverage begins now of the jodi arias verdict. as you know. we have had very little opportunity to hear specifics this afternoon. but we now know that the verdict is in. we don t yet know what it
you have got the little first graders that come out and literally taught to go down like, this cover their heads and just crouch against the wall? correct. we have tornado drills regularly in our schools. there are certain safe areas unfortunately this was a storm and we have had one other storm like this that the the weather man even on the television will say if you are not underground there is a very likely chance you won t survive this storm. we he only had 16 minutes. there is no way to empty a school with almost 500 people in it out in 16 minutes. things that they are working on that day what they wanted to be, their favorite things five things they learned. right before their day was obviously changed a lot. lives changed forever. shep? shepard: jonathan hunt at plaza towers elementary and moore. we received new video of the video of what briar wood elementary looks like