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Chaos in the st. louis airport after seeing that twister, hard to believe the airport was back up and running in 24 hours. and now, the director of lambert st. louis international airport and joins on the phone. congratulations. right from the get go to get it back up and running to full capacity very quickly, congratulations, indeed. >> thank you. we are quite happy with that, as well, and nice to know we are serving the public again. yesterday as you said we were back up and running, about a 3...

A look at our top stories right now. lambert st. louis international airport is open again two days after the good friday tornado. the schedules are up to the individual airlines. the tornado heavily damaged one of the airports con courses. it also damaged at least 750 homes in the area. arizona congresswoman gabby giffords is improving. according to the arizona republic, she is standing and walking on her own. giffords brain was pierced by a bullet in shootings back in january. her husband is...

Not moved and the house next to it is missing some stuff. >> now were looking at lambert-st. louis international and some of the damage there. >> the roof major damage. >> were probably looking at some time next week before lambert-st. louis international is functional again. >> i had heard that, you know, and what weve been told is we know there are no flights in or out today. they dont think that theyre going to be flights in or out tomorrow. they may be able to do something on monday and i th...

This aircraft and theyre going around looking at each of these. the lambert-st. louis international airport as weve mentioned over and over, is closed. the last time it was closed buzz during a blizzard in 1982. now the neighborhood that we saw from our other affiliate, kdsk, showed a neighborhood right in the vicinity of the airport in the northern portion of st. louis county. we saw one street, one neighborhood, it looked as if every home had -- from little damage to a whole lot of damage and ...

Lambert-st. louis international airport again, which has been -- the last time it was shut down or closed was back in 1982, t.j. >> this airport has been going through a renovation. its a really old airport. goes back to the 30s, i believe, but they have a newer terminal there as well, but right now they are just trying to clean up a mess right now. so, folks, a lot of you might not be flying into st. louis or out of st. louis, maybe you think it doesnt really affect you, but were talking about ...

New ones, that continue to come in to us. also, this morning the u.s. carries out its first drone attack in libya as rebels gain serious ground in the beseiged town of misrata. and syrian protesters bury their dead one day after security forces staged a fierce crackdown on demonstrators. well have all of those for you. but we need to start this hour at lambert-st. louis international airport. right now it is closed indefinitely. after an apparent tornado slammed into that airport last nigh...

Theres water damage from the rain thats because the ceiling part of the roof was ripped off. you can even see damage on the runways, overturned baggage carts and glass everywhere. lambert-st. louis is closed indefinitely. weve been talking to airport officials who tell us they are just working at this point to assess the damage and actually check the sturdiness of these buildings because the last thing they want to do is get everything up and running and something collapse, so thats been the foc...

That was at 7:36. we think the tornado, if it were, in fact, a tornado, theyll have to survey this and assess it, im pretty sure theyre going to say this was one tornado that may have touched down several times, but 7:36, a warning was issued and then about 10, 15 minutes later, another warning was issued, this in st. louis county, and they had a report of an actual tornado on the ground and they had trained weather spotters that indicated a tornado was on the ground at 7:56 p.m. so thats about ...

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Death at this time. thats the good news story. once it came out of here and hit the airport and that terminal being designed in a retro style with so much glass in it, people are very lucky that there was not any other casualties. >> they sure are. jim compton, thanks so much for your story. people, do not try that at home, what jim happened to do, go out into the storm. most should stay indoors. were glad you made it out okay. lets talk again about this international airport in st. louis. lambe...