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We are waiting a news conference from the lambert-st. louis airport in missouri. a line of severe storms trying and the airport taking a direct hit from the twister. the powerful funnel cloud tossing planes around sending baggage carts flying and passengers running for cover. welcome to a new hour inside americas news headquarters, hello im heather childers. >> and im gregg jarrett. right now the lambert airport remains closed. crews trying to cleanup the mess, restore power and get passengers t...

Canceled until further notice at lambert st. louis international airport. many travelers ran for cover as the intense wind tore off part of the roof and send glass flying through the area. five people treated for minor injuries. mike seidel is live at the airport in st. louis for us. lets get the latest on the situation there this morning. whats it like? >> reporter: well, its very quiet inside. security folks and some of us media but other than that its like an airport on a bright day. daylight...

Frontier airlines and american with no place to go right now. they hope to get those flights as we were told at the press conference some of the flights into b concourse. a is already full. thats delta. then you have terminal two. formerly the east terminal. thats in good shape. this he have power down there. southwest is the number one air carrier here at lambert st. louis international airport. so we probably will have some southwest flights going out maybe some delta flights tomorrow. and the...

Saga? good morning, im alex witt. welcome to msnbc saturday. all flights canceled until further notice at the st. louis airport after an apparent tornado tore through the air field last night. the violent storm lifted a roof off the terminal and sent shards of plate glass flying everywhere. one traveler in the terminal says he barely escaped getting hurt. >> the wind came up, me and the gentleman behind the counter tried to hold the door closed. it was pushing so hard, i told him, we got to ge...

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Not only are they cleaning, theyre attempting to board up windows that were left open by the storm from last night. some passengers actually tell me they were on planes, they were in terminals. one passenger even tells me his actual plane moved 15 to 20 feet while sitting on the runway and the end results are these windows that youre seeing right now actually blown out. this is terminal one. this is the main terminal here at lambert airport. concourse "c" which was primarily serves as the americ...

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Lambert st. louis international airport. i up hope you can hear me. as we look at pictures of the damage, can you give us more detail in terms of the extent of this damage here? >> i was here through most of the night last night and certainly there was extensive damage to our historic terminal 1, which connects with concourses a and c and most damage on the concourses was on concourse c. extensive windows that were blown out, some roof damage or parts of a roof blown off on the c concourse that ...