get into a storm shelter if you have one. get into an enclosed closet. in their house, dead center in the storm s past is amy krago, her 10-month-old daughter aaliyah and the rest of her family, crammed into a closet and expecting the worst. we heard the tornado coming. it just started ripping the house apart. i thought i was going to die. it hurt so bad. you can t imagine how bad it hurts to be in the middle of a tornado. you re flying through the air like you don t weigh nothing. then in a matter of seconds it s over. i had this cut on my head. i had blood and mud all over me. i was looking and looking. unable to find her child or family, amy wanders through the rubble searching for help. a passing motorist takes her to the hospital.
in their house, dead center in the storm s past is amy krago, her 10-month-old daughter aaliyah and the rest of her family, crammed into a closet and expecting the worst. we heard the tornado coming. it just started ripping the house apart. i thought i was going to die. it hurt so bad. you can t imagine how bad it hurts to be in the middle of a tornado. you re flying through the air like you don t weigh nothing. then in a matter of seconds it s over. i had this cut on my head. i had blood and mud all over me. i was looking and looking. unable to find her child or family, amy wanders through the rubble searching for help. a passing motorist takes her to the hospital. deputy sheriff robert jolly searching for survivors drives to where amy s house had been.
we heard the tornado coming. it just started ripping the house apart. i thought i was going to die. it hurt so bad. you can t imagine how bad it hurts to be in the middle of a tornado. you re flying through the air like you don t weigh nothing. then in a matter of seconds it s over. i had this cut on my head. i had blood and mud all over me. i was looking and looking. unable to find her child or family, amy wanders through the rubble searching for help. a passing motorist takes her to the hospital. deputy sheriff robert jolly searching for survivors drives to where amy s house had been. hoping, but not expecting, to find anyone alive, jolly spots what he thinks is a doll. but as he picks it up, baby aaliyah starts to cry.
loaded all for the reasur of of into the minivan. their bodies were skovrd in the van under eight feet of water. the oldest child, the 10-year-old, survived climbing out of a window, swimming to shore in 40-degree water and flagging down passing motorist may have ryan. he was waving his handing frantically and his face was full of fear. he said would you please help me, please help me. the frozen fear on his face was just i ll never forget it for the rest of my life. once safe, ryan told wnbc he recounted the chilling story of what his mother has done. she went into the back seat and held them altogether and said if i m going to die, you re all going to die with me. i m so proud of my nephew to have the strength and the courage to get out.
of the vehicle. maria schiavocampo is live in newburgh now. i know the mayor of this town is reacting. this story shocked this community. reporter: it is really a devastating story.ç and shocking in the tale of the boy that was able to make that frantic escape. it all unfolded behind me here at this boat dock. that s where the mother drove her van into the hudson river, killing herself and three of four of her children. two boys ages 2 and 5 years old and an 11-month-old baby girl. now, that fourth boy, as you mentioned, a 10-year-old, was in the van at the time that she drove into the river, but police say he was able to make an escape by rolling down the power windows before the van was completely submerged, swimming to the shore, running to the road and flagging down a passing motorist who took him to the fire department, soaking wet, where he was able to tell them what happened and ask for help. it took police divers about an