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Heres abcs alex perez. >> look at, look at. >> reporter: frightening tornadoes ripping through parts of illinois in minutes. in hard-hit coal city, the reality setting in. it was about 10:00 monday night when the storm roared in. >> weve had significant damage throughout the whole town here. >> reporter: entire blocks in this town of about 5,500 decimated. >> just cars upside down, trees on houses. >> reporter: kenny and hillary houston scrambling to the crawl space of their home for safety. >> ...

Tornadoes ripping through parts of illinois in minutes. in hard-hit coal city, the reality setting in. it was about 10:00 monday night when the storm roared in. >> weve had significant damage throughout the whole town here. >> reporter: entire blocks in this town of about 5,500 decimated. >> just cars upside down, trees on houses. >> reporter: kenny and hillary houston scrambling to the crawl space of their home for safety. >> all the glass exploded like a big vacuum and our ears popped and boom...

Geologists on the ground right now from the u.s. geological survey, from washington, from washington institutions, that are working hard to understand these risks. >> working hard, i get it. but at the same time, it was only a few days ago they could hear people knocking and begging for help. and how do you temper that with this pile may keep going? what do you do? >> absolutely. we need to move quickly to understand where the breakdown occurred and look up and down this valley and not just in w...

The house voted 407-0 to promise furloughed federal workers they will eventually be paid for the time theyre kept off the job. the white house has said it supports the back pay for 800,000 employees. the bill now goes to the democratically controlled senate. the stalemate over the partial government shutdown and the approaching deadline over the debt limit is rumbling far outside the belt way. today on wall street investors are rattled and markets poised for a big hit. alison kosik is in new y...

>> ive never seen anything like this in my 18 years covering tornadoes. >> decimating everything in its path. homes crushed to piles of debris. what looks like haystacks, where houses once stood. as the injured poured into hospitals, cars tossed like toys from the parking lot of the moore medical center piled up. blocking the main entrance. >> i heard it go over us. i felt our ears popping. it was something that we never experienced, it was really scary. >> nearby, a mother and her 7-month-old f...

>> i felt my ears popping, something we never experienced. it was really scary. >> nearby, a mother and her 7-month-old found dead, where a 7-eleven once stood. they tried to take cover in a freezer during the storm. >> grabbing and throwing debris, trying to get anybody out. >> a massive recovery effort at one of two schools for children buried under the rubble continued into the night. the grim reality setting in with rescuers and their anxious parents. bloody teachers seen here carrying child...

The ferocious storm flattening homes and buildings, flinging cars in the air and leaving two schools and a hospital barely recognizable in the hard-hit town of moore. >> ive never seen anything like this in my 18 years covering tornadoes. >> decimating everything in its path. homes crushed to piles of debris. what looks like haystacks were houses once stood. as the injured poured into hospitals, cars tossed look toys from the parking lot of the moore medical center piled up. blocking the main en...

Children buried in the rubble, continued through the night. the grim reality setting in. bloody teachers seen here. destroyed from the monstrous twister, trapping close to 100 students. tears of relief for one mother, as she reunites with her first grade son. and a hug to his teacher. for miles, entire neighborhoods destroyed. many describing the horror they faced. >> we grabbed our motorcycle helmets and hid in the closet and prayed like hell. and luckily, the only room that was spared was the ...

Dollars plus tax hit is about to kick in as a deal to avoid the fiscal cliff is no where are in sight and time is running out. we hit the streets to show people this. this graphic shows how big a tax hit you could expect depending on your income no matter where in the country you live. for folks who could soon be forced to pay higher taxes, reality setting in. >> january 1st, thats what your taxes would go up. >> wow. >> wow. >> wow is not wow. >> well, its going to be somewhere between 8,000 to...

Firsthand. thank you, sir. a grim new reality setting in for americas business owners and their employees as companies begin the cutbacks they warned about to deal with the costs from the presidents health care plan. lou dobbs is next with the steps american employers are taking to adjust and how their employees are feeling the pinch. and as the president calls for higher taxes on the rich, our research shows big government getting bigger than ever. well look at the issues america seems to h...