a 14th manager in ten years for nottingham forest we ll meet steve cooper, the new man in charge. hello, and welcome to sportsday. all four home nations are in qualifying action for the 2023 women s world cup after victories in the first round of matches for all of them. wales s game against estonia is already well under way. let s talk to our reporterjo currie. jo, let s start with an update on that wales match. bring us up to date. how are they doing? bring us up-to-date. how are they doinu ? , , ., bring us up-to-date. how are they doin. ? , , ., ., bring us up-to-date. how are they doinu? , , ., ., ., doing? they shot out of the box. four minutes doing? they shot out of the box. four minutes in, doing? they shot out of the box. four minutes in, poking - doing? they shot out of the box. four minutes in, poking into - doing? they shot out of the box. four minutes in, poking into the| doing? they shot out of the box. - four minutes in, poking into the box to go 1 0 up and i stil
is part of a house, upside down. look at that. yeah. i don t imagine the side streets are visible. you can t see downtown. it rearranged the map. these poles are made of? concrete. this was not here. concrete poles. reporter: what do you do tomorrow, the next day? i just keep praying, hoping for the best, you know. for 27-year-old stephanie, this tornado officially makes her a two-time survivor. we seen it coming. we was like outside. they was playing. we was playing like cars. stephanie, her two young sons and fiance are at the shelter in tuscaloosa two days after riding out the tornado in their apartment. then all of a sudden i looked
concerned, people were running to the ambulance wanting help, we averaged probably three and four and five patients at a time taking them in. reporter: did i hear correctly this was your first day as an emt? as a paramedic/emt, yes, sir. reporter: how did it go for you? it went very well.4c it just came out of nowhere and we were prepared. we responded, and we did the best that we could do. reporter: how much rest have you had since, any of you, since wednesday afternoon? anything of consequence? couple hours here and there? very little. reporter: that s why it s called baptism by fire. our thanks on behalf of everyone watching, thank you folks and thank you very much for being with us and telling your stories. we ll take another break. when we come back, talk about all the places people sought refuge during this storm, one of the strangest places ever to ride out a tornado. in this case, it worked. did you know prilosec otc
that s a scary thing. reporter: is the definition of tornado alley changing? carved out of kansas, missouri, oklahoma, that was what we always thought was where they were going to pop up. we re in alabama. and that s april. dixie alley as we call it in the south is march april time. this is performed above anyone s expectations. and like most meteorologists, never did we think we d surpass the death of the super outbreak. especially with today s technology and getting the word out faster, but you needed to be underground for the kind of storms that moved through here. reporter: and back up to the previous question, the people who have been watching this coverage saying it s something we re doing. got to be something we re doing because we didn t have weather like this when i was a kid, we didn t have weather like this a few years ago. what do you say to them? well, the science says we can t prove anything yet. but the human in me says, okay, if it s raining harder and if the
effected in our thoughts and prayers, the biggest thing now is to help the community. reporter: the storm gathered in the afternoon. weather reporters became the town kriers. looking for not only tornados but 80 miles per hour wind and four inch hail. reporter: a storm predicted. then there it was, out the window, thick and black, swirling and unstoppable. tornados a mile wide. and the video record of it, images caught by frightened amateurs and storm chasing pros alike have given us a unique, jaw dropping, front row look at the relentless view of a tornado. dear god, be with us. reporter: twisters going through roads and fields in mississippi. starting to look like the end of the world in tuscaloosa, population upwards of 90,000. this is really an extraordinary event.