home. miraculously, everyone in the house survived, but not without injury. randall s arm was broken, his wife and son injured. but all of them had to wait hours for medical care because all the roads were blocked. it was pouring down rain. my son and my wife, they were crying. could you tell how seriously they were injured? no, sir, i couldn t tell because i couldn t move. his son zeland suffered a head injury. i got some boo boos. but was well enough to be released today from alabama s children s hospital. randall s wife is in intensive care, six months pregnant she s expected to survive along with the couple s unborn daughter. it happened in the blink of an eye. so fast. today vicki and tiffany wood are sorting through the clothes and personal items tiffany was able to salvage.
destruction. if we go out to cover a tornado, the damage, aftermath, it s a smaller area. this is incredible. it goes on for miles and miles and miles of the same kind of destruction. the path is generally anywhere from a quarter mile to about a mile wide. that is incredible power. and this tornado was headed straight at vicki wood. to me, this was the safest place that we could be. when warnings came that pleasant grove, a suburb of birmingham, was about to become the buckle of the tornado belt, vicki had her daughter and family come to her big house, and they all headed to the basement. it was a loud roar, and we knew that the brunt of the storm was here on us. they waited, and the storm passed. we came out here, there s no major damage. we thought, well, it missed pleasant grove. we re okay. but what had become of tiffany s house less than a mile away? this is where my living room
was. you can t get in the door. there is no door. there s no door. there s stairs but there s no door. we crawl in the window, the large window, which is where my daughter s room was. inside and outside her home, tiffany and her mom found complete destruction. i was standing actually in the road and i was trying to find her house. i was right in front of it. it was just total devastation to see everything gone. what swept away tiffany s house and so many others is as stunning to see as it is heartbreaking. trees sheared off, metal bent into hideous sculptures, and block after block suffering from nothing less than blunt force trauma. hang on, hang on, baby. everywhere in pleasant grove, there s the knowledge that this week marks a tipping point in their lives. before and after. sometimes just a few yards meant