the verge of being indicted? i'll ask legal eagle dan abrams what happens now. plus, my all-star tribute to the woman who changed television forever. >> i would vote oprah for president. >> who wouldn't want to be oprah winfrey? are you kidding? >> i'll talk to some of the people who knew her best. >> piers morgan. >> including her best friend gayle king, suze orman and lisa ling. this is "piers morgan tonight." this is the video that stopped viewers around the world dead in their tracks. twister versus tractor trailer. you saw it here last night. not only does the driver walk away, he captured the whole thing on his cell phone in the moments before it happens. incredibly lucky driver joins me now. he's jeremiah morrison. first of all, what an escape. watching these pictures last night, we just assumed the worst. you must feel lucky to be alive. >> yes, sir, i do. what are the injuries you suffered, jeremiah? >> do what, sir? >> what are the injuries that you suffered? >> doctors said i had a cracked humorous in my shoulder, like a fracture. i got scrapes on my legs, bruises. bruises and dings and bangs. nothing severe i guess. >> tell me, just talk me through what was going through your mind as this tornado came towards you. >> it came toward me. i pulled my truck over. i was getting ready to get in the ditch. that's what i've always been taught to do. i looked up. look like the tornado kind of disappeared. i got back in the truck. tried to get my seat belt buckled. closed my eyes. put my arms over my face. not real sure if i blacked out. i know that -- i was laying on the ground. picked myself up. looked over. the truck was on its wheels. i ran around to see -- i guess kind of sort of assess the damage. >> i've been watching the pictures again. it's absolutely extraordinary you survived this. as the tornado hit the truck, did you think you were going to die? how were you feeling at that moment? >> i believe very strongly if it's your time to go, it's your time to go, and there's nothing you can do. i just pretty much held on to what i could. when i felt the truck go over, my words were "here we go." that's all i could say. >> wow. well, we're actually going to show now the extraordinary video which you took on your cell phone as the tornado comes through the truck. we can see it here now. you can see there, it's coming. these are remarkable images. when you see a tornado coming towards you. i can't even imagine. i've never been in anything like that in my life. when these pictures emerged of the truck being thrown in the air, did your family know that was you, jeremiah? >> actually, i've been told pretty much all my family and all my friends saw it. my dad had a sneaking suspicious it was me. he started getting phone calls. started making phone calls. they started calling my girlfriend. she started watching the news. everybody was trying to get a hold of me. pretty much when the emt was bandaging me up, they wouldn't let me answer my cell phone. i called my boss. i noticed my girlfriend called. i answered when she called. told her what was going on so she could spread the word. most of my family saw it live. >> it's a pretty good commercial for that cell phone. must be one of the most durable, well-built cell phones in history. >> yes, sir, it's a motorola tundra. they say it's waterproof and all that good stuff. >> i hope you get al free one out of that, definitely, it's the least you deserve. did you see devastation around you, jeremiah? >> i saw the debris in front of me. and i thought the tornado was actually going to go directly across the interstate. i know tornadoes don't really have a path of which way they want to go but i didn't expect it to come directly at me like it did. i saw a -- >> jeremiah, when you -- when you look at the video pictures of that tornado hitting your truck, can you quite believe what you're watching? >> actually, the first time i saw it, after they took me to the hospital, i was laying in the hospital bed, flipping through the channels. that particular video, i said, that's not my truck, that's not my truck. a little later, they showed really good clear pictures. that is my truck. so yes, i was amazed. >> i mean, it's truly remarkable. we assumed last night when we aired that video, it just seemed the worst. it just seemed inconceivable anyone could survive that. the debris just flying through the air for hundreds and hundreds of kilometers here. maybe even miles. it just goes on and on. the fact you're now talking to me with fairly minor injuries is truly a miracle. >> sir, i do believe that day there was somebody watching over me and taking care of me. >> what reaction have you had from your family, jeremiah, since you've been able to get home? >> do what, sir? i'm sorry, i didn't hear you. >> i wonder what reaction you've had from your family when you were able to go home. >> my dad came up and met me at the hospital. my girlfriend wanted to come up b but i told her there wasn't no sense, they were just going to do x-rays. my dad took me to meet my boss. he took me home and all my family was, like, oh, that's amazing, are you okay. they all wanted to make sure i was okay. then they were all, that was awesome so -- >> well, it's an absolutely remarkable story of survival. in a few days, when there has been so much tragedy. i can only congratulate you, jeremiah. what a remarkable escape. i know you know that and you've been very humble in this interview. thank you very much for joining me. >> yes, sir, thank you very much. >> the whole region's bracing itself for more storms tonight. tornado's already been spotted near midtown memphis. cnn's meteorologist jackie jers is there. what is happening right now? >> well, all the thunderstorms have moved east of where we are, so that's the good news for the folks here in joplin. but the threat of tornados is still out there tonight. we've had at least 60 tornado reports so far for today. with several confirmed touchdowns. the good news is so far there's been no major damage and no injuries or fatalities today. there are tornado watches which are stacked up basically from cleveland, ohio, stretching all the way southward and parts of louisiana. so the storm system continues to move off to the east with that big threat yet for tonight. however tomorrow we're just looking at a slight risk of severe weather and much fewer tornadoes expected along the east coast. >> jacqui, what do we know about the number of people who may have died in the joplin tornado? because we're still being told up to 1,500 people are unaccounted for. do we know anything about who they are or what the likelihood that they survived? >> well, here's what we know. that they have confirmed 125 fatalities. we don't know who all those people are. there hasn't been a list issued. some people are frustrated because they'd like to know whether or not their loved one might be one of those 125 people. the number we've been hearing for the last 24 hours in terms of missingened unaccounted for was at 1,500 and we just heard through a press conference with the city manager mark rohr there that he said the number is not that high but he wouldn't give us a number. so we don't know if it's 1,300, 1,200, only 500? we don't know. likely there are going to be a lot more fatalities. we're afraid that number's going to go up very significantly compared to the 124 we have now. there's also some confusion. communication is extremely limited here. people can't get a hold of each other to know whether or not they're safe and might be in a nearby neighboring community. on top of that, some people who are injured have been transported to other hospitals across the region so there's a little con flex there in terms of where these people might be. so still yet to be determined. but the chances are at this point, finding anybody in addition that's still alive, we think it's going to be very minimal. they've changed search and rescue now to search and recovery. the temperatures have been very cold here, piers. we're down to 66 degrees and the winds are gusting at 35 miles per hour. everybody is out here shivering and cold. not to mention, they've been out here wet days and days if anybody's still trapped in that rubble. things aren't looking good for any more potential survivors. >> jacqui jerus, thank you very much. this man's 15-month-old son died. his pregnant wife and 5-year-old daughter are in critical condition. his 3-year-old son is still missing. hank's aunt joins me now. thank you so much for joining me. i can't begin to man what your family is going through. tell me exactly what happened. >> i was watching the news on tv. i live in dallas. and did not realize what they were showing. my nephew called me and asked if i had heard that his house had been destroyed. and i had not heard that. i asked about his family. he did not know. did not know if they had been recovered yet or not. he was out of town on business trying to get home to be with them. so -- >> hank is your nephew and just to -- >> hank is my nephew. he's my -- the father of the children. >> just to clarify. his wife is in critical condition in hospital. his son ryan who is 3 years old is missing. his son cole has -- is believed to have died in this -- >> cole. >> cole has died, we believe. >> correct. >> and his daughter kathleen who's 5 is in critical condition too. i mean, where is hank right now? is he at the hospital? >> he's either at the hospital -- i believe he's still out with the search. i think he's out there with them right now. >> this is a direct hit on the family home while frank was out of town from the tornado. >> pardon me? >> do you believe this was a direct hit from the tornado on the home that's caused all this while hank was out of town, right? >> yes, definitely. there's nothing left but debris at the home. maybe a sofa, couple of picture books and things like that but there's nothing else. it's just debris. >> i mean, it's an awful story. how are the family coping with this? >> as you would expect, devastated shou ed shocked, num. it's been very difficult for all of them. very difficult. >> in terms of the neighborhood, what kind of condition are the other houses around them? were they all completely decimated? >> several homes were destroyed. the tree line is gone. they lived across the road from a little lake. and there were trees between the house and the lake and those were all gone now. so it's the neighborhood is pretty much destroyed. >> absolutely awful. do you know right now what the condition is of catherine and kathleen? >> i believe they're both in stable condition right now and catherine is either in surgery or just gotten out and kathleen is in stable condition. so we're thankful for that. >> we have some details, pam, in relation to ryan, who's 3, who's missing. he's a blonde haired boy. he's got brown eyes. we've put up there your telephone number and also your e-mail address. so anyone who is in that area who comes across any young boy who looked like ryan, please contact you as a matter of urgency. >> yes, yes, very brown eyes, very darling child. >> pam, i'm so sorry for what's happened to your family. i hope and pray that you manage to find ryan and catherine and kathleen pull through this. >> thank you. all the prayers are very much appreciated, very much. we're counting on that. so we appreciate it. >> thank you for joining me, i appreciate it too. bailey night lost everything in sunday's twister but escaped with her life. she was at work in the walmart in joplin when the roof caved in. another extraordinary story of survival here. looking at the pictures of walmart right now. just completely obliterated. where were you at the precise moment the tornado hit? >> when the tornado hit, i was in site to store area. when i -- i was taking my last break and that was around 5:00 and they call a code black and i was in the break room when that happened. and then we had to all move in to site to store area. >> and for people who have never been near a tornado, describe to me what it felt like to be under attack from a tornado. >> to me, in this area, we usually get a lot of severe weather like alerts like be prepared so we didn't really take this one seriously. no one thought it would be this horrific. >> what did it feel like? describe the experience to me. >> going through this experience alone at work like without my family, it was just devastating to me. i just wanted to stay as calm as i could to make it out of walmart and to go be able to find my family. i just wanted to know they were going to be okay. as i made it out of walmart, i just started walking. every time i looked around, you just could not tell where anything was. you couldn't tell what street you were on. you could not see anything. >> i mean, even as you're talking to me now, bailey, i can see behind you just complete wreckage and devastation. where exactly are you right now? >> right now, i'm at the cunningham park. this park used to be beautiful. used to be a nice playground. used to have a nice basketball court. you can't even tell where it was at. >> and you've lost your home, your mother's lost her home, you've lost your car. are all the people that are close to you, your relatives, your friends, are they accounted for? are they safe? >> yes, unfortunately, we did lose all our materialistic items. all my family is okay. i was able to contact them after it happened. there was 12 people in my house where i live at the time of the tornado and they all managed to make it out of there safely. >> well, that's a great leareli bailey. a fortunate escape for you. i hope you can start to rebuild your lives pretty soon. >> thank you, so do i. >> thank you for joining me. when we come back, the big political story of the day. did john edwards use campaign contributions to buy his mistress' silence? will he face charges? later, a tribute to the most powerful woman in television, oprah winfrey on the day of her last show. her best friends, including gayle king. curtis: welcome back to geico radio, it's savings, on the radio. gecko: hello clarence from stevens point. clarence: ok, you know the grapes at the grocery ore? 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the why is important because in order to be a federal crime and a violation of the campaign finance law, it would need to have been something like that was done in the context of his campaign for president. meaning if i decide to pay for someone's child, i can do that as a gift. you can't do it if it's part of a presidential campaign. the other point is that for it to be a crime, john edwards would have to have known that's what the money was for. there's going to be a lot of legal wrangling here before -- >> and also, dan, if i may just quickly read a statement, that his attorney greg craig issued today. john edwards has done wrong in his life. the government's theory is wrong on the facts and wrong on the law. there's no civil or criminal precedent for such a prosecution. continued its pursuit even after finding that not one penny from the edwards campaign was involved. so pretty powerful denial there. what do you make of what you said? >> makes you think they might not be able to reach an agreement. a lot of people are talking about a possible plea agreement. that's not the type of language you hear from a defense attorney when you hear in a week from now they've got a deal. those are fighting words so to speak from the defense team. >> yep, it doesn't sound like a deal is on the table at the moment. dan abram, thank you very much indeed. her best friend gayle king's tribute to the great oprah. ♪ [ male announcer ] in 2011, at&t is at work, building up our wireless network all across america. we're adding new cell sites... increasing network capacity, and investing billions of dollars to improve your wireless network experience. from a single phone call to the most advanced data download, we're covering more people in more places than ever before in an effort to give you the best network possible. at&t. rethink possible. there are no words to match this moment. every word i've ever spoken from the stage of the oprah show for 4 4,561 days of my life is what this moment is all about. >> an emotional oprah winfrey ends her groundbreaking day time talk show after a quarter of a century. what must she be feeling tonight? no one will know that answer better than her best friend gayle king. what a moment that was not just for oprah, for you, for the whole team. everyone connected with the oprah winfrey show. a real piece of television history. how's everyone feeling? >> piers, how is everybody feeling? i'm all dressed up, going to the party immediately when i'm done. oprah's having a huge party tonight for her staff. that's why i put on my party dress for you, piers. she's having a huge party for her staff. just to say thank you, thank you, thank you. because after tonight, this will really be the last time that this group of people is all together. and so she wanted to have a huge sendoff for them. so she -- to answer your question, she's feeling great. she's feeling great. everybody else is too. >> she looked quite emotional there. it must have been quite a moment for oprah. >> you know, oprah was so ready for this moment. she really was. she got up early. she did a little bit of meditation. she only lost it at the very end when she was just saying how much it meant to her. she started off by saying i want to say thank you, this is a love letter to the viewers who have supported me all this time. she sees her talk show as a classroom of sorts. she just wanted to leave them with some of the lessons that mean the most to her. but no question, it was a very emotional t