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Before the first explosion went off. i had just seen my wife and four kids at the finish line. i'd gone about a block and a half to do a bunch of media interviews, heard the first explosion, saw the smoke. my first reaction was, i did see my wife and kids. it took about 25 minutes to dash a text to them, because there was no cell coverage going on there. it was one of the scariest things i've had to encounter. >> greta: you won with 51% of the vote in the primary, beating out two other candidates combined, only with 49%. you're now the republican candidate for the u.s. senate, not in a state t...

The cell coverage must have been shut down or maybe there was a lot of people on cell, so nobody could get through to anybody. and, frankly, it was a state of bewilderment for the whole group as we sat there waiting to figure out what was next. >> all right. ellen and steve, thank you very much. we're so glad that you are both safe and together tonight. we appreciate your time. i want to update everyone on some information that we have just coming in. you just heard the chairman of the homeland security chairman mccaul say a person of interest is in custody undergoing question. an update he sa...

>> oh, we've got lightning. we need to go back. let's turn around. >> oh, it's getting big, big, big. >> that's huge! >> for those who survived, the scars will always be them. nearly two dozen people, including three young men, took cover in a convenience store in a walk-in beer cooler. one turned on his camera as the tornado struck. the video is dark, but the sound tells a story. >> oh! [ wind blowing ] >> oh, my god! >> jesus, jesus! >> imagine pushing open the door after that incredible experience. elsewhere in joplin, one couple recorded the scene in their neighborhood moments af...

Definitely in a tornado. >> aaron, how did you finally find sarah? >> after we didn't find them at the house, we didn't know what to do. but people pointed us to the walgreen's a few blocks away saying that's where they had a triage center set up. they weren't there, so we started walking down main street, or what was left of main street, trying to get a cell phone signal. asking people if they had seen them, yelling out their names. and finally we happened to walk into cell coverage and her fiance, mike, got a phone call through to us that lasted about ten seconds. pretty much saying they had...

By, we realized, you know, what it was. and when the pressure of our ears came, you know, it felt like our ears were going to blow. that's when my fiance said we're definitely in a tornado. >> aaron, how did you finally find sarah? >> after we didn't find them at the house, we didn't know what to do. but people pointed us to the walgreen's a few blocks away saying that's where they had a triage center set up. they weren't there, so we started walking down main street, or what was left of main street, trying to get a cell phone signal. asking people if they had seen them, yelling out their name...