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Death at this time. that's the good news story. once it came out of here and hit the airport and that terminal being designed in a retro style with so much glass in it, people are very lucky that there was not any other casualties. >> they sure are. jim compton, thanks so much for your story. people, do not try that at home, what jim happened to do, go out into the storm. most should stay indoors. we're glad you made it out okay. let's talk again about this international airport in st. louis. lambert-st. louis international airport and what took place there. let's check with our ff ail ate rep...

Aprived on the sight and began a damage assessment of the facilities. as was stated. and quite a bit of clean up on the land side and we saw major damage on concourse c with roofs and windos and quite a bit of structural damage that way . here in the main terminal as you can see, we immediately mobilized folks to come out and begin clean up that was a combined effort with the city of st. louis and lambert airport and a number of agencies that were involved and we want to thank everybody who worked through the night as promised. we'll work on this until we get things corrected. we mobilized the...

We understand it is a mess this morning? >> yes, it is. i can tell you, it t.j., it was a wild ride last night. around 8:15 is when what's believed to have been a tornado actually swept through the area and, you know, so many people were affected. we're talking about passengers and visitors here to the airport. it was a very scary scene as passengers and visitors described they had seconds just to get to safety. blew out a number of windows. what we've been seeing with daylight, not only are they cleaning, they're attempting to board up windows left open by this storm last night. some passenge...

The number one air carrier here is southwest. this he have six planes here on the ground. one wadamaged. some of the baggage handling equipment was blown into the plane. and this airport by the way averages about 200 flights a day. all those flights are off the boards today and probably tomorrow and you got to think that concourse c will be a long-term fixup process and that's american's concourse. they hope to move to b concourse in the near future. nothing is moving out here. i went inside and it's quiet. how often do you get into an airport in broad daylight and there's just nothing going o...

Frontier airlines and american with no place to go right now. they hope to get those flights as we were told at the press conference some of the flights into b concourse. a is already full. that's delta. then you have terminal two. formerly the east terminal. that's in good shape. this he have power down there. southwest is the number one air carrier here at lambert st. louis international airport. so we probably will have some southwest flights going out maybe some delta flights tomorrow. and they hope to get the airport 100% by the middle of the week. we'll see. you look at the aerial footag...