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Around. >> st. john's is a 230-bed acute care hospital. >> reporter: jim risko has been an e.r. doc at st. john's for the past seven years. >> this is a very sophisticated hospital in a relatively small town. >> i was down the road playing horseshoes with my friends. >> reporter: on may 22nd andrew mcdab yell came to the hospital to visit his grandmother. as he arrived, a sound familiar to every mid-westerner. >> the sirens started going off when i was walking in. i didn't see much other than the dark clouds over there. i didn't think much of it. >> reporter: but in those dark clouds, a monste...

And he was the last one if. he was telling me, i didn't know this, but that he was actually starting to be sucked out, lifted up, and two of the girls that worked for him held onto him and kept him from -- because a month ago now the winners they couldn't close the door because of the wind was so bad. he was about to get sucked out. from my other show "america's >> john, is this store policy, your policy? got talent" heavy blue singers have you practiced this, everybody in the cooler? michael grim and the show's host, nick cannon. >> this is a company policy, listen to what he has to say kro...

The tornado sucked him out through the sun roof. his father survived. it is the survivors trying to make sense of the catastrophe that up-ended their lives and destroyed almost everything around them. as casey wian tells us, some are fining faith and hope at a red cross shelter. >> reporter: blown away. a town, a community torn apart. he lost his hospital, his home and nearly his father. >> i was just calling him out. i was yelling his name, dad, dad, are you there? he nearly lost his life. >> i thought i was going to die, truthfully. >> reporter: like so many trying to pick up the pieces of...

Us. >> reporter: as the injured flooded to the hospital for care, mcdaniel was desperately trying to get his grandmother out. >> they took us down to the second floor and there was about ankle-deep water, and we were trying to push wheelchairs and everything through it to get people out. >> reporter: they wheeled thinks and flagged down a passing car to drive them home. >> there was no crying, there was no screaming. >> reporter: the st. john staff kept working, laser focused on their patients. >> we did what we had to do. and we all stayed, even though people were worried about their families...

>> to see this behind you, it's just -- it's like the end of the world. it's devastation. i don't know. it was terrible. we were all just in shock. just shock. i don't know what else to call it. i came back, walked home and came back later that night about midnight to see if my car, which was just completely trashed in the parking lot and see if there was anything left in it worth anything and there's not. >> that was the car you were going to drive home in. >> that's the car. oh, it's just crushed down. it's just -- i mean, the roof is completely crushed in. it's just really bad. when we got ...