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Mayor William J. Aiello announced that the Downtown Olean Beautification Committee has elected Danielle Eaton as chair, replacing Pat Driscoll.

Down than we heard the wind actually. we could actually feel the wind coming across as we reached the back of the building and seeing debris as the roof is flying off the building and the roof flying by, hard to even stand here and picture. everybody working together. you look back and see, you know, it is phenomenal. it wasn't one or two people. it was everybody getting to where we needed to do and instinct kicking in and people taking care of people. i can't stress that enough. >> gary and kathy, you got to the lowe's because you didn't think your home was going to be safe. what happened to ...

Help everybody. just -- >> kathy? >> yes. >> sorry. i didn't mean to interrupt you. what a great job i commend everybody at the store for us. kathy, obviously you didn't go shopping at lowe's thinking you were in going to be in the path of a tornado. i assume you didn't go outside to see this cloud. tell me what happened? >> i was standing at the front. my husband said something about the cloud that we saw and so i looked out and sure enough, it just didn't look like a traditional tornado. but everybody started watching. and he had said to me earlier, we need to get to somewhere safe like lowe...

>> good for all of you. >> one interesting -- >> go ahead. >> one interesting story was, my daughter works for a firm in apex, they discovered a box in apex that had a sanford address that was obviously picked up by the storm and carried almost 40 miles to apex. >> oh, my goodness. >> we've been looking at those pictures. there's no kidding, we talk about tornadoes a lot on this, on cnn, we see a lot of them, these ones were really quite remarkable. i'm glad you're all here to talk to us this morning and i know that a lot of work continues for you and those in your surrounding communities. gar...

All right. people grabbing their kids running into the basement, huddling in closets as their homes were literally pulled clean from their foundations. we are hearing incredible stories of survival after tornadoes tore across the south this weekend. >> and one of the big stories to come out of the storm happened in sanford, a town about 40 miles southwest of raleigh, north carolina, inside a lowe's hardware store there. managers spotted a tornado coming and guess what, they gathered up about 100 shoppers and employees and moved them all to a safe area in the back of the store. smart thinking. ...