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>> reporter: battle hardened storm chasers in awe of nature's power. >> oh, my gosh. this is awful. dude, the trees are debarked. >> reporter: residents running for every anywhere they could. >> everybody get down, all on the ground. >> reporter: in a crowded convenience store, some 20 people hunkering down in a darkened commercial refrigerator. >> can we go in the cooler? [ screaming ] >> go! >> oh, dear heaven. >> god! >> reporter: at the same time a security camera in a nearby frozen yogurt shop catches the chaos. workers moving customers to the back and then -- everything goes fl...

>> go! >> oh, dear heaven. >> god! >> reporter: at the same time a security camera in a nearby frozen yogurt shop catches the chaos. workers moving customers to the back and then -- everything goes flying. the massive tornado mowing down everything in its path. people's lives churned up and spewed out. >> here's the gas station that we were at. >> reporter: this is the convenience store now. >> this would have been where we walked in. >> reporter: all across the city, thousands and thousands of people in shock, taking the first steps on the long road to recovery. make no mistake, jop...

that is a monster tornado. >> reporter: battle hardened storm chasers in awe of nature's power. >> oh, my gosh. this is awful. dude, the trees are debarked. >> reporter: residents running for every anywhere they could. >> everybody get down, all on the ground. >> reporter: in a crowded convenience store, some 20 people hunkering down in a darkened commercial refrigerator. >> can we go in the cooler? [ screaming ] >> go! >> oh, dear heaven. >> god! >> reporter: at the same time a security camera in a nearby frozen yogurt shop catches the chaos. workers moving customers to the back and...

Pieces of buildings that are in the air and how this tornado was literally scouring the earth clean. what was there, buildings that were there, were knocked down. they were gone. people that were in those buildings unless they were underground were killed or seriously injured. we know that the hospital there -- just looked like a triage unit. they had so many people, just looked like massive car wrecks all over the place, all injured by debris. the national weather service did a fantastic job getting warnings out. the weather men around there did a fantastic job telling even people to put on y...

>> what time did this storm hit? >> it came through right around -- between 5:30 and 6:00, somewhere along in there. >> and how long did it last? where were you during it? did you see it? >> oh, yes. oh, yes. you could look up at the sky and see it coming. it was just to the northwest of where i was located at the time. and shortly after it came through -- it's that same tornado that hit tuscaloosa, and it rolled through birmingham. and it was a massive storm. it looked like it was probably a mile wide, the tornado. >> and at this point -- >> communities. >> at this point are emergency service...