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Chaos in the st. louis airport after seeing that twister, hard to believe the airport was back up and running in 24 hours. and now, the director of lambert st. louis international airport and joins on the phone. congratulations. right from the get go to get it back up and running to full capacity very quickly, congratulations, indeed. >> thank you. we are quite happy with that, as well, and nice to know we are serving the public again. yesterday as you said we were back up and running, about a 30-hour timeframe we operated and closed with 76 percent of normal operations. today we believe we wi...

A look at our top stories right now. lambert st. louis international airport is open again two days after the good friday tornado. the schedules are up to the individual airlines. the tornado heavily damaged one of the airport's con courses. it also damaged at least 750 homes in the area. arizona congresswoman gabby giffords is improving. according to the arizona republic, she is standing and walking on her own. giffords' brain was pierced by a bullet in shootings back in january. her husband is confident she will be attending friday's shuttle launch. she is waiting for her doctor's approval...

Not moved and the house next to it is missing some stuff. >> now we're looking at lambert-st. louis international and some of the damage there. >> the roof major damage. >> we're probably looking at some time next week before lambert-st. louis international is functional again. >> i had heard that, you know, and what we've been told is we know there are no flights in or out today. they don't think that they're going to be flights in or out tomorrow. they may be able to do something on monday and i think this -- the terminal, i believe this is terminal one, if i'm not mistaken, the old main ter...

This aircraft and they're going around looking at each of these. the lambert-st. louis international airport as we've mentioned over and over, is closed. the last time it was closed buzz during a blizzard in 1982. now the neighborhood that we saw from our other affiliate, kdsk, showed a neighborhood right in the vicinity of the airport in the northern portion of st. louis county. we saw one street, one neighborhood, it looked as if every home had -- from little damage to a whole lot of damage and one home looked to be standing still. want to mention one other thing from this airport. we saw in...

Lambert-st. louis international airport again, which has been -- the last time it was shut down or closed was back in 1982, t.j. >> this airport has been going through a renovation. it's a really old airport. goes back to the '30s, i believe, but they have a newer terminal there as well, but right now they are just trying to clean up a mess right now. so, folks, a lot of you might not be flying into st. louis or out of st. louis, maybe you think it doesn't really affect you, but we're talking about american airlines, airtrans, southwest, a number of major airlines fly in and out of there, so t...