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New ones, that continue to come in to us. also, this morning the u.s. carries out its first drone attack in libya as rebels gain serious ground in the beseiged town of misrata. and syrian protesters bury their dead one day after security forces staged a fierce crackdown on demonstrators. we'll have all of those for you. but we need to start this hour at lambert-st. louis international airport. right now it is closed indefinitely. after an apparent tornado slammed into that airport last night. we are waiting right now for a press conference. it looks like they might be getting under way. ...

There's water damage from the rain that's because the ceiling part of the roof was ripped off. you can even see damage on the runways, overturned baggage carts and glass everywhere. lambert-st. louis is closed indefinitely. we've been talking to airport officials who tell us they are just working at this point to assess the damage and actually check the sturdiness of these buildings because the last thing they want to do is get everything up and running and something collapse, so that's been the focus today. they're going to be assessing the damage, kind of going through. right now we have no ...

That was at 7:36. we think the tornado, if it were, in fact, a tornado, they'll have to survey this and assess it, i'm pretty sure they're going to say this was one tornado that may have touched down several times, but 7:36, a warning was issued and then about 10, 15 minutes later, another warning was issued, this in st. louis county, and they had a report of an actual tornado on the ground and they had trained weather spotters that indicated a tornado was on the ground at 7:56 p.m. so that's about 20 minutes later. and then they extended the tornado warning for st. louis county and it was ind...

Or, your me a me again. ooh, check it out fred, new foundation. got any of those in my size? [ female announcer ] only flood insurance covers floods. for a free brochure, call the number on your screen. . >> neil: a fox news alert live from fox news headquarters. i'm jamie kohl bye. the national weather service a confirming it was a tornado that ripped through lambert st. louis international airport and shutting it down on this busy holiday weekend. there are dozens of homes also destroyed and the images are shocking and windows shattered and cars crushed and debris everywhere and at least fiv...

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...