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That to our crew a short time ago. tried to get him on camera, chris, but the mayor of moore, he s exhausted and expected to give this information to the media. standing by out here in front of city hall. expected to give that information to the media at the 1:00 p.m. press conference. but gave us a tip-off to that first. the mayor of moore, telling us he will try to pass the ordinance to try to require storm shelters or safe rooms in all new housing projects, including multifamily. chris. makes a lot of sense. nick, that s obviously what we re hearing on the ground. thank you for the reporting, appreciate it. back to you soon. let us know if you learn anything else. another big perspective of what s happening on the ground here is what people did to get through it. and a special situations that people found themselves in. bring in pamela brown. you have been meeting people who are here. one mother in particular has quite a story. oh, absolutely. she just had a c-section about five ....
Troubles that struck down his right to stardom. look, i made big mistakes and i let a lot of people down but i learned tough lessons. i m running for mayor to fight for the middle class struggling. at the end of the video, it features him sitting on a stoop of a house with his wife. when we come back, a story of survival. one woman s encounter with an ef-5 tornado and desperate search for her long time companion as well. you are watching early start. are you still sleeping? just wanted to check and make sure that we were on schedule. ....
Beautiful sunny day and people coming out, trying to figure out how to move forward. we ll take you through the tornado s path from beginning to end. if you look down here, you will see a brown line, starts with this debris field, starts going in this direction. that is actually the tornado s trail. and as you see, it s going to get much more dramatic as we get near a populated area. literally can trace with your finger a line where the tornado went. the path, completely obvious. it s about a block and a half wide and you notice it, just by seeing everything that s destroyed. everything that looks just like paper on the ground, those are homes, those are timbers, roofs, those are cars. there are two major time connecticut components here. 16 minutes, the warning time. and ten minutes, where the tornado touched the ground and ....
reporter: packed in the truck with her brother, mother, sxlgt connor sleeping in her arms, all she could see out the back window is this image capturd on her brother s cell phone. a monster twister headed right toward them. this massive, dark gray just swirling tornado just barrelling down behind us. reporter: and it looked at one point like it was right on the path to you. yeah, it did. it did. reporter: candy knight and her boyfriend missed the tornado by mere seconds and watched as a 7-eleven was leveled. if i was ten seconds slower, i would have been gone. i had my 5-year-old between my legs on the floor. we just barely, barely missed it. reporter: with so many left without homes, their resilience strengthened by survival. i ll be okay. we ll get back. we re definitely okies, what we re known for. come back, arms a swinging. reporter: and the governor ....
Destroyed everything in its path. this is where the tornado was. look at the difference between life and death, between losing everything and losing nothing. over water, it seems like it disappears, and it touches down on land again, destruction resumed. flying 2,500 feet above the ground. debris from the tornado can get ten times as high as we are right now into the air. look at the trees. looks like people pulled them up, laid them down, just luke they were weeding their garden. but those are huge, old-growth pine trees. cars littered along the trail. they weren t parked there, tossed like toys. you look at the debris, you understand why search and rescue is so time consuming. to find the way through homes is literally like digging through a haystack. one of the worst parts of the tornado s path, one that this community has seen before, in 1999 and 2003, there were ....