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oh my god. oh my god. look at that. harold brooks: one of the things about a tornado is that it's producing a lot of small pieces of debris that are flying at, you know, 150 miles an hour. and even ordinary objects, dinner plates, two by fours, become really, really deadly at those kinds of high speeds. jim riek: i knew after joplin how destructive a tornado could be. it was moving so slowly that it was like a blender. everything on the ground was getting totally mixed together. and it just hits you again and again and again and again. i saw a piece of cardboard that actually penetrated into the exterior insulation finish system on a school. at the hospital, they had $1 million helicopter. all of the rotors are gone.
was the tornado. in this case, an ef5 tornado that is catastrophic. and by the time they did, it's too late. jeff piotrowski: as the tornado went by, everything was gone. it was like a bulldozer, and it leveled everything in its path. kat piotrowski: i just couldn't believe what i was seeing, the millions and millions of pieces of debris. jim riek: the tornado was on the ground for 32 minutes. storm chaser: the sirens are going. jim riek: it hits a convenience store on east 20th street. they had locked it just so the door wouldn't fling open. jim riek: listen to the audio. [screaming, rain pounding] jeff piotrowski: as the tornado entered the center part of the city, it hit the high school,
if a rotor of a helicopter is flying by at 100 miles an hour, what is that going to do to a human body? paul markowski: how far the debris goes is going to depend on essentially how heavy it is. the heavier stuff gets centrifuged out, so big chunks of structures or automobiles. lighter debris, though, like a piece of paper, that won't get centrifuged out. that'll instead go up through the funnel, can end up reaching altitudes of 40, 50,000 feet, and there certainly testimonials out there, people finding pieces of paper or photographs 50 to 100 miles from their origin in the wake of a tornado. mason lillard: we thought it was only, like, 20 minutes before help arrived. it ended up almost being two hours.
we knew that it was probably about to hit. i remember officer simpson went to the front window and he just yelled, there's debris coming in. and as i watched him turn and run towards us, the whole front of the building just exploded inward on us. you almost couldn't even tell which way it was up, there was much wind and debris. it was almost like being underwater. trent okerson: mayfield water and electric, their facility was just on the edge of the worst damage path. even there, you saw the massive amounts of debris that was blowing, pieces of wood flying through the air like missiles, and they weren't even directly in the core of that tornado. one of the buildings that was close to the police department that got hit real hard was the f&b bank right there on the court square. and all of a sudden, boom. the tornado hits. it's that fast.
if a rotor of a helicopter is flying by at 100 miles an hour, what is that going to do to a human body? paul markowski: how far the debris goes is going to depend on essentially how heavy it is. the heavier stuff gets centrifuged out, so big chunks of structures or automobiles. lighter debris, though, like a piece of paper, that won't get centrifuged out. that'll instead go up through the funnel, can end up reaching altitudes of 40, 50,000 feet, and there certainly testimonials out there, people finding pieces of paper or photographs 50 to 100 miles from their origin in the wake of a tornado. mason lillard: we thought it was only, like, 20 minutes before help arrived. it ended up almost being two hours.
oh my god. oh my god. look at that. harold brooks: one of the things about a tornado is that it's producing a lot of small pieces of debris that are flying at, you know, 150 miles an hour. and even ordinary objects, dinner plates, two by fours, become really, really deadly at those kinds of high speeds. jim riek: i knew after joplin how destructive a tornado could be. it was moving so slowly that it was like a blender. everything on the ground was getting totally mixed together. and it just hits you again and again and again and again. i saw a piece of cardboard that actually penetrated into the exterior insulation finish system on a school. at the hospital, they had $1 million helicopter. all of the rotors are gone.
we knew that it was probably about to hit. i remember officer simpson went to the front window and he just yelled, there's debris coming in. and as i watched him turn and run towards us, the whole front of the building just exploded inward on us. you almost couldn't even tell which way it was up, there was much wind and debris. it was almost like being underwater. trent okerson: mayfield water and electric, their facility was just on the edge of the worst damage path. even there, you saw the massive amounts of debris that was blowing, pieces of wood flying through the air like missiles, and they weren't even directly in the core of that tornado. one of the buildings that was close to the police department that got hit real hard was the f&b bank right there on the court square. and all of a sudden, boom. the tornado hits. it's that fast.
there's so many people died they didn't not realize that what they were seeing was the tornado. >> in this case, an ef5 tornado that is catastrophic and by the time they did this to light as a pointer went by, everything was gone. it was like a bulldozer and level everything in his path i just couldn't believe what i was millions and millions of pieces of debris the tornado was on the ground for 32 minutes. designs are going hips convenience store on east 20th street. >> they had locked it just to the door when fling open. >> listen to the audio a
people of color. that's when he thought gaege it done to provine. not just beaten him but robbed him. under illinois law, the special pricing heater could prove pravin died as a result of the blows even if he didn't mean to kill him, gaege could be found guilty of felony murder. >> it is such a really. it's a peace of mind. >> after the charges, lovely felt as if she could breathe for the first time since pravin's death. for penny, it was agony. what do you do? >> i fell to pieces then i gathered myself up and i hug him and tell him everything will be okay. >> dara, gaege's best friend said he was terrified. since the debt, gaege had become a father to a little girl. >> i've never seen a dude cry until the day before he started going to trial. that is a guys scared for his life. >> pravin died in the most picture of winter colds.
trash-filled balloons, st across the border by pyongyang, north korea claims it's holding that operation for now. the south korean military has reported about 1,000 of the airborne waste deliveries floating into the country since last tuesday littering places where things like cigarette butts, paper, and pieces of cloth or more now from cnn's mike valera, he joins us live from hong kong. good to see mike. so because of this balloon and broglie, oh, there's word of a pretty sensitive military agreement between north and south korea. now apparently in trouble. what are you learning about this? >> so rosemary, that's absolutely right. and this is just developing within the past few minutes. so we start with that to just convey to people who may live outside of the creoles or may live very far from the region who are thinking this is a pretty weird and unusual, bizarre story. but rosemary, this could