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Here's abc's alex perez. >> look at, look at. >> reporter: frightening tornadoes ripping through parts of illinois in minutes. in hard-hit coal city, the reality setting in. it was about 10:00 monday night when the storm roared in. >> we've had significant damage throughout the whole town here. >> reporter: entire blocks in this town of about 5,500 decimated. >> just cars upside down, trees on houses. >> reporter: kenny and hillary houston scrambling to the crawl space of their home for safety. >> all the glass exploded like a big vacuum and our ears popped and boom. >> reporter: when they eme...

Tornadoes ripping through parts of illinois in minutes. in hard-hit coal city, the reality setting in. it was about 10:00 monday night when the storm roared in. >> we've had significant damage throughout the whole town here. >> reporter: entire blocks in this town of about 5,500 decimated. >> just cars upside down, trees on houses. >> reporter: kenny and hillary houston scrambling to the crawl space of their home for safety. >> all the glass exploded like a big vacuum and our ears popped and boom. >> reporter: when they emerged, the roof gone. >> still a little bit in shock. >> reporter: the n...

Geologists on the ground right now from the u.s. geological survey, from washington, from washington institutions, that are working hard to understand these risks. >> working hard, i get it. but at the same time, it was only a few days ago they could hear people knocking and begging for help. and how do you temper that with this pile may keep going? what do you do? >> absolutely. we need to move quickly to understand where the breakdown occurred and look up and down this valley and not just in washington state. a lot of areas around the country are at risk to land slides. >> i hate to even ask...

The house voted 407-0 to promise furloughed federal workers they will eventually be paid for the time they're kept off the job. the white house has said it supports the back pay for 800,000 employees. the bill now goes to the democratically controlled senate. the stalemate over the partial government shutdown and the approaching deadline over the debt limit is rumbling far outside the belt way. today on wall street investors are rattled and markets poised for a big hit. alison kosik is in new york. tell us about it, alison? >> wall street carol starting to sweat, looks like the dow will open...

>> i've never seen anything like this in my 18 years covering tornadoes. >> decimating everything in its path. homes crushed to piles of debris. what looks like haystacks, where houses once stood. as the injured poured into hospitals, cars tossed like toys from the parking lot of the moore medical center piled up. blocking the main entrance. >> i heard it go over us. i felt our ears popping. it was something that we never experienced, it was really scary. >> nearby, a mother and her 7-month-old found dead where a 7-eleven once stood. they tried to take cover in a freezer during the storm. >> g...