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>> reporter:wide spread funnel clouds even spotted in chicago. >> please clear the seating area calmly. >> reporter: tornado warnings forced officials to evacuate soldier field, delaying the bears game. but once the twisters passed, there was a new blast of energy, clean-up efforts, waves of people coming to each other's aid, looking for survivors, searching for valuables, toppled semis pulled upright. most importantly, spirits raised. >> we'll make it through it. we're so grateful that, you know the lord preserved so many lives here. >> reporter: you know, we had the mayor on earlier this mor...

200 miles an hour spun entire blocks of homes to the foundation. >> i felt the house shaking and waited about probably a minute, and then i came back up and saw what you're seeing here. >> reporter: in a community of pekin, authorities went door to door checking on residents for fear of gas leaks. one resident described the aftermath as a war zone. >> i'm just devastated. i just feel sick. >> reporter: further south, a tornado carved a path of destruction in brookport, directly hitting two mobile home parks. >> i don't have anything. my whole -- it's gone. i don't know where it went. >> report...

>> please clear the seating area calmly. >> reporter: they were forced to evacuate soldiers field, delaying if bear's game. once the twister passed, there was a new plast of energy, clean-up efforts, waves of people coming to aid, looking for survivors, looking for valuables, toppled semis pulled upright. most importantly, spirits raised. >> we will make it through it. we are so grateful the lord preserved so many lives here. equally amazing, you see flags flying all over here, we will talk about how if men and women already started the rebuild, the res cow effort, the relief effort here, we w...

Police. >> he storms over-the-counter toward the manager who is trying to reach campus police. >> you can see in the video where she is starting to dial the phone. craig follows her back there, yanks it out of the wall. >> tessan is a university reporter. >> you don't really hear a lot about phones being yanked out of walls. >> soon craig reappears in the seating area. >> there were a couple guys waiting for him. they were trying to hold him down and you hear craig say it's about to get nuclear. >> that that means, i don't know. >> craig's nuclear punch misses by a mile. instead, he's knocked ...

>> you could see in the video she's dialing the phone. craig followers her back there, yanks it out of the wall. >> tessa covered the story for the university paper, the herald. >> you don't hear a lot about phones being yanked out of walls. >> soon craig reappears in the seating area. >> a couple of guys were trying to hold him still. you hear him say it's about to get nuclear. >> it's about to get nuclear. what that means, i don't know. >> craig's nuclear punch misses by a mile. instead, he's knocked to the floor. but it's not long before he's back on his feet again. >> he was riled up and s...