Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110525:10:32:00
Because there was no light and they were in here for about five minutes hoping and praying. >> reporter: once the noise stopped, customers and employees got out and surveyed the damage. it had to be shocking to see near total devastation alongside plates of food that remain on the table. >> you got lucky, no one got hurt and everybody was fine. >> reporter: his house was also destroyed, yet two days after the tornado, the siryrian immigrant has nothing but kind words for his adopted town. >> i'm very proud of joplin people in our community. >> reporter: as for the future of the restaurant. is ...