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I want our viewers to know as well jessica has been giving us this number, 1-800-red cross, that's for people that would like to call to help out, but also you can get information specific to st. louis about shelters, about the effort going on there, but again, that's 1-800-redcross if you want to help or need help right now. turn right over to karen mcginnis, i feel silly at times this morning because i keep having to say alleged tornado. there's a reason we have to say it, but who are we kidding here? >> yes, it looked like tornadic damage and tornadic supercell on the radar. and st. louis...

Power back on. calleded this a flat-o ed thiee blessing, saying no one has been killed from the storms last night. hard to believe from looking at damage. the airport administrator telling us five people had to be taken to the hospital from the airport last night, three were in the terminal, two of them were in cars outside the airport. and would you believe already that those folks have all been released from the hospital? it is stunning to hear this news after seeing these daytime pictures coming in to us for the past several hours now that the utter devastation that we have watched and that...

More of these. people walking through the rubble of their homes, trying to pluck out anything to salvage. i want to bring back in jessica willingham, she's with the red cross. jessica, you and i have been talking on the air the past several hours now. how has your perspective of this devastation changed in the few short hours from what you've been able to collect? >> well, we've -- while we continue, the red cross, continues to provide shelter and food and clothing and basic need for folks, and that started last night, what we're seeing now is more and more people realizing the extent of the d...

New ones, that continue to come in to us. also, this morning the u.s. carries out its first drone attack in libya as rebels gain serious ground in the beseiged town of misrata. and syrian protesters bury their dead one day after security forces staged a fierce crackdown on demonstrators. we'll have all of those for you. but we need to start this hour at lambert-st. louis international airport. right now it is closed indefinitely. after an apparent tornado slammed into that airport last night. we are waiting right now for a press conference. it looks like they might be getting under way. ...

And to our viewers, you see a van there dangling off the side there. this is at the airport. and, jessica, something else to you, i heard the county executive dooley mention this, he spoke of maryland heights, i believe that is where the red cross is set up. give us an idea of where that is, and is it right in the center, the thick of things, if you will, where all this damage is taking place? >> it sure is. we really try to open a shelter right where people need it in a place that has power and full capacity. it's right in the center of the north county of st. louis, the hardest-hit areas are...