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Teachers, tammy, included, decided to move the students in there at that very last second. then everything erupted. the walls started caving in. this car blown into the side of the wall. if there had been students on the other side, it could have been devastating. but at the very last second, those teachers decided to move the students into that area and that's what saved their lives. despite what you see her, everybody at the school survived the tornado strike. there were lots of tears, but as tammy says, the students were brave. >> i mean, they were calm. surprisingly very calm. >> reporter:...

Cinder block fell on the back of my neck. >> reporter: the only section of the school somewhat intact is the bathroom and a couple of teachers tammy included decided to move the students in there at the last second and then everything erupted. the walls caving in. the car blown in to the side of the wall. with students on the other side, it could have been devastating. the teachers decided to move those students in to that area and that's what saved their lives. despite what you see here, everybody at the school survived the tornado strike. there were lots of tears but tammy says the students ...

that's when everybody started freaking out. >> a passenger who shot this video. >> check out this video showing a tornado strike in kentucky. look at that roof. it's blowing right off. it was part of the killer storms that hit the nation last weekend leaving a huge path of destruction. former u.n. secretary kofi annan is trying to prevent a full-blown civil war. he's meeting in damascus to halt government shell iing and attac that killed thousands of people. he's expected to press the president to step down. the meeting comes as 12 people were killed in syria today. thousands of an...

>> shepard: have people there been able to make any progress in the clean up efforts? >> you know, progress is hard to define this early in the game. but some temporary municipal offices have been set up. so people can get some basic city services restored or at least they have got someone to ask questions. we have seen a lot of people returning to their homes to go through their belongings, salvage what they can. that task, of course, made more difficult, more miserable by the snow that came down. we have seen a lot of power crews out here trying to restore some of the basic services of life....

kentucky, tore up several buildings. >> at least 12 people are dead in the wake of the storms, hundreds are hurt and people in the hard-hit areas are counting their blessings today. >> after i rolled five times, i can remember everything about it. i was -- once it hit the ground on the fifth time, everything -- i saw daylight and i was sitting up against the stove down there just leaned up with my back against it like i was sitting in a chair. i don't know how i'm here. >> someone from above, huh? >> no doubt. good lord didn't call me. wasn't my time. >> wasn't his time. parts of sou...