ALINA CHO: John?
ROBERTS: Yes. Similar scenes here, Dan. They're trying to string the power wires back up again but they haven't even begun to start the cleanup here. They're still searching for some survivors. Dan Lothian for us this morning in Atkins, Arkansas. Dan, thanks very much.
And joining me now this morning is Pam Whitaker. She lost her home as the tornadoes tore across Tennessee. She's here this morning.
You don't have any shoes on and you had a broken foot. My goodness, what kind of conditions are you living in these days?
PAM WHITAKER, LOST HOME IN STORM: We're living in the National Guard. And we don't have a home to go to. So I don't know where we're going to end up.
ROBERTS: They've got you in the shelter there?
WHITAKER: At the National Guard. We was at the school but we had no lights or nothing, so we transferred to the National Guard.
ROBERTS: So take me back to Tuesday night, Super Tuesday night, an election going on here in Tennessee.
WHITAKER: We never did get to see that. They started with the warnings. And so about 7:00, the wind seemed like it was about 9 miles an hour. The week before, we had a small little windstorm, and the neighbor's roof came off. And when they said it was supercell, I knew it would be long and hard.
ROBERTS: So you knew that this forecast storm was coming in and you knew that there was really bad weather coming.
WHITAKER: Yes, sir. I knew that it was really going to be bad.
ROBERTS: So you got out of there? You evacuated to the shelter.
WHITAKER: I took my mother and my little toy dog, Yorkie, and we went to the hospital and I decided I was going to volunteer, so I worked from 7:00 to 10:00 at the hospital, helping with patients and stuff.
ROBERTS: So you were volunteering at the hospital as the storm came through?
WHITAKER: While I was a victim and volunteering, and so it was -- the hospital maybe holds about 50 patients. They were sometimes having 50, 60. Very bad accidents coming in. And I'm telling you, I am so proud of this town and everybody in it. I appreciate them so much. The hospital is so small and ungodly situations, not enough wheelchairs. Nobody was left unattended and it was amazing.
ROBERTS: So these were all victims of the storm that were coming in to the hospital?
ROBERTS: Yes. Similar scenes here, Dan. They're trying to string the power wires back up again but they haven't even begun to start the cleanup here. They're still searching for some survivors. Dan Lothian for us this morning in Atkins, Arkansas. Dan, thanks very much.
And joining me now this morning is Pam Whitaker. She lost her home as the tornadoes tore across Tennessee. She's here this morning.
You don't have any shoes on and you had a broken foot. My goodness, what kind of conditions are you living in these days?
ROBERTS: They've got you in the shelter there?
WHITAKER: At the National Guard. We was at the school but we had no lights or nothing, so we transferred to the National Guard.
ROBERTS: So take me back to Tuesday night, Super Tuesday night, an election going on here in Tennessee.
WHITAKER: We never did get to see that. They started with the warnings. And so about 7:00, the wind seemed like it was about 9 miles an hour. The week before, we had a small little windstorm, and the neighbor's roof came off. And when they said it was supercell, I knew it would be long and hard.
ROBERTS: So you knew that this forecast storm was coming in and you knew that there was really bad weather coming.
WHITAKER: Yes, sir. I knew that it was really going to be bad.
ROBERTS: So you got out of there? You evacuated to the shelter.
WHITAKER: I took my mother and my little toy dog, Yorkie, and we went to the hospital and I decided I was going to volunteer, so I worked from 7:00 to 10:00 at the hospital, helping with patients and stuff.
ROBERTS: So you were volunteering at the hospital as the storm came through?
WHITAKER: While I was a victim and volunteering, and so it was -- the hospital maybe holds about 50 patients. They were sometimes having 50, 60. Very bad accidents coming in. And I'm telling you, I am so proud of this town and everybody in it. I appreciate them so much. The hospital is so small and ungodly situations, not enough wheelchairs. Nobody was left unattended and it was amazing.
ROBERTS: So these were all victims of the storm that were coming in to the hospital?
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