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Student Offers Her Tornado Tale

Tornadoes tore through the South last night, killing more than 40 people. Alex Chadwick talks to Lauren Smith, a freshman at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee, who sought shelter in a bathroom while a tornado ripped through her dorm.

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