Hijacking Attempt Thwarted; Homes Blasted to Splinters; The Bombing of Tripoli
DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR: Right now on CNN. A crude reality.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We are alive, our neighbors are alive, and our son is alive. And so, we are OK.</s>LEMON: Surviving a fierce tornado, now the aftermath. Flattened homes, decimated lives and a trail of destruction. And witness to revolution.</s>NIC ROBERTSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Tracer fire is flying in the air.</s>LEMON: My one-on-one with CNN's Nic Robertson back from a region in turmoil. His up close and personal on what has happened and where it goes from here. Plus, meeting Jesus.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He had really pretty blue eyes.</s>LEMON: An 11-year-old boy says he not only met the son of god, but he's been in heaven and back. My conversation with him and his father. Plus, truth or dare? With the Donald Trump called on the carpet accused of lying about his voting record. The man who broke the story joins us live. I'm Don Lemon. The news starts right now. And we begin with breaking news. Some frightening moments tonight aboard an Alitalia flight, reportedly an attempted hijacking. Flight 329 took off from Paris en route to Rome. And reports say an agitated passenger attacked a flight attendant demanding the flight be diverted to Tripoli, Libya. Italy's state-run news agency says the attacker is a man from Kazakhstan who attacked the flight attendant with a nail clipper. Some news agencies are reporting it was actually a knife, though CNN has not confirmed that. But Alitalia did confirm to CNN that other flight attendants immobilized the attacker and the plane and its 131 passengers landed safely in Rome. The attacker was taken into police custody. The flight attendant was taken to the airport emergency room for a check-up. CNN's international editor Azadeh Ansari joins us now with the details. So Azadeh, it's early morning in Rome now. Lots of investigating to be done, but do we know anything, anything about this? Does it have to do with the unrest in Libya?</s>AZADEH ANSARI, CNN INTERNATIONAL DESK: Well, right now, Don, it's still at the early hours and we cannot make that parallel and we can't draw those conclusions. However, we do know based on the statements that was released from Alitalia that this apparently agitated passenger did approach a flight attendant and asked for the flight from Paris to Rome to be diverted to Tripoli, Libya. So that's all we have, and that's based on the statement that Alitalia released themselves. Now, again, all 131 passengers have arrived in Rome, and they are safe. And, again, according to the state media reports, as you said, Italy's state news agency, also they are saying that he was from Kazakhstan and he apparently attacked the flight attendant.</s>LEMON: And there's some discrepancy about whether it's a nail clipper or a knife, but that reporting will be worked out when Rome starts to wake up. It's early morning there.</s>ANSARI: Correct.</s>LEMON: Do we know anything else about this man except him being from Kazakhstan?</s>ANSARI: Not at this stage. We don't. But, again, this is a story that's evolving, and we should have more details as we go on into the hours here.</s>LEMON: All right. Azadeh Ansari from our international desk. Thank you.</s>ANSARI: OK.</s>LEMON: Now this.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Get out. Get out. Go back inside.</s>LEMON: This is our other big news on CNN tonight. Panic inside the terminal at the St. Louis airport, running for cover as a powerful tornado bears down. The damage crippled Lambert Airport for a time. But tonight flights are coming and going again. One of the concourses is still closed so it's not totally back on schedule. Still, it's a lot better than Saturday when only a handful of flights landed. Crews are still working to get everything back online. And, you know, it's been a very long weekend for people who live in the tornado's path. This is what winds of 166 miles per hour or more can do. Lots of cleanup today, and in the weeks ahead in these neighborhoods. 750 homes were damaged. But despite the loss of property, there was no loss of life. There are no reports of deaths or serious injuries. Our Dan Simon has been talking with tornado with tornado victims in Missouri all day long. For many of them, as Dan tells us, the cleanup is just beginning.</s>DAN SIMON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): An emotional Marcy and Kevin Baker see their home for the first time since the tornado hit Friday evening. They have a 15-month-old baby, who slept in what was a nursery on the second floor.</s>MARCY BAKER, LOST HOUSE IN THE TORNADO: We are alive, our neighbors are alive and our son is alive. And so we are OK.</s>SIMON: They are OK because the Bakers were out of town in Texas. Today, they grab some boxes, pack up what they can and begin to think about what it will be like starting over.</s>BAKER: We have a dining room table, couch, love seat, chair, TV and stereo.</s>SIMON: Across the street, Laura Walter can't believe her bad luck. She shows us why. Pointing to the sign in the front yard; the house was for sale and had gotten a buyer. (on camera): When were you supposed to close?</s>LAURA WALTER, LOST HOUSE IN TORNADO: Thursday, this coming Thursday.</s>SIMON: And has that person been informed?</s>WALTER: I have no idea. I haven't really had much time to do anything but clean up here.</s>SIMON (voice-over): This is the St. Louis suburb of Bridgeton, a tornado cutting a path down this entire street. (on camera): Tell me about your house.</s>CHUCK GREEN, HOST HOME AND BUSINESS: Gone. Our roof was sitting on the vehicles out on the street. Inside the house was open to the storm. The back porch and the house was blown out.</s>SIMON (voice-over): Ironically, Chuck Green lost his emergency service business, too, since he worked at home.</s>GREEN: Today is calm down my wife, have a good meal and regroup Monday morning. Start all over.</s>SIMON (on camera): As if you needed more evidence on how powerful this storm was, I want to show you this. This is one of the most unusual things we've seen. This is from the frame of a house, this a two-by-four piece of wood driven right through the radiator of this</s>SUV. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You know, until you see it in person, I think it's even more devastating.</s>SIMON (voice-over): One person finds humor in all this misery, a "For Sale" sign in front of a destroyed vehicle. Dan Simon, CNN, Bridgeton, Missouri.</s>LEMON: And from tornadoes to wildfires burning across Texas. Up next, we meet a family who has lost nearly everything, but they still have hope for the future. 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