Group rides out Joplin tornado inside LDS church building

Three days after an F5 tornado swept parts of Joplin, Mo., to ruins, residents there remain in shock and disbelief. One group rode out Sunday's devastating tornado in a Latter-day Saint stake center. Amazingly, all eight walked out alive. Janice Falls and Lee Allphin are two of those survivors.

"We were alive. Every single person in that room was alive, and that we were grateful for," Falls told KSL News Wednesday.

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