Nursery worker recounts moments when tornado hit Alabama day care
An employee at a daycare in Alabama said she and a coworker worked to ensure the safety of the toddlers. Amanda McCloud was working in a Selma, Alabama, day care changing a toddler's diapers when she heard the tornado sirens begin to wail. "Most of the time, nothing ever happened," she told ABC News about the tornado sirens she's grown used to hearing, but she said it was different last Thursday. There have been at least nine deaths as a result of a tornado that struck the South last week, according to authorities. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey declared a state of emergency on Thursday for Autauga, Chambers, Coosa, Dallas, Elmore and Tallapoosa counties, tweeting that those counties "were in the path of Mother Nature's wrath." McCloud was working at the Crosspoint Christian Church's child care and preschool in Selma, entrusted with caring for about six children that ranged in age from 7 weeks to 4 months old. Sixty children attended the preschool and n...