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"Cleanup is underway in Illinois a day after a major tornado outbreak spawned dozens of tornadoes.At least six people were killed across the state.WeatherWatch 12's Chris Gloninger was in Washington, Ill., one of the hardest hit towns about 200 miles southwest of Milwaukee.\"I saw cars rolling down the road and debris flying everywhere. I seen roofs of houses flying across the street and a dump trucks getting moved back and forth,\" Cherokee Sparkes said.VIDEO: Illinois family barely escapes deadly twisterSparkes' home was leveled except for one wall. As the tornado tore his home apart, he pulled his stepfather to safety.\"I pulled him in by his arm into the back room,\" Sparkes said.\"Cherokee pulled me to the basement,\" Chris Lancaster said.\"So without him would you still be around?\" Gloninger asked.\"I don't know. It could have sucked me back out. I really don't know. Without him, i really\u00A0 thought I was going to heaven with my father and my grandparents,\" Lancaster said.Lancaster suffered minor injuries.\"It's devastating. We've been saving up for about 39 years, my mom's age, and in seconds, it's gone. Everything was demolished,\" Sparkes said.Wind gusts were up to 190 mph. All of the destruction happened in a matter of seconds.\"We could see the storm picking up the debris just south of town here, moving very quickly,\" Todd Cannon said.VIDEO: EF4 tornado causes massive damage in Washington, Ill.Cannon and his son were on a collision course with an EF4 tornado. They tried to warn people on their way to safety.\"The bad part is we waited too long. By the time we got in the parking lot, we were getting hit by debris,\" Cannon said.So he found a Plan B.\"We shot to the back of the building, and I had actually hit the building and wedged my car between the parking blocks,\" Cannon said. \"When we started feeling the big debris and the suction and things spinning around inside the vehicle I didn't think, I thought it would be worse than what it was.\"When they walked away from the car they saw their windows were broken out and it was filled with debris."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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