BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: "CNN 20" on this Monday morning. Have a look and a listen here.</s>ANNOUNCER: Bringing you the world for 20 years, this is CNN.</s>PETE JANOS, L.A. DEPUTY BUREAU CHIEF: I was born and raised in Chicago and that was the worst tornado I've ever seen. It was like a 16-mile path that just cut through this small little town, Plainfield, Illinois, and it just lasted forever. I mean, it didn't go back up in the air and come back down, it just kept going. I remember seeing one house -- we went into so many different houses and saw the devastation, but went into one house, it had no living room, it had no dining room, it had no roof whatsoever, but the kitchen was still there. And I remember there was this lemon meringue pie just sitting there untouched in the kitchen. We just pulled up, pulled the truck out just right in front of house after house after house which was nothing left and people just in tears. And it was just -- it was tough to cover. It was really tough to be out covering it because you saw all the sadness it brought to all the people.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I've accepted the fact that everything's gone.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This won't be something that's going to take a week or two or month, it's going to be years.</s>JANOS: My understanding is that most of the folks pulled together. I mean, everybody pulled together. People from the city brought tow trucks. I mean, just everybody pulled together and pitched in to get the city back up and running. I mean, it just -- you see -- in those kind of situations, you see, you know, the human spirit come together.
CNN 20: Tornado Strikes Northern Illinois, August 28, 1990