Mother describes tornado that picked up home, family inside

By REBECCA SANTANA
Associated Press

ARABI, Louisiana (AP) — Authorities say the tornado that ripped through a suburb of New Orleans lifted one house into the air and dropped it onto the middle of a street with a family inside. The parents of a girl climbed out of the wreckage screaming frantically for help. Their daughter was on a breathing machine and stuck inside. Mother Dea Castellanos says her daughter has muscular dystrophy. Firefighters quickly went in to rescue her and came out carrying her in a blanket. St. Bernard Parish President Guy McInnis says she’s now in a hospital and “doing fine.”