From ABC News and Good Morning America, I'm Lori Bergamato.

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This Mother's Day, a special video from the GMA Vault.

Oh my God.

You made it.

It was graduation day for Sabrina Hill, an Air Force veteran, receiving her associate's degree in nursing from Purdue University. She hadn't seen her son,

Blaine Yuhas, an active duty army specialist serving overseas for nine months, until...

Welcome home! It was a long drive and long flight to West Lafayette, Indiana, but Blaine

says surprising his mom was worth every mile.

After a month of not seeing me, she was sobbing, so it's going to be something special.

Her due Global's graduation team worked with Blaine to arrange the Mother's Day surprise.

Sabrina Hill, U.S. Air Force veteran.

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From ABC News headquarters in New York City, this is GMA3.

We're going to start with the severe weather in the south.

Tornado's touching down, leaving a trail of destruction, and Faith Aboube is in hard-hit Purvis, Mississippi with a glimpse of the damage.

Hello, Faith.

Hi there, Rebecca.

Daylight is allowing us to see more and more of the devastation here in Mississippi.

We're currently in Lamar County, and it's hard to believe a family actually survived this damage. We're standing right outside the door here, but you can see there is no door. The door blew away. The front brick, the front wall here, caved into the living room. If you come with me here, they tell us that they were sitting, the family

here, three adults, they were sitting here on this couch watching television when the sirens

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