Teen overcomes STL tornado to graduate

Only on FOX 2: the remarkable story of a St. Louis teen, determined to get to her grade school graduation just two hours after Friday's tornado hit her neighborhood.

The staff at Lafayette Preparatory Academy (LPA) kept her 33 classmates and a crowd of about 300 waiting for Monica Phillips, 14, to arrive ... for as long as they could. Her fellow students had selected her to give a speech at the ceremony.

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