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Visiting tornado ravaged joplin missouri for pututting elephants to work in the clean up effort. >> take a look. can you see one elephant pulling a damage car with chains. they were scheduled to play at the citys arena this week but after seeing the devastation they enlisted some of their employees and animals to help. were told some in the city welcomed the assistance but others not so sure. >> its either take the day off or give a hand to the people who really need it. >> sad that they would p...

After school is okay? >> as long as i am invited and he is supervised. my gained mother did that with me. whips and chains. >> the only person complaining was some gay guy. >> first of all, no, a bunch of parents complained. >> lets put their opinions in the paper too. why do we have to go to the gay couple who doesnt represent a normal segment of america. >> i worded that wrong. >> i thought 10 to 1 complaining about the -- >> no, we have to go to the gay couple because they represent a lot of ...

Then we ran down to the basement and we waited there for a while and then all of a sudden, the winds started and my husband got up and went to the basement door and looked out at the sky and he said, oh, honey, he said that sky looks terrible. and so he come back in and we put the -- a big old brick in front of the basement door to hold it shut and the next minute, the wind really started up and it just blew the door open and jim and i, we were sitting in lawn chairs and all of a sudden i says t...

thanks so much for being with us on this wednesday. good to see everybody this morning. you know the pictures are coming in, new pictures, and the devastation, continues for the midwest. >> thats right. ali velshi in joplin, missouri, where they had a harrowing night. hi, ali. >> good morning, christine, kiran, it is a better morning here. people counting their blessings. a near miss last night in joplin, missouri. everyone taking shelter and bracing for another twister that thanchgful...

Is talking about. last nights billboard music awards at vegas strip show by rhianna and britney spears. >> ♪ break my bones but chains and whips excite me ♪ >> rhianna took home three awards and the king of the prom, who else? >> justin bieber. >> spiky new haircut. justin bieber stepping up there, getting a hug, planted a kiss on his girlfriend selena gomez and his mom. he won six awards including best artist taylor swift was named the country artist of the year and those are your headlines...

As we showed you earlier, joplin must now try to rebuild. they have a long history with stores thanks to joplins geography geography. if you want to sound smart, tell your friends joplin, missouri is located near tornado alley, an area between the rocky and appalachian mountain chains are tornadoes are most frequent. but must have with the real news. lets gather around the water cooler to talk about the mindless trivia you craze. kicking off the season finale of saturday night live, justin timbe...

The city of vicksburg, as i say, is now under the gun. what they have built here is a wooden dike. this actually had to be constructed in three days. there was nothing here that prevented the river from flowing into the heart of downtown vicksburg. so the city workers built this thing. it is built out of oak and popular. they started using railroad ties, but they ran out of those. so they began putting them down, layer after layer, tar in between, and then theyve got these steel trusses right he...

>> reporter: let me show you. the city of vicksburg, as i say, is now under the gun. what they have built here is a wooden dike. this actually had to be constructed in three days. there was nothing here that prevented the river from flowing into the heart of downtown vicksburg. so the city workers built this thing. it is built out of oak and poplar. they started using railroad ties, but they ran out of those. so they began putting them down, layer after layer, tar in between, and then theyve got...

You went to the next block, it was 15 feet deep. you did see houses that appear to be poking out of the water, but those were built on stilts, and again, like weve seen elsewhere the owners thought they had built them so high they would never, ever flood, but this is the year that never, ever went out the window. anderson? >> martin, whats that behind you? >> reporter: let me show you. the city of vicksburg, as i say, is now under the gun. what they have built here is a wooden dike. this actuall...

almost anything could blow it sky high. especially if this turns out to be true. >> we think that there had to have been some sort of support network for bin laden inside of pakistan. but we dont know who or what that support network was. >> well, senator kerry today downplaying those concerns, saying theres no evidence of a network that kept bin laden hidden for five years. the pakistanis claim theyre investigating, but theyve got a credibility problem in this country because even bef...