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explained his plan today. >> we have to prioritize. both parties agree that we need to reduce the deficit by the same amount, $4 trillion. so what choices are we going to make to reach that goal? either we ask the wealthiest americans to pay their fair share in taxes railroor ask seno pay more for medicare. we cant afford to do both. either we gut education and medical research or weve got to reform the tax code so that the most profitable corporations have to give up tax loophole that...

Part of the roof -- the top is missing. i mean, im standing behind the hospital and cinder block walls, brick walls, are just crumbled. >> reporter: the tornado also struck joplin high school, just as seniors were finishing graduation ceremonies nearby. parents and students escaped but the school was demolished. >> i walked around as much as i could to see it. it looks like its just been bombed from the outside-in. i mean, its terrible. >> reporter: the storm left cars and trucks on top of each ...

Debris hanging outside of the windows. part of the roof -- the top is missing. i mean, im standing behind the hospital and cinder block walls, brick walls, are just crumbled. >> reporter: the tornado also struck joplin high school, just as seniors were finishing graduation ceremonies nearby. parents and students escaped but the school was demolished. >> i walked around as much as i could to see it. it looked like its been bombed from the outside-in. i mean, its terrible. >> reporter: the storm l...

Heaved gurneys for blocks and smashed the buildings facade. >> windows are blown out. debris hanging outside of the windows. part of the roof -- the top is missing. i mean, im standing behind the hospital and cinder block walls, brick walls, are just crumbled. >> reporter: the tornado also struck joplin high school, just as seniors were finishing graduation ceremonies nearby. parents and students escaped but the school was demolished. >> i walked around as much as i could to see it. it looks lik...

good evening. its a very difficult night and dangerous night here in joplin, missouri. the death toll, as you know, is 116 but that number, frankly, is likely to rise. the number of missing at this hour is simply not known. its impossible at this point to know. were going to try to talk to the mayor of joplin in a few moments to get the latest information we can. theres a lot to tell you about. now, the affected areas have been declared a disaster area by president obama. there are c...

rubble. and the rubble is all around us. it goes for miles. as far as the eye can see. the location im at, it is just completely destroyed neighborhoods, block after block. all you see on the horizon are broken and bent and destroyed trees. there is lightning in the air. a heavy downpour of rain, which has been going on and off throughout the day, which has been making the search and rescue operations all the more difficult. and now night has fallen. again, there very well may be peopl...

be alive, still trapped in the rubb rubble. and the rubble is all around us. it goes for miles. as far as the eye can see. the location im at, it is just completely destroyed neighborhoods, block after block. all you see on the horizon are broken and bent and destroyed trees. there is lightning in the air. a heavy downpour of rain, which has been going on and off throughout the day, which has been making the search and rescue operations all the more difficult. and now night has fallen....

And she said it was just so loud that it was just a roar. and then they got everybody out as fast as they could. >> jacqui jeras, do you have some questions for bethany? >> yeah, can you tell us how much of the hospital saw that daniel? it looks like a lot of damage on top. i mean, are there rooms exposed? ive heard of chunks of the building which have been removed from the tornado. what is the building like? is it still stable? >> i would say it is not stable. it is hard to see the lower floors...

>> jacqui jeras, do you have questions for bethany? how much of that hospital saw the damage? are there rooms exposed? i heard of chunks of the building that have been removed from the tornado. what is the building like? is it still stable? >> i would say it is not stable. it is hard to see to lower floors. the floors here are absolutely devastated. theres debris hang outside of the windows. part of the roof or the whole top of this is missing. im standing behind the hospital, and cinder block w...

its from chasertv.com. rob, roll it. >> oh, my. >> and then just a short time ago, storm chaser, his name is steve polly got out in the middle of this driving on the interstate, and he said he didnt think he was going to make it touch and go for a while. these videos he took at a gas station. listen. >> come on. >> yes, it is. >> all right. our jacqui jeras, our meteorologist joins us now. some officials in missouri reporting that there are at least as many as 24 fatalities from this t...