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you put stuff in it. >> yeah. you ride your beer and drink it, too. >> oh, my goodness. >> unbelievable. already, fredricka, have a fine time. well see you tomorrow. >> all right. see you tomorrow. >> you bet. top of the hour right now, were focusing on the things that are not so fun in joplin, missouri. more than 150 people still have not been heard from since the deadliest tornado on record hit there last sunday. 132 are confirmed dead. more than 1,000 people were hurt. the federal...

explosions rocked libyas capital city today. a government official says one of the blasts hit a compound in tripoli belonging to leader moammar gadhafi. nato confirmed and bombed a vehicle storage area in a second strike nearby. egypt reopened its border crossing into gaza that opens the door to the outside world for palestinians. officials say hundreds passed through the border town of raffa today. israel worries that terrorists will now ship arms across the border. the egyptian gover...

And our rescue force debarked trying to pick him up, but within five seconds my crew chief said, hey, weve got him onboard, lets go. so we got everybody back onboard and headed feet wet -- im sorry, out towards the ocean again -- and as soon as we hit the med, lead called back to the ship and said, hey, legacy 4-0, feet wet plus one. and we headed back towards the boat. jon: im sure that was one happy pilot. >> id say about an hour and a half for the whole thing. jon: one happy pilot to get onbo...

Crew chief dont worry about it, danica feels shes never wrong about anything and i think that fans want to see danica to stop complaining and start racing. >> harris: well, shes a great driver. darin, appreciate you being here. new fears over gaddafis chemical weapons and news that husband house has been hit. stay with us. ities. back then, he had something more important to do. he wasnt focused on his future but fortunately, somebody else was. at usaa we provide retirement solutions for our mil...

Is incredible. it hasnt sunk in how big a deal this is, that we did win this things. i never thought in a million years we were going to win our first one. i knew the 21 team knew how to get to victory lane. my crew chief was trying to win for 21 years. for us to get them back to victory lane is so cool. everybody here deserves it so much. they put their work in, thats for sure. >> 20 years old, trevor. at some point you are looking in that rear view and you have legends, literally, coming up be...

A prayer for your race team and the other participants over your in-car radio? >> yeah, thats something that, you know, i always like to do before every race and, you know, we did it over the radio this time but, you know, these guys are all, you know, theyre just -- were all so blessed and god has put us together for this reason. he knew this before we were created that we would be sitting here today and to me, thats just insane and to see his plan working out is really, really cool. >> thats n...

Of an unprecedented magnitude, an unknown number of missing and dead, floodwaters still on the rise. one of the breaches, the length of a football field, the intended band-aid, 3,000-pound sandbags. >> crew chief looking down and away it goes. one child is being loaded right now. >> reporter: with water rising, the stranded take to their rooftops, the coast guard to the air. the lucky saved by the drop of a metal basket, life-saving rescues that would unfold 1,000 times within the first 24 hours...

Jeffrey was talking from, we are looking at lake michigan a coast guard plane has gone down off the michigan coast. it was on its way from alma, michigan to rochester, minnesota, for a medical purpose. apparently five people on the flight, daily news in michigan is reporting that one survivor has been pulled from the water and two brothers able to put on life jackets. so again this is a coast guard plane we are saying about five miles off the coast went down into the waters of lake michigan. whe...

Things adjust for larger guys? >> absolutely, they custom make the seats for the drivers, so this one, youll have to just mess around with it a little bit and the steering wheel to your right as well. >> just one thing, what are the guys going through when theyre driving because its shaking, theyre communicatings, tvs on them. >> seven incar cameras in the car as well. with the hans device helmet. theyre communicating with the crew chief. >> monica and i are going to get into a pace car, we are ...

>> well, no, hes the defending and four time consecutive series champion. but hes not the defending champion of the race. however, they made a slick move on thursday to win their qualifying race here. their 150 mile qualifier and he won it by about the width of that coffee cup was the margin of the checkered flag. so jimmie will be as strong as anybody and to win the sprint cup championship, youll have to go through jimmie johnson and his crew chief so theyre going to be tough. >> hey, you know,...