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>> reporter: battle hardened storm chasers in awe of natures power. >> oh, my gosh. this is awful. dude, the trees are debarked. >> reporter: residents running for every anywhere they could. >> everybody get down, all on the ground. >> reporter: in a crowded convenience store, some 20 people hunkering down in a darkened commercial refrigerator. >> can we go in the cooler? [ screaming ] >> go! >> oh, dear heaven. >> god! >> reporter: at the same time a security camera in a nearby frozen...

>> go! >> oh, dear heaven. >> god! >> reporter: at the same time a security camera in a nearby frozen yogurt shop catches the chaos. workers moving customers to the back and then -- everything goes flying. the massive tornado mowing down everything in its path. peoples lives churned up and spewed out. >> heres the gas station that we were at. >> reporter: this is the convenience store now. >> this would have been where we walked in. >> reporter: all across the city, thousands and thous...

that is a monster tornado. >> reporter: battle hardened storm chasers in awe of natures power. >> oh, my gosh. this is awful. dude, the trees are debarked. >> reporter: residents running for every anywhere they could. >> everybody get down, all on the ground. >> reporter: in a crowded convenience store, some 20 people hunkering down in a darkened commercial refrigerator. >> can we go in the cooler? [ screaming ] >> go! >> oh, dear heaven. >> god! >> reporter: at the same time a securit...

You and penny, you may not have taken it seriously enough when pierre was trying to pull you g into the bathroom. well let you know if anything the approaching joplin. we wont let you go through this again. so penny, are you going to listen to pierre next time? >> i try to listen to him once in a while, but, yeah. ive lived here all my life. hes from baltimore, so hes only been here like, 18 years, something like that. so im just so used to going through these. its always somewhere else. i used ...

I havent changed my position. it is not a question of anger. usually you dont make decisions in an emotional state. i dont do it i didnt do it this time. i reiterated our positions. i have to make sure that israel can defend itself. we dont have -- we have this tiny country. i said yesterday, today in the congress to vice president biden, an old friend, i said -- i said its bigger than delaware, but thats about it. so we have to have solid security arrangements, israel has to be able to defend i...

>> i actually talked to him the night before the tornado and his little brother called me and said that he was trying to get home in it and that severe hail had hit his car and nobody had heard from him and that was roughly about right ten minutes after the tornado went through joplin. and i actually live in tulsa, and i was in my car on the way to joplin as soon as i got that from my youngest son. >> well, i hear that he was in the car with somebody else who has survive. is there any ...

Meteorologist, alexandera steele. the winds are whipping up. the search and rescue crews are on pause waiting for this thing to pass. >> yeah. its unfortunate. of all the times now to have this kind of really hindering the effort. and unfortunately were not going -- were not going to see what we saw yesterday. were seeing strong winds and hail but tornadic activity isnt as likely. there are no tornado warnings. it is scary. he said hed never seen such dark clouds. we are seeing clouds coming fro...

for us, as we pine away for john kings 300th home run. >> carol, can you believe that? he caught that thing, right place, right time, a little bit of talent. >> i got hit in the head with a foul ball once, but never caught one. >> so that explains it! >> exactly! >> im kidding, carol, good to see you. >> have a great day, thank you so much. good morning to you. its the heart of tornado alley. you know what im talking about this morning. the devastation in joplin, missouri, is shockin...

Tearing across the texas countryside, and some seeing deadly weather where they live. >> really, really hard and there were a lot of dark clouds and it was pounding and hail was coming down as well. and, i dont know, really crazy, i have never been that close to a tornado before. bill: its not something you will ever forget, in tennessee, rick reichmuth is there, one of five states hit with the storms and flooding and how goes it there in memphis, rick, good morning. rick: a lot of rain this mor...

Leaving them stranded when their vehicles, including a bus, became stuck in heavy snow. they walked two mile positive -- miles to a main road, and theyre okay. in the northern part of the state, a funnel cloud spotted in the middle of a pretty serious thunderstorm. there it is. it hit maxwell, california. dark clouds and a rotation prompted the national weather service to issue a to have maid doe warning. in the end, though, nobody really saw the twister actually touch down, but hail and lightni...