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Disaster declaration for 37 counties, as well as five native american reservations. jenna: take a look at that water. in south dakota people are threatened by the rising missouri river, voluntary evacuations are underway in three cities as crews work to build up the heavy -- levees. jon: deadly tornadoes ripped through 19 communities in central and western massachusetts. at least four people died as a result. jenna: were getting more and more of a look at that video coming n we have live picture...

They have a closer relationship to qaddafi. were told by some of the rebels, the helicopters that just arrived in country yesterday will not be used until after the russian delegation gets a chance to speak to qaddafi and see if they can get him to leave the country before they unleash those missiles from those helicopters. jenna. jenna: dan springer live for us in libya where diplomatic efforts continue to take place as well as the fighting. dan, thank you. rick: back home now and severe weathe...

For cover, and we lost track of him, and we have not seen him since? >> was his mother holding on to him? >> yes, she lost him in all of the aftermath of the mass of all of this and it is terrible. no one has seen him sense. the rest of the fam sli ily is okay, but we have to find him. >> and missouris top officials wrapped up a helicopter tour of joplin, and here is sound bite from claire mccaskill. >> my job is simple to make sure that we get all of the help we need. pleased that a disaster de...

critical condition. the confirmed death toll in sundays disaster now stands at 118. but authorities say more than ten times that many still are unaccounted for. >> joplins head of emergency management says people scattered and simply cant get home or maybe no longer have homes and havent yet called in. but then theres will norton, blown out of his hummer on his way home from high school graduation. his family thinks -- thinks hes in a hospital somewhere. and sky lar logs don, a 1-year-...

The best way i can describe it is a movie of a nuclear disaster and it looks like a nuclear bomb has hit. i want to thank the governor and everybody else for their participation and ill turn it back over to the city manager. >> can you, congressman long. next we have rich. >> thank you. >> first off, my con dell lenses to the victim families as well as the survivors. the full support of the family to the state of missouri as well as to the city of joplin, we are going to be here for the long hau...

buildings sustaining significant damage. that includes one of the citys main hospitals. the national guard on patrol with a state of emergency in effect. andres cue teams they keep searching today, this afternoon, all through the day for survivors. joplin, missouri, the latest victim of a volatile wave of turbulent springtime weather. brian todd in the thick of it. >> reporter: drew, rescue teams are combing through grid by grid, house by house in this city. the houses that are left ar...

See what kind of shell that put out right there? see how this scatters? this rat shot is like a shotgun shell. >> when you shoot a skate, what does it do to it? >> you have about seven shot going into it and it blows holes all over it. >> its a very different story down in tunica, where john king is tonight. he joins us live. youre seeing the devastation up close. whats the latest from there? >> reporter: it is heartbreaking. we spent the day here. we saw the scope of the devastation. huge prope...

See how this scatters? >> when you shoot a skate, what does it do to it? >> it blows holes all over it. >> its a very different story down in tunica, where john king is tonight. youre seeing the devastation up close. whats the latest from there? >> reporter: it is heartbreaking. we spent the day here. huge property damage. huge personal toll and psychological toll on the people who live here and you also have raw anger tonight. there are people who are mad because they cant go back to hair homes...

>> it blows holes all over it. >> its a very different story down in tunica, where john king is tonight. youre seeing the devastation up close. whats the latest from there? >> reporter: it is heartbreaking. we spent the day here. huge property damage. huge personal toll and psychological toll on the people who live here and you also have raw anger tonight. there are people who are mad because they cant go back to hair homes still under water. the government wont let them. they have anger because...

Those water varmints, well call snakes, off of me. see what kind of shell that put out right there? see how this scatters? this rat shot is like a shotgun shell. >> when you shoot a skate, what does it do to it? >> you have about seven shot going into it and it blows holes all over it. >> its a very different story down in tunica, where john king is tonight. he joins us live. youre seeing the devastation up close. whats the latest from there? >> reporter: it is heartbreaking. we spent the day he...