grandmother who owns it came this close to being in that car s driver s seat when the tornado hit sunday. this is her granddaughter speaking. she is lucky to be alive right now. reporter: she was just getting ready to leave and get in the car and take off? yes, she was scared and got scared to walk out of the door when the lady told her not to go outside and she wanted to get home before the storm hit, and a lady grabbed her and told her no. story after story, and t.j. holmes is live in joplin, and i know that joplin was your first of the job, and i want to ask you what it is like coming home in a sense, and i have been watching you all day today and set the scene for me, and it is more active now for the storms returning this evening? it is very active right now. you know what, go ahead and go around, maddog, because she is asking how active it is right now. and this is how active it is.
damage, stay out of their way and stay home and watch cnn, and stay home. and so there are three areas that were hit hard, downtown area hit hard with apartment buildings, and home depot where ceiling beams were turned into twisted piles of metal, and the third is this, what was once a walmart and now little bit more than a field of debris. look at this part of the store accessible which is the parking lot. watch this with me. this car upside down. windows shattered. totally demolished. this pickup truck destroyed. it is one car after another. the amount of devastation here, and here comes this vehicle. i want you to see this. you don t see this it is just incredible to take this in and see what is happening here. just car after car after car like that. and this is the joplin neighborhood, and look at the car here, because the grandmother who owns it came this close to being in that car s driver s seat when the tornado hit sunday. this is her granddaughter speaking. s