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>> a lot of people need a lot of help. >>reporter: so many people lost everything. now trying to figure out what is next. >> i dont know what im going to do. im going to salvage what i can. >> massive tornado. massive destruction. >>reporter: ef 4 tornado was huge. powerful. ferocious. people hults in the dark waiting for the terror to end. thats the scene described by some caught in the emergency room at st. johns hospital the top 2 floor ripped off. window shattered. >> no light. we ...

tornado warnlgs go off. many ran to seek safer ground, but boy, the devastation is coming to light today. >> thats right. 12 hours later life has changed in joplin, missouri. a powerful tornado ripped that city apart. the red cross said 75% of the town is virtually gone with reports of at least 30 people killed and dozens more injured. 50,000 people live in the city. no phone service, power lines are down, cars and trucks smashed and flipped. the governor calling out the national guard...

line of storms that swept across the midwest. it spun off twisters from oklahoma to wisconsin. today the same system threatens the deep south and the mississippi and ohio valleys. the storm destroyed whole neighborhoods in joplin, knocking out power and phone service. the search for victims continues throughout the night. a state of emergency is in effect. the national guard has been activated. and fema officials are working with state and local agencies. joel brown has been tracking t...