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>> reporter: battle hardened storm chasers in awe of natures power. >> oh, my gosh. this is awful. dude, the trees. the trees are debarked! >> reporter: residents running for cover anywhere they could. >> 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 yogurt shop catches the chaos. workers mo...

Tornado, get out of the way, get out of the way, maybe the immediacy would have been more. people would have been out of their cars. they would have been in buildings. a lot of people died in cars. you saw what happened to those cars. those cars were destroyed. it was a giant tornado. sometimes there is just nothing you can do about it. theres not a question. thats joplin, that little word right there. this is a hook echo, a monster cell. but it wasnt a tornado on the ground until it got right t...

This is a hook echo, a monster cell. but it wasnt a tornado on the ground until it got right there. when the tornado got on the ground it ripped through joplin, missouri, got bigger and bigger. at some point in time at 200 miles per hour, even if you are in your safe spot in your house, if you are not under ground in a storm shelter you cant survive it. >> we have seen so many tough storms this season. is there something about this season or something about the particular storms that we are just...

Tornado, get out of the way, get out of the way, maybe the immediacy would have been more. people would have been out of their cars. ta they would have been in buildings. a lot of people died in cars. you saw what happened to those cars. those cars were destroyed. it was a giant tornado. sometimes there is just nothing you can do about it. theres not a question. thats joplin, that little word right there. this is a hook echo, a monster cell. but it wasnt a tornado on the ground until it got righ...

whats happening. thats ahead. we will have the latest on this developing story in a few minutes from now. president obama is back at the white house of a spending several hours in joplin, missouri. it was exactly a week ago that an f-5 tornado ripped through the city killing people in minutes. 5:41 central time there was a moment of silence marked by the precise instant that tornado hit. our dan traveled with the president to joplin and dan, a tough job for the president to try to li...

>> 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...

Looking at, and what about this storm that has wrecked this little town? >> well, this is sedalia, missouri. it is along highway 65, about a mile southeast of downtown se is dalia, and the tornado was on the ground about an hour ago and we saw it rotating and put the warning out. plenty of warning on the storm. the hook echo showed a 120-mile-an-hour potential, and that does not mean it gets all of the way down to the ground, but as we look at the damage here, the houses made of 2x4s have lost t...

Concerned about. we have got guthrie, a hurricane of a tornado up there heading right for guthrie, produced very large, violent tornadoes. oklahoma county, for the one southwest of yukon, rotation on that right this very second, not quite as strong, tornado warning for it cant split hairs. down here, chickasha, tornado on the ground, chickasha hit by a tornado now. the tornado warning included for mcclaine county. go back to the south doppler radar and take a look had and it is now on the east s...