and destruction and a long, hard road to recovery for the residents of joplin, missouri. congressman billy long of missouri represents that district. he is here, at least part of that district. congressman, first of all, our deepest condolences to your constituents who lost family member he is in joplin. have you ever seen anything like this before in missouri? no, not for this devastation at all to this extent. the deputy director of feel mass in town today from d.c. and i asked him and he said maybe some of tuscaloosa could rival with it. other than that he hadn t seen anything like this either. just total devastation it reminds me of a movie set of a nuclear disaster. that is exactly. maybe your news crews are used to this but we sure haven t seen anything like this in missouri and i was born here. trust me, congressman, we are not used to it by any means. the pictures that we have been showing our viewers are heartbreaking, they are
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of this storm. amazing. all right. congressman, good luck to you, good luck to all the folks in joplin and surrounding areas of missouri. we will stay on top of this story. appreciate it very much. you bet. thank you. heartbreaking scenes of destruction. we are going to go back to joplin, missouri, where residents will tell us about the storm that leveled so much of their city. and another republican joins the field of contenders for 2012. we will tell you who s in, who s out, who s next. stand by. president obama gets a very warm embrace from the crowd in dublin as he traces his irish roots.
four-mile-long path of destruction. at one point it may have been three quarters of a mile wide. cnn s tom foreman is joining wuss a closer look at this monster. share with us some of these images. reporter: wolf, tough look at it in the air to get a sense of the size. zoom in the path, stop it, close enough. we measured in here, we got a little more than five miles overall. atlantic overall layout of joplin and look how big this swath is that was cut through it. we will zoom it all the way in now, i will take you to that hospital brian was talking about so much there because that is a good place to start, big complex here, employs about 1700 people. you saw the damage. they had more than 180 patients in the hospital at that time. come in and show details of this picture. you can see what happened there and you can also see how many people were evacuated, more than 200 there. they did not have all the workers there at that time, obviously, 1700, but still several hundred. let s move
around, anybody who s being totally honest these days knows that this country is headed for third world status. future generations won t have time for dreams, it will be all they can do to put food in their stomachs and find shelter from the elements. alex in washington says, not if this generation focuses more on xbox and face book instead of applying themselves to doing well in school. and if the american dream is to work for the department of motor vehicles and sit on your backside and collect a government handout, yes the american dream is alive and well. if you want to read more on this, go to my blog, cnn.com/cafferty file. people responding in big numbers on this question, jack? yes, they are. stunned witnesses say a nuclear bomb could not have caused as much damage. one of the worst tornadoes this country has ever seen tore through joplin, missouri, but will tuesday bring even more destruction? that s coming up at the top of