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Around. >> st. johns is a 230-bed acute care hospital. >> reporter: jim risko has been an e.r. doc at st. johns for the past seven years. >> this is a very sophisticated hospital in a relatively small town. >> i was down the road playing horseshoes with my friends. >> reporter: on may 22nd andrew mcdab yell came to the hospital to visit his grandmother. as he arrived, a sound familiar to every mid-westerner. >> the sirens started going off when i was walking in. i didnt see much other than the d...

And he was the last one if. he was telling me, i didnt know this, but that he was actually starting to be sucked out, lifted up, and two of the girls that worked for him held onto him and kept him from -- because a month ago now the winners they couldnt close the door because of the wind was so bad. he was about to get sucked out. from my other show "americas >> john, is this store policy, your policy? got talent" heavy blue singers have you practiced this, everybody in the cooler? michael gri...

The tornado sucked him out through the sun roof. his father survived. it is the survivors trying to make sense of the catastrophe that up-ended their lives and destroyed almost everything around them. as casey wian tells us, some are fining faith and hope at a red cross shelter. >> reporter: blown away. a town, a community torn apart. he lost his hospital, his home and nearly his father. >> i was just calling him out. i was yelling his name, dad, dad, are you there? he nearly lost his life. >>...

Us. >> reporter: as the injured flooded to the hospital for care, mcdaniel was desperately trying to get his grandmother out. >> they took us down to the second floor and there was about ankle-deep water, and we were trying to push wheelchairs and everything through it to get people out. >> reporter: they wheeled thinks and flagged down a passing car to drive them home. >> there was no crying, there was no screaming. >> reporter: the st. john staff kept working, laser focused on their patients. ...

>> to see this behind you, its just -- its like the end of the world. its devastation. i dont know. it was terrible. we were all just in shock. just shock. i dont know what else to call it. i came back, walked home and came back later that night about midnight to see if my car, which was just completely trashed in the parking lot and see if there was anything left in it worth anything and theres not. >> that was the car you were going to drive home in. >> thats the car. oh, its just crushed down...

Know, would hear the sirens go off and i went into the store to -- and just ignore them but i went into the store to get milk and the sirens went off and john got on the pa and said, everyone need to get into the produce cooler. my thought is, ill just get in my home and drive home, which is right down 20th street, which is the path the tornado was taking at that very moment. i got to the front door and he was pleading with me. he says, sir, you dont want to go out there. and i didnt. because i ...

Joplin, i bet, right, john? >> they are going to rebuild here. and they put out a news about that about everything thats going to be taking place. >> and rick morgan, who will never shop anywhere again. thanks again. >> i -- well, actually, i called nicole, who had talked to me the first time about the first interview i had and i left her a phone message on wednesday. i said, well, i just spent about an hour in my storm shelter for the first time in many years. >> all right. >> and the tornado d...

Fy have this right, that is when rick, you said, im leaving and john said, no youre not, is that about right? >> well, yes. i publicly repented on last tuesday with t.j. in an interview that i had been one of those people that just, you know, would hear the sirens go off and i went into the store to -- and just ignore they will, but i went into the store to get milk and the sire rens went off and john got on the p.a. and said, everyone need to get into the produce cooler. my thought is, ill just...

Its devastation. i dont know. it was terrible. we were all just in shock. just shock. i dont know what else to call it. i came back, walked home and came back later that night about midnight to see if my car, which was just completely trashed in the parking lot and see if there was anything left in it worth anything and theres not. >> that was the car you were going to drive home in. >> thats the car. oh, its just crushed down. its just -- mean, the roof is completely crushed in. its just really...

I have so many memories of working with the other doctors and the nurses. this is home. i mean, st. johns is more than a building. its a spirit. >> st. johns and the national guard are opening a temporary field hospital with 60 beds. its across from the destroyed building. why are we seeing so many of these powerful tornadoes this year? well show you the science behind how theyre formed next. ♪ [ male announcer ] in 2011, at&t is at work, building up our wireless network all across america. ...