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of 8,000 structures were damaged or destroyed. nearly two dozen people, including three young men, took cover at a convenience store. the video is dark, but the audio, the sounds tell a story. >> oh, my god! [ screaming ] >> imagine pushing open the door after that incredible experience. elsewhere in joplin, one couple recorded the scene moments after the tornado struck. destruction all around them, homes on fire. they called out for the young mans sister and fiance. >> sarah! sarah, m...

local officials believe upwards of 8,000 structures were damaged or destroyed. nearly two dozen people, including three young men, took cover at a convenience store. the video is dark, but the audio, the sounds tell a story. >> oh, my god! [ screaming ] >> imagine pushing open the door after that incredible experience. elsewhere in joplin, one couple recorded the scene moments after the tornado struck. destruction all around them, homes on fire. they called out for the young mans siste...

its getting big, big, big. >> at least 126 people dead, dozens still missing, the actual number not known. local officials believe upwards of 8,000 structures were damaged or destroyed. for those who survive, the scars will always be with them. nearly two dozen people, including three young men, took cover at a convenience store. inside a walk-in beer cooler. one turned on his iphone as the twister struck. the video is dark, but the audio, the sounds tell a story. >> oh, my god! [ scre...

its getting big, big, big. >> at least 126 people dead, dozens still missing, the actual number not known. local officials believe up wartds of 8,000 structures were damaged or destroyed. nearly two dozen people, including three young men, took cover at a convenience store. the video is dark, but the audio, the sounds tell a story. >> oh, my god! [ screaming ] >> imagine pushing open the door after that incredible experience. elsewhere in joplin, one couple recorded the scene moments a...

232 to a list of 232 confirmed folks and moving off that number already today, setting up and having a meeting with the morgue, with all of these families to go through that process. >> but it does seem like families who are lucky enough to have a friend in law enforcement who is able to get into the morgue, like lantz hare, his father has been on my program weeping, he was spending what money he could to drive to springfield to look into a hospital there. turns out his son has been dead in the ...

Of that. i dont believe it can ramp up tonight. but it will probably be tomorrow. and it will make us all happy because we grieve along with those families so were going to try to expedite the neem can actually make the positive id. >> well, its certainly -- one would have wondered why it hadnt happened sooner. put that issue aside obviously. certainly in the case of lantz hare, if his family members had been permitted in, several days ago they would have found his body, given him the burial tha...

Were going to play you the rest of the video after the break. youll really want to see how it ends. last night, the governor of missouri said there would be changes in the search for the missing. today we saw the start of those changes. the state took over a large portion of the disaster response. releasing the official roster of people missing or unaccounted for. i have the roster right here. remember for days weve been saying 1,500 unaccounted for based on a local official statement days ago. ...

Joplin and the process for identifying the dead, you remember we spoke to lantz hares dad, mike, who has been searching and calling his sons cell phone. >> i started calling him and still never got anything. i called it all last night. >> youre still calling his number? >> i cant stop. i dont know why. i sat until like 2:00 last night and thats all i did. >> called his cell phone. does it ring? >> it rang for the first day and a half, and now it goes straight to voice mail. but just in case he g...

Still never got anything. i called it all last night. >> youre still calling his number? >> i cant stop. i dont know why. i sat up until like 2:00 last night and thats all i did. >> called his cell phone. does it ring? >> it rang for the first day and a half, and now it goes straight to voice mail. but just in case he gets it, i want him to know his dad loves him. >> today, the family got word unofficial at first that lantz is dead. it turns out hes been in the morgue all along. his family got w...

>> oh, babe, look. >> what? >> oh, no. its the hospital. >> it was the hospital. show you more of that video. everything is so destroyed, you cant even tell where you are. they went to find her sister, sarah. youll really want to see how it ends. last night, the governor of missouri said there would be changes in the search for the missing. today we saw the start of those changes. the state took over a large portion of the disaster response. releasing the official roster of people missing or una...