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Stories like this one. >> it was indescribable. i have never seen anything like it. >> i am 22 years old, a wife and two kids, 14 months old. we lost everything in the tornado. we are just trying to salvage what we can. >> so many people pacing by their phones waiting for word. among them, relatives of a 15-month-old baby boy missing since the tornado struck. his relatives have set up a facebook page and calling radio stations. schuylers great uncle joins us on the phone. thank you so much for j...

The weather is bad. if the weathers bad im looking at the armory. >> okay. were going it pull away right now and take a quick break. >> were going to pull away from the press conference as you heard. bad weather is moving in. maybe it will hit at 5:00 p.m. missouri time. tomorrow morning is when the really bad weather will be moving in. and missouri emergency management officials will sound the sirens at 10:30 a.m. missouri time to see if everythings working. dont be afraid. that will happen tom...

You can certainly see, you look to your left and right, that everything here is just a mess, as you can imagine. they say, it looks 500 times better than it did. come into their bedroom. this is what i want you to see. that is a two-by-four that came in through the wall. they have no idea where that came from. that came from where their heads would be. the same bedroom that is a mess, family photos havent even been touched. they are still standing here. so, carol, like i said to you earlier, bee...

As soon as -- was sunday night. as soon as graduation was wrapping up was when the tornado was hitting. what were they telling you as they handed you the diploma? >> nay said the tornado signs are going off, we said, okay. just another day of tornadoes. weve been born and raised in tornado alley. we didnt think much of it. then after an hour later we saw what it did. and it was horrible. >> reporter: okay, when did it get real, griffin? you hit on the same point. honest honestly, im the say, bor...

Military police, national guardsmen blocking a lot of the intersections. a number of people are not here. they dont want them coming back just yet. they havent inspected to see if these properties are safe. there are about 1500 people unaccounted for, because they have left town to stay safe and cell service isnt working very effectively. we dont know where they are. about two blocks down, some people told my producer that they spent the night, a treacherous night last night, they spent it on th...

A lot of people say its the worst theyve ever seen. would you agree? >> this has been a totally devastating -- we look at each disaster on its own merit. this one is -- you know, certainly among the worst that ive ever seen. with that, its also something that the resiliency of the people in this communities, in joplin, missouri, with everything theyve gone through over the past few days and the past few weeks has been something that to me has been heartening just to see the work that the first r...

more tornadoes are possible today across the region. right now, the death toll stands at 116. that ties the single deadliest tornado record in u.s. history. so far, rescue crews have pulled 17 survivors from the rubble but time and the weather, now the enemies. precious hours are slipping away as bleak reality set in. t.j. holms in joplin. you went out with one of the rescue teams. what did you see? >> reporter: last night, i couldnt believe what i was seeing, carol. i have been cove...

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Our responsibility to come and help, and this is part of being human, to see a need and to do something about it. >> well, since 2007, tadd and his team have helped 39 communities around the world and haiti free of charge. if you know someone like tadd who is making a difference in the world, tell us about them. all of this years cn heroes are chosen from people who you nominate at cnnheroes.com. as we know a lot of families lost everything when the tornadoes slammed their state last week, but...

States wanting to know if they could ship dresses here, so it has been incredible to see. >> i didnt think that we would have this many dresses. >> reporter: the dresses have been delivered around the high schools in the area, including renardas. including the shoes. >> those go well with it. >> it is amazing the dresses and the shoes and everything, like i never thought that somebody would do this for me. and it is like amazing. >> reporter: in the end, a cinderella story. a powerful need to he...