reporter: battle hardened storm chasers in awe of nature s 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 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. people s lives churned up and spewed out. here s 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 thousands of people in shock, taking the first steps on the long road to recovery. make no mistake, joplin, missouri, will rebui
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. people s lives churned up and spewed out. here s 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 thousands of people in shock, taking the first steps on the long road to recovery. make no mistake, joplin, missou missouri, will rebuild, but it will never be the same. hello and welcome to this one-hour cnn special report on the joplin, missouri, tornado and other deadly storms. a twister s fury: in the path of destruction. i m drew griffin. just hours from now president obama will be on the ground in joplin for his first look at what s left of this devastated city. 142 people have lost their lives. anoth
that is a monster tornado. reporter: battle hardened storm chasers in awe of nature s 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 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. people s lives churned up and spewed out. here s 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 thousands of we have indication that people in shock, taking the there have been 142 human first st
janice dean, we ll check in with you a little bit later. thanks. my first campaign stop will be in iowa, that s where i will tell the people the taout. i m tim pawlenty, i m running for president of the united states. jon: that s tim pawlenty making his race official. he formally enters the race at a town hall meeting in iowa. we are live in des moines. reporter: former minnesota governor tim pawlenty announcing he is indeed a 2012 president candidate for the white house running in the republican caucus and nomination process. he will be expected to emphasize several points which with help him here in iowa. one we is a mid westerner from a
means there s more people aiming at you. greta: is congresswoman bachmann a serious candidate? we saw her run for leadership briefly after the election. she knows going to places like iowa make you part of the political conversation. she is a dynamo of a fundraiser, 13 million in the house race last year. she hasn t been generous with that to really say that she would have a leadership role in the house, hasn t happened. she is a great message person she hasn t taken that into leadership. she would need to flush out some of those credentials. greta: doesn t it help to be outside the beltway. if she doesn t play well with others in the house isn t that everyone is always running as an outsider. at least for iowa, it is home for her. she is a mid westerner.