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>> i actually talked to him the night before the tornado and his little brother called me and said that he was trying to get home in it and that severe hail had hit his car and nobody had heard from him and that was roughly about right ten minutes after the tornado went through joplin. and i actually live in tulsa, and i was in my car on the way to joplin as soon as i got that from my youngest son. >> well, i hear that he was in the car with somebody else who has survive. is there any ...

All right. breaking news out of missouri. a tornado has gone through and really ripped up the place, and st. johns hospital at the center of this. joining us now is bethany scutti, our ireporter. bethany, sum it up real quickly for us right now, what youre seeing. >> i see st. johns hospital. they are breaking down the triage center. they are taking the patients to other facilities. they are loading up whatever supplies they can to help out and give them to the patients in need. >> mm-hmm. and y...

>> jacqui jeras, do you have questions for bethany? how much of that hospital saw the damage? are there rooms exposed? i heard of chunks of the building that have been removed from the tornado. what is the building like? is it still stable? >> i would say it is not stable. it is hard to see to lower floors. the floors here are absolutely devastated. theres debris hang outside of the windows. part of the roof or the whole top of this is missing. im standing behind the hospital, and cinder block w...

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Kansas.com. shes on the phone. roll the video and then well talk to her. >> kind of scared. >> jaime green, its dark. you see the skies lighting up. was this before or after? did it become -- was it dark when it happened and then it got lighter, or did you take this after the initial pictures? >> i took this way before i shot any of the devastation. this was i believe when the tornado was about to happen. and then my friend was like behind me in another car, and shes from kansas and she says tha...

Down over her daughter and out in the elements but up against a wall, up against an office building. our only other option would have been to throw a bench through the glass window which we actually shot of. we decided not to, so that was, again, video taken a minute or two from before the tornado. >> lets get the picture back up. one that strikes me. the hospital one. another one with people. this one is going to personify at least in part the storm when you look at this. obviously you can see ...

Likely that theres an ef3 or other tornado which we would call a major tornado, moved through a very large scale area. search and rescue continues to go on at this hour. reports of people trapped in their homes and reports of people trapped in their vehicles as well, so this is going to be ongoing tonight. now that the sun is down, its going to be hard to find these people. communication is very spotty. power is out through many, many parts of the city here. and there are so many people injured....

Personal pricing now on brakes. tell us what you want to pay. we do our best to make that work. deal! my money. my choice. my meineke. joplin, missouri, hit by a devastating tornado tonight. it just tore through the place. a big part of the city damaged. homes are gone. there are reports as many as 24, if not more people who have died from the storm. i want to get to jamie green now who shot these amazing pictures and what may be one of the pictures that define this whole store. its of the hos...

Tell us what you want to pay. we do our best to make that work. deal! my money. my choice. my meineke. all right. joplin, missouri hit by a devastating tornado tonight. it just tore through the place. a big part of the city damaged. homes are gone. there are reports as many as 24, if not more people who have died from the storm. i want to get to jaime green now who shot these amazing pictures and what may be one of the pictures that defines this whole storm. it is of the hospital, st. johns ho...

Personnel in the area who are coming to the area to help out. of course, they want you to be safe. bethany, chad myers, after this break, im also hearing from people saying i want some analysis from chad and jacqui about whats going on and whats causing all these crazy and devastating storms to come through and cause so much damage. back here in a moment with breaking news here on cnn. the pictures are incredible. the stories are even more incredible of survival and of just living through this t...