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The folks say they are ready to start the rebuilding process. they will not let this knock them down for good. thats the latest from here, back to you. smithville, mississippi, and this really is a neck-turning day, a neck-snapping day of contrasts. from the devastation of mississippi now to the partying in london, where more than 800,000 well wishers packed the streets, celebrating prince williams wedding to kate middleton. nearly two and a half billion others watched the ceremonies on televi...

He took -- got into his truck with two employees, they were able to drive away from that storm. so recapping here in smithville, the latest death toll 13. folks say they are ready to start the rebuilding process. >> nbcs ron mott in smithville, mississippi. thank you. residents in ringgold, georgia, are dealing with a 13-mile swath of their town decimated by a rare ef-4 tornado. the weather channels chris warren in ringgold is there. chris? >> reporter: martin, just looking around here, you ca...

This isnt something you can throw a tarp over the roof, get a new roof next week and things will be better. this is going to be a long rebuilding process for the folks here. challenging emotional time for them. i dont think you can discount the challenging effects of the emotional toll that it takes on folks, too. i mean this is just a devastating scene that were looking at. >> as scott was saying, if you feel the urge to, they call gawk and drive along and -- please do not. were doing our best ...

The fight over the last couple of months over the collective bargaining law script the rights of union workers there in wisconsin. this election is getting nationwide attention. yep. the supreme court justice is a conservative. liberals trying to knock him out. two party activists trying to keep him in. independent groups spent $2.5 million just on ads alone in the last two weeks on this election. >> insane. paul steinhauser, many thanks. youll be on our next political update in one hour. remind...

Are helping in one last effort to look for survivors. lee cowen is in tokyo with more on that story. good morning. >> reporter: yeah, this is a massi massive search effort. some 18,000 personnel involved, about 100 helicopters, 60 ships. actually more people involved in this search than people still missing, but what theyre trying to do is get to some of the coastal areas they havent been able to get to so far. obviously, most of these missing people they think at this point, most of them they t...

The body of 24-year-old english teacher taylor anderson has been recovered. she was found in a city about 240 miles north of tokyo. rob and peggy? >> all right, akiko, appreciate that. do we have a sense yet how the clean-up is progressing, the magnitude of which has to be astounding, to say the very least? >> reporter: we are starting to see clean-up efforts pick up. cranes are being brought into the hardest hit areas. youll see images in a town that used to be home to 20,000. most have been ev...

And stocks immediately slid. why didnt japans stock market close? >> for japan, carol, you know, its a matter of necessity. and sure, financial markets do close. we saw that after 9/11, the nyse closed here. but you have to remember, wall street is right around the corner from where the trade center was. the markets couldnt function in that case. but in this case, tokyo is still functioning, its the financial center of japan. and the country needs access to liquidity to start the rebuilding proc...

Than anything anyone had ever expected so i think its fair to say that it will be years before these regions that are most affected and before japan is able to really move on completely from whats happened in the last few days. >> having said that, though, it seems to me that there is almost this sense that it is a national duty for the country to maybe not return to normal but normalcy. >> yeah, its been extremely impressive to see people returning to their homes so quickly already starting the...

Ahead and start the rebuilding process. >> and just a little bit about the japanese culture, how much does the pride -- pride factor into the decision to keep the exchange open? >> and youre right about that, carol, pride definitely factors in. you think about it. stock exchanges in any country. theyre a beacon, sign of capitalism and power. and analysts are saying that japan at this point doesnt want to look weak financially. it wants to show it can move on quickly from something so devastating...

Natural gas is rising, thats why they will also -- the price of coal will also be rising. we already see that. so that will have an immediate effect on the global economy. oil is falling because at the same time japanese is a courtroom of oil and they will be consuming less over the next weeks and months. >> if you were to look for guidance as to the impact of cost on everything from natural gas to coal and oil because of the pictures and the realities of whats going on with this nuclear plant, ...