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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 ...

That tornado proper. we know its there. we know its headed to piedmont, oklahoma. if youre anywhere near that area, you need to be in a safe place now. this is a very large tornado on the ground. >> and define a safe place, chad. >> well, in oklahoma, i lived there for 2 1/2 years. there are very few basements. the safest place is inside your home, in between you and as many walls and the outside as you can. think about this. dont be on the very outside edge of your house where there is a window...

relations. are the tensions of recent days any worse? any better? im wolf blitzer and youre in "the situation room." first, breaking news this hour. a large tornado has been spotted on the ground in oklahoma and storm-ravaged missouri is being hit by severe weather and possible in the coming hours, searchers in joplin have been taking advantage of the break in the bad weather for a few hours now. 17 people have been pulled alive from the rubble as of last night. but the death toll is f...

Foundation. we have seen scar after scar of where there was a slab. there used to be a house. now theres nothing left by plumbing pipes ancon crete left. where were the people? those were the people that were killed? >> do you get out of your house and dig for a ditch? >> no. you stay in your home and hope for the best. the best thing to do is to get a safe rooms that you can buy for a few thousand dollars, theyre made of kevlar. you belt them down to the frame or you dig a hole in your yard and...

Aloft, we have had warm air down at the surface, yesterday, that warm air bubbled literally, that joplin storm was the most severe storm of the day. the only one that put down a big tornado and yet it hit a major populated area. had it hit a wheat field, we wouldnt be standing here today, but it didnt hit a wheat field, it hit a city, and that city had hail to the north of it, and all of a sudden the spinning down to 2 bottom of the it and at the bottom part of that cell, called the mesocyclone ...

If youre on the top floor, youre not talking to me today. but if you know your neighbor on the first floor, your just fine. that was a survivable place, down at the bottom of the stairwell and in your neighbors place at the lowest level. if youre in a basement, youre probably fine. but probably 70% of the people yesterday did everything right, they were inside. but the homes literally were shifted off the foundation. there was no place left for you to be safe from joplin, missouri, downtown, rig...

race against the odds tonight, hoping to find survivors in the rubble. and theres this, a forecast warning of more tornadoes and severe weather across the midwest tomorrow and joplin is again in the danger zone. jackqui jeras is in joplin and gives us the very latest on this stunning stunning tornado. >> reporter: people are in search and rescue mode and the best news we have heard today is that seven people have been found alive, so seven survivors in joplin, missouri and that search ...

teams with -- he has to deal with the tornado devastation back here at home. im wolf blitzer and youre in "the situation room." >> its been almost 24 hours since the people of joplin, missouri hid in their homes as the tornado tore through their city. officials say 116 people were killed and many more injured. this makes this storm tied for the second deadliest twister. the toll is expected to climb as one resident puts it. everybodys going to know people who are dead. a massive rescue...

buildings sustaining significant damage. that includes one of the citys main hospitals. the national guard on patrol with a state of emergency in effect. andres cue teams they keep searching today, this afternoon, all through the day for survivors. joplin, missouri, the latest victim of a volatile wave of turbulent springtime weather. brian todd in the thick of it. >> reporter: drew, rescue teams are combing through grid by grid, house by house in this city. the houses that are left ar...

>> hes done some hard reporting in his time, but that just ant takes the biscuit, right? >> funny part is when i was showing you whats in the bacon buddy. its actually quite disgusting. its just a big slab of pork in a bun. >> did you get brown sauce in it? >> its delicious. >> it depends on the time. >> or a sausage sandwich, or whatever. it depends on the time of day. look, i promise you, they will be gagging for a bacon buddy at 5:00 a.m. i promise you that. >> its a preemptive strike against...