our national state database network. we continue to work 24 hours a day to get that done in a professional, effective, efficient manner. governor, the president is coming this afternoon. i know he ll be there from one of the memorials that you ll be having. i am certain he will ask you what you need. what s your top priority? we want to continue to feel the people of this country continuing to reach to us an give those contributions to our various charities. that s been tremendously helpful. we also are going to need their will to rebuild here. we re going to need the assistance from everybody to get this site cleaned off, rebuilt and rebirth. we ve been working with all of the folks. bottom line is the most important thing today is the refocus on our resolve, the calling on a higher power to make sure we all have the strength to go through what s going to be many months of rebuilding here in joplin, missouri. governor, there have been a number of articles out that are surprised,
today, serving those who serve with the vice chief of staff of the army peter kror relly. veterans advocates with tim tats and paul rykofp. chairman of the senate veterans commit patty murray. paying for veterans is a cost of war. and an iraq veteran i ve been told welcome home dozens of times. i met a vietnam vet who had never been told that once. i m candy crowley and this is state of the union. this afternoon president obama visits joplin, missouri, the town devastated by tornadoes. joining us this morning from joplin, governor jay mixon. give us an update, the number of confirmed dead, what s the situation with the morgue and how many do you still have missing? we ve got that unaccounted for number overnight down to 44 now. and throughout the night once again troopers were making that most difficult visit to families in this region notifying them of a loss of their family members. we a we ve still got a significant level of work to do to make sure because