that is the strongest i ve got. we re coming in one way or the other. why don t you just open the door! but eric jenkins isn t ready to give up. in one last-ditch effort to get away, he jumps out of a fourth story window. he hits the ground, shattering his ankle. get up! ultimately, jenkins pleads guilty to stealing our bike and serves time in prison. according to kryptonite, a leading lock manufacturer, new york city is the worst for bike thefts. we lock our bike to a tree using a standard cable lock. in less than 15 minutes it catches the eye of a bike messenger later identified as joseph cruz. he circles once to check the lock. ten minutes later, he s back on foot and brazenly pulls out a pair of bolt cutters from his messenger bag. in a matter of seconds, the lock is cut, bolt cutters back in the bag and he s off.
we had 4 or 500 first responders from about 100-mile radius this morning, first thing to get out and start a search and rescue. every once in a while, you will hear a siren and we kind of have a hopeful look in our eye when we hear that we hope they got a report of a survivor they are going after to get. you are standing in front of that hospital devastated, virtually destroyed, i m sure you have been there over the years on many occasions. did the folks man arrange the patients, the doctors, the nurses, did they manage to find safety there or unfortunately, some of them die? i don t know. there were several death notis e hospital, i don t know who they were. there was a nurse that reported that one gentleman was pulled out the sixth story window and just it was kind of like the movie twister, i guess, where the devastation is beyond description. we saw a car today wrapped around a tree and we could not tell if it was a van, a pickup, a car, completely bent around the tree. it
teams with he has to deal with the tornado devastation back here at home. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. it s 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. everybody s going to know people who are dead. a massive rescue operations under way that has been hampered by more bad weather. many pipes are damaged. despite the obstacles of success today, the governor says that there were seven rescues. in some cases, entire families were pulled from the rubble alive. at least 2,000 buildings are damaged, including one of the city s two hospitals. brian todd is joining us from outside of that hospital. he s joining us live now. brian? reporter: wolf, as you can see, we re getting another thunderstorm. they have bee
harris: breaking now, a manhunt for two inmates who escaped from a st. louis jail. patti ann brown following it all. reporter: police are frantically searching for those two men who escaped from the st. louis city justice center in town town st. louis just this morning. the suspects reportedly escape t from a medical center inside the jail. police say it appears they tied sheets or t-shirts together and scaled down the side of the building from a broken third story window. a sheet was also found draped over the top of a light that would have lit that window. witnesses who were inside the justice center this morning told reporters they heard a lot of commotion, and then officials locked down the entire building. the suspects are described as black males, one is vernon collins, 34 years old, 6-1, 170 pounds. he was being held for assault on a law enforcement officer, armed criminal action among other things. the second suspect is david white, 33 years old, 6-2, 180
police say a 26-year-old man tried killing himself sunday by jumping out of a ninth story window. but guess what? he landed on this pile of garbage that had been sitting through in the street for a week. the trash cushioned his fall. the man was taken to bellevue hospital. he s in critical but stable condition today. next, dollar general will add 6,000 new jobs this year. the retail giant also announcing plans to open 600 new stores in just two years. the company will have added more than 15,000 jobs, including brand new positions. next? count on your iphone for that alarm in the morning. you might want to consider a backup plan, folks. for the third day in a row, you re thinking, yep, this happened to me today. iphone users are reporting their alarms failed to sound. apple said the problem would have been ficked by today. wasn t. the third time since september the alarm clock app has had some sort of problem. next