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many ran to seek safer ground, but boy, the devastation is coming to light today. >> thats right. 12 hours later life has changed in joplin, missouri. a powerful tornado ripped that city apart. the red cross said 75% of the town is virtually gone with reports of at least 30 people killed and dozens more injured. 50,000 people live in the city. no phone service, power lines are down, cars and trucks smashed and flipped. the governor calling out the national guard and declaring a state o...

And this information from the white house that president barack obama will have a statement about japan later this afternoon. well try to bring that to you. the u.s. has sent ships and helicopters to japan to help distribute relief supplies. search and rescue teams are also there. among them is virginia task force one. joining me is battalion chief chris shoff from in japan. where have you been able to go? >> weve operated since we arrived near the coast, we operated there for the first two da...

So, you know, we have dispatched task force one, south mississippi task force one from macomb, mississippi. the mayor up there, insisting how the national guard and any other officials that are coming from around the state to help. >> and as you assess, as you begin to get help out there, this is the problem and you dont have any infrastructure there. this is when the red cross comes in, if people displaced by, they dont have homes to go to. some of the emergency medical shelters that you guys h...

Hitting in. >> right now, we have my swift water team. county swift water team is a type two team which is two zodiac boats. they are preparing with the equipment to go out. we have a federal response which is missouri task force one. they will be in leeland south of wilmington. the chief will host those people. i believe 45 people and three tractor-trailers. a lot of federal response. we are really appreciative of that. we are preparing, but there will come a time where we will not be able to r...