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Elections. facebook.com carolcnn. ill read some of your comments later this hour. images, it is really difficult to see of utter destruction. it is not the first time that joplin, missouri has been hit by a tornado. were going to take a closer look at a city that now looks like a war zone. on. bring it -- with bounty. in this lab demo, one sheet of bounty leaves thn as 2 sheets of the bargain . why use more when you can use less? bounty. the one-sheet clean picker-upper. pants pockets... and a...

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You see the hospital took a direct hit. and this is the last thing you need because this is exactly the kind of building that you need to be operating during a disaster where people are going to go for help. windows blown out, they had to evacuate the hospital as fast as they could. and one of the stranger sit -- striench stranger sights that ive seen, by the emergency room door there was a medivac helicopter on the ground that was destroyed. right there by the emergency room. its stunning. >> u...

>> we want to go live to joplin, missouri for the latest on the destruction, the search and rescue efforts, all of that, our cnns brian todd is there. brian, just paint a picture for us, the kind of damage youre seeing and what kind of efforts are being made now to find people alive. >> suzanne, as if the devastation wasnt enough, now rescuers have to deal with very severe weather. thunderstorms have just rolled through here, lightning. you probably still see it flashing in the sky on occasion. ...

Prepare. most of the people that -- the people that you talk to, do they say they didnt have enough time, or -- or didnt have enough warning? >> reporter: well, the people who have been through this before will tell you that thats more time than they usually have. they usually have an average of seven minutes between when the warnings go off and when the tornado comes. they had about 20 minutes, according to one local official this time. so, you know, these are people who know what to do in thes...

Cooler. we all jumped in the cooler. it was pretty zaul so everyone was tight, you know. it was -- everyone was getting kind of crushed. and there was -- it was to store beer so this was broken glass everywhere. most of the people got cut pretty bad. and just -- on their knees and hands. and anywhere that was touching the ground. >> you could hear the destruction. in the end, was that convenience store still standing? >> basically the only thing that was left standing was the cooler that we were...

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but those voices leave no doubt. 20 terrified strangers huddled inside a stores industrial-sized refrigerator. outside a tornado is ripping apart joplin, missouri. and take a listen again -- >> were good. were good. were good. [ screams ] [ wind sounds ] >> jesus. je jesus, jesus. >> i love everyone. i love everyone, man. i love you. >> jesus, jesus, jesus. heavenly father. >> this is joplin this morning. after daylight revealed the devastation, the tornado cut through the center of to...

I turned around and stayed up there as long as i thought i could. >> so many people have tried to describe what were seeing. tuscaloosas mayor called what were seeing utter destruction. and now to a green county, tennessee, where at least six people have been confirmed dead. angela yingling is a reporter with wcyb. >> reporter: this is the camp creek section in northeast tennessee. its a very mountainous part of the state, somewhere where people say they never expected this kind of storm to ha...

Town just north of that area now. and that is what the rescue teams are going to have to contend with and thats where those dogs are going to be used, areas like that because you cant get under that rubble without support dogs and very specialist equipment. utter destruction, more than three kilometers from the ocean front and half of the residents are still missing. you can see theres no one there. cnns paula hancocks was the first reporter there. heres her report. >> reporter: this is the town...