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demand the release of political prisoners when the bullets rained down. and sarah palin thundering into d.c.ed to. but is she ready to roll into the race for president? im drew griffin. the news starts now. first tonight, is yemen tipping into civil war? take a look at this. troops and anti-government protesters in the southern city of taiz. tear gas and gunfire. all this increasing fear that turmoil will give al qaeda and other slaul islamic militants breathing room to launch atta...

Support the various organizations that are busy providing food and shelter for the hundreds of people who have been displaced by the tornado. >> dan lothian in joplin. thank you, dan. last sundays twister left a pile of mangled debris said to be five or six miles long, but casey anthony checked it out for himself to find out it was twice that length. >> reporter: show us the initial damage from the tornado. >> initially the little trees started through there and then it went over here, thats the...

Thats the trailer, working trailer. >> so this is ground zero of the joplin, tornado, and we are going to drive its entire length from west to east to get a good picture of just how widespread the damage was. heres the first downed power lines. major electrical transmission lines. one reason much of joplin is without electrical power. so less than a mile into our journey, you see the first homes that have lost part of their roofs. you can see over on this house a sign warning looters will be sho...

rooftops. people were marched to demand the release of political prisoners and the bullets rained down. and sarah palin thundering into d.c. today, but is she ready to roll into the presidential race? the best political team on television is weighing in. im drew griffin. the news starts now. in the headlines tonight president obama went to joplin, missouri, today. it was his first chance to see the unimaginable damage caused by last sundays ef-5 tornado. he spoke at a memorial servic...

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>> that from earlier this evening. at least 142 people died, the number almost certain to go up. another 43 still missing. the service started precise lie at 5:41 p.m. central, the exact moment one week ago the tornado struck. the total destruction almost unfathomable. cnns casey lion toured the length of the tornados path. >> reporter: drew, all week long officials were saying that tornado cut a six mile path of destruction through joplin. it seemed to be a little bit of an undercount. so we de...