very good about, we spent hours select thing location next to a very strong building, protected by winds on two sides. so we also have a fallback location we can go to immediately if events warrant it. ali velshi is at the waffle house where they're getting word a tornado may have touched down. ali, what are you hearing? >> reporter: we had been at the site in the middle of joplin near where you were. and it had been sort of evacuated, because this electrical storm was moving in. we moved to the last place where we had seen people, which was the waffle house. as we approached a full restaurant, which is where everybody was, emptied out, people started moving into the back of the restaurant because they were getting texts and messages there had been a tornado -- the atmospheric pressure indicated it was likely to happen. an emergency worker then told me he had a confirmation of a tornado nearby, and really