where we're looking at it. you're there. given other scenes you've had to go and help at, how does this rank? >> well, piers, i can tell you, i just got back from alabama, it seems like yesterday, and it never ceases to amaze me, the destruction is just epic. you know, it really -- words don't describe it and a camera doesn't express it well enough. >> in terms of how you go about starting a rescue operation here, what is the process in somewhere like joplin? obviously, unusually, the twister has hit right in the heart of the town. described to yesterday as like hitting in fifth avenue in new york. i can only imagine what that would do in somewhere like new york. so we can get a sense of the scale of this, what do you do to