barely getting out alive. >> i've never taken any of the warnings seriously, but something snapped and i put pillows and blankets in the bathroom. we were just praying and screaming. and it was very loud, and it all happened so fast. >> terrifying moments that changed their lives forever. >> it's indescribable. i don't know what to say other than that. i've never seen anything like it. >> what happens now? >> we're going to stay there until every home is repaired, until every neighborhood is rebuilt, until every business is back on its feet. >> and were more storms threatening tonight, is the city safe? >> if you were hear and a tornado comes through, there's no place to go. no place to hide now. >> i'll ask the world's leading tornado expert how you can protect yourself. this is "piers morgan tonight." we begin tonight with the latest breaking news. a tornado emergency near oklahoma city, the national weather service warns anyone in the area to take precautions immediately. calling the situation extremely dangerous and life threatening. this extraordinary video shows you just how dangerous. take a look at this truck. you see a twister coming towards it and then literally demolishing it. that's the power of what is going on right now in oklahoma. there's also a new warning in joplin, missouri of possibly another tornado there, and i want to bring in storm chaser jeff petrusky, he's on the phone in oklahoma. what is the latest from where you are in oklahoma? >> piers, we've had an incredible tornado outbreak and we have massive damage in so many locals. let's start, this afternoon, shortly after 3:00, we had severe storms that produced significant damage. northwest of oklahoma, we had tornadoes cross i-40 northwest of oklahoma city. we had major damage in the piedmont area with confirmed fatalities. back southwest of there, a mile-wide tornado on i-40. and then just missing the heart of the city, up towards guthrie. another tornado track in the southwest suburbs of oklahoma city. also tornadoes tracked on the east sides of norman, up near i-40 near shawnee. and we just filmed a couple more tornadoes east of shawnee and east of oklahoma city. now we're tracking tornadoes back towards tulsa, where i live, tornado warnings are in effect in tulsa. we just had a tornado on the ground literally about five miles to the northeast. i'm on i-40, tracking between tulsa and ft. smith and that's where the tornadoes are tracking at this time, as well as -- >> and jeff, jeff, if i may, just -- jeff, if i may just interrupt you there. i understand that you personally were helping with the rescue operation and pulling people out of debris and stuff. is that right? >> today, not in that situation, but in joplin on sunday, yes. i stopped to help with the tornado damage there in joplin and recover people out of rubble and finding people, both alive and that had perished. >> and obviously, the death toll in -- yeah. i mean, the death toll in joplin has now risen officially to 124. they're expecting that to rise again. the figures from oklahoma at the moment, four confirmed dead, another four believed to be dead. and again serious concerns that figure will rise. jeff, in your experience, you've been chasing these storms for a long time. how bad is this situation that's now enveloping this region? >> it's bad today. the good news so far, on most accounts i've heard is the really large destructive tornado stayed just outside of the heavy metropolitan areas, the oklahoma city areas where you have high concentration of people, that we do have a lot of homes destroyed west of oklahoma city in the rural areas. if there's any good news about today, that's what i've heard so far. with my limited knowledge of all the damage strikes. but we did have major tornadoes in the state of oklahoma. some of them probably going to be on the high end, stronger than ef-3, and several tracks that we did have, large damage -- very damaging tornadoes, is they're very large. i filmed a mile-wide tornado coming across i-40 west of oklahoma city about 30 miles, and luckily that stayed just west of oklahoma city and stayed out of the heart of the city, which is very, very fortunate today. >> well, jeff, i mean, stay safe down there. i know you're doing a very dangerous job, a very valuable job, you get great research information from this storm chasing. we'll come back to you throughout the hour if and when you have any news for us. i'm going to go now to sam champion, who's been monitoring what's happening in joplin. there's a new warning of a potential second tornado that may well hit joplin. sam, what's the latest? >> reporter: good evening, piers. the tension in joplin is just incredible, because we are all watching this line of storms develop from dallas-ft. worth, all the way through oklahoma city. tulsa's involved in this as well, as you guys were just report, well up into witchta, kansas. these are big-time powerful thunderstorms. all the ingredients are right. the national weather service issued that pds, particularly dangerous situation. it's not something they do frequently. so when that happened just west of here, everyone here perked up and was ready. as you can see around me, we still have so much debris around the area, and the knowledge that even if these storms weaken a little bit, as they move from oklahoma into missouri, which isn't that likely, we'll have straight line winds of probably 30 and 40 miles per hour, at the very least with these storms. this debris will be airborne and flying everywhere. a lot of the, kind of the idea of searching for people today, people were just out everywhere. because yesterday's storms tapers tapered them off. we know tonight we'll have more storms, and we think that will continue into midday tomorrow. and that will shut down the rescue and recovery operation as well. everyone's watching these storms very carefully to see exactly what happened. my expectation is that tonight, we will see very powerful thunderstorms through this area, lasting up throughout the midnight hour and well into 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning, with at least those straight-line winds and the sincere possibility that some of these tornadoes, they have been long running, up to 60-mile-per-hour -- i mean, 60 miles on the ground tornadoes can actually make it through this region. and that's not -- it's just not something we want to hear here. >> sam, thank you very much for that. obviously a desperate situation for the people of joplin, as if they haven't suffered enough, now facing more horrendous storms tonight. as hundreds of people in joplin are searching for loved one. michelle's 16-year-old son has been missing since it hit on sunday. michelle joins me now. your son, lance, has been missing. do you have any clue as to where he may be? >> we really don't. we are starting to finally get some sort of leads, but they seem to be coming to dead ends, just as quickly as we get them. of course, it's always better than getting no leads at all. we have, today, there is a possibility that there was a body found very close to where my car was located, but we have no confirmation of that whatsoever either. >> it's an appallingly worrying time for you and our hearts go out to you and your family. i understand the car was last seen near a set of railroad tracks. what do you think may have happened? >> i mean, we know for sure that they pulled into that grocery store parking lot, because they couldn't see where they were going. there is a friend with him that is a survivor from the accident, and he's been able to remember little bits of information. they pulled in there and the front window blew out and the friend, jonathan, jumped into the backseat. the back window blew out. at this point, he doesn't remember whether lantz was trying to get out of the car, moved, ducked, did any sort -- all he can remember is the back window blew out, that's the last thing he remembered, and he woke up in a van on the way to the hospital, someone picked him up. that's our last word, that they were in the car when the tornado hit. >> i know you've been calling hospitals all day. in terms of lantz himself, i want to read out some details, specifically about him, if anyone's got any information that could help you find him. lantz is 16 years old, 6 feet tall, 190 pounds, sandy brown hair, long in the front, hangs over his eyes, he may have facial lacerations and some sort of head trauma. he was last seen in front of a dillon's on 32nd street -- >> excuse me, on 20th street. 20th and wisconsin is the corner where the car was -- >> 20th street. >> 20th street, one of the hardest hit areas. >> and lantz's friend is jonathan taylor, and his last memory is that he may be still alive, he thinks? >> no -- well, really his last memory was just of the windows breaking and that's it. he doesn't remember anything until he woke up in someone, some grateful stranger transporting him to the hospital. i was able -- i did go to the hospital that night and physically saw him. of course, at that time, he didn't remember anything. all he asked -- he lives with us, and all he could ask me was, mama, can i come home, and i said, you can't, and then they wheeled him back into e.r. i spoke with his grandpa, and that's how we've gotten some of the information to know at least -- because at first we didn't even know where they were driving. we knew they had left 28th and wisconsin and were possibly heading to my house, which is west of there. so to at least know where they were was how, obviously, the car was -- actually, some of his friends, his grateful friends that staid out all night found the car before we even got the news that we knew where they were. so they literally walked streets, looking for this car. day and night. so we're grateful for that, because at least it gave us a focal point to start some sort of search, you know? before that, we just didn't have any -- you know, we were randomly walking around in three, four, five-square-mile blocks -- or you know, distances. so at least that gave us a start. >> well, michelle, i can only just, you know, offer our prayers and hope that you find lantzs and we'll give the information out again. and if anyone's got any information, just make contact with the authorities so we can put your mind at rest. obviously, it's just complete chaos there and this worry tonight of a second tornado coming in, it just, you know, not quite sure what to make of that until we see it, but hopefully it doesn't disrupt your attempts to find your son and i wish you all the very best with it. >> well, thank you, thank you very much. we appreciate you. >> good luck, michelle. >> i now want to bring in a man with a very emotional survival story. for one terrifying moment, he thought he'd last his family. mr. jones, an extraordinary story, tell me about what happened? >> we were at the high school graduation that was actually being held at the university on the other side of the city. the exercises had ended and we started home, my wife and i. my two daughters were, they were behind us, because they were staying a little bit longer in a separate vehicle. and on the way home, we were headed west and it just got uglier and uglier. and we turned, getting very close to home and we saw the swirling and knew immediately what was going on. we couldn't hear anything, so i did a quick u-turn, went -- tried to find a good structural building, as close as i could, heavy cement building and i pulled the car up on the north side, the northeast side, tried to get out, but couldn't -- the pressure wouldn't allow us. and we just sat there in the car and rocked and rumbled and rolled and we were just trying to text or call or girls and the calls wouldn't go through. my last text message to them was, "tornado!" and i was worried they were driving right into it. so we couldn't hear, we couldn't get through for the next -- for the next hour and a half, we thought we lost them. we didn't know. finally, i got a text that came through from my oldest daughter, said, "we're okay." i texted back, it says, "so are we. where are you? can't go home. it's gone" eventuagone." eventually, we stopped right there, my wife and i, had a good cry. finally, we linked up with them a few hours later and got their story. they were in a car and got the text of "tornado!" they got out, tried to go into a convenience store somewhere, it was locked, couldn't get in, they got back in the car, and it took off, without the car -- they just ducked and the thing exploded. they said it was a giant explosion with just shards of glass going everywhere, every window on the car and stuff -- they ducked down and covered themselves as best they could in the front seat. went for a ride the car just looks like it was in a crusher, a battering ram. they eventually -- things settled down. they couldn't get out, some people came, helped them get out of the car. they crawled through the window. my oldest daughter had a lot of glass, some minor cuts and a lot of bruises. youngest daughter, not so many. of course, they had it in their hair and everything else, and then they got some help and walk forwa ed for a while, got a ride, made it to some people's places, and about three hours later, we finally linked up and just couldn't stop hugging them and being grateful for for them and the blessings that they are to us. >> mr. jones, i can see obviously, you're very emotional. i mean, what an extraordinary story that you're telling. and the picture you're painting, every parent's nightmare, this thing is coming, you can't track your daughters. i'm just so glad you managed to find them and they're safe. there are so many heartbreaking stories emerging from joplin from people who aren't that fortunate. although you lost your home, you can build a new home, but you can't replace your children. >> exactly. >> i'm so thrilled for you that you found them. >> thank you very much. you really focus on what's important and the eternal things and the family relationships and you know, i grabbed my daughter to hug her, but it hurt her to hug her, because of her superficial wounds, which was kind of ironic and laugh a little bit about it now, but they're doing well and we're all happy and just feel very blessed and very fortunate. we're much more fortunate and blessed than a lot of people in this community. >> creed jones, thank you so much for joining me tonight. it's been an extraordinarily emotional conversation. my heart goes out to all of you in joplin, and i just hope tonight with this new tornado warning, that there isn't yet more devastation wrought on your town. you just don't deserve this. thank you very much. >> thank you. we'll be watching through all the breaking news on those twisters in joplin, missouri, and in oklahoma and we'll bring you the latest news when it happens. and when we come back, a report on what's already been lost already in joplin, missouri. thing under the gas cap, thing... do you even have a name? 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is it completely gone? >> it's gone. it's gone. it's -- there's -- it's just rubble. there's nothing there. our cars are gone, the house is gone, and our whole neighborhood is just gone. the school at the end of our neighborhood is gone. the kids were walking up and down after the tornado crying, asking how they were going to go back to school to see their friends before summer. there's just -- there's nothing. it's just devastation everywhere. you can't even tell where the houses were. it's just piles of wood and mangled metal. there's nothing there. >> tarah, i'm so sorry to you for your dreadful loss and to all the people of joplin. it's -- you know, the eyes of the world are on you right now and it just seems a total devastation. i've never seen anything quite like this and i really, i just hope you can all start to rebuild your lives some way soon. but we're all thinking of you. >> thank you. >> thank you, tarah. president obama is headed for the disaster zone on sunday, but cnn's t.j. holmes is there for us tonight. it's a part of the country he knows very well. he used to work there. t.j., you were very emotional last night when you saw the devastation. you've been back now to where you used to work and i know it's obviously bringing back horrible memories for you now, to see this place that you loved