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Calling 1-800-621-fema to start the process of getting assistance. >> for the people who do need it, i'm sure you -- as you're there on the ground, craig, you're looking at things and thinking, where do they start? they need everything. everything is gone from their lives. >> well, you know, right now, the locals with the volunteers and the businesses are really meeting the initial response needs. we're going to support primarily, i think, with housing and people did have insurance for losses. we know we had a lot of people that had tremendous losses, not counting the loss of life to family me...

Rich, if you would, come up and deliver some of that information. >> i do have those written down, i just haven't passed it out. i can go over in the crowd and do it. but i have to get some numbers together. >> i arrived here yesterday and the president was able to declare the two counties involve a disaster area which freed up the ability for people to get individual assistance as well as bring public assistance as needed. this morning what we want people to do when they need help is to call 1-800-621-fema or they can go to www.disasterassistance.gov or m.fema.gov. any of those sites people c...

Alabama, missouri, tennessee, georgia, but right now we're focusing here. we have other teams focusing there as well. >> the missouri governor's office has just announced, so sadly, that the death toll has risen again to 118. do you know how many people are still missing, not accounted for? >> i was talking with the city manager and the fire chief this morning. unfortunately, they didn't have a quite solid number yet because people are still all about. a lot of peep went with their families out of the area. they're really trying to reach people so they haven't published a number yet on the num...

more tornadoes are possible today across the region. right now, the death toll stands at 116. that ties the single deadliest tornado record in u.s. history. so far, rescue crews have pulled 17 survivors from the rubble but time and the weather, now the enemies. precious hours are slipping away as bleak reality set in. t.j. holms in joplin. you went out with one of the rescue teams. what did you see? >> reporter: last night, i couldn't believe what i was seeing, carol. i have been covering tornadoes for a long time. grew up with tornadoes really in the south. i can't figure them out...

written. 116 people are dead with that toll expected to rise. now i want to show you two different perspectives of a tornado. first, through the eyes of a storm chaser and then from the inside, 20 people huddled in a refrigeration unit in a convenience store. >> the tornado is trying to come down right here. the winds are out of the north and it's coming right back around. tornado is here. coming on the ground right here. get sirens going. get the sirens going. i'm telling you. i got debris on the ground over here. i got debris on the ground. it's coming up north. it's debris. tornad...