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Turned upsidedown in less than a half hour yesterday. joining me now is kate deshino live from moore, oklahoma. emergency response manager for ameri -- can. a nonprofit disaster relief organization that does important work in more than 90 countries. kate, thanks for being here tonight. >> thank you, reverend. >> what have you seen on the ground there so far? >> as you look around, it's completely heart wrenching. it looks as though cars were crunched like soda cans in your hand. and there's responders and residents that are in the affected areas. and also dispersed around the community who are...

At 90999. that will make an immediate $10 donation. or you can make donations to americare, a great group coming work. an outbreak of severe storms is expected for joplin again and its surrounding areas. here with the latest forecast for the region is bill karins. hey, bill. >> morning, will. and the weather doesn't stop. unfortunately today, we have one of those rare high risk days where we're almost guaranteed it to get tornadoes, even long track tornados. the joplin tornado was only on the ground for six miles. when we talk long track, sometimes you can get these on the grounds for 20 or 30...

Nowhere. and what was this? 300 of these going on at the same time? so there really is no gets out. you look at the aerial shots. this is the one thing i kept telling joey. find a basement. get as low as you can because even with storms like this, you will see aerial shots of apartment complexes where everything's destroyed except the first floor. so in a storm, you get as low as you can. and in the case of -- this complex is on mcfarland boulevard that we're looking at. and here's the big mall in tuscaloosa. some of these stores got absolutely decimated. >> it's not just tuscaloosa. towns acr...

Soon down there at some point, and our thoughts and prayers are with the people across the southeast. you're exactly right. americare is on the ground, the red cross is on the ground, the salvation army is on the ground. and, please, do what you can to help. >> up next we have the must read opinion page and also "time" magazine's mark halperin who says the president's poll numbers for the next few weeks will be fascinating. much more next on "morning joe." losing weight clicked for us when we realized

Humanitarian assistance teams immediately after the disaster, an effort that the japanese are calling operation friendship. joining me now is the president and ceo of americare's kurt welling. americare is one of these organizations with the disaster response team on the ground in japan. kurt, i want to get a sense of the scope of this. you know, you guys have been involved in helping through a lot of these natural disasters. haiti, et cetera. how big is this compared to the others? >> well, the problem here is the magnitude of the destruction. it's spread over a very large area, and what that...