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This is a doppler radar indicated potential tornado. everyone in joplin needs to be taking cover in some place substantial, some place out of the weather. i ll be here watching it the rest of the night. and gary tuchman is at a shelter where hundreds of people have sought safety tonight. i m told we just lost gary. there s about i think gary told me before he left, there were about 400 people at a shelter tonight that they have gone to. and chad, one of the things we ve been talking about yesterday is there s there s a lot of areas here that have been destroyed, so people don t have their homes to go to. even those homes, they didn t have basements in those homes. they were just built on concrete slabs. right. and the potential here is that all of that debris, that clearly is out there, will be picked up by the wind, either in a severe thunderstorm, gusts of 50 or 60 miles per hour or picked up in a new tornado. the potential now exists for ....
Anderson. and one of the reasons we picked the location we have, not only is it against a brick building, there s not a lot of debris fields anywhere within sight here. i m told we have gary tuchman on the phone. gary, you re at a shelter. what s happening now that the sirens are going off? reporter: there s more than 400 people, this is the largest shelter in joplin, missouri, and there s a little panic going on right now because police officials and red cross officials just came in the room and said get out, go into the basement, go into the shelter. we don t want anymore body bags. so you have a lot of traumatized people struggling to get out of bed and run down into the basement shelter. we re kind of the last ones going down there. they re insisting we go down with them. these poor people have been traumatized for 48 hours. the shelter is more crowded doonlts than it was last night and now these poor people are running down into the shelter to protect themselves. ....
Came from, near neutral which is back here in kansas. you are here, here s joplin right here. ali is at the waffle house. here s downtown joplin and the circulation is way up here. anderson, you are just fine right there. there s the red and the green together. this is like when you stand at a or sit there at a train crossing and the train goes by you, the whistle sounds different from one way to the other way. the radar is listening for the change in direction of the wind and it found it here as it moved on up toward and even to the west of webb city and joplin proper is absolutely fine right now, even though the warning is still going, you re okay. i only have one other thing to say about that for carl junction. anderson, this is what you re in right now. there s a much bigger cell, although not rotating yet, still ....
Coming up, at least four dead in tornadoes in central oklahoma. i m going to speak with the sheriff coming up next. what s next for the storm system. we ll look at that next. a tornado watch here in joplin. you just heard the sirens. and we re going to talk to a man here who a veteran who has seen a lot. he served in iraq. we ll tell you how he survived the storm. it s an amazing story, holding onto the faucets in his bathroom. we ll talk to a woman who is talking about rebuilding and she s going to tell you how you begin again, how you restart your life. at least how she is going about doing it. all that ahead, stay tuned. ....
Been mobilized or is that something you re considering? we have all kinds of emergency personnel. the national guard is out helping, our highway patrol, our health department, salvation army, red cross, all of our first responders are out across the state. the big challenge for us today, anderson, has been i mean, we ve had a massive outbreak of tornadoes that s gone on now for the last five hours throughout the state. it s pretty unusual. i ve been in office for 20 years. i ve been through a lot of these natural disasters, but i ve never seen this many in a short period of time. i m in the state cap ral area right now. and earlier today, we had three tornado sirens go out where i m located within about an hour and a half, and that s highly unusual. wow. governor, i appreciate you talking to us tonight. i am so sorry for the fatalities in your state and i hope the numbers don t increase. governor, thank you very much. thank you so much. and we ll send our thoughts and prayers t ....