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He's the mayor of chicaasha. how are you doing? >> we are about 30 hours into our recovery stage. and i toured the damage path this morning. this is a very tight knit community and people are helping each other. but i think we are making progress. shannon: you hear people talking about how neighbors are flooding in to help. there is a real sense of people helping each other pick up the pieces. >> that's what oklahoma is all what. immediately the churches opened their doors. relief shelters for whoever needed that. and that's a sitting about the people of oklahoma. we are pioneer people, i tell...

178th, mike, going east like north, east of four corners and i see it, but it is wrapped in rain. i can't get close enough to it t is wrapped in rain right now as it is now moving into southwest logan county. but you can see it i can see the left side and the right side t is still a violent tornado, mike no doubt about it but i'm not like 100 yards like earlier. i'm back a couple of miles or so but you canning definitely see where it is. i haven't crossed a damage path because i have been on the south side, trying to get back east and get northeast of it traffic is slowing me me down a little ...

Along range line road, highways 37 and 96 were demolished. st. john's hospital, of course, took a direct hit a long with walgreens, a home depot, several other locations. tell us about this area. what does it look like if you're driving through there? >> really -- you know, when you come up onto it and different points -- parts of it, it's unrecognizable. there are different parts of town that have taken less -- you know, had less of an impact of the damage path. like i say, we pulled into what was a flying j truck stop. you could tell it was a truck stop but there was significant damage there...

Were unable to see that. it was shrouded in rain and the hail core. it was maybe a mile to two miles ahead of us from our software we were using. >> i know it's difficult to see in terms of how widespread the damage is, but what are you hearing in terms of how much of the town is devastated or how many miles this thing may have traveled? at least from what i'm hearing anywhere from three to five miles long damage path. nearer the hospital, complete devastation. there's several homes that were there and businesses, strip malls, that kind of thing, unrecognizable at this point. and basically wha...

>> okay. hey, steve, will you just hold on real quickly? ? we appreciate you helping us out here. i want to bring in ray foreman, a meteorologist at kode in joplin, missouri. again, a meteorologist there. hey, ray, thanks for joining us. don lemon here, jacqui jeras our other meteorologist a long with chad myers. bring us up to date on the situation where you are. >> well, this was actually a devastating tornado. it seemed as though most of the path, the damage path, goes right through the heart of joplin. in fact, the hospital here at st. john's hospital, one of the two we have, appears to ha...