Page 46 - Dark Clouds News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

>> reporter: battle hardened storm chasers in awe of nature's power. >> oh, my gosh. this is awful. dude, the trees. the trees are debarked! >> reporter: residents running for cover anywhere they could. >> in a crowded convenience store some 20 people hunkering down in a darkened commercial refrigerator. >> can we go in the cooler? [ screaming ] >> go! >> oh, dear heaven. >> god! >> reporter: at the same time a security camera in a nearby frozen yogurt shop catches the chaos. workers moving customers to the back and then everything goes flying. the massive tornado mowing down everyth...

>> reporter: but in those dark clouds, a monster tornado was headed right for them. at st. john's it was the moment they trained for that they hoped would never come. >> we drill -- well, actually just by virtue of the fact that we're in tornado alley down here, we prepare several times a month. >> reporter: but this was not a drill. >> it was a stormy day. we thought all was going well. >> reporter: angie abner was a nurse in the emergency room. >> of course, no one every thinks it's going to happen. nobody was really taking it serious. >> reporter: but the tornado was churning toward the hos...

I didn't think anything of it. >> reporter: but in those dark clouds, a monster tornado was headed right for them. at st. john's it was the moment they trained for that they hoped would never come. >> we drill -- well, actually just by virtue of the fact that we're in tornado alley down here, we prepare several times a month. >> reporter: but this was not a drill. >> it was a stormy day. we thought all was going well. >> reporter: angie abner was a nurse in the emergency room. >> of course, no one ever thinks it's going to happen. nobody was really taking it serious. >> reporter: but the torna...

Joplin, missouri, the biggest hospital for miles around. >> st. johns is a 230-bed acute care hospital. >> reporter: jim risko has been an e.r. doctor at st. johns for the last 17 years. >> this is a very, very sophisticated hospital in a relatively small townme. >> i was down the road playing horseshoes. >> reporter: andrew mcdaniel came to the hospital to visit his grandmother on may 27. as he arrived, a sound familiar to every mid westerner. >> the sirens started going off. i looked and didn't see much other than dark clouds over there. i didn't think anything of it. >> reporter: but in tho...

what's happening. that's ahead. we will have the latest on this developing story in a few minutes from now. president obama is back at the white house of a spending several hours in joplin, missouri. it was exactly a week ago that an f-5 tornado ripped through the city killing people in minutes. 5:41 central time there was a moment of silence marked by the precise instant that tornado hit. our dan traveled with the president to joplin and dan, a tough job for the president to try to lift spirits of a being amongest the people but seeing this disaster first-hand. >> this is a presid...