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Being pulled by their pickup trucks to try to get in. they finally made it in too to help with the rescues. and then you had the air operations here. we had the u.s. customs and border protection, which had their three helicopters up flying doing rescues. you had the coast guard here. you had the texas air national guard here. and so it was a bevy of active i as we were flying over looking down, there were some people, quite frankly, who were so infirm that it was too much to put them on the basket and bring them up into the chopper. they decided to get those boats that were coming in. again, ...

Police, fire, all doing rescues and search and rescues all day long. so it still continues. 30% of the town has been destroyed. it's hard to get your head around something like, that mika. >> willie? >> yeah. al, it's willie. the pictures there, it's hard to wrap your mind around. can you talk from a meteorologist standpoint about what kind of warning -- i heard you talk about this yesterday -- people in joplin may have had because it sounds like even if they had known, there wouldn't have been enough time to get out of the way of this thing. >> it depends where you were. sirens went off that....