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Support the various organizations that are busy providing food and shelter for the hundreds of people who have been displaced by the tornado. >> dan lothian in joplin. thank you, dan. last sunday's twister left a pile of mangled debris said to be five or six miles long, but casey anthony checked it out for himself to find out it was twice that length. >> reporter: show us the initial damage from the tornado. >> initially the little trees started through there and then it went over here, that's the trailer, the working trailer. >> so this is ground zero of the joplin tornado. we are going to dr...

That's the trailer, working trailer. >> so this is ground zero of the joplin, tornado, and we are going to drive its entire length from west to east to get a good picture of just how widespread the damage was. here's the first downed power lines. major electrical transmission lines. one reason much of joplin is without electrical power. so less than a mile into our journey, you see the first homes that have lost part of their roofs. you can see over on this house a sign warning looters will be shot. you can see some of the power company crews were working on repairing these downed electrical l...

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...

rooftops. people were marched to demand the release of political prisoners and the bullets rained down. and sarah palin thundering into d.c. today, but is she ready to roll into the presidential race? the best political team on television is weighing in. i'm drew griffin. the news starts now. in the headlines tonight president obama went to joplin, missouri, today. it was his first chance to see the unimaginable damage caused by last sunday's ef-5 tornado. he spoke at a memorial service for the 142 known victims. a live look at the president's visit just ahead. and sarah palin dr...

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