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critical condition. the confirmed death toll in sunday's disaster now stands at 118. but authorities say more than ten times that many still are unaccounted for. >> joplin's head of emergency management says people scattered and simply can't get home or maybe no longer have homes and haven't yet called in. but then there's will norton, blown out of his hummer on his way home from high school graduation. his family thinks -- thinks he's in a hospital somewhere. and sky lar logs don, a 1-year-old. his great uncle spoke to cnn this morning. >> the night of the tornado that evening. and ...

Northeast and across the coastal areas of the state of virginia and that's going to sit there keeping things dry across areas further south along the mississippi river, like new orleans, also in the state of arkansas and mississippi and further west, the next system we have to watch could head eastbound next weekend and bring rain to the areas and it's going to be a slow mover and right now bringing rain to the west and higher elevations, and again, slow movers, at least for the next four days, the rain will be holding off out heren slow mover in the northeast and we could be looking at floodi...

The water has to go somewhere and it goes downstream and that is why the flood warnings are issued across areas along the mississippi river and all of the excess water that fell along the ohio river has to flow downstream into the mississippi river and that has been causing flooding and we saw the river crest in memphis, tennessee, earlier this week, may 10th and now the flood crest, still flowing downstream, we expect it to reach vicksburg, mississippi, coming up on the 16th, and -- in natchez, coming up the 19th of may and we are looking at major flooding out there and the morganza spill way...

Any time an evacuation is issued you need to take this seriously and do so. right now we have a number of flood warnings along the mississippi river, from southern parts of illinois still where that flood crest is way south across eastern parts of arkansas. illinois still dealing with flooding even though the crest is way south. areas that are going to get hit hard over the next week is vicksburg, mississippi anna , mississippi, natchez has already broken a record even though they are not going to see that river crest until may 21st, they already broke that record of 58 teeth in 1937. right no...

Natchez, one of the hardest hit areas, will not crest until the 21st of may and we have already broken the record for the flood crest there. and, the record was 58 feet last -- in 1937 and we are past that and, expected to crest about 4 to 5 feet above that record, as we head into the 21st of may and we have a while to go and we have a storm we are tracking currently, exiting the intermountain west and will produce severe weather along the center of the nation and the same storm is going to crease eastward and will bring severe weather to the mississippi river, and, memphis, tennessee, and for...