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many ran to seek safer ground, but boy, the devastation is coming to light today. >> that's right. 12 hours later life has changed in joplin, missouri. a powerful tornado ripped that city apart. the red cross said 75% of the town is virtually gone with reports of at least 30 people killed and dozens more injured. 50,000 people live in the city. no phone service, power lines are down, cars and trucks smashed and flipped. the governor calling out the national guard and declaring a state of emergency this morning. >> to make matters worse the city's main hospital st. john's medical cent...

We saw tanks being fired. we also saw artillery fire that hit the port area, also hit some residential areas, as well. it is a really bloody battle. the humanitarian situation, of course, on the heels of that is a devastating one. we went to one of the only functioning hospitals in misurata. and it's clear that the doctors there are absolutely overwhelmed by the situation. and one of the things they told us is that normally when someone would get a gunshot wound or something, you could treat the wound. now they say they simply don't have the time because they have so many casualties coming in ...

More of misurata than the pro-gadhafi forces are, although of course the pro-gadhafi forces have much more sophisticated and heavy weaponry. we saw tanks being fired. we also saw artillery fire that hit the port area, also hit some residential areas, as well. it is a really bloody battle. the humanitarian situation, of course, on the heels of that is a devastating one. we went to one of the only functioning hospitals in misurata. and it's clear that the doctors there are absolutely overwhelmed by the situation. and one of the things they told us is that normally when someone would get a gunsho...

Man actually got off lightly he survived a booby trap left behind by retreating i asked troops german trauma surgeon michelle vilks treats the wounded he set up an operating room in a kitchen in an apartment building close to the front. yard with. no incidents of this was clearly caused by an exploding mines the man was hit by many small pieces of shrapnel in the lower body and has several larger ones on his shoulder and head but if you consider that he set off on mine and he's actually doing well. after receiving first aid the wounded man is evacuated the trip to the nearest medical facility ...

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