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>> a lot of people need a lot of help. >>reporter: so many people lost everything. now trying to figure out what is next. >> i don't know what i'm going to do. i'm going to salvage what i can. >> massive tornado. massive destruction. >>reporter: ef 4 tornado was huge. powerful. ferocious. people hults in the dark waiting for the terror to end. that's the scene described by some caught in the emergency room at st. john's hospital the top 2 floor ripped off. window shattered. >> no light. we have very little flashlight. they were screaming and looking for the loved ones. >>reporter: re...

tornado warnlgs go off. 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...

line of storms that swept across the midwest. it spun off twisters from oklahoma to wisconsin. today the same system threatens the deep south and the mississippi and ohio valleys. the storm destroyed whole neighborhoods in joplin, knocking out power and phone service. the search for victims continues throughout the night. a state of emergency is in effect. the national guard has been activated. and fema officials are working with state and local agencies. joel brown has been tracking the storms overnight from washington. >> terrell, good morning. damage is just so overwhelming that p...