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>> reporter: battle hardened storm chasers in awe of nature's power. >> oh, my gosh. this is awful. dude, the trees. the trees are debarked! >> reporter: residents running for cover anywhere they could. >> in a crowded convenience store some 20 people hunkering down in a darkened commercial refrigerator. >> can we go in the cooler? [ screaming ] >> go! >> oh, dear heaven. >> god! >> reporter: at the same time a security camera in a nearby frozen yogurt shop catches the chaos. workers moving customers to the back and then everything goes flying. the massive tornado mowing down everyth...

Tornado, get out of the way, get out of the way, maybe the immediacy would have been more. people would have been out of their cars. they would have been in buildings. a lot of people died in cars. you saw what happened to those cars. those cars were destroyed. it was a giant tornado. sometimes there is just nothing you can do about it. there's not a question. that's joplin, that little word right there. this is a hook echo, a monster cell. but it wasn't a tornado on the ground until it got right there. when the tornado got on the ground it ripped through joplin, missouri, got bigger and bigge...

This is a hook echo, a monster cell. but it wasn't a tornado on the ground until it got right there. when the tornado got on the ground it ripped through joplin, missouri, got bigger and bigger. at some point in time at 200 miles per hour, even if you are in your safe spot in your house, if you are not under ground in a storm shelter you can't survive it. >> we have seen so many tough storms this season. is there something about this season or something about the particular storms that we are just unlucky? this one hit joplin, another hit tuscaloosa. >> a few things that are different. we won'...

Tornado, get out of the way, get out of the way, maybe the immediacy would have been more. people would have been out of their cars. ta they would have been in buildings. a lot of people died in cars. you saw what happened to those cars. those cars were destroyed. it was a giant tornado. sometimes there is just nothing you can do about it. there's not a question. that's joplin, that little word right there. this is a hook echo, a monster cell. but it wasn't a tornado on the ground until it got right there. when the tornado got on the ground it ripped through joplin, missouri, got bigger and bi...

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...