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And destruction and a long, hard road to recovery for the residents of joplin, missouri. congressman billy long of missouri represents that district. he is here, at least part of that district. congressman, first of all, our deepest condolences to your constituents who lost family member he is in joplin. have you ever seen anything like this before in missouri? >> no, not for this devastation at all to this extent. the deputy director of feel mass in town today from d.c. and i asked him and he said maybe some of tuscaloosa could rival with it. other than that he hadn't seen anything like this ...

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Of this storm. >> amazing. all right. congressman, good luck to you, good luck to all the folks in joplin and surrounding areas of missouri. we will stay on top of this story. appreciate it very much. >> you bet. thank you. heartbreaking scenes of destruction. we are going to go back to joplin, missouri, where residents will tell us about the storm that leveled so much of their city. and another republican joins the field of contenders for 2012. we will tell you who's in, who's out, who's next. stand by. president obama gets a very warm embrace from the crowd in dublin as he traces his i...

Four-mile-long path of destruction. at one point it may have been three quarters of a mile wide. cnn's tom foreman is joining wuss a closer look at this monster. share with us some of these images. >> reporter: wolf, tough look at it in the air to get a sense of the size. zoom in the path, stop it, close enough. we measured in here, we got a little more than five miles overall. atlantic overall layout of joplin and look how big this swath is that was cut through it. we will zoom it all the way in now, i will take you to that hospital brian was talking about so much there because that is a good...

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