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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...

That resulted. it included a shootout with police. turns out this guy, cody nathaniel wilcoxson, has been on the wrong side of the law at least once before. harris has information. >> reporter: just to tease it, he's known as a jailbreak artist, but this is just happening. the post commander at fort leonard wood now is speaking about the fact that this guy ended up on a base x what that command -- and what that commander is saying is he does not believe wilcoxson was targeting the military installation now. he says somehow this guy got lost amid some construction on interstate 44 which is near...

On the radar there are severe storms, very strong storms in northwest arkansas around the fayetteville area and going through southern missouri. st. louis is up at interstate 44. they're going to expect showers today. so the weather is better for the cleanup there. the big problem weatherwise today is flash flooding. we have horrible amounts of rain that have fallen overnight, and that continues. we have flash flood warnings through the ozarks and southern missouri and right through central kentucky. we have flood warnings along the mississippi and ohio river. all this additional water will fl...

That were pulled out after the initial six or if one of the initial six has perished. because at first reports were that there were a total of eight people who were in this vehicle, that brought on by the witnesses who apparently called for help to the scene, people who were driving by on this overpass on interstate 44 westbound near miama, oklahoma, a very tragic scene today. jenna: definitely one of the bigger stories, all this weather across the country causing dangerous situations. we'll continue to follow that situation in oklahoma. we certainly have other news to get to as well. jon: we ...

Off a snow-covered highway, plunged into an icy river. eight people were in the truck. it happened off interstate 44. in texas, power demand so high from frigid temperatures that customers are still facing the threat of rotating or rolling blackouts. some incredible video out of massachusetts where all of that snow caused a building, look at that, to collapse. news crews were able to capture images in easto in where a month's worth of snowfall to much for the building to handle. no one was hurt. on to chicago, another city, still recovering from the winter mess. that is where we find nbc's kev...