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Finding faith and hope at a red cross shelter. >> reporter: blown away. a town, a community torn apart. he lost his hospital, his home and nearly his father. >> i was just calling him out. i was yelling his name. dad, dad, are you there? >> reporter: he nearly lost his life. >> i thought i was going to die, truthfully. >> reporter: like so many trying to pick up the pieces of their lives in joplin, missouri, dr. zaidi and john ness have been ravaged by this disaster. but they have both found faith and purpose at this makeshift red cross center on a campus of missouri southern university. >> we...

>> reporter: like so many trying to pick up the pieces of their lives in joplin, missouri, dr. zaidi and john ness have been ravaged by this disaster. but they have both found faith and purpose at this makeshift red cross center on a campus of missouri southern university. >> we have been sleeping in the dormitory in there. >> reporter: ness is lucky to be sleeping anywhere today. when the tornado devastated this town he was literally sucked through the wall of his home. >> the wall of the house, i went through it and out to the backyard. the trees were falling, fell, smashed everything in the...

>> reporter: like so many trying to pick up the pieces of their lives in joplin, missouri, dr. zaidi and john ness have been ravaged by this disaster. but they have both found faith and purpose at this makeshift red cross center on a campus of missouri southern university. >> we have been sleeping in the dormitory in there. >> reporter: ness is lucky to be sleeping anywhere today. when the tornado devastated this town he was literally sucked through the wall of his home. >> the wall of the house, i went through it and out to the backyard. the trees were falling, fell, smashed everything in the...

I have so many memories of working with the other doctors and the nurses and this is home. i mean, st. john's is more than a building. it's a spirit. we are asking what so many people in the midwest are asking. why? why are there so many powerful and deadly tornado this is year and how can you tell the strength of a tornado by looking at the damage? we'll have the science behind these killer tornadoes next. so this is enzo, the artiste behind my wardrobe. you know, when i got him on e-trade he was all like "oh no, i cannot do investing." that's actually a perfect enzo. but after a couple edu...

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...