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And right now we just have to start from scratch. you can help them start from scratch. here is how. log on to cnn.com/impact and check out our special page. it has all the tools you need to make a difference for those people in joplin. well, where do the sick and injured go when their town's main hospital is blown away by a tornado? we're going to take you inside st. john's hospital in joplin, missouri, next. ♪

Outside and realized from the time you got in that bathroom to the time you got out, the world of joplin had changed. >> well, actually, you know, i just was trying to get myself out with desi. we got out. you don't think the rest of the world would disappear around you. at least i didn't. i wanted to get everybody. we were alive. i kept telling everybody, we're alive. we're okay. so we headed to the hospital. but when we walked outside it was a new world. everything was gone. everything was gone. and it was amazing. as big a structure as st. john's is, when we got to the inside of it, it was ...

And right now we just have to start from scratch. you can help them start from scratch. here is how. log on to cnn.com/impact and check out our special page. it has all the tools you need to make a difference for those people in joplin. well, where do the sick and injured go when their town's main hospital is blown away by a tornado? we're going to take you inside st. john's hospital in joplin, missouri, next. [ female announcer ] the healing power of touch

>> reporter: but in those dark clouds, a monster tornado was headed right for them. at st. john's it was the moment they trained for that they hoped would never come. >> we drill -- well, actually just by virtue of the fact that we're in tornado alley down here, we prepare several times a month. >> reporter: but this was not a drill. >> it was a stormy day. we thought all was going well. >> reporter: angie abner was a nurse in the emergency room. >> of course, no one every thinks it's going to happen. nobody was really taking it serious. >> reporter: but the tornado was churning toward the hos...

>> reporter: if the worst happens. >> oh, my gosh. >> reporter: and the hospital is at the center of the storm. >> oh, no. it's the hospital. >> reporter: st. john's hospital, joplin, missouri, the biggest hospital for miles around. >> st. john's is a 230-bed acute care hospital. >> reporter: jim risko has been an e.r. doctor at st. john's for the last 17 years. >> this is a very, very sophisticated hospital in a relatively small town. >> i was down the road playing horseshoes. >> reporter: andrew mcdaniel came to the hospital to visit his grandmother on may 27. as he arrived, a sound familiar...