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that is a monster tornado. >> 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 ...

>> 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...

>> 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...

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...