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Optimistic person i've met in a long time. >> you know, i don't know. like i said, life goes on. you cannot fall apart over things like this. >> you can't fall apart, and so she doesn't. that's how you rebuild, she tells me. that's how you restart. you stay strong, you pick up the pieces, and you start one by one. it's not just in joplin where so many lives are being rebuilt. in oklahoma, a funnel cloud cut a tractor trailer in half. the driver escaped with his life. we'll have a look at the weather there, coming up. and a family runs for cover as a tornado moves dangerously close to their h...

>> it's devastating. >> in arkansas, at least four people were killed by the storms and another two in kansas. in these states, as well, overturned trucks, destroyed homes are scattered for miles. more than 500 people have been killed this tornado season, a season that still has months to go. i want to give you another remarkable view of a tornado that touched down in oklahoma from david payne. >> the motion is tremendous. david payne, are you still with us? violent tornado. >> another killer tornado. it went across highway 81 and it almost got us. it intensified right on top of us. >> i had a...

They only got as far as that median when the tornado picked him up and they got wrapped up in this stuff and it was a big mess. i don't know where that came from. >> what has he told you about what happened when the tornado hit? >> he said that he remembers flipping and being airborne and just kept going. >> will was in the driver's seat. his father tried to grab him. >> my brother grabbed him from across the seat to hold onto him. he remembers my nephew just started reciting scripture, one verse after another. my brother was a little shocked but will did it all the way until he went out the w...

>> oh, my god! back up. oh, no! stop. oh, no. >> in this part of the country where things were bad, they have quickly gotten worse. >> extremely large and dangerous tornado. >> very large tornado. >> at least 16 people were killed in storms that struck parts of oklahoma, kansas, and arkansas. ten of those 16 dead are because of this monster. >> oh, my gosh! >> another killer tornado. >> dozens were injured in central oklahoma, many along the interstate 40 corridor leading out of oklahoma city. watch as this twister swallows this 18-wheeler. somehow the driver in the cab made it out with only m...

>> i'm finding stuff over here and i'm also finding stuff over here. so i don't know where to start looking. >> we first met sally in what remains of her mother's home. this was sort of a fire -- >> fireplace. and the piano. we had windows, the couch is here. i don't know where the couch is. >> sally's mother, marge, is 80 and survived in her sister's house nearly. sally and her family are hoping to find some personal belongings to cushion the blow. >> the first thing we did is look for jewelry, things that my grandmother had given her. >> things that had sent mental value. >> sentimental valu...