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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...

rooftops. people were marched to demand the release of political prisoners and the bullets rained down. and sarah palin thundering into d.c. today, but is she ready to roll into the presidential race? the best political team on television is weighing in. i'm drew griffin. the news starts now. in the headlines tonight president obama went to joplin, missouri, today. it was his first chance to see the unimaginable damage caused by last sunday's ef-5 tornado. he spoke at a memorial service for the 142 known victims. a live look at the president's visit just ahead. and sarah palin dr...

The city manager mark rohr there that he said the number is not that high but he wouldn't give us a number. so we don't know if it's 1,300, 1,200, only 500? we don't know. likely there are going to be a lot more fatalities. we're afraid that number's going to go up very significantly compared to the 124 we have now. there's also some confusion. communication is extremely limited here. people can't get a hold of each other to know whether or not they're safe and might be in a nearby neighboring community. on top of that, some people who are injured have been transported to other hospitals acros...

So the storm system continues to move off to the east with that big threat yet for tonight. however tomorrow we're just looking at a slight risk of severe weather and much fewer tornadoes expected along the east coast. >> jacqui, what do we know about the number of people who may have died in the joplin tornado? because we're still being told up to 1,500 people are unaccounted for. do we know anything about who they are or what the likelihood that they survived? >> well, here's what we know. that they have confirmed 125 fatalities. we don't know who all those people are. there hasn't been a li...

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