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Tell our viewers how they can help if they want to help people in missouri and elsewhere. senator roy blunt of missouri. thanks very much. st. mary perish is one of the is one of the many buildings that has survived but the pastor survived. jacqui jeras is there. >> reporter: it's providing hope and encouragement by people that have been affected by this disaster. they really need to hear good news out of all of this. the 70-year-old pastor was able to walk out of this devastation without a scratch. this was the building that you were in? >> yes. >> reporter: there is almost nothing left but...

>> reporter: the parishioners that have shown up are leaning heavily on their faith. >> sometimes you think it happens to put life into perspective. >> reporter: and while there is nothing left of the church, the metal cross stands high across miles of devastation. >> i saw the cross standing and i thought how powerful and it gives us hope that god is still with us. >> reporter: father monday hand says that joplin is a faith-based it community but many have been asked why they have been burdened with such a tragedy. >> god allows things to happen and we don't know why. but when we look back, w...

relations. are the tensions of recent days any worse? any better? i'm wolf blitzer and you're in "the situation room." first, breaking news this hour. a large tornado has been spotted on the ground in oklahoma and storm-ravaged missouri is being hit by severe weather and possible in the coming hours, searchers in joplin have been taking advantage of the break in the bad weather for a few hours now. 17 people have been pulled alive from the rubble as of last night. but the death toll is far greater. up to 118 right now and that makes this the deadliest single tornado on record in the ...