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Patients still needed to be seen. >> so you're basically doing triage, just as if you are dealing with an ordinary emergency room, but doing it in the midst of an auditorium. you've almost recreated your hospital in this high school auditorium. >> actually, not the high school auditorium, the night of the tornado, my son, tanner, and my partner, dr. hagadoran i sent down to the catholic high school auditorium to establish a triage center for our walking ambulatory patients to kind of unload the auditorium, so we had two treatment sites about two blocks from each other, and we basically, physic...

Breaking news. unfortunately, there is a tornado watch again in joplin, missouri. let's go quickly now to the jason family in joplin. four years ago, pierre jason received a heart transplant. on sunday, he and his family survived the tornado. they join me now from joplin, pierre and penny, and their family, akeisha and perm. thank you for being with us. >> how you doing? >> well, we're just thrilled you're alive. tell us the harrowing tale. as you pointed out, you got your heart transplant, that was miracle number one. miracle two was surviving a couple days ago. describe it for us. >> wow, we...

Sheets of plywood will be in the air, flying all over the place, that wouldn't have been there, the rest of the town, even with a 40-mile-per-hour wind in a normal day would have been fine. but sheets of plywood are just laying around. they will be in the air and they will be missiles. >> chad, you're making a point, just thinking about when a tornado, if it goes back over territory that has already seen this massive destruction and you have all that loose rubble laying around. it will be picked up and whirling around at 180 miles an hour. the devastation from that is absolutely horrifying, ev...

St. john's, the hospital that no longer exists. it was decimated by the tornado. he's now the site commander at the triage center in joplin. he's been treating injured patients since sunday night. i talked to him moments ago. doctor, thanks so much for chatting with us again. >> you're welcome, and thanks for coming to town. >> in the midst of all the devastation we're seeing, the pictures are absolutely horrifying, how are your patients doing and how are they progressing and what are you seeing today and what are the injuries you're seeing? >> we took care most of our priority one and priorit...

>> get out of here! get out of here now! >> maxi tornado coming into piedmont. piedmont, get out of the way. piedmont, get out of the way, get below groubd rignd right no. maxi wedge multi-vortex tornado. get to your safe room, storm cellar, basement, interior closet or bathroom may not do it. get out of the way. get out of the way or get below ground. >> unbelievable footage. and of course, we now are used to seeing what damage and havoc is wreaked in the wake of those unbelievable tornados. chad myers standing by in our severe weather center right now with the latest on these tornados in okl...