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>> 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...

people had been marching to demand the release of political prisoners when the bullets rained down, and sarah palin, thundering into d.c. today, but is she ready to roll into the race for president? i'm drew griffin. the news starts now. and first tonight, yemen tipping into civil war? take a look at this. troops and anti-government protesters in the southern city where there's gunfire and tear gas, all this increasing the fear that al qaeda and other islamic militants will be given breathing room to launch attacks against the u.s. i spoke with mohammed jamjoom in abu dhabi about t...

demand the release of political prisoners when the bullets rained down. and sarah palin thundering into d.c.ed to. but is she ready to roll into the race for president? i'm drew griffin. the news starts now. first tonight, is yemen tipping into civil war? take a look at this. troops and anti-government protesters in the southern city of taiz. tear gas and gunfire. all this increasing fear that turmoil will give al qaeda and other slaul islamic militants breathing room to launch attacks against the u.s. i spoke earlier with cnn's mohammad jamjoom in abu dhabi about that. >> earlie...

We are now seven miles to the east of where the tornado first touched down. as you can see, there's still lots of damage here so those original estimates of six miles on the ground are way too conservative. this is where jim and stacy richards live. stacy survived by hanging on to two dog crates as her home collapsed around and on top of her. >> that was awful. laying there, screaming and screaming and screaming -- it was horrible. >> reporter: this week they got their insurance settlement so they can rebuild. how far east did it go? >> i'm not sure, there's damage over in the next mile sectio...

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...