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Chad was in a storm seller here behind us. will you please walk ushrough what you and your family did last night as this tornado come attorney general through your neighborhood here, chad. >> the warning started on tv, they all -- some of the neighbors and my wife and kids all got down in the storm shelter, and i was kind of standing out watching kind of the weather to see what was going on. at that point i decided it's time to get down in the storm shelter. >> reporter: how did you do it show me. >> i walked over here like this. i told everybody to get out of the way i'm coming down. i sat do...

>> i actually talked to him the night before the tornado and his little brother called me and said that he was trying to get home in it and that severe hail had hit his car and nobody had heard from him and that was roughly about right ten minutes after the tornado went through joplin. and i actually live in tulsa, and i was in my car on the way to joplin as soon as i got that from my youngest son. >> well, i hear that he was in the car with somebody else who has survive. is there any way to use that lead as a way to help track lance down? >> well, that lead was actually how we found...

It got noisy while we were in the shelter for 20 minutes. we came out and looked outside and trees were almost sideways so we went back in. and like i said now we just came out. i could see the moving looks to be northeast. two guys saw them go by south. >> shepard: you were in college is my understanding huge twister in 1999. >> yes, sir. >> tell me about that. >> fortunately i was at my school, which is about 20 miles north of where it hit. but my family were not so fortunate. and they actually were in one of the neighborhoods that was hit. weathered it in a storm cellar. >> shepard: we have...

Foundation. we have seen scar after scar of where there was a slab. there used to be a house. now there's nothing left by plumbing pipes ancon crete left. where were the people? those were the people that were killed? >> do you get out of your house and dig for a ditch? >> no. you stay in your home and hope for the best. the best thing to do is to get a safe rooms that you can buy for a few thousand dollars, they're made of kevlar. you belt them down to the frame or you dig a hole in your yard and you make that old fashioned storm cellar that we've seen so many times in so many movies people s...

buildings sustaining significant damage. that includes one of the city's main hospitals. the national guard on patrol with a state of emergency in effect. andres cue teams they keep searching today, this afternoon, all through the day for survivors. joplin, missouri, the latest victim of a volatile wave of turbulent springtime weather. brian todd in the thick of it. >> reporter: drew, rescue teams are combing through grid by grid, house by house in this city. the houses that are left are severely damaged, but frankly in this part of the city not many houses are left. you mentioned ab...