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>> on this holiday morning. >> and we've got a lot of news. we begin with the weather. first a new wave of spring storms is pounding the midwest. in fact, some of the worst damage is in battle creek, michigan. a storm packing 80-mile-an-hour winds snapped trees, brought down a lot of power lines. in fact, across the state some 100,000 homes and businesses lost power. >> a violent storm hit the chicago area. ferocious winds uprooting trees and sending them on the tops of houses and cars. >> the trees just doubled. it was the strongest wind i've seen in a long time. >> that's the impor...

People went, even if they survived the storm, where are they now. >> 1,500 still officially missing. tom, thank you. the desperate, desperate search for those missing and the staggering task of how to go about starting all over. we have much more on the tornado devastation in joplin, missouri. it's true. you never forget your first subaru.

know for who knows when. >> reporter: she says her father, james williamson, had pa past addiction battles and moved to joplin to start fresh. the only information she has is he was working in a mcdonald's that got destroyed. perez is one of thousands in the joplin area searching for missing loved ones after the tornado. local and state officials are scrambling to organize the effort to find them. >> when you have folks that are lost, when you have folks that are missing, we are very cognizant of needing to talk to thos...

Teams with -- he has to deal with the tornado devastation back here at home. i'm wolf blitzer and you're in "the situation room." >> it's been almost 24 hours since the people of joplin, missouri hid in their homes as the tornado tore through their city. officials say 116 people were killed and many more injured. this makes this storm tied for the second deadliest twister. the toll is expected to climb as one resident puts it. everybody's going to know people who are dead. a massive rescue operations under way that has been hampered by more bad weather. many pipes are damaged. despite the obst...

Scene. tornado devastation as far as the eye can see and off in the distance, beyond the firefighters, search and rescue now. even fires that are erupting in joplin. it really is an unfolding scene, changes minute by minute. neighbors are trying to pull -- oh, they just pulled out their dog. that is great. they just -- they just pulled the dog. he looks to be okay, out of the house there. that's great news. we know that neighbors are telling us, i know my neighbor's in there. i can't get to him. it's too dangerous. there aren't enough first responders here right now to deal with the immense tr...