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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110530:06:44:00

>> reporter: as the injured flooded to the hospital for care, mcdaniel was desperately trying to get his grandmother out. >> they took us down to the second floor and there was about ankle-deep water, and we were trying to push wheelchairs and everything through it to get people out. >> reporter: they wheeled thinks grandmother out of the hospital and flagged down a passing car to drive them home. >> there was no crying, there was no screaming. >> reporter: the st. john staff kept working, laser focused on their patients. >> we did what we had to do. and we all stayed, even though people were worried about their families. >> i'm just a very short period

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110530:06:40:00

mcdaniel came to the hospital to visit his grandmother. as he arrived, a sound familiar to every midwesterner. >> the sirens started going off when i was walking in. i didn't see much other than the dark clouds over there. i didn't think much of it. >> reporter: but in those dark clouds, a monster tornado was headed right for them. at st. john's, it was the moment they trained for that they hoped would never come. >> we drill just by virtue of the fact we're in tornado alley, we prepare several times a month. >> reporter: but this was not a drill. >> it was a stormy day. we thought all was going well. >> reporter: angie was a nurse in the emergency room. >> of course, no one ever thinks it's going to happen. nobody was really taking it serious. >> reporter: but the tornado was churning toward the hospital at 200 miles per hour. there wasn't a second to lose. >> i was in triage center and

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110530:03:39:00

around. >> st. john's is a 230-bed acute care hospital. >> reporter: jim risko has been an e.r. doc at st. john's for the past seven years. >> this is a very sophisticated hospital in a relatively small town. >> i was down the road playing horseshoes with my friends. >> reporter: on may 22nd andrew mcdab yell came to the hospital to visit his grandmother. as he arrived, a sound familiar to every mid-westerner. >> the sirens started going off when i was walking in. i didn't see much other than the dark clouds over there. i didn't think much of it. >> reporter: but in those dark clouds, a monster tornado was headed right for them. at st. john's, it was the moment they trained for that they hoped would never come. >> we drill just by virtue of the fact we're in tornado alley, we prepare several times a

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110530:06:43:00

oh, my gosh. this is awful. >> reporter: a lot of people in joplin were suddenly and severely wounded. but the biggest hospital in town was in ruins. >> pretty much turned the page on disaster plans. >> reporter: risko at home on his day off rushed to the hospital. he arrived to find a building he hardly recognized. >> the hospital was on fire, blackened and the top of the roof was gone. the doors to the emergency room were blown open. >> reporter: now the newly wounded flooded into the hospital. >> they began running through and jumping over tables through our er doors that had busted open. i mean, they were bleeding profusely. immediately when i started seeing them, all fear is gone from myself. i mean, those patients needed us.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110530:03:32:00

storm. >> every time i hear a bang or boom or something, i jump. which i never was that -- like that. it scares me. >> reporter: ness counts his blessings. >> if it wasn't for the lord, i wouldn't here. like i said, sunday morning i got saved. sunday night i got blowed away. >> reporter: he has high praise for the red cross and its tireless volunteers. >> walk a little bit and keep your legs moving. >> reporter: he's tending to those in need even as he struggles with staggering losses in his own life. >> we lost our home, you know, the hospital is destroyed, and i -- my office is destroyed. >> reporter: dr. zaidi was at st. john's on the when the tornado cut through it. >> i had no idea what my

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110530:06:42:00

pushed them under our registration desk. >> reporter: before the tornado passed, she started crawling down the hall to make sure everyone was okay. >> our nurses were directly protecting patients, laying over the top of patients because these ambulance doors immediately gave, blew through the er. >> reporter: when it was over, paul johnson could see the sky. >> i could look right up through the ceiling and see blue sky. i could see some of the hospital had to be gone. because i knew there was another floor above us. when i saw that, i said, this ain't good. this is not good at all. >> reporter: but johnson was okay and so was mcdaniel and his family. >> my grandpa has bruises and cuts on his back. my grandma has glass still embedded in her hair, but we're a lot better off that a lot of people. >> this is bad.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110530:06:31:00

the tornado sucked him out through the sun roof. his father survived. it is the survivors trying to make sense of the catastrophe that up-ended their lives and destroyed almost everything around them. as casey wian tells us, some are fining faith and hope at a red cross shelter. >> reporter: blown away. a town, a community torn apart. he lost his hospital, his home and nearly his father. >> i was just calling him out. i was yelling his name, dad, dad, are you there? he nearly lost his life. >> i thought i was going to die, truthfully. >> reporter: like so many trying to pick up the pieces of their life in joplin, missouri, this doctor and john ness have been ravaged by this disaster. but they have both found faith and purpose at this makeshift

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110530:03:40:00

month. >> reporter: but this was not a drill. >> it was a stormy day. we thought all was going well. >> reporter: angie was a nurse in the emergency room. >> of course, no one ever thinks it's going to happen. nobody was really taking it serious. >> reporter: but the tornado was churning toward the hospital at 200 miles per hour. there wasn't a second to lose. >> i was in triage center and heard loud train sounds and our security alerted me that we had to move quickly. >> the nurses already warned everybody that we do have a tornado, go. >> reporter: patient paul johnson hit the decks. >> my son was with me, so he just shoved me in the hallway. >> reporter: moments later, the tornado hit the hospital dead on. >> the whole building started going side to side like we were on a boat. >> oh, my gosh. >> everything just started flying at me. >> reporter: all the ceiling

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110530:03:30:00

springfield, but none of that turned out to be true. a great aunt identified his body on wednesday. we learned today the body of will norton, the teen who had just graduated from joplin high when the tornado hit one week ago, his body was found in a pond. the 18-year-old was racing home ahead of the tornado, less than an hour after he accept his diploma. he was in the family's hummer with his dad. the tornado sucked him out through the sun roof. his father survived. it is the survivors trying to make sense of the catastrophe that upended their lives and destroyed almost everything around them. as casey wian tells us, some are fining faith and hope at a red cross shelter. >> reporter: blown away. a town, a community torn apart. he lost his hospital, his home

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110530:06:33:00

>> reporter: he has high praise for the red cross and its tireless volunteers. >> walk a little bit and keep your legs moving. >> reporter: he's tending to those in need even as he struggles with staggering losses in his own life. >> we lost our home, you know, the hospital is destroyed, and i -- my office is destroyed. >> reporter: dr. zaidi was at st. john hospital when the tornado cut through it. >> i had no idea what my family -- i lost -- we lost contact. >> reporter: frantic, uncertain hours followed, but then word finally came through, first from his daughter, then his wife, they're okay. but someone was still missing. his father. >> we went to my parents' house. he was there, he was stuck in the rubble. he was stuck in his room pep couldn't get out.

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