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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110529:03:39:00

second floor and there was about ankle deep of water and we were trying to push the wheelchairs and everything through it to get people out. >> reporter: they wheeled his grandmother out of the hospital. then flagged down a passing car to drive them home. >> there was no crying. there was no screaming. >> reporter: the st. john's 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. >> just a very short period of time we were able to evacuate over 200 patients to a safer parking lot and then transport them to area hospitals. >> this finger here was just lacerated wide open. >> reporter: patients like paul johnson were stabilized in makeshift triage centers. >> they were making do with what they had. so i tip my hat to them. it was that fast. they set up a system that fast that took care of people.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110529:06:37:00

protecting their patients and directly protecting patients, laying over the top of patients because these ambulance doors immediately gave, blew through the e.r. >> reporter: when it was over, paul johnson could see the sky. >> i could look up through that ceiling right there 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 than a lot of people. >> this is bad. 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

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110529:00:34:00

joplin, missouri, the biggest hospital for miles around. >> st. johns is a 230-bed acute care hospital. >> reporter: jim risko has been an e.r. doctor at st. johns for the last 17 years. >> this is a very, very sophisticated hospital in a relatively small townme. >> i was down the road playing horseshoes. >> reporter: andrew mcdaniel came to the hospital to visit his grandmother on may 27. as he arrived, a sound familiar to every mid westerner. >> the sirens started going off. i looked and didn't see much other than dark clouds over there. i didn't think anything of it. >> reporter: but in those dark clouds, a monster tornado was headed right for them. at st. johns it was the moment they trained for that they hoped would never come. >> we drill -- well, actually just by virtue of the fact that we're in tornado alley down here, we prepare several times a

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110529:03:25:00

we have indication that there have been 142 human remains found within the city of joplin. >> that announcement from today and as the death toll rises in shattered joplin, missouri, those who survived last sunday's tornado are trying to make sense of the catastrophe that upended their lives. destroyed almost everything around them. cnn's casey wian says some are finding 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? >> reporter: he nearly lost his life. >> i thought i was going to die, truthfully.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110529:03:37:00

>> most of our nurses were protecting their patients and directly protecting patients, laying over the top of patients because these ambulance doors immediately gave, blew through the e.r. >> reporter: when it was over, paul johnson could see the sky. >> i could look up through that ceiling right there 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 than a lot of people. >> this is bad. oh, my gosh. this is awful. >> reporter: a lot of people in joplin were suddenly and

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110529:00:35:00

month. >> reporter: but this was not a drill. >> it was a stormy day. we thought all was going well. >> reporter: angie abner was a nurse in the emergency room. >> of course, no one every 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 a triage center and heard loud train sounds and our security alerted me that we had to move quickly. >> the nurses had already warned everybody that we do have a tornado. go. >> reporter: patient paul johnson hit the decks. >> my son was with me, so he shoved me into 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

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110529:06:25:00

there have been 142 human remains found within the city of joplin. >> that announcement from today and as the death toll rises in shattered joplin, missouri, those who survived last sunday's tornado are trying to make sense of the catastrophe that upended their lives. cnn's casey wian says some are finding 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? >> reporter: he nearly lost his life. >> i thought i was going to die, truthfully.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110529:06:09:00

time you got in that bathroom to the time you got out, the world of joplin had changed. >> well, actually, you know, i just was trying to get myself out with desi. we got out. you don't think the rest of the world would disappear around you. at least i didn't. i wanted to get everybody. we were alive. i kept telling everybody, we're alive. we're okay. so we headed to the hospital. but when we walked outside it was a new world. everything was gone. everything was gone. and it was amazing. as big a structure as st. john's is, when we got to the inside of it, it was a complete disaster. i thought it would take out part of it, you know, in the front part, but it had sucked the whole inside on the ground floor out. >> rance, as i look behind you there, i'm just wondering, do you see signs of hope? do you see signs that your community is going to come back from this? >> it will come back. it will take time. i think the people are strong here.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110529:06:36:00

go. >> reporter: patient paul johnson hit the decks. >> my son was with me, so he shoved me into 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. >> all the ceiling tiles came down. >> oh, it's getting big, big, big. >> pieces of the window come sailing around all over. >> ekg machines, gurneys are flying down a hallway. >> that is a monster tornado. >> and of course there was a whole lot of "our fathers" and "hail marys" going on. >> i started screaming for them to get down. pushed them under the registration desk. >> reporter: before the tornado had passed, abner started crawling down the hall to find out if everyone was okay. >> most of our nurses were

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