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Cloud is spotted. i want to give you a warning of the tornado sirens. pardon the bumping of the camera. that's one of the sirens that's supposed to warn people of the event a tornado it spotted. it was knocked out by the last tornado. crews are trying to get the word out in person, driving through neighborhoods, trying to get the word out with local television and radios. as the funnel clouds blew up the transformers, the radio and tv doesn't work. the debris is going to be worse in harrisburg because the debris is already prone up. you can see the force of the tornado embedded this in the gro...

Violent tornado inside there but you can't see it. you don't see things spinning around because it's raining all the way around. there's a ring of rain around the tornado kind of blinding it or hiding it from chasers, hiding it from officials, the policemen. they didn't even know it was there. >> also it created a noise, just perhaps the rain and th hail, that kind of dampened the sirens, people perhaps couldn't hear the sirens. >> you know, you can't trust the sirens. i know they are there and they are great and we've paid so much money putting them in. but you have to take responsibility for...

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...

The storm went all the way up to an ef-4. we can show you what it looked like inside the airport from security video. when you have an ef-4 tornado it's amazing there went weren't more injuries or loss of life. the winds in an ef-4 it be sustained at gusts over 144 to 200 miles per hour. you don't want to be near the winds. a lot of the people on cnn and our i-reporters that survived this tornado. the reason we didn't have the loss of life the lead time the tornado warnings 20 and 30 minutes before the tornado hit, gave people enough time to get to the sbeinterior room of the home. you may not...

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