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many ran to seek safer ground, but boy, the devastation is coming to light today. >> that's right. 12 hours later life has changed in joplin, missouri. a powerful tornado ripped that city apart. the red cross said 75% of the town is virtually gone with reports of at least 30 people killed and dozens more injured. 50,000 people live in the city. no phone service, power lines are down, cars and trucks smashed and flipped. the governor calling out the national guard and declaring a state of emergency this morning. >> to make matters worse the city's main hospital st. john's medical cent...

>> i've seen multiple vorticeities before, but i've never seen so many. why do you think this storm was so unique? >> everything was there yesterday. there was just -- it was just -- the models were showing a ton of cape, and i'm sure you've talked about that on the air before, but when you get that much instability out there and you get as much sheer as there was on a day like that, you knew there were going to be tornados and it was just crazy. like i said, i've never -- i've never honestly seen this many right in that area just dancing around each other. it was just -- it was incredible. >>...

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Je'nae hornsby. officials in moore also identified a 65-year-old tornado victim who was separated from his wife when the tornado hit. she survived. as for the tornado itself, the national weather service said at least one area had ef-5 damage. that means winds that surpassed 200 miles per hour. it traveled on a 17-mile path of destruction. we know on monday afternoon. i want to bring in chris jansing who, i don't know how you do it, not only with the news but also with the amount of work you've been doing. you've been here since monday night. now we have a situation where it's, what do we do n...