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the whole building started to shake. our ears started to pop. >> incredible stories of survival. >> we thought we were going to be sucked up the chimney. >> now joplin, missouri, holds its breath and wonders is it over yet? >> it was crazy. i never seen nothing like that a day in my life. >> why now? what's really going on? >> that is destroyed. completely. >> twisters, volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis. where will mother nature strike next? eyewitness accounts from storm chasers and reports from the ground. >> debris on the ground here. >> this is a special edition of "piers morgan t...

At the clearing of the debris and handling that. that's a couple days away right now. >> how much warning people had? >> yep. >> we received warning from the national weather service of a radar indicated tornado. we also had eyes on. we turned on the sirens at that time. we had approximately 20 minutes before the first report of a tornado strike. just to give you some sort of perspective on that, normally in this area, we see from seven to ten minutes warning time. that was almost double. >> how much more difficult is it to [ inaudible ] tornado in the center of [ inaudible ]? >> well, you kno...

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...

National weather service employee actually saw the tornado. that's how it was confirmed so early. normally it wouldn't be. what's going to happen throughout the rest of the day today and certainly into tomorrow where we're going to get more of a survey because so much more information needs to come out, how intense was the tornado, how wide was the tornado, how long was it on the ground for? there's going to be a lot of surveying of the area and taking a look at the damage and interviewing witnesses to get a better idea of exactly what happened f. this was an ef3, for example, the winds could ...

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