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>> yes, i'm here. >> bethany, okay, bethany, listen, i want to talk to you about the four fatalities. that's according to the rns. and then jacqui jeras, our meteorologist has questions for you. bethany scutti is an ireporter. she lives ten miles away from joplin. she rush down to the hospital. luckily she and her family are okay. she and her kids got to safety. she went to the hospital and described the scene to us, and said it's just devastating, and spoke to an rn friend who said they lost four patients because the hospital was hit, and they're having to set up triage unit. go ahead, bethan...

it's from chasertv.com. rob, roll it. >> oh, my. >> and then just a short time ago, storm chaser, his name is steve polly got out in the middle of this driving on the interstate, and he said he didn't think he was going to make it touch and go for a while. these videos he took at a gas station. listen. >> come on. >> yes, it is. >> all right. our jacqui jeras, our meteorologist joins us now. some officials in missouri reporting that there are at least as many as 24 fatalities from this tornado that touched down, and they are saying there's widespread damage across the city's south si...

so an incredible situation unfolding in joplin, missouri. unfortunately, it's very reminiscent of what happened a few weeks ago in northern alabama. absolutely. to our viewers, here is the reality of it. 24 fatalities reported so far. widespread damage across the country from a tornado touching down. they don't know how many fatalities, how many injuries in all of this. people there being called the walking wounded. as jackie said, evacuating a hospital. they set up mobile facility. missouri department of transportation is saying i-44 is closed down because of damage. and here is w...

>> and then just a short time ago, a storm chaser, his name is steve polly, caught out in the middle of this driving on the interstate. he said he didn't think he was going to make it. he said it was touch and go for a while. these videos he took at a gas station. listen. >> yes, it is. north kansas. that's where we want to get. >> all right. our jacqui jeras, our meteorologist, joins us now. jacqui, some officials in missouri reporting that there are at least as many as 24 fatalities from this tornado that touched down, and they are saying there's widespread damage across the city's...

Pieces of buildings that are in the air and how this tornado was literally scouring the earth clean. what was there, buildings that were there, were knocked down. they were gone. people that were in those buildings unless they were underground were killed or seriously injured. we know that the hospital there -- just looked like a triage unit. they had so many people, just looked like massive car wrecks all over the place, all injured by debris. the national weather service did a fantastic job getting warnings out. the weather men around there did a fantastic job telling even people to put on y...