over. >> mommy! >> reporter: it was just over a month ago we were in birmingham in alabama talking about the storm damage there. thinking we probablyçó never seenñi anything quitwó like it before. here in joplinñi, it may even be worse.ñr block after block, mile after mile. as much as a quarter of this city of 50,000 looks like this. people out documenting the damage to their neighborhoods, are stunned. >> this is a mere six, seven blocks away from our home. unimaginable. >> reporter: daniel powell and his wife made it. but -- >> we have no transportation, no home. >> reporter: destruction so total there's little to do but sift for memories. >> two things i want, her wedding ring, and the other satchel that she got me when we first got married that came with a bible and in theñi front of it says through everything we will overcome. >> reporter: ashley's house was picked up and blown clear across the street. >> this is my neighbor's house. >> reporter: where's your house? >> everywhere. >> reporter: she wasn't home. but her dog was. rescued from underneath the house. >> yea! >> reporter: of whichñr thereñrs nothing left. >> itçó breaks my heart, but i don't care as long as everyone is safe. >> reporter: not everyone was safe. bodies are being found in cars, in debris, in wreckage like this. what was once an electrical substation. what's the biggest problem you have right now? >> right now it's the weather we've got, trying to do search and rescue with the dogs and with the machines that are necessary that have electronics with the lightning going on, it's very difficult. >> we heard some sirens. >> reporter: he and his wife found safety in their bathtub. >> took what shelter we could, and we rode it out, thank god. >> reporter: you're lucky to be here. >> we are veryy lucky. >> reporter: but right now it's hard for his stepdaughter, desiree, to feel lucky. >> it's my whole life. just thrown about. just gone. >>eporter: as bad as all of this looks on television, in person it is much worse. just moments ago we talked with missouri governor nixon. how bad is this? >> the lethality of the storm is horrific, when you have well over 100 people dead, from a tornado like this one, it didn't really move, it kind of screwed into the earth and got worse and worse. hospital wiped out, nursing homes, schools. this is a traumatic tragedy for our area, but we'll bounce back, but first of all we have to cover the entire area, we discovered seven people today and rescued them. we think there's other live people out there, we want to make sure if they're alive we're out there finding them. pretty much everybodyñi here knows somebody who is affected. >> reporter: missouri governor jay nixon, one of the hardest hit places here in joch lynn is the big community hospital behind us. cynthia bowers is with us and has more on this. >> reporter: that's right, harry. it's safe to say nobody expected this. after all, they did with stand the power of a tornado as recently as 2008. typically this building plays a key role in treating the injured. but not this time. even in the midst of miles of rubble, st. john's regional medical center stands out. and not just because it's still standing. with virtually every window shattered the top two floors taken out, it looks like a bomb went off inside. how horrifying was it when it actually hit? >> it was scary. our doors and windows were blowing in on us before we could even take cover. >> reporter: this e. r. nurse had 20 minutes to raise patients and visitors into the hospital's interior hallways in search of safety before the enormous twister tore st. john's apart. >> things were flying over our heads, and just sounding like a bomb, doors were flying off. medical equipment flying over our heads. scary. >> reporter: looking at this storm, it is amazing 180 patients made it out alive. in the panicked moments after the twister, the most critical patients were rushed to a near by hospital in ambulances, pickups and even carried on make-shift stretchers. others went to triage tents set up close by. st. john's officials were forced to turn this auditorium into a make-shift hospital, a battle field hospital. for all intents and purposes, this is st. john's now, and will be for a while. >> we were totally deaf, dumb and blind, we couldn't reach police, couldn't reach e. m. s.. >> reporter: dr. riscoe has worked here for 30 years. now he's tending the sick at memorial hall, with dozens of his colleagues. >> all my staff is here, i had two pregnant nurses that dove under gurneys, and i was just so worried that they were hurt. but they showed up, and they worked all night long. so it's a testimony to human spirit. >> reporter: it must make you feel proud. >> very proud. >> reporter: more than 1,000 people have been treated here in joplin so far for the tornado injuries. but there is no way, harry, of course to calculate the pain. >> reporter: cynthia bowers, thank you so much. as we've been talking since we went on the air tonight, it's hard to get a handle on just the scope of this. it's not block after block, it's mile after mile in joch lynn. across town from us is colleague don teague. >> reporter: in the 2500 block of murphy street, everything that once was is gone. >> for rhonda hall that means the house she grew up in, where her father still lived until last night, now just a pile of broken wood and memories. >> i grew up in this house. my dad grew up in this house. and to think it's all gone, and where do you go from there, you know. >> reporter: she and her children are trying to salvage what they can, but it's not much. >> he just had $50,000 worth of insurance. so what ever we can salvage we need to do.. >> reporter: there's nothing recognizeable left on the 2500 block of murphy street, even the road sign is gone. but this isn't the only street in joplin that looks like this, across this city there are dozens, perhaps hundreds just like this. neighbors here think the people on this street survived even if their homes didn't. adam hampton just moved into his house here last summer. >> used to be a real pretty neighborhood. >> reporter: he survived because he stopped at his mother's house on the way home from church sunday, he credits god with saving his life. now he's picking up what's left. >> being in the midwest here, we're pretty resilient people, we will bounce back from this, it will take us some time, but i think we'll band together and we'll get it rebuilt in time. >> reporter: as for rhonda hill's father, he was asleep on his sofa when the tornado destroyed his home around him. but miraculously, he survived with only minor injuries. meanwhile it's been dangerous here today, harry, for residents who have been out with terrible lightning and more severe storms as they are trying to pick through what's left of their homes. harry? >> don teague across town from us in joplin tonight, thank you very much. as we speak... >> i'm russ mitchell in new york, obviously having problems with the satellite. we'll get back to harry in a bit. there were dozens of tornados throughout the midwest last evening. this was was in minneapolis, roofs were ripped off and tree limbs went flying. one man died when a free fell on his car, another died of a heart attack. this tornado season is now the deadliest in more than a half century. more on that from anthony mason. >> reporter: at the storm prediction center in norman, oklahoma last week. >> this is a weather forecast. >> reporter: corey meade, the lead forecaster. >> upgrade that to a tornado. >> reporter: was already tracking the early stages of the storm system that would devastate joplin. >> we don't fully understand how tornados form. >> reporter: but meade, a 17-year veteran of the national weather service, says forecasting has improved significantly. >> we actually can anticipate the potential for those type of storms several days out. but the exact location and timing of more significant tornado threats sometimes we don't know up until perhaps a few hours leading up to the event. >> reporter: through this date last year, 506 tornados were reported in the u.s.. this year that number is already more than double that. 1100 -- 1151. >> it's just remarkable. >> reporter: super storms, says this professor, are formed by an instability in the air that usually occurs in the spring. >> yesterday's instability, and the instability of the storm that hit tuscaloosa is just about as large as i have ever seen. >> reporter: it's nothing strange in the weather pattern this year, but year to date tornados have killed nearly 500 people. that's six times the annual average. making this the deadliest season in more than half a century. did the warning system fail us? >> the warning system was absolutely as good as it could be. >> reporter: in fact, joplin residents were given at least 20 minutes warning. when studies have shown that warnings of just six to 15 minutes reduce expected fatalities by more than 40%. >> it's just that the level of destruction is beyond belief. >> reporter: it's rare for tornados of this force to form at all. rarer still for them to find population centers like tuscaloosa and now joplin. anthony mason, cbs news, new york. >> here's what else is happening tonight. there is another natural disaster unfolding this evening, this one threatens air travel. iceland's largest volcano is sending a giant cloud of ash into the sky. it is not the same volcano that caused chaos last year, but dozens of flights into and out of great britain have been canceled. the crowd is -- cloud is expected to affect hundreds of miles of air space. with that ash bearing down on europe, president obama left ireland a few hours early and flew to london this evening, but not before visiting the tiny village that was home to his great great great grandfather on his mother's side. the president's visit included a trip to a local pub. his motorcade run into some trouble leaving the u.s. embassy. one of the presidential limos, which the president was not in, bottomed out and got stuck, causing a slight delay. up next on tonight's cbs evening news, a bombshell in chicago terrorism trial. was an american ally behind india's 9/11? 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