no idea it was like this. i took the camera thinking there would be some downed trees and stuff like that. but the time we had to abandon the car because of the debris, you realized the severity of everything and i already had the camera running. so we had it running as every block you went in deeper, the worse and worse it got and the severity of it set in. aaron, you had trouble figuring out where you were, even though it s a neighborhood you probably know very well. yeah. i ve lived in joplin my entire life. you know, i ve been to my sister s house obviously plenty of times. but everything was so leveled. you had no idea where you were. with the street signs gone, there was no houses, no trees, no nothing. it was just completely barren. so we kept having to ask people where we were. even the people that lived on the streets were so dazed had a hard time telling us where we were. so it was a real struggle to find out where the heck we were. sarah, where did you ride out
kirby, kirby. kirby jean. [ whistling ] come on. they re not in the basement? no, i don t think so. sarah, mike! they re not down there. you can t see anything. they did not find sarah at home but they did find sarah. aaron and sarah join me now. very nice to see both of you together. can you guys hear me? one, two, three, four. yes, sir. you can hear me? yes. all right, cool. it s great to see you guys together. aaron, what was going through your head when you grabbed the camera and ran outside? had you ever been through anything like this before? nothing like this. i mean, i m not sure anybody has with what they re saying about this kind of tornado. when we left the house, we had
the storm? we were in the basement of our home. it was an old cellar. we just were watching tv, getting ready for dinner and heard the sirens go off. what was it like being in the basement hearing this storm? it was crazy. actually the only reason i know that i knew what was going on is because of tv and people saying it sounds like a train. it dawned on us when i said, oh, it sounds like a train going by, we realized what it was. when the pressure of our ears came, it felt like our ears were going to blow. this is when my fiance said, we re definitely in a tornado. aaron, how did you finally find sarah? after we didn t find them at the house, we didn t know what to do. but people pointed us to the walgreen s saying that was where they had a triage center set up.
they raced to the home of aaron s sister, sarah. her house was badly damaged. look. sarah, mike! sarah, mike. mike, sarah! check the basement. sarah, mike? mike, sarah? you guys down here? mike? sis? sarah? mike? they must have left.
i don t know where to go. we got to keep going this way. don t step on any of this. come on. i feel like i need help. we ll keep asking. come on. you guys okay? yeah. oh, my gosh! look at these houses, babe. you guys okay? yes. what street is this? i don t know. oh, babe, look. what? oh, no. it s the hospital. it was the hospital. show you more of that video. everything is so destroyed, you can t even tell where you are. they went to find her sister, sarah. you ll really want to see how it ends. last night, the governor of missouri said there would be changes in the search for the missing. today we saw the start of those changes. the state took over a large portion of the disaster response. releasing the official roster of people missing or unaccounted for. i have the roster right here. remember for days we ve been saying 1,500 unaccounted for based on a local official statement days ago. today after working all night, the state got that number d