you see the hospital took a direct hit. and this is the last thing you need because this is exactly the kind of building that you need to be operating during a disaster where people are going to go for help. windows blown out, they had to evacuate the hospital as fast as they could. and one of the stranger sit striench stranger sights that i ve seen, by the emergency room door there was a medivac helicopter on the ground that was destroyed. right there by the emergency room. it s stunning. unbelievable. thank you. we appreciate it. these image of destruction, i want to show you the woman who took these pictures. she had to take cover to save her own life when those storms hit. you re going to hear from her next. car connection calls the xf, yet an instant classic.
the secret service was all around. you see some of them there. and you don t see him wade into a crowd quite like that very often, as you noted, unless you get closer to the campaign season. as you said, there aren t any votes in ireland, but there are an awful lot of irish american votes back there in the states. oh, you got that right. ed henry, thank you. we needed a bit of brightness. we like it. thank you, ed. coming up, we re going to take you back to joplin, missouri. our brian todd is outside of st. john s regional hospital. he talked to a minister whose church was hit by a tornado. car connection calls the xf,
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garbage. it was a little depressing. but i ll bet those parade organizers are watching tv today and feeling kind of bad. because this is a pretty good parade right here. go bulls. i like that. we got some bulls fans here. now of course, an american doesn t really require irish blood. to understand that ours is a proud, enduring, centuries-old relationship that we are bound by history and friendship and shared values, and that s why i ve come here today as an american president to re-affirm those bonds of affection. earlier today, michelle and i visited moneygall where we saw my ancestral home and dropped by the local pub and we received a very warm welcome from all the people there, including my long-lost eighth cousin, henry. henry now is affectionately known as henry viii. and it was remarkable to see the small town where a young shoemaker named falmouth cart, my grandfather s grandfather lived his early life and i was shown the records from the parish recording his birth
but those voices leave no doubt. 20 terrified strangers huddled inside a store s industrial-sized refrigerator. outside a tornado is ripping apart joplin, missouri. and take a listen again we re good. we re good. we re good. [ screams ] [ wind sounds ] jesus. je jesus, jesus. i love everyone. i love everyone, man. i love you. jesus, jesus, jesus. heavenly father. this is joplin this morning. after daylight revealed the devastation, the tornado cut through the center of town killing at least 89 people, taking out homes, businesses, a hospital, a high school. jaime green is a photographer for a kansas newspaper. just listen. we huddled down. was my friend and i and her 6-year-old daughter. we huddled down over her daughter up against a wall, against an office building. our only other option would have been to throw a bench through the glass window which we actually thought of but we didn t we decided not to. it is unbelievable. authorities in joplin expect to