for us, as we pine away for john king s 300th home run. carol, can you believe that? he caught that thing, right place, right time, a little bit of talent. i got hit in the head with a foul ball once, but never caught one. so that explains it! exactly! i m kidding, carol, good to see you. have a great day, thank you so much. good morning to you. it s the heart of tornado alley. you know what i m talking about this morning. the devastation in joplin, missouri, is shocking. take a look at why. my gosh. oh, my gosh! there it is. it was massive. at least 89 people are now confirmed dead. the death toll is expected to grow as crews pick through the wreckage. as much as 30% of the city of joplin damaged or destroyed. that includes some 2,000 homes and businesses. one of those, the st. john s regional medical center, that s in the heart of town, triage centers were set up outside to treat the crush of victims. those are the terrible facts. it is difficult to descri
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 center where people would have gone to get help suffered extensive damage. witnesses say windows were blown out on some of the top floors. medical records, x-rays and other items scattered nearly 70 miles away. at least 100 patients hadden to transferred to other area hospitals. crews combing through mounds of debris and rubble searching for survivors. brian todd is live at joplin at st. john s. when we
and despite all the uncertainty about food, about security, the thrill that ordinary people were able to overthrow a 23-year-old dictatorship hasn t worn off. lovely tu to you nnisia, we . reporter: ben wedeman in carthage, tunisia. the worries about tunisia and the economy certainly affected the stock market. the benchmark tunindex slumped 13% in the last week alone and is at a two-year low. unemployment, which sparked the unrest in the first place, went up to 13%. and the cost of living just keeps rising. and there s a shortage of some basic goods, including food. about three-quarters of tunisia s exports currently go to the european union. with the european economy itself in the doldrums, the country faces a tough time exporting its way back into growth.
master bation for christine o donnell. say, is that a preexisting condition? let s play oddball. we begin in carthage, mississippi. the cat has just given birth to kittens. you think a herd of kittens would be enough for a mother cat to handle but emmy acquired an adoptee, a baby squirrel. he has assimilated himself into the group of kittens. surprisingly mother cat doesn t seem to mind. i m guessing here mom just doesn t know. it s a volume issue here. the owners of emmy decided to keep the squirrel as a pet and given him the unoriginal name of rocky. everything seemed to be going smoothly until rocky invited himself over for a meal. bull something. popular slo vinnian news show 24 ur. the point where the anchorman appears to have an intense conversation seems normal until
kansas city and what i have found out is authorities have issued an amber alert for little eddie salazar, and you mentioned he s 8 months old and only 20 pounds, a real cutey. look at him. apparently according to carthage police two men wearing all black and see masks broke into the salazar family home late last night, and the dad was sleeping on the couch. and they beat him unconscious and they took this little one, and haven t been able to find eddie salazar anywhere and now there is a frantic search for this little boy, the home was ransaked and there is so little information because this dad was left unconscious and there is so little information on the two men who broke in, they have no idea which direction to go in, which way they are going and hoping somehow the public can contact them and give them tips and we have a phone number, 417-237-7200. and if you didn t get all that, the most important one to remember is 911. carthage missouri outside kansas