reporter: there s still no electricity in this part of joplin. a generate powers the tools. time to roll up our sleeves and do what we do to move on with our lives. reporter: passersby stop by to offer encouragement. two police officers stopped by to say we want to shake your hand. first glimmer of hope that we ve really seen toward the town rebuilding. reporter: four nearby homes that collins built in the past year are in ruins already he has at least six projects waiting to be rebuilt. my heart and prayers go out to everyone that lost loved ones. i hate for it to come to something like this to bring business to the area but i believe everyone around here will surprise everyone in the country with the rate that we can come back. reporter: after so much tragedy and so much devastation, collins takes solis in the cross that remains standing in the rubble of st. mary s church across the street and in the support he s received from his community. i thank god to live in suc
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Man who is already rebuilding in a very big way. reporter: absolutely, fredricka. with all of this devastation with the death toll that has now reached 139 people with 105 people still missing, it can be very difficult to find signs of home but we did find one man who started rebuilding his wife s business four days after the tornado struck. this is america. we re going to rebuild it. reporter: four days after a historic tornado demolished much of joplin, missouri cut them and put them underneath. reporter: contractor daryn collins started construction on first new building to emerge from the rubble. at some point we re going to have to stop scratching our heads and standing staring at the rubble and roll up our sleeves and get things back to some sort of normalcy. reporter: he s rebuilding his wife s beauty salon which he built once before 17 years ago. on thursday collins talked to the idea with city official and
and i know that they are deceased and they know they are at the temporary morgue so we are in the process of identifying those people as quickly as possible so they know that they re not unaccounted for. they know where they are. the number of dead reached 139 today. 105 people remain missing. president obama is set to visit joplin tomorrow for a memorial service. the president of poland hosting the president of the united states today in warsaw. president obama said countries in turmoil today can learn from poland s example. we discussed the issue of how jointly we can promote democracy. the session that i had this morning with democracy promotion experts including many founders of solidarity who recently traveled to tunisia to share their advice and assistance is just a symbol of why poland is so important. it has gone through what many countries want to know go through and has done so successfully. and so the president is flying back to the united states right no
built once before 17 years ago. on tuesday collins discussed the idea with shocked city officials. wednesday they gave him the okay to start. thursday construction began. we ve had just an enormous outpouring of generosity and help to get prepared to get back to this point. the city has been great. the city of job lynn allowed us a permit in record time. reporter: there s still no electricity in this part of joplin. the substation across the street remains in ruins. a generator powers the tools passersby continuing stop to offer encouragement and support. i just had two police officers stop by and say, we want to shake your hand, the first glimmer of hope that we ve really seen towards the town rebuilding. reporter: four nearby homes that collins built in the past year are in ruins. already he has at least six projects waiting to be rebuilt. my heart and prayers go out to everyone that did lose loved ones. i hate for it to come to something like this to bring busine