winds up to 135, 140 miles per hour. tractor trailers overturned. some damage and debris piles. some of this was sprayed off what could have been a five-mile path. issues in joplin as the cleanup continued. finally a break from the weather there. the problem is the death toll continues to climb. and that is certainly the saddest news of all as we now certainly focus or refocus on the joplin area. what a weekend it will be. mother nature calming down in terms of tornadoes and severe weather. jim cantore on duty in poplar bluff. new numbers out today show the economic recovery still has a long way to go. cnbc s becky quick joins us now with more. beck egood morning. good morning. the numbers this morning on wall street have not been great. if looks like those dow futures will open down. down only about 10 or 20 points
other wild areas. chris, it s one thing to let the bears and the deer kind of run and give them space. but if you re talking about if you re looking at an alligator or a snake, what do people need to do? are there certain areas that they should high tail it out of there? well, i say give them a wide birth as well. the animals, just like the mammals, are going to be seeking higher ground. they are going to seek areas where they can sun themselves and get out of the floodwaters. some of them can seek refuge in debris and some will seek refuge on the levees again. in terms of snakes, you know, obviously the biggest threat is going to come from water mock ka sins. they like to get into wood piles and sheds. if you have a backyard that is going to flood, if your property is going to see flooding, be aware they will seek refuge in wood piles, debris piles.
assaulting a hotel house maid. she can t go back to work. she has no idea what her future is going to be in any respect. so aside from what took place in the hotel room, the trauma what has taken place in her life is extraordinary. the mississippi river is heading for historic crest at vicksberg over the next 24 hours. it is expected to peak a foot above the 1927 record across mississippi and louisiana. and 9,000 people have had to abandon their homes already. but this man plans to to stay put. do you have a plan b y i mean, if for some reason, the levees broke, what would you do? hook my gps up and leave out on the levee, that s it. well, it s very peaceful. yeah, very quiet. that s why i m getting a vacation right now, really. syrian newspaper reports the country s president admits that security forces have made mistakes in response to anti-government demonstrations. bashir al assad did not specify what those mistakes were, but the president is facing internati
a 14th victim of this storm died of injuries overnight and 18 people are missing. there is an intensive search coming from all over the state. they are focusing on the waterways, open fields and big debris piles. but very carefully hoping against the odds they could find survivors in those debris piles anticipating any discoveries made will probably be grim. almost to a t, the survivors tell a tale of getting moment s warning to take cover. the funnel cloud appeared and within minutes it was gone and this destruction was left in its wake. alisyn: the path of a tornado is so random. this tornado seems to have destroyed most of the town. the tornado was about a half mile wide in this little town of
people. you see water distribution already going on, food distribution. it s not ideal. there s food shortages but there s an infrastructure here. i think the culture is so different. i have people who have just lost their family members and parents and would say so very calmly, what should we do, we don t know what to do. they weren t screaming or yelling. you have a sense of people overwhelmed, panicking was more a sense i got in other natural disasters i covered. here there s the same sense of panic but it s very quiet. if they re asking us what to do, then they re not getting any information officially from the government officials. even where we were yesterday, the roads had been cleared and the debris piles were moved up to the side and ten feet high and very organized. there wasn t a plan of, okay, here s the plan for the community. there were a lot of retirement facilities up and down the host. there were so many more people