but to day, the threat is in a shape like this all of the way down to dallas, because this storm is a low pressure out to the west. ask the people in phoenix what was the wind was like and in new mexico what the wind is like today, and that is the storm ejecting out of the southwest, and it will fire up thunderstorms along this line. by the time we get to joplin, it is 3:00, 4:00, 5:00, 6:00 or 7:00 or so before you see that. that is joplin right there? yes, on i-44. the problem with joplin today is that you have all of the destruction, and all of the wood material, and all of the shingles and the insulation already broken up, and a 40-mile-an-hour wind can pick it up and blow it into the emergency workers and into the crews and the people who are trying to pick up their stuff. so you can see that if is a regular thunderstorm, we will sound out the alarm to the crews to say get out of that destruction zone, because the destruction zone is eight or
critical condition. the confirmed death toll in sunday s disaster now stands at 118. but authorities say more than ten times that many still are unaccounted for. joplin s head of emergency management says people scattered and simply can t get home or maybe no longer have homes and haven t yet called in. but then there s will norton, blown out of his hummer on his way home from high school graduation. his family thinks thinks he s in a hospital somewhere. and sky lar logs don, a 1-year-old. his great uncle spoke to cnn this morning. the night of the tornado that evening. and they had him in the hallway in the house, and they all got covered in the hallway in the house and when the tornado hit, they lost track of him and we haven t seen him since. was skylar s mother holding on to him? yes, she was. and she lost him in the aftermath amidst all of this. and it s just terrible. and no one has seen him since. the rest of the family is doing okay. we ve just got to find h
hit. waves reached 30 feet high. people ran for their lives to escape the rushing waters. farmland was wiped out, fires and cars were thrown like toys every where. some people were fortunate to be rescued. (speaking japanese) the destruction zone stretches from 80 miles north of tokyo all of the way up to sindai we are told thousands are huddled on structures waiting for support. i was trying to hold the shelf over me the ground shook so much i couldn t hold it i fell the shelf came down but i was saved a table wedged in between. 40 miles south is a toa coas town with a miracle rescue of
extent of the destruction is becoming more painfully evident with each passing day. for the latest on emergency relief efforts in chile, our correspondent tonight is nbc news ann curry. i see a bridge down over there. flying into the destruction zone for the first time today, evidence of the power of one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded. reporter: from the air you can begin to see the extent of the destruction. over hundreds of miles, town after town, flattened by mother nature. 500,000 homes damaged or destroyed. major bridges down. some coastal towns hit with both the quake and tsunamis washed away. 2 million people affected. rescuers are struggling against exhaustion to find people buried alive, especially here in hard-hit concepcion, chile s second largest city. even closer to the epicenter, today chaos. more than two days after the quake, fires are still burning in concepcion.
extent of the destruction is becoming more painfully evident with each passing day. for the latest on emergency relief efforts in chile, our correspondent tonight is nbc news ann curry. flying into the destruction zone for the first time today, evidence of the power of one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded. reporter: from the air you can begin to see the extent of the destruction. over hundreds of miles, town after town, flattened by mother nature. 500,000 homes damaged or destroyed. major bridges down. some coastal towns hit with both the quake and tsunamis washed away. 2 million people affected. rescuers are struggling against exhaustion to find people buried alive, especially in hard-hit concepcion, chile s second largest city. even closer to the epicenter, today chaos. more than two days after the quake, fires are still burning in concepcion. this building burning out of