know for who knows when. reporter: she says her father, james williamson, had pa past addiction battles and moved to joplin to start fresh. the only information she has is he was working in a mcdonald s that got destroyed. perez is one of thousands in the joplin area searching for missing loved ones after the tornado. local and state officials are scrambling to organize the effort to find them. when you have folks that are lost, when you have folks that are missing, we are very cognizant of needing to talk to those families first in trying to get to the families. that s fine. reporter: a local call-in center has been overwhelmed since it plugged in the first phone jack. after the calls come in here, the information immediately goes into a database shared with the sheriff s office, the state highway patrol, and the first responders who are combing through all the neighborhoods. but the kinks in the proces
i actually talked to him the night before the tornado and his little brother called me and said that he was trying to get home in it and that severe hail had hit his car and nobody had heard from him and that was roughly about right ten minutes after the tornado went through joplin. and i actually live in tulsa, and i was in my car on the way to joplin as soon as i got that from my youngest son. well, i hear that he was in the car with somebody else who has survive. is there any way to use that lead as a way to help track lance down? well, that lead was actually how we found the car, lance s car, and where a start point. before that, there were just massive searches in i mean an 8 block by 25 block radius. all my friends, my ex-wife s friends, my wife s friends, my friends, everyone was just looking for him. and through that kid being found at freeman hospital, we were able to locate the car, as soon as he came to, he got life flighted out of freeman hospital here in
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our ears started to pop. incredible stories of survival. we thought we were going to be sucked up the chimney. now joplin, missouri, holds its breath and wonders is it over yet? it was crazy. i never seen nothing like that a day in my life. why now? what s really going on? that is destroyed. completely. twisters, volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis. where will mother nature strike next? eyewitness accounts from storm chasers and reports from the ground. debris on the ground here. this is a special edition of piers morgan tonight. good evening. joplin, missouri, is under another tornado watch tonight. the national weather service says there s a 45% chance of a second tornado outbreak just one day after a deadly twister ripped through the central town and killed at least 116 people. tying it for single deadliest to hit american soil since the national weather service began keeping records 61 years ago. today survivors wander through rubble of neighborhoods to
buildings sustaining significant damage. that includes one of the city s main hospitals. the national guard on patrol with a state of emergency in effect. andres cue teams they keep searching today, this afternoon, all through the day for survivors. joplin, missouri, the latest victim of a volatile wave of turbulent springtime weather. brian todd in the thick of it. reporter: drew, rescue teams are combing through grid by grid, house by house in this city. the houses that are left are severely damaged, but frankly in this part of the city not many houses are left. you mentioned about 1/3 of the houses in this downtown area were severely damaged. by that you can take to mean flattened. behind me you can see the wreckage of some of them that is left. now the weather is complicating things as these teams go through the grids of this city on foot mostly and pick through this. the lightning has been rolling in. thunder, rain, all day long. it has made their job, much, much diffi