ahead, we will see who is in danger of more bad weather and who is in the clear for the remainder of the holiday weekend. also, news in for joplin, and they have adjusted the missing list, and we will have that for you on the other side of the break. stay with me. mary: does this dress make my backside look big? abe: perhaps. host: could switching to geico reon car insurance? e host: do dogs chase cats? 70 s music sfx: squealing tires.
quick update before i talk to chad about the weather. quick update from joplin, missouri, and officials there, and remember, they got hit by the ef-5 tornado a week ago sunday and the number of folks unaccounted forfor, it s dwindl down to 29 persons unaccounted for in joplin, missouri. and now to chad myers who is obviously watching the skies and watching people traveling. it is is hot, friend. it is hot. i remember standing here about three days ago saying, what is up with that 1500 missing number and then finally they got it all together. and then it went down to 32 and now to 29. so there s not 1400 people they found a lot of them. and then they went somewhere else. i hope they didn t go to laredo, texas, because it s 107. hello.
destruction goes across the midwest last night killing power to more than 100,000 people in this one state alone. trees, you see them, they are down. power crews have a busy, busy day ahead of them cleaning up and checking out the damage there. president obama pledging to stand with the people of joplin, missouri. he says every step of the way as the town rebuilds. yesterday the president toured the shredded city and spoke at a service honoring the 142 people who lost their lives when the tornado hit joplin last sunday. 29 people still unaccounted for. to texas now where wildfires are burning across the pan handle there. hundreds of people who had to evacuate their homes in amarillo are being allowed back in. the u.s. forest service says 12 homes have been destroyed thus far. evacuees have been getting help from the red cross. and now to southern tennessee where crews are trying to rescue a man trapped in a
joe johns, have a great rest of the weekend and safe travels. you, too. on this memorial day, i want to begin on cordova, alabama. it hit on the morning of april 27th by a powerful ef-3 tornado, and then the very same day ef-4 tornado hits that same town that night. cordova, alabama, is not the town that you see here in some of the video, some of the aerial pictures here and satellite images. a lot of folks have certainly lost their homes, but as we told you on friday, the cordova mayor jack scott is invoking a ordinance that rejects any trailer which is being offered by the federal government to folks whose homes have been destroyed. and jack scott is saying emergency or not, the law is the law. and as we showed you on friday, none of the folks in cordova are none too thrilled about the 50-year-old ordinance. we will talk to some folks live in a moment, but first, listen to this. what i suggested is putting the fema trailers in my backyard, because of the mayor, we wan