that is a monster tornado. reporter: battle hardened storm chasers in awe of nature s power. oh, my gosh. this is awful. dude, the trees. the trees are debarked! reporter: residents running for cover anywhere they could. in a crowded convenience store some 20 people hunkering down in a darkened commercial refrigerator. can we go in the cooler? [ screaming ] go! oh, dear heaven. god! reporter: at the same time a security camera in a nearby frozen yogurt shop catches the chaos. workers moving customers to the back and then everything goes flying. the massive tornado mowing down everything in its path. people s lives churned up and spewed out. here s the gas station that we were at. reporter: this is the convenience store now. this would have been where we walked in. reporter: all across the city, thousands and thousands of people in shock, taking the first steps on the long road to recovery. make no mistake, joplin, missouri, will rebuild, but it will
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
teenage girls. and hackers tapping into something important, new targets, and get dangerously close to u.s. military secrets. the rash of online attacks and the threat to internet security and to homeland security. wolf blitzer is off. i m candy crowley and you re in the situation room. on this memorial day, sarah palin is doing some of the things she did best, creates suspense and drums up suspension. vice presidential nominee and reality tv star is not saying whether she will added a presidential candidate to her resume but republican contenders on the trail today. jim acosta is in gettysburg, pennsylvania, where palin arrived just moments ago. jim? reporter: candy, sarah palin was asked today by a reporter whether or not she was running for president and she answered that she is contemplating a run for the white house but more importantly, another question could be asked and that is, does all of this look like she s running for president? the answer just might be, yo
and he s even met the president. he said, hi, i m chris. and when i get nervous i get high pitched so i m like, hi, chris. and somebody who knows the first president better than anybody else. the first brother-in-law. what do do you say when you see him? mr. president or the guy who goes to his left all the time on the basketball court. michelle s brother, craig. this is piers morgan tonight. google chris and you ll get more than 2.5 million results, glee s overnight sensation, fans hanging on his every word. he s here and i, too, will be hanging on your every word. thank you, thank you. i don t know why i do this to myself because i picked up entertainment weekly the cover, which has eluded me so far. it s coming. two copies of hollywood reporter this year alone. there you are on both of them. and then this one, which absolutely, i have to be honest, sickened me. i have spent 46 years in journalism and broadcasting, desperate to get on the top 100
where she ll stop until she s been there. she turned up this morning at the national archives in her words highlighting america s foundation and contemplating a run for president in 2012. yesterday palin hit the streets with rolling thunder, the motorcycle rally honoring america s m.i.a.s and p.o.w.s. but we think she ll be in gettysburg, pennsylvania later today. jim acosta, she s used the word foundation a lot this morning. is she laying the foundation for a presidential run? reporter: well, you know, we re not hearing a whole lot, to be quite honest, because that is the game they are playing right now inside the palin staff. it is sort of a game of catch me if you can, follow the bouncing bus. some are calling this the palin mystery bus tour. i think some of that is by design. they want to generate some buzz and media attention obviously. and the former alaska governor is doing a lot of that on this memorial day, hitting the national archives this morning, then h