try to get the latest information. last night the governor said he would do something about the problems we ve been seeing with people, with the slow access, with kind of disorganization. it does seem like he has delivered on that promise. i mean, within a few hours of getting new people in there to take over, they suddenly got this list down to 232. reporter: right. the governor is doing some good work. but i can tell you it s much lower, because we saw family of five on the list. how could a family of five be mising? the house wasn t badly damaged. so we know that number will go lower. the morgue, where these bodies are right now, is a secret morgue, and it is secret. you call up officials and say, where is the morgue? and they tell you it s a morgue. we had to do some investigating,
good evening. breaking news tonight in the search for victims in the joplin tornado. first, though, i want to show you some remarkable new video showing the initial moments after the tornado struck, video captured by a couple racing to find a family member, a brother looking for his sister through a neighborhood which after the tornado they barely even recognized. oh, look at this. oh, my gosh. oh, my gosh. oh, my gosh, aaron. oh, my gosh. it went right through here. i don t know where we are. i don t know where to go. we got to keep going this way. don t step on any of this. come on. i feel like i need to help if someone is hurt. we ll keep asking. look at this house. come on. you guys okay? yeah. oh, my gosh! look at these houses, babe. you guys okay? yes. what street is this? i don t know. oh, babe, look. what? oh, no. it s the hospital. it was the hospital. show you more of that video. imagine you don t even recognize the community you
i don t know where to go. we got to keep going this way. don t step on any of this. come on. i feel like i need help. we ll keep asking. come on. you guys okay? yeah. oh, my gosh! look at these houses, babe. you guys okay? yes. what street is this? i don t know. oh, babe, look. what? oh, no. it s the hospital. it was the hospital. show you more of that video. everything is so destroyed, you can t even tell where you are. they went to find her sister, sarah. you ll really want to see how it ends. last night, the governor of missouri said there would be changes in the search for the missing. today we saw the start of those changes. the state took over a large portion of the disaster response. releasing the official roster of people missing or unaccounted for. i have the roster right here. remember for days we ve been saying 1,500 unaccounted for based on a local official statement days ago. today after working all night, the state got that number d
oh, my gosh, aaron. oh, my gosh. it went right through here. i don t know where we are. i don t know where to go. we got to keep going this way. don t step on any of this. come on. i feel like i need help. we ll keep asking. come on. you guys okay? yeah. oh, my gosh! look at these houses, babe. you guys okay? yes. what street is this? i don t know. oh, babe, look. what? oh, no. it s the hospital. it was the hospital. show you more of that video. everything is so destroyed, you can t even tell where you are. they went to find her sister, sarah. you ll really want to see how it ends. last night, the governor of missouri said there would be changes in the search for the missing. today we saw the start of those changes. the state took over a large portion of the disaster response. releasing the official roster of people missing or unaccounted for. i have the roster right here. remember for days we ve been saying 1,500 unaccounted for based on a loc
they didn t have any dogs. it was just a handful of soldiers with sticks walking around basically trying to smell if there were any fatalities. but there s no telling, really, how many people in an area like that may be buried underneath the rubble. it s a very strange sight to see this debris field that just goes on as far as the eye can see. and it takes a while for your eyes to kind of adjust to what you re actually looking at. and then you realize you re actually standing on an up side down car that is crashed into a house and that house wasn t even there in the first place. that house has moved, you know, hundreds of yards, picked up by the tsunami and deposited in what was once a rice field. so, you know, it s a very fluid situation here. there s a lot of people still in need of food, in need of water. but more than 400,000 people 450,000 people, according to the last report i saw had been evacuated are now in shelt s