find out how this man is sending care packages to military troops overseas without even coming close to breaking the bank. but, first, six days after a tornado ripped apart joplin, missouri, rescue crews are still trying to find everyone. we re expecting an update shortly from state officials. but as of right now, 156 people are unaccounted for and the death toll has reached 132. more than 1,000 people are hurt. the federal government has approved nearly $3 million in aid and president obama plans to meet with survivors in joplin tomorrow. all week we ve been hearing extraordinary stories of survival, of strangers helping strangers and our paul vercammen is in joplin. hard to believe people made it through this, paul. wait till you hear this next story in a second. a pharmacist over that rise.
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loved ones alive. although the unidentified young man in the hospital turned out not to be will norton, word spread and gave hope to other families that their lost teenage boy might be alive. the family of 16-year-old lantz hare was one of them. he was last seen with a friend who survived the storm. his mom said that lantz was ripped out of a car. i spoke with his dad, mike, in joplin. he vowed to search until he found his son, alive or not. what was the last you knew about lantz? my youngest son called me, and it was maybe ten minutes after the storm, and they him and my ex-wife had been trying to get ahold of him over and over and they couldn t. and they called me, so i started calling him and still never got anything. i called it all last night. you re still calling his number? i can t stop. i don t know why. i stayed up until like 2:00 last
speak. we re all a little bit scary about this kind of stuff. it s been rough over the last couple weeks. we ve been talking about this stuff happening in parts of alabama, through parts of the southeast, of course and when you get into missouri and even into portions of arkansas, the weather has been exceptionally rough. i ll tell you right now we re keeping a sharp eye on what may happen later on today for parts of the central plains and back into the mid-mississippi valley. slight risk from the storm prediction center and that may include some tornadoes. one of the places we re watching has been in parts of missouri. joplin right here just down in the corner but north of springfield we ve seen some of the splash and dash showers. we ve had clearing east of wichita but what might happen is you might see the temperatures boost up a bit and that, combined with all that unstable air, could make for pretty rough things in the afternoon. thunderstorms a possibility. very quickly as we jum