keep an eye on the television and understand, you know, what your risks are as the day goes on. if you have a noaa weather radio in a alert will go off and let you know that the watch has been issued and that is and hour or more before. jenna: it s hard to take in the images of joplin. it seems that no matter what you did you were affected. is there any fail-safe i guess procedure or process you could have for your family. excellent question. i think 2011 will go down as a year where we really need to review what type of shelters we have and what we need to put into effect. i ve heard discussions about legislation being considered for having homes in tornado alley have safe rooms, or be required to have safe rooms. mobile home parks obviously need to have underground shelters. that should just be a given. jenna: that may be provided by the municipality you say, you think. i think so.
i m worried about his safety too. we re all hoping and praying this evening. greta: maybe i ll help you out with that. we ll have more with kris gutierrez right now. kris joins us live from outside joplin, missouri on the phone. janice dean is worried about you, tell me more, where are you and what is going on? reporter: you we we are on i-44 heading south towards tulsa we want new pictures of the storm that is pounding state of oklahoma. my concern in joplin is this, we left the hotel, that was without water, had no cable television service. my concern is, i wonder if the people in joplin who need to heed the warning, hear these warnings if they are getting that information. my concern, obviously for those people there, the people 1500 people still unaccounted for in joplin. national weather service is
this morning on world news now, terror in america s tornado alley. deadly twisters bear down on oklahoma. and the severe storm warnings even threatened hard-hit joplin, missouri, after sunday s killer tornado. it s wednesday, may 25th. good morning, everybody. i m rob nelson. i m peggy bunker. it has been a nasty night in a big part of the country and those who survived sunday s huge tornado in joplin, missouri, had to stop what they were doing, try to find shelter. and there is not a lot of shelter to be found there right now. we ll have the very latest on this town getting hit continuously. so sad for those folks. bombshell testimony during opening arguments in the casey anthony murder trial in orlando. wait until you hear how the
prosecution and the defense teams opened their cases. boy, a lot of eyes watching that trial every single day. also later on, a basement project that led to this. a pennsylvania man s hobby that was so huge, crews needed to dig holes and rip off a wall from his house in order to remove the project. that s a hobby. what that is. i said this guy is single, right? oh, yeah. but he s not. he s not. so, some one for everybody, right? before all of that, a line of violent storms has roared across the center of the nation, killing at least seven people in kansas and oklahoma. also, we re just learning about a tornado that has touched down in the small town of denning, arkansas, reportedly a mile wide, some reports initially saying a small town there may have been flattened by the storm. we will keep you posted. more severe weather expected as storms move east. this comes as hope of finding survivors from sunday s storm in missouri now fading. t.j. winick in joplin. good morn
this morning on world news now, fatal twisters. the latest string of deadly storms to pound america s tornado alley. last night, oklahoma was hit hard, while joplin, missouri, got another nasty scare from mother nature. it s wednesday, may 25th. good morning, i m peggy bunker. and i m rob nelson. what a frightening night for oklahoma, and for storm survivors looking for lost loved ones, of course, in sunday s tornado in joplin, missouri. storm warnings there forced everyone to take cover. where there is little cover to be found. we ll have the very latest from this devastating scene out there. you see there a little bit of a break from the rain still not much in joplin. also this half-hour the president visits joplin this weekend. but this morning he is waking up