and take a close look at the circle on your screen. sometimes baseball fans will do whatever it takes to catch a ball, including dropping their kid just to make a catch, come on. it s sunday, may 29th, 6:00 a.m. in atlanta, 5:00 a.m. in joplin, missouri. the nation s chief executive offering a shoulder to cry on this morning, headed to tornado damaged joplin, missouri. president obama is expected in joplin shortly after 1:00 eastern. te will meet with tornado victims and deliver brief remarks at a 3:00 eastern memorial service at missouri southern state university. his visit comes as the death toll rises to 142 this morning. more than 90 people remain missing, more than 1,000 have been injured. later this afternoon, at 5:41 central, the city is observing a moment of silence, that is the exact time one week ago the tornado plowed a half-mile
customer data has not been compromised, but there was a security attack that happened last weekend. the president and government agencies are been briefed on the incident. it has been a month since tornadoes ravaged alabama. are they getting the help they need? we are going to look at recovery efforts next. and again, waiting for this moment of silence to happen in joplin, missouri, as we look at live pictures of some children waiting to commemorate the moment. 6:41, ten minutes from now, when the tornado struck.
others injured. there were also explosions occurring near the capital. they were demanding that the president step down. serbian police clashed with protestors in belgrade today. the demonstrators protesting thursday s arrest of war crimes suspect ratco mladic. people were kicking them ending with 20 people injured. mladic is accused of ordering the murder of muslims in the 1970 s civic war. president obama is due back at the white house this hour after spending several hours in joplin, missouri. it was exactly one week ago that an ef-5 tornado ripped through the city killing at least 142 people in minutes. a moment of silence will happen at 6:41 eastern. 35 minutes from now. it will mark the precise instant that tornado hit. our dan lothian is traveling
she s in room 612 in arkansas. grandma ellen freeman was found okay and resting in an arkansas hospital. is ellen freeman in this room. okay, this is her granddaughter and just now figured out where she s at. well okay, no, that s fine. as long as i know where she s at now. reporter: tabitha plans to get to know her grandmother now. it is kind of sad to see it takes this to make you realize that you don t really have all that long because you never know when it is going to end, you know? i mean, for all i know, she could have been crushed or died or something. wow, what a story. so interesting that must have been played out hundreds of times across joplin, people just not knowing where to find her. how is her grandmother? she is doing better in the hospital right now. she s had a couple surgeries since that time. she s not critical but still fragile enough that tabitha has
time again, what they do want however is a commitment from obama at the federal level so help rebuild the town. some of the people refer to joplin not being able to get back on its feet entirely until decades because of the devastation and how long it s going to take. it s a severe economic blow in very tough economic times so more than anything i don t think they re worried about whether or not he was in europe. they want to know what the commitment is going to be to rebuilding their city of 50,000. paul vercamen in joplin, missouri, thank you for your report. we ll be checking back in with you. president obama s visit to joplin comes one month to the day after he visited tuscaloosa, alabama, an april 27th tornado there killed 41 people. homeland security secretary janet napolitano toured pratt, alabama, after that tornado.