this little girl picks pajamas but with so many destroyed, the help does not get everywhere. i the think people living out in the tent certainly in 100-degree weather is sad. this man spent the day in the tent, afraid to leave because it may be looted. fem what has spent $70 million, the grants you can get if you fill out the right paperwork, anywhere from a few hundred dollars to $30,000 to help rebuild your home and business. har march what a picture. steve, thank you very much, steve harrigan in tuscaloosa. back to the economy, there is growing backlash about comments the president made about a troubling new report on friday. take a look: there are always going to be bumps on the road to recovery. we re going to pass through some rough terrain. martha: is that enough? that is the question. both sides of that argument,
over somewhere? yeah, it would have been a whole lot easier, definitely been a whole lot easier but i won t let this get me down. reporter: a full month after a deadly tornado, and so many still so slow to turn the corner from surviving to recovery. there is an intense determination to rebuild these neighborhoods, but not to rebuild them the way they were before. most people here now believe that these homes should be put back, but better, stronger, and safer. joe? david mattingly in tuscaloosa. more on alabama s tornado recovery in our top stories. homeland security saecretary janet innapolitano will visit. the usda s food pyramid will
passengers aboard a delta flight. we ll tell you twhapd. 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 swathe through joplin. we take you live to joplin. paul brickhaven is there. p
meteorologist jacqui jeras. we have been monitoring these feeds. you have been monitoring scanner traffic. we re told a number of injuries, possibility casualties. people are looking for people. what s going on? so much devastation. it s hard to get a handle on how widespread this is. of course, communication is extremely limited. they re asking people to stay out of the city because emergency crews are trying to set up triages to help the people who have been injured. and also, you know, there are some reports of doas as well, so we re not sure how many at this time. a tornado did touch down in joplin just before 6:00 central time. moved through the downtown area and continued to push on up toward the north and east of there. we ve got reports of buildings in downtown damaged, homes that have been completely leveled, trees that have been snapped off. and just, you know, rubble all over the place. the scene has been described as being roar ific. there are reports, as you me
christian. you were not around the baby during the tornado. reporter: what was going through your mind the second it was over? all i could think my son, i ve got to get to my son. they pulled out a nail out of my feet where i had to run through my house. he had to climb over a huge tree on our how is that was blocking the door. i had to climb over the tree. determined to get to my son. reporter: a pretty good mother s day present. he s a blessing. i get to tell him, hey, you lived through a tornado when you were 8 weeks old. reporter: not at home for mother s day. what is that like? it s kind of hard because i ve pictured mother s day at home with his father and happy and everything, and it s not. it s far from happy in a shelter with my son. reporter: you know, t.j., that of course, took place over in tuscaloosa where there s tons