patients that they lost, and there could be more that she wasn t aware of. most people wouldn t say anything when i tried to talk to them, but she did mention that they lost four patients. okay. hey, bethany, don t go anywhere. our ireporters are on top of it. we appreciate our ireporters at cnn. you can go to ireport.com or ireport@cnn.com. listen, i want to go to the person who shot those pictures. put those pictures back up to me. jamie green with the wichita eagle. walk us through these pictures, please. well, i m not looking at the pictures right now, so let me get out there. they were taken well, let me backtrack and tell you that i work for the wichita eagle and i was actually in joplin, shooting a wedding for a friend. and my best friend and her
south. the south is warm all spring long. and when that happens, you get conditions like we had in alabama a couple weeks ago, and you get conditions today that extend all the way from texas. and earlier today you were on the air with it. we had tornadoes in hennepin county, which is basically, minneapolis s, minnesota. and that is, what that would be 1,000 to 1,500 miles away from where this tornado was tonight. chad myers, stand by. jacqui jeras, stand by. our ireporters and the photographers who were there on the scene and shot these pictures, and we re so grateful that you you that sent them here into cnn and that you re joining us. here s what i want to say. the governor of missouri, jay nixon, activated the missouri national guard in response to the tornadoes and the severe weather that moved through the state earlier this evening. there is, there is a statement from senator roy blunt. let me read it in part here. just coming across the wire. roy blunt says our thoughts and
wedding, shooting wedding photographs, and then got caught up in this. also, one of the storm chasers, same thing. said it just sort of came up on them. and then we have one of our ireporters who s on the ground at the hospital, bethany scutti, and she s saying the windows are blown out and she can t believe it. our meteorologist jacqui jeras with us as well. also chad myers and much, much more as these new pictures come in and we begin to uncover exactly what happened in joplin, missouri, and it s not good. in , building up our wireless network all across america. we re adding new cell sites. increasing network capacity, and investing billions of dollars to improve your wireless network experience. from a single phone call to the most advanced data download, we re covering more people in more places than ever before
and there could be more that she wasn t aware of. most people wouldn t say anything when i tried to talk to them. but she did mention that they lost four patients. okay. hey, bethany, don t go anywhere. our reporters are on top of it. we appreciate our ireporters here at cnn. if you have any pictures, send it to ireport@cnn.com. listen, i want to go to the person who shot those pictures. hey, rob, put those pictures back up if you can. jamie green. she is with the wichita eagle. the pictures you re looking at on the screen of the hospital. jamie, walk us through these pictures, please. okay, well, i m not looking at the pictures right now. so let me get out there. they were taken well, let me backtrack and tell you that i am photographer for the wichita eagle. i was in joplin, missouri, shooting a wedding for a friend. my best friend and her 6-year-old daughter and i got caught in it on our way back
so an incredible situation unfolding in joplin, missouri. unfortunately, it s very reminiscent of what happened a few weeks ago in northern alabama. absolutely. to our viewers, here is the reality of it. 24 fatalities reported so far. widespread damage across the country from a tornado touching down. they don t know how many fatalities, how many injuries in all of this. people there being called the walking wounded. as jackie said, evacuating a hospital. they set up mobile facility. missouri department of transportation is saying i-44 is closed down because of damage. and here is what we re hearing from the governor of missouri. jay nixon. he said significant law enforcement assets and the national guard are now being deployed, now being deployed. and so we re going to try to get all of those people on the ground. when you hear the national guard being deployed, chad myers, our meteorologist who is joining us by phone, you know this is big trouble. well, you just don t ha