it s getting big, big, big. at least 126 people dead, dozens still missing, the actual number not known. local officials believe upwards of 8,000 structures were damaged or destroyed. for those who survive, the scars will always be with them. nearly two dozen people, including three young men, took cover at a convenience store. inside a walk-in beer cooler. one turned on his iphone as the twister struck. the video is dark, but the audio, the sounds tell a story. oh, my god! [ screaming ] imagine pushing open the door after that incredible experience. elsewhere in joplin, one couple recorded the snooen their neighborhood moments after the tornado struck. destruction all around them, homes on fire. they called out for the young man s sister and fiance. sarah! sarah, mike! of course, there s no end to the heartbreak, but no end to hope either. we met tracy press her and her niece, looking for will, who was driving home with his dad and was sucked out of the sunroof of
it s getting big, big, big. at least 126 people dead, dozens still missing, the actual number not known. local officials believe up wartds of 8,000 structures were damaged or destroyed. nearly two dozen people, including three young men, took cover at a convenience store. the video is dark, but the audio, the sounds tell a story. oh, my god! [ screaming ] imagine pushing open the door after that incredible experience. elsewhere in joplin, one couple recorded the scene moments after the tornado struck. destruction all around them, homes on fire. they called out for the young man s sister and fiance. sarah! sarah, mike! of course, there s no end to the heartbreak, but no end to hope either. we met tracy pressler, looking for will, who was driving home with his dad and was sucked out of the sunroof of his suv as the tornado struck. we cry a lot. yeah. we cry. but we have faith, you know, that they re going to find him alive. you have to have hope and you have to
232 to a list of 232 confirmed folks and moving off that number already today, setting up and having a meeting with the morgue, with all of these families to go through that process. but it does seem like families who are lucky enough to have a friend in law enforcement who is able to get into the morgue, like lantz hare, his father has been on my program weeping, he was spending what money he could to drive to springfield to look into a hospital there. turns out his son has been dead in the morgue this whole time, and a family friend, who is a law enforcement officer, was able to get in and see that it was in fact lantz because he knows the boy well and he told the family that their son is in fact dead and in the morgue. and still there s been no official confirmation of that. that just doesn t seem right that a family that luckily enough has a connection is able to find information and get confirmation and a family that doesn t has to wait two weeks. isn t there some way to speed t
of that. i don t believe it can ramp up tonight. but it will probably be tomorrow. and it will make us all happy because we grieve along with those families so we re going to try to expedite the neem can actually make the positive id. well, it s certainly one would have wondered why it hadn t happened sooner. put that issue aside obviously. certainly in the case of lantz hare, if his family members had been permitted in, several days ago they would have found his body, given him the burial that he deserves and not end the grieving but end the uncertainty. so that s why getting family members in there just seems so critically important. i guess it s good news you ll do that tomorrow morning, mark. i totally agree with you. and that s definitely correct. all right. thank you, mark bridges, for passing on that important step that you re now going to take as of tomorrow morning. mark, thanks for being with us. sure. thank you. we now turn to missouri s governor, jay nixon.
we re going to play you the rest of the video after the break. you ll really want to see how it ends. last night, the governor of missouri said there would be changes in the search for the missing. today we saw the start of those changes. the state took over a large portion of the disaster response. releasing the official roster of people missing or unaccounted for. i have the roster right here. remember for days we ve been saying 1,500 unaccounted for based on a local official statement days ago. today after working all night, the state got that number down to 232 people unaccounted for. 232. but even officials concede the list contains errors. lantz hare is on it twice. under his first and middle names, those errors are obviously easy to correct. what s proving more difficult is the situation at the morgue in joplin and the process for identifies the dead. you remember we spoke to lantz hare s dad, mike, who has been searching for days for his son, searching and continually calling h