person who we know is in the hospital, hasn t been identified. we re going to check in to see if he s gotten word to see if that person is his son, lantz. there s no single official list of people who are unaccounted for, no single place that it seems like that people can turn seeking information or getting information. one of our producers managed to reconnect about a dozen people in the course of making calls and keeping in contact with one man, a private citizen who compiled a list of his own. there s got to be a better way to do this. we re showing you pictures of as many people as we can to try to connect information to maybe you can help. some viewers can help. linda sweden is 51 years old, she worked at st. john s hospital, believed to have been at home when the storm hit. if you have information to her whereabouts, call 417-434-0114. robert bateson lived in the connect point apartments. he has a tattoo covering his
we have faith that they re going to find him alive. you have to have hope, and you have to pray. and if they don t, we just pray they find him. we re a strong family. we re going to be together, and we re going to find him. someone is going to find him. a lot of people are looking and there s a lot of families that are suffering, and we hope they find their loved ones too, alive. there is still hope in joplin, but three days since the tornado for the families of the missing, it s becoming harder to find. there are a lot of rumors that will was in a hospital in springfield, as you heard will s sister, sarah and her mom went to that hospital. they saw the young man who was there. it is not will. but that has given hope to another family, a family of a young boy named lantz hare, who is 16 years old. his father, mike, is on his way to that springfield hospital to see if maybe the boy who is there is his son. lantz was last seen with a friend who survived the storm.
i mean, something as catastrophic as all this, you don t know whether he s underneath a piece of wood or whether he s in the hospital or whether he s at. and we searched and searched and searched. so i got to keep searching. go to springfield now and hope for the best. i m walking away from here and going to spring fooed, missouri, then kansas city and wichita. you re going to check all the hospitals? we ve had reports that there s a kid that looks like lantz. i can t just sit here and the hospitals tell us it may or may not be him. you know, some of the reports are the bruising is so bad they can t tell. i can tell whether it s my son. i can tell. and i will tell. and you were asked to give dna? i was asked to give dna today at missouri southern a little while ago.
and we searched and searched and searched. so i got to keep searching. go to springfield now and hope for the best. i m walking away from here and going to springfield, missouri, then kansas city and wichita. i ll go somewhere else if i have to. you re going to check all the hospitals? we ve had reports that there s a kid that looks like lantz. i can t just sit here and the hospitals tell us it may or may not be him. you know, some of the reports are the bruising is so bad they can t tell. i can tell whether it s my son. i can tell. and i will tell. and you were asked to give dna? i was asked to give dna today at missouri southern a little while ago. that right there just said it in me that there can t be no stopping until he s found, dead or alive, i ve got to keep pushing.
i ve got to find him. it s important to hold onto hope? oh, my god, yeah. if you don t have hope, what are you going to do? look at all this. if every family out here didn t have hope that it s going to be better, i ve heard on the radio they re going to rebuild st. john s. that s hope. you ve got to have hope. you ve got to have god. you ve got to have friends and family. you ve got to have all of it combined to get you through this. thank you for talking to us. i appreciate it. thank you. stay strong. mike hare, who is on his way to springfield to go to the hospital there to see a young person who we know is in the hospital, hasn t been identified. we re going to check in to see if he s gotten word to see if that person is his son, lantz.