jersey he was wearing as the game ended, walking off the field. this is what luck heard. boos from the fans of the team he worked so hard for, a lass rated kidney, torn cartilage, a concussion. here he was afterwards. i d be lying if i didn t take i heard the reaction. it hurt. yeah, it hurt. i m in pain. i m still in pain. i ve been in this cycle. it s been four years of this injury, pain, rehab cycle. for me to move forward in my life the way i want to, it doesn t involve football. mom, dad, mary, uncle will, all
of time we were able to evacuate over 200 patients to a safer parking lot and then transport them to area hospitals. this finger here was lass rated wide open. reporter: patients like paul johnson were stabilized in makeshift triage centers. they were making do with what they had. so, i tip my hat to them. it was that fast they set up a system that fast that took care of people. reporter: six people died at st. john s that day, but miraculously, most survived. this is the new tower, this is the original hospital. reporter: two days later, for jim risko, it s all sinking in. my heart s broken because my mom and dad died here, my son was born here. i have so many memories of working with the other doctors and the nurses. this is home. i mean, st. john s is more than a building. it s a spirit. st. john s and the national guard are opening a temporary field hospital with 60 beds. it s across from the destroyed building. why are we seeing so many powerful tornado this is y
everything through it to get people out. reporter: they wheeled thinks grandmother out of the hospital and flagged down a passing car to drive them home. there was no crying, there was no screaming. reporter: the st. john staff kept working, laser focused on their patients. we did what we had to do. and we all stayed, even though people were worried about their families. i m just a very short period of time we were able to evacuate over 200 patients to a safer parking lot and then transport them to area hospitals. this finger here was lass rated wide open. reporter: patients like paul johnson were stabilized in makeshift triage centers. they were making do with what they had. so, i tip my hat to them. it was that fast they set up a system that fast that took care of people. reporter: six people died at st. john s that day, but miraculously, most survived.
reporter: battle hardened storm chasers in awe of nature s power. oh, my gosh. this is awful. dude, the trees. the trees are debarked! reporter: residents running for cover anywhere they could. in a crowded convenience store some 20 people hunkering down in a darkened commercial refrigerator. can we go in the cooler? [ screaming ] go! oh, dear heaven. god! reporter: at the same time a security camera in a nearby frozen yogurt shop catches the chaos. workers moving customers to the back and then everything goes flying. the massive tornado mowing down everything in its path. people s lives churned up and spewed out. here s the gas station that we were at. reporter: this is the convenience store now. this would have been where we walked in. reporter: all across the city, thousands and thousands of people in shock, taking the first steps on the long road to recovery. make no mistake, joplin, missouri, will rebuild, but it will never be the same. hello an
what s happening. that s ahead. we will have the latest on this developing story in a few minutes from now. president obama is back at the white house of a spending several hours in joplin, missouri. it was exactly a week ago that an f-5 tornado ripped through the city killing people in minutes. 5:41 central time there was a moment of silence marked by the precise instant that tornado hit. our dan traveled with the president to joplin and dan, a tough job for the president to try to lift spirits of a being amongest the people but seeing this disaster first-hand. this is a president who has had to do this quite a bit lately. other natural disasters as well. the president as you know last week was overseas among other things building relationships with european partners. throughout that time, white house aid said the president was getting updates on the situation here in joplin. today the president got to see the devastation up close. before touching down, air force 1 fle