we re thankful for the people that are coming together and helping. that s what it s all about. hunt said that people have been posting on facebook to get the word out about those people still trapped. those people who need help and people are coming to their rescue. still ahead, we ll go to the ground zero of the tornado to see its incredible force firsthand. reporter: everywhere here in joplin there are cars stacked, strewn about everywhere. the axis from quick search and rescue that was done last night, they re going to be doing more thorough searches now. you see these everywhere. they re all over joplin. that was jim spellman. he s live in joplin obviously. actually, we ll go to him live coming up. and somewhere in all that rubble, a brown wooden deck sits untouched. it s all that s left of one man s family home.
stay down. [ all talking at once ] is everyone okay? i m right here. i m okay. i m on someone someone s on my back. all of those people survived. and i know it s cliche, but the people in that convenience store were lucky. look at what the tornado left behind. mangled cars and homes, you ll see the pictures in a moment. awful destroyed or badly damaged a walmart, home depot, a high school, and hospital. brian todd outside st. john s regional hospital. there you see the damage. it s unbelievable. actually brian todd is inside of a vehicle now because dark storm clouds are on the horizons, and the winds are strong. brian, tell us about it. reporter: yeah, when i spoke to you last hour, it was just rolling in on us. and we finished our live shot just in time to take cover. it s it rained very, very heavily a moment ago, it s still raining. the clouds are darker than i ve ever seen clouds during the daytime. it really is extraordinary. people here are fearful of this kind
you can never know the fury or fear that a fortune brings unless you ve lived twlun. this next video brings us possibly as close as possible. it was shot inside a joplin convenience store about to take a direct hit. [ all talking at once ] the man who shots the video says everyone inside the store thought they were going to die. they said there was a tornado about a block away from us, and so we just pulled into the quickest thang we could see, which was that fast trip. when we went in, the electricity of already out. there were about 20 people in
this is bad. oh, my gosh. this is awful. this is look at that. that is destroyed. completely. those are a couple of stormchasers. we ll also show you the moment of impact as that tornado roared through missouri. plus, a primary aggressor now in police custody after that brutal beating of a san francisco giants fan coming up. no matter what the market does e-trade can help. they ve got strategies, screeners. [ sneezes ] bless you, peppers. .24/7 customer support. anyway. [ sneezes ] you know peppers, i told you to get a flu shot. [ male announcer ] e-trade. investing unleashed.
you talk to national guard commanders, what have we seen lately? you know, the floods in the midwest along the mississippi. constant brush fires out in the west. tornadoes in the southeast. it seems like we re always talking about the guard being activated. a lot of times they are starting to ask for federal reimbursement. it doesn t always come. there s an effort to try and get the states to pay for it, but this is a growing issue, as you say, carol, with the state budget so stretched. who is going to pay for all this crisis cleanup? barbara starr, many thanks. live from the pentagon. some of the most dramatic video of the tornado was shot by someone right in the middle of it. isaac duncan caught the sheer terror about 20 customers trapped in a joplin convenience store when the tornado hit. they ll join me in the next hour. at bayer, we ve been relieving pain for over 100 years. and today, we re re-inventing aspirin for pain relief. with new extra-strength bayer advanced aspirin.