country? do most people have basements or shelters to go to? unfortunately, not. we had a dangerous tornado south of joplin a few years ago and that sparked the interest in people getting tornado shelters, for people who live in mobile homes. it s a concrete shelter, their place to hide. ray, can i ask you a question you can hear yes, i m hearing sirens. yes. where are you? i m not sure where the siren sound came from. our in our news room it must be from steve, the storm chaser, on the other line as well. ray i anywhere around joplin right now you re going to hearing sirens. they ve asked people to stop using water. fires from 20th street to our busiest enter sjeng they re trying to run out and they re running out of water pressure so they stopped everyone to stop using water. everyone is to start taking care of damage and
meteorologist jacqui jeras. we have been monitoring these feeds. you have been monitoring scanner traffic. we re told a number of injuries, possibility casualties. people are looking for people. what s going on? so much devastation. it s hard to get a handle on how widespread this is. of course, communication is extremely limited. they re asking people to stay out of the city because emergency crews are trying to set up triages to help the people who have been injured. and also, you know, there are some reports of doas as well, so we re not sure how many at this time. a tornado did touch down in joplin just before 6:00 central time. moved through the downtown area and continued to push on up toward the north and east of there. we ve got reports of buildings in downtown damaged, homes that have been completely leveled, trees that have been snapped off. and just, you know, rubble all over the place. the scene has been described as being roar ific. there are reports, as you me