also this half-hour coming up, the new crisis facing so many victims of the joplin, missouri tornado. they can t find a place to stay. temporary housing is nowhere to be found. see who is helping those who really need it the most. later, the royal newlyweds and their upcoming north american adventure. kate is making her first trip to the states. what? and to canada, by the way. all the excitement as will and kate plan their great north american getaway. you and i both have a lot of canadian background, but who can believe this is her first trip to the states. or canada. as well. she has canadian roots. i think her grandfather served in canada. seems sort of odd she hasn t made her way out here. we ll welcome her. we want to turn to the weather which turned from hot to dangerously hot in chicago this memorial day. police closed north avenue beach after at least four people were taken to the hospital with heat-related conditions. in fact, the beach was so crowded emergenc
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region. we have folks that have been here for a week working straight through the clock. we re going to rebuild joplin. we re going to focus on rebuilding our souls today and begin the process of rebuilding joplin when the memorial service is over. when do you expect to be able to have identified all the bodies that you currently have now, the remains? we re working through the process. like i said, we re up well into the numbers of confirmation but as i said before, we re dealing with the families before we re dealing with the media an as we work through one by one by one we ll release, as i ve said in the past, daily lists. we were the first ones to release names and addresses of those who had been confirmed killed by this horrible tornado. it is also important to note that at the forensics work, scientific work here is very challenging. as you can see behind me, a field of tattered town. so, too, were the bodies. matching up those and using science to mch those up has required a
individual tragedies. those numbers have far exceeded what anyone had ever hoped for, far exceed any single tornado in the history of our country. today as we pause at 2:00 to bring everybody together, all the ministers, all the clergy for a memorial service, we are focused on remembering and inspiring others to continue to come together the way they have here. we have law enforcement officials from throughout the region. we have folks that have been here for a week working straight through the clock. we re going to rebuild joplin. we re going to focus on rebuilding our souls today and begin the process of rebuilding joplin when that memorial service is over. governor, the president is coming this afternoon. he ll be at one of the memorials you are having. i m certain he will ask you what you need. what s your top priority? hoo we want to continue to feel the people of this country continue to reach to us and give those contributions to our various charities. that s been tremendously
today, serving those who serve with the vice chief of staff of the army peter kror relly. veterans advocates with tim tats and paul rykofp. chairman of the senate veterans commit patty murray. paying for veterans is a cost of war. and an iraq veteran i ve been told welcome home dozens of times. i met a vietnam vet who had never been told that once. i m candy crowley and this is state of the union. this afternoon president obama visits joplin, missouri, the town devastated by tornadoes. joining us this morning from joplin, governor jay mixon. give us an update, the number of confirmed dead, what s the situation with the morgue and how many do you still have missing? we ve got that unaccounted for number overnight down to 44 now. and throughout the night once again troopers were making that most difficult visit to families in this region notifying them of a loss of their family members. we a we ve still got a significant level of work to do to make sure because