torn to smithereens someone who lived and seen the damage up close, bethy, living about ten miles away, married with kids, she and her husband and kids got to safety somehow. now she has made it to st. john s hospital. we want to say st. john s hospital being evacuated because it was hit. they re setting up a sort of satellite mobile facility to deal with patients. are you with us? yes, i am. so, explain to us i know you re at the hospital now. you re about to i am walking i can finally see the hospital. i finally had to park and walk because it is just a mess. there s trees everywhere, power lines. they finally got it to where only nurses and doctors could get through. i parked and i m walking up behind the hospital now. so, bethany, when this went through, did you go to shelter? did you go in a basement? what happened? i did. i was in carl junction, northwest of joplin, pe went down in our basement.
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