i m really overwhelmed right now. interviewing the pilot to try to i was looking down from the get some answers about what airplane and it seemed like everything wasn t real. happened yesterday. jason carroll, thanks so much. the woman who died, that was to what s important for me to say be a part of her 40th birthday is just thank you to everyone celebration who has believed in me who has still ahead a wisconsin man trying to figure out why governor rick perry s office defended me, who has supported my family. deletes its e-mails after 70 days. he s wondering if perry s got secrets. i just want my family is the my name is robin. most important thing to me right now and i just want to go and be with them. so, thank you for being there for me. cnn s drew griffin was there. this was a very emotional moment for her and her supporters wasn t it, drew? yeah, it was. i think, you know, after hearing that statement again, fred, you could hear in her voice just how unprepar
road. asking if anybody could use help. and as i got closer and closer it was just so much destruction. at one point i looked out and there was a house completely engulfed in flames. i could see the smoke from a distance and trying to see where it was coming from and then i could see it was from a house completely engulfed in flames all around it. just complete devastation. hey, jacqui and bethany, stand by, please. okay. it s just it s devastating to hear what bethany is reporting from the ground, and i have to say this, because this is an emergency situation, and i said that through social media that i had seen someone tweeting about help there. another one is coming through for nurses or doctors looking to help in joplin, missouri. there s a phone number to call, and they are asking you to call the greater ozarks of the red cross, the greater ozarks of the red cross, and then they re asking for any medical personnel who s in the area to come to the area to help out. of cours
people driving down the streets and asking if anybody could use help, and as i got closer and closer it was just so much instruction. at one point i looked out and there was a house completely engumped in flames. i could see the smoke from distance and trying to see where it was coming from and then i could see it was from a house completely engulfed in flames all around it. just complete devastation. hey, jacqui and bethany, stand by, please. okay. it s just it s devastated to hear what bethany is reporting from the ground, and i have to say this, because this is an emergency situation, and i said that through social media that i had seen someone tweeting about help there. another one is coming through for nurses or doctors looking to help in joplin, missouri. there s a phone number to call, and they are asking you to call the greater ozarks of the red cross and asking for any medical
that i had seen someone tweeting about help there. another one is coming through for nurses or doctors looking to help in joplin, missouri. there s a phone number to call, and they are asking you to call the greater ozarks of the red cross, the greater ozarks of the red cross, and then they re asking for any medical personnel who s in the area to come to the area to help out. of course, they want you to be safe. so listen, that s the information. i want to chad myers, after this break. i m also hearing from people saying i want some analysis from chad and jacqui about what s going on and what s causing all of these crazy weather systems, these devastating storms to just come through and do so much damage. we ll be back here in a moment with breaking news here on cnn. the pictures are incredible. the stories are even more incredible of survival and of just living through this tornado that ripped through joplin, missouri. we re back in a moment.
it s from chasertv.com. rob, roll it. oh, my. and then just a short time ago, storm chaser, his name is steve polly got out in the middle of this driving on the interstate, and he said he didn t think he was going to make it touch and go for a while. these videos he took at a gas station. listen. come on. yes, it is. all right. our jacqui jeras, our meteorologist joins us now. some officials in missouri reporting that there are at least as many as 24 fatalities from this tornado that touched down, and they are saying there s widespread damage across the city s south side. that s right, don. it was just an incredible tornado that touched down just before 6:00 local time there. a multi-vortex tornado touched down in downtown joplin and just stripped a path of destruction through the city. there are many buildings which have been damaged. homes have been flattened and trees broken off and stripped from their bark, and, unfortunately, we re concerned that that death t