the family s facebook page to offer help and prayers but none of it has brought lance back to his family, at least not yet. they re still hoping and so are we. mike joins us tonight from joplin. i want to know the latest in the search for lance. for those who missed your interview last night, let s start by getting a skrings description of them out there again so anybody who has information can get back in touch. tell us again about lance. mike, mike, tell us about lance, if you re hearing me, we want to hear about lance, give us that description so folks can get back to you, go to your family s facebook page and help us reach him. tell us again how tall he is where you know about when he has been, any leads you ve got. all right. i m not sure that that connection there to mike has been working. we ll go back to him as soon as
jonathan taylor. enormous damage to the car. has jonathan, who s going to make it through this, you said he s been in the trauma unit, has he been in a position to assist in any way? he can just tell us that he ended up in a van and then he was at freeman hospital here in town but he woke up in a van. it started with the windows on lance s car imploding and him getting into the back seat and that s the last time he s seen my son is when he jumped into the back seat. their car flew maybe 250, 300 feet from where they got pulled into the grocery store at dylans over the railroad tracks and then where we found the car to 250 feet and we still don t know who the good samaritan was that took jonathan in the van to
for those who may have missed last night, take us from the top, what do we know about lance, what can you tell us? start at the top for us. sunday night, i got reports that he was missing and we ve been here ef since and i finally got with you guys to give the story that i gave last night about the car and jonathan taylor and finding him and him being in springfield or in springfield, missouri, in the hospital, and the reports to find the car and it s just been a crazy deal. the phone calls that i ve received, the friends and family, thank you so much. and you guys for getting lance s story out there. he still hasn t been found. we ve been to every place. missing persons to the morgue
freeman s or if they helped lance but we can t say enough because without them taking jonathan, we wouldn t have that lead, we wouldn t have been able to find the car. we searched an eight block by 25 block and you can see the devastation here. it s unlike anything i ve ever seen. you see it on tv all the time. i can t say enough about all the families that are out here that aren t getting the opportunity i am getting now. i feel for them. i m just lucky you guys got me right here. mike, we re going to do what we can do. thank you. we know last question, we know they asked you to go in and give a dna sample today. any idea why that might be? what they re going to be doing with these samples? is it good news? how do you interpret it? where do we go from here? the way i took it is, you know, state is okay, you know, but with all the different reports that the state was
getting, you know, d.a. or somebody else higher up in the government has come in and they re taking it and in order whether lance is found alive or dead, they still need that identification so my mother and my ex-wife michelle and myself had to give swabs and, you know, if that leads to us finding him somewhere in a hospital or that leads us to finding him in the morgue, at least we ll have closure. a lot of these family, out here won t get that. all right. look, mike, thanks so much for joining us tonight. we re praying for you. we re going to do everything we can to help you. we know you re doing everything you can. all right. be well. i can t say enough about your cnn team that s out here. all right. thank you. be strong. thank you. we turn now to anderson cooper in another part of joplin, missouri. anderson, thanks for being with us. thanks for having me. you hear that father and i mean,