part of the danger we had power out in some parts of the city, not completely out in other parts of the city. people need to be careful ability getting into their homes or the city with the power still on, we have natural gas leaks, our water utility company has breaks in the lines so there s a danger if we do start getting some fires, that we won t have the fire equipment and the water resources to put those fires out. those things are all critical and especially i think it s important that the people if you don t have to be out on the street, stay home. if you re out looking for a family member something like that, emergency responder, been called into work central type of a business, certainly you re going to be out. we don t want to lose people with fatalities because our first responders can t get to them because of plugged up traffic. do you have enough help? do you need more help from communities and jurisdictions near sfb. we ve had an overwhelming response by roughly 40 ag
many ran to seek safer ground, but boy, the devastation is coming to light today. that s right. 12 hours later life has changed in joplin, missouri. a powerful tornado ripped that city apart. the red cross said 75% of the town is virtually gone with reports of at least 30 people killed and dozens more injured. 50,000 people live in the city. no phone service, power lines are down, cars and trucks smashed and flipped. the governor calling out the national guard and declaring a state of emergency this morning. to make matters worse the city s main hospital st. john s medical center where people would have gone to get help suffered extensive damage. witnesses say windows were blown out on some of the top floors. medical records, x-rays and other items scattered nearly 70 miles away. at least 100 patients hadden to transferred to other area hospitals. crews combing through mounds of debris and rubble searching for survivors. brian todd is live at joplin at st. john s. when we