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second tornado sweeping into joplin and other areas of the south including dallas and kansas. tomorrow is now feared to be a distinct possibility. i ll be joined by t.j. holmes from cnn. you used to work for an nbc affiliate in joplin. you re now back there tonight. have you in your darkest nightmares you could never have imagined this kind of scene, could you? reporter: no. i m coming in parts of a town that i know so well are unrecognizable right now. you have a tough time. i have a tough time getting my bearings in certain places even though i should know exactly where i am. i am from the south, from arkansas, worked in arkansas, been covering tornadoes a long time. it seems cliche but you never have seen anything like this in your life. it s something worth noting here about this town, joplin, missouri. this town, yes, it s small. 50,000 people. but this town is the economic
there s lightning dancing in every direction across the sky. the kind of rain tonight that you get in a hurricane. you are getting in this town. the kind of rain that they just don t need after what appears to have been an ef-4 tornado. one rare, 1% of tornadoes ever recorded. that kind of strength pops into this town about three-quarter of a mile wide and runs for three miles and some are estimated six on the ground. this doesn t skirt the edge of town. it runs through the middle of town wiping out the southern section of the town turning it into bare trees and a bunch of shattered timber and cars that are balled up. not cars that are blown across a parking lot but turned into balls of steel. it s just an incredible scene here in joplin, missouri. we re hearing stories of hail stones bigger than golf balls raining down on joplin. aside from all of the other stuff that was going with the
all the more difficult. they are still out there for many hours searching for people. the last i heard they had found seven people alive. at this point we still don t have a count for how many people may still be missing. we have not been able to get a count like that. i m not sure if you ve heard anything that s newer information than i have, piers. on the ground here we haven t heard anything. i m seeing the images and it seems impossible to me the death toll will stay at 116. you see vast sways of the region just decimated. it s like a scene sort of armageddon scene. really appalling pictures. reporter: it s very strange. you walk through some of these areas that are just completely destroyed. it is destroyed as far as the eye can see. i m on kind of a hilltop and all you see are shredded trees. again, you walk through some neighborhoods and you don t hear
wanting to hear from the superintendent who oversees all of the schools in joplin, missouri, where we have seen this twister take the lives of 116 people. the fears tonight are of a second tornado sweeping into joplin and other areas of the south including dallas and kansas. tomorrow is now feared to be a distinct possibility. i ll be joined by t.j. holmes from cnn. you used to work for an nbc affiliate in joplin. you re now back there tonight. have you in your darkest nightmares you could never have imagined this kind of scene, could you? reporter: no. i m coming in parts of a town that i know so well are unrecognizable right now. you have a tough time. i have a tough time getting my bearings in certain places even though i should know exactly where i am. i am from the south, from arkansas, worked in arkansas, been covering tornadoes a long time. it seems cliche but you never