today, serving those who serve with the vice chief of staff of the army peter kror relly. veterans advocates with tim tats and paul rykofp. chairman of the senate veterans commit patty murray. paying for veterans is a cost of war. and an iraq veteran i ve been told welcome home dozens of times. i met a vietnam vet who had never been told that once. i m candy crowley and this is state of the union. this afternoon president obama visits joplin, missouri, the town devastated by tornadoes. joining us this morning from joplin, governor jay mixon. give us an update, the number of confirmed dead, what s the situation with the morgue and how many do you still have missing? we ve got that unaccounted for number overnight down to 44 now. and throughout the night once again troopers were making that most difficult visit to families in this region notifying them of a loss of their family members. we a we ve still got a significant level of work to do to make sure because