we will have the capability of taking care of emergency patients, surgical patients. i m having equipment set up at memorial hall today. we ll actually have full dpra and cat scan and mri capabilities today. we will be functioning as a hospital. obviously not on a 370 bed capability like we were before, but mercy and st. john s will be here. we re here to take care of the patients and we will rebuild. all right. sean, thank you for that. and gary, tell me about what that process is. in the next few days, this will start to get cleared up. people will move on with their lives. what decisions are you making about how to rebuild and go on? it s like sean says, we have an immediate plan, bring this mobile hospital in, 60 beds, sunday it will be set up, and then short-term plans and long term, we re working already with mercy v a board meeting, for example, to discuss those plans and further that. the work of the next few months and next couple years will be to rebuild. we ll figure out
thanks so much for being with us on this wednesday. good to see everybody this morning. you know the pictures are coming in, new pictures, and the devastation, continues for the midwest. that s right. ali velshi in joplin, missouri, where they had a harrowing night. hi, ali. good morning, christine, kiran, it is a better morning here. people counting their blessings. a near miss last night in joplin, missouri. everyone taking shelter and bracing for another twister that thanchgfully never came. this city, as you know, is reeling. 48 hours after the deadliest tornado in recorded u.s. history the death toll stands at 124 people killed. the national weather service upgraded sunday s tornado to an ef-5, the highest possible rating with winds above 200 miles an hour. now in oklahoma, devastating storms carved up canadian county, which is west of oklahoma city. five separate tornadoes touched down and five people are dead. dozens more are hurt. the dallas area got pounded too.