camera. she did agree to speak with my partner cnn producer nora. you were in with mia and her mother, i want to make clear her mother was there the whole time. what did she tell you? the 11-year-old mia was in that fourth grade classroom that we have heard so much about with ms. garcia and ms. morales. they were watching lilo and stitch, it was the end of the school year, and she said one of her teachers got the email that there was a shooter in the building and went to the door and he was right there. they made eye contact. the shooter made eye contact with the teacher. with the teacher and he shot out the window in the door. and then mia says it just happened all so fast, he backed the teacher into the classroom and he made eye contact with the teacher, again, looked her right in the eye and said goodnight and then shot her and killed her. he said goodnight before he shot her. he said goodnight. then it happened pretty fast after that as well. he started open fir
girl who survived the worst of the attack here. 11-year-old 4th grader mia soros was in class watching lio and stitch when the shooter came to the door. she says he looked her teacher in the eye and said good night and shot and killed her. mia said she heard music during the massacre. she thinks the shooter was playing music from the other room. she described it as i want to kill people music. mia says, one of her friends was lying beside her bleeding already dead. mia took that blood and smeared it on herself so she could play dead to protect herself, she was concerned the shooter would come back into the room and kill her. mia also told us that she, herself, got a foeven and called 911. brianna. nowt in the meantime, the police response to the tragedy
reporter: more than 1500 emergency response workers from four states have descended on this city of more than 50,000, trying to find survivors who may be trapped amid the destruction, which spreads for miles. it s just been incredible here the last 28 hours. i want to show you the picture of will norton. his sister sarah and aunt tracy join me now. you got word that he that he was found, but you don t know where he is now. what s the latest? the latest word, we heard he was checked into the hospital. he was alive when he was checked in in joplin, at freeman. then they transferred him. but we re not sure where he s transferred. when he was transferred, he was alive. we have no idea other than that. there s been you don t know what condition he s in? , no we have no idea. sir, tell me what happened. you were on the foeven with him coming back from the graduation ceremony that he had just graduated high school. what happened? i was riding with my mom, we were in a separate
we believe there are still rescues out there. we want to support the men and women that are on the ground out there literally going foot by foot, searching for folks. reporter: more than 1500 emergency response workers from four states have descended on this city of more than 50,000, trying to find survivors who may be trapped amid the destruction, which spreads for miles. it s just been incredible here the last 28 hours. i want to show you the picture of will norton. his sister sarah and aunt tracy join me now. you got word that he that he was found, but you don t know where he is now. what s the latest? the latest word, we heard he was checked into the hospital. he was alive when he was checked in in joplin, at freeman. then they transferred him. but we re not sure where he s transferred. when he was transferred, he was alive. we have nodea other than that. there s been you don t know what condition he s in? , no we have no idea. sir, tell me what happened. you were on
good evening. it s a very difficult night and dangerous night here in joplin, missouri. the death toll, as you know, is 116 but that number, frankly, is likely to rise. the number of missing at this hour is simply not known. it s impossible at this point to know. we re going to try to talk to the mayor of joplin in a few moments to get the latest information we can. there s a lot to tell you about. now, the affected areas have been declared a disaster area by president obama. there are crews out even now still looking for people who may be alive, still trapped in the rubble. and the rubble is all around us. it goes for miles. as far as the eye can see. the location i m at, it is just completely destroyed neighborhoods, block after block. all you see on the horizon are broken and bent and destroyed trees. there is lightning in the air. a heavy downpour of rain, which has been going on and off throughout the day, which has been making the search and rescue operations all the