it s unbelievable. we have jamie green on the phone who shot those pictures. she was working shooting a wedding, shooting wedding photographs and then got caught up on in. one of the storm chasers said the same thing and one of our iyorters on the ground at the hospital. bethany scutti, and she said the windows are blown out and she can t believe it. our meteorologist jacqui jeras with us as well and also chad myers and much, much more as these new pictures come in and we begin to uncover exactly what happened in joplin, missouri, and it s not good. [ male announcer ] in 2011, at&t is at work, building up our wireless network all across america. we re adding new cell sites. increasing network capacity, and investing billions of dollars to improve your wireless network experience.
it s from chasertv.com. rob, roll it. oh, my. and then just a short time ago, storm chaser, his name is steve polly got out in the middle of this driving on the interstate, and he said he didn t think he was going to make it touch and go for a while. these videos he took at a gas station. listen. come on. yes, it is. all right. our jacqui jeras, our meteorologist joins us now. some officials in missouri reporting that there are at least as many as 24 fatalities from this tornado that touched down, and they are saying there s widespread damage across the city s south side. that s right, don. it was just an incredible tornado that touched down just before 6:00 local time there. a multi-vortex tornado touched down in downtown joplin and just stripped a path of destruction through the city. there are many buildings which have been damaged. homes have been flattened and trees broken off and stripped from their bark, and, unfortunately, we re concerned that that death t