there were several off on the ramp, several people up on the banks hurt, bleeding. you know, they were walking wounded, i guess, best way to put that. we pulled up there to that truck stop to compose ourselves and get out of the danger zone for a little bit, at which time we started to open the door, we heard a hissing sound, looked off to the left, maybe 50 foot away there was a large propane tank that was leaking propane. you could see the mist out of it. steve, will you stand by and chad and jacqui stand by. i m interested to know what they think as experts. we ll have more pictures, our storm chaser will join us on the other side of the break and chad myers and jacqui jeras as well. what they think when they look at that new video coming into cnn. don t go anywhere. more to come here. more pictures coming in from joplin, missouri.
find these people and they are trying to get in additional medical help as well. so it s hard to put into words, it really is. yeah. it s devastating. jacqui stand by. just want to tell you just how this just breaks your heart. i have a friend whose grandmother is there. my grandmother is 8 it years old very near st. john s hospital. no one to reach anyone. no one is able to reach anyone. her name is betty schrader at 2904 ohio. if you have an on-the-ground contact, please check on her. i m very distressed. so stephen was able to send that to me just because he knows me because i imagine a lot of that is going on among people who live there. hey, don, people checking on their neighbors. go ahead, jacqui. the red cross is tweeting on their website right now that people can help find others and let them know that they are okay via the web so that s one resource and there are also
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
meteorologist jacqui jeras. we have been monitoring these feeds. you have been monitoring scanner traffic. we re told a number of injuries, possibility casualties. people are looking for people. what s going on? so much devastation. it s hard to get a handle on how widespread this is. of course, communication is extremely limited. they re asking people to stay out of the city because emergency crews are trying to set up triages to help the people who have been injured. and also, you know, there are some reports of doas as well, so we re not sure how many at this time. a tornado did touch down in joplin just before 6:00 central time. moved through the downtown area and continued to push on up toward the north and east of there. we ve got reports of buildings in downtown damaged, homes that have been completely leveled, trees that have been snapped off. and just, you know, rubble all over the place. the scene has been described as being roar ific. there are reports, as you me
indiana like the wabash river, the white river. we ll be watching the ohio and, of course, as this all heads downstream. i would actually be more concerned, believe it or not, if we got a tropical storm that could develop, don, remember, hurricane season is right around the corner. june 1st. if we had a tropical system into the gulf of mexico to bring heavy rain, that certainly could be very debt tremental to this area. the other thing to keep in mind, even though we re cresting or crested down in this area, we do still have the river above flood stage all the way up into the hill of missouri. so those waters, they continue to stay high. still way upstream. don? all right, jacqui stand by, because we ll be following this for quite some time. thank you very much. now this. translator: we love his mission, which is not dependent on any one man. we loved him because he was courageously fighting against america and its allies. we have to continue his mission. a taliban group says the