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Night and that s all i did. called his cell phone? does it ring or it rang for the first day and a half and now it goes straight to voice mail, but just in case he gets it, i want him to know that his dad loves him. how are you holding up? i got a lot of strong people around me that pick me up. that s about it. i mean, in something as catastrophic as all this, you don t know whether he s underneath a piece of wood or whether he s in a hospital or where he s at. and we ve searched and searched and searched. so i ve got to keep searching. so you re going to go to springfield now and hope for the best? i m walking away from here and going to springfield, missouri, and then i m going to kansas city, and then i m going to witchta, and i ll go somewhere else if i have to. you ll check all the hospitals, anything you can? well, any that we ve had reports that there s a kid that looks like lantz, i can t just sit here and the hospitals ....
oh, we ve got lightning. we need to go back. let s turn around. oh, it s getting big, big, big. that s huge! for those who survived, the scars will always be them. nearly two dozen people, including three young men, took cover in a convenience store in a walk-in beer cooler. one turned on his camera as the tornado struck. the video is dark, but the sound tells a story. oh! [ wind blowing ] oh, my god! jesus, jesus! imagine pushing open the door after that incredible experience. elsewhere in joplin, one couple recorded the scene in their neighborhood moments after the tornado struck. destruction all around them, homes on fire. they called out for the young man s sister and her fiance. sarah! sarah! mike! of course, there s no end to the heartbreak, but no end to hope either. we met tracy pressler and her niece, sarah norton. they were looking for sarah s brother, will, who was driving home from his graduation with his dad and was sucked out of the sun ....
Night and that s all i did. called his cell phone? does it ring? it rang for the first day and a half and now goes straight to voice mail. but just in case he gets it, i want him to know that his dad loves him. how are you holding up? i ve got a lot of strong people around me to pick me up. that s about it. i mean, something as catastrophic as all this, you don t know whether he s underneath a piece of wood or whether he s in the hospital or where he s at. and we ve searched and searched and searched. so i ve got to keep searching. you re going to go to springfield now and hope for the best? i m walking away from here and going to springfield and kansas city and wichita. you re going to check all the hospitals? we ve had reports that there s a kid that looks like lantz. i can t just sit here and the ....
Son. i can tell. and i will tell. you were asked to give dna? i was asked to give dna todd at missouri southern, a little while ago and that right there just set it in me that there can t be no stopping until lantz is found, dead or alive, i ve got to keep pushing. i ve got to find him. it s important to hold onto hope? oh, my god, yeah. if you don t have hope, what are you going to do? look at all this. if every family out here didn t have hope that it s going to be better, i ve heard on the radio they re going to rebuild st. john s. that s hope. you ve got to have hope. you ve got to have god. you ve got to have friends and family. you ve got to have all of it combined to get you through this. thank you for talking to us. i appreciate it. ....
Was one of them. lantz was last seen with a friend. lantz was ripped out of a car. i spoke with his dad, mike, in joplin. he vowed to search until he found his son, alive or not. what was the last you knew about lantz? my youngest son called me, and it was maybe ten minutes after the storm, and they him and my ex-wife had been trying to get ahold of him over and over and they couldn t. and i started calling him and still never got anything. i called it all last night. you re still calling his number? i can t stop. i don t know why. i stayed up until like 2:00 last night and that s all i did. called his cell phone? does it ring? it rang for the first day and a half and now goes straight to voice mail. ....