there s lightning dancing in every direction across the sky. the kind of rain tonight that you get in a hurricane. you are getting in this town. the kind of rain that they just don t need after what appears to have been an ef-4 tornado. one rare, 1% of tornadoes ever recorded. that kind of strength pops into this town about three-quarter of a mile wide and runs for three miles and some are estimated six on the ground. this doesn t skirt the edge of town. it runs through the middle of town wiping out the southern section of the town turning it into bare trees and a bunch of shattered timber and cars that are balled up. not cars that are blown across a parking lot but turned into balls of steel. it s just an incredible scene here in joplin, missouri. we re hearing stories of hail stones bigger than golf balls raining down on joplin. aside from all of the other stuff that was going with the
national weather service began keeping records 61 years ago. today survivors wander through rubble of neighborhoods today while police and firefighters from four states dig through the wreckage. they found seven people alive today and hope to find more but many fear the death toll will surely rise. these extraordinary pictures show you just how bad the situation is. you are looking at what used to be joplin s walmart. superstore took a direct hit from a tornado and reduced to nothing but rubble at a time when the store was crowded with weekend shoppers. st. john s regional medical center took a direct hit scattering x-rays as far as 70 miles away. i want to go straight to joplin live and sam champion. sam, i mean, scenes of utter catastrophe in joplin. bring me up to speed with the latest news there. reporter: i tell you, it s a hellish out in joplin tonight. there s lightning dancing in every direction across the sky.
our ears started to pop. incredible stories of survival. we thought we were going to be sucked up the chimney. now joplin, missouri, holds its breath and wonders is it over yet? it was crazy. i never seen nothing like that a day in my life. why now? what s really going on? that is destroyed. completely. twisters, volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis. where will mother nature strike next? eyewitness accounts from storm chasers and reports from the ground. debris on the ground here. this is a special edition of piers morgan tonight. good evening. joplin, missouri, is under another tornado watch tonight. the national weather service says there s a 45% chance of a second tornado outbreak just one day after a deadly twister ripped through the central town and killed at least 116 people. tying it for single deadliest to hit american soil since the national weather service began keeping records 61 years ago. today survivors wander through rubble of neighborhoods to
over yet? it was crazy. i never seen nothing like that a day in my life. why now? what s really going on? that is destroyed. completely. twisters, volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis. where will mother nature strike next? eyewitness accounts from storm chasers and reports from the ground. debris on the ground here. this is a special edition of piers morgan tonight. good evening. joplin, missouri, is under another tornado watch tonight. the national weather service says there s a 45% chance of a second tornado outbreak just one day after a deadly twister ripped through the central town and killed at least 116 people. tying it for single deadliest to hit american soil since the national weather service began keeping records 61 years ago. today survivors wander through rubble of neighborhoods today while police and firefighters from four states dig through the wreckage. they found seven people alive today and hope to find more but many fear the death toll will surel
the whole building started to shake. our ears started to pop. incredible stories of survival. we thought we were going to be sucked up the chimney. now joplin, missouri, holds its breath and wonders is it over yet? it was crazy. i never seen nothing like that a day in my life. why now? what s really going on? that is destroyed. completely. twisters, volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis. where will mother nature strike next? eyewitness accounts from storm chasers and reports from the ground. debris on the ground here. this is a special edition of piers morgan tonight. good evening. joplin, missouri, is under another tornado watch tonight. the national weather service says there s a 45% chance of a second tornado outbreak just one day after a deadly twister ripped through the central town and killed at least 116 people. tying it for single deadliest to hit american soil since the national weather service began keeping records 61 years ago. today survivors wand