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This is a doppler radar indicated potential tornado. everyone in joplin needs to be taking cover in some place substantial, some place out of the weather. i ll be here watching it the rest of the night. and gary tuchman is at a shelter where hundreds of people have sought safety tonight. i m told we just lost gary. there s about i think gary told me before he left, there were about 400 people at a shelter tonight that they have gone to. and chad, one of the things we ve been talking about yesterday is there s there s a lot of areas here that have been destroyed, so people don t have their homes to go to. even those homes, they didn t have basements in those homes. they were just built on concrete slabs. right. and the potential here is that all of that debris, that clearly is out there, will be picked up by the wind, either in a severe thunderstorm, gusts of 50 or 60 miles per hour or picked up in a new tornado. the potential now exists for ....
Anderson. and one of the reasons we picked the location we have, not only is it against a brick building, there s not a lot of debris fields anywhere within sight here. i m told we have gary tuchman on the phone. gary, you re at a shelter. what s happening now that the sirens are going off? reporter: there s more than 400 people, this is the largest shelter in joplin, missouri, and there s a little panic going on right now because police officials and red cross officials just came in the room and said get out, go into the basement, go into the shelter. we don t want anymore body bags. so you have a lot of traumatized people struggling to get out of bed and run down into the basement shelter. we re kind of the last ones going down there. they re insisting we go down with them. these poor people have been traumatized for 48 hours. the shelter is more crowded doonlts than it was last night and now these poor people are running down into the shelter to protect themselves. ....
I guess the death toll unofficially now maybe ten here in oklahoma, and they re still trying to find people. there was a lot of tornadoes, big tornadoes on the ground for quite a while today. yeah. david payne, i m glad you were safe and appreciate you talking to us tonight. there has been loss of life in oklahoma. joining us on the phone is the governor of oklahoma, we appreciate her calling us, mary fallin. governor, what is the latest information about the situation in oklahoma? we re still not out of the woods yet. we still have storms going through the northeast and southeast part of oklahoma. so there s still possible tornadic activity in our state. we re still under a state of alert. what we do know is there was about 14 communities throughout the state of oklahoma that have been hit today by tornadoes and sustained substantial damage. we are very, very sad that we have had some fatalities in our state. we re still trying to confirm ....
Coming up, at least four dead in tornadoes in central oklahoma. i m going to speak with the sheriff coming up next. what s next for the storm system. we ll look at that next. a tornado watch here in joplin. you just heard the sirens. and we re going to talk to a man here who a veteran who has seen a lot. he served in iraq. we ll tell you how he survived the storm. it s an amazing story, holding onto the faucets in his bathroom. we ll talk to a woman who is talking about rebuilding and she s going to tell you how you begin again, how you restart your life. at least how she is going about doing it. all that ahead, stay tuned. ....
Still scared and we see a lot of tears and we re trying to reassure people, just telling them they ll be okay. they re this the safest place they can be. but it s a very sad scene as hundreds of people, many of them who lost relatives, many who lost their homes, are in this shelter fearing a tornado is closing in on them. yeah. gary, we ll continue to check in with you as we continue to track this storm. when we come back, i want to show you how resilient the people here are in joplin. i know that s a word tossed around a lot on tv and becomes a cliche. but some cliches are true. you re going to meet a woman named sally smith, as she was picking up the pieces of her life and helping out her mom. the question we wanted to ask, is how do you restart your life? her answers ahead. ....