worth looking at this road. if you go driving down this road, this is a sense of what you have been seeing all day when you see these pictures it is going down this main road, so you can see the tremendous damage to the business districts there, all of the things that people normally have to rely on for purposes of recovery from a storm like this. let s go over to the high school. this is another area we have talked about during the day, big, pristine complex, this had beautiful picture from before the storm. this is what happened to that high school. graduation had had taken place just shortly before all of this over at another location. so, they didn t have at the high school. just imagine what had happened if they had. been fortunate in that regard, obviously, all school cancel there had from here on out as a result of that we move down the way, i talk about the business climate and what people deal with. look at this home depot down here, another big complex, as you might imagine.
teams with he has to deal with the tornado devastation back here at home. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. it s been almost 24 hours since the people of joplin, missouri hid in their homes as the tornado tore through their city. officials say 116 people were killed and many more injured. this makes this storm tied for the second deadliest twister. the toll is expected to climb as one resident puts it. everybody s going to know people who are dead. a massive rescue operations under way that has been hampered by more bad weather. many pipes are damaged. despite the obstacles of success today, the governor says that there were seven rescues. in some cases, entire families were pulled from the rubble alive. at least 2,000 buildings are damaged, including one of the city s two hospitals. brian todd is joining us from outside of that hospital. he s joining us live now. brian? reporter: wolf, as you can see, we re getting another thunderstorm. they have bee