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Corner of your screen, that s what we would call a debris ball. so when something like that shows up on your radar, that tells you this is picking up pieces of buildings, picks up trees and causing major devastation. so, that s what the radar image looks like when that tornado was moving through job lynn just a couple of hours ago. i know, don, we ve been in touch with some of our affiliates, communication, as i said, is limited out of joplin. we don t have satellite capabilities out of joplin so our affiliates out of kansas city are trying to get there to get those images back to us. you re right. st. louis is one of the places i worked there at ktvi, but i want to say our affiliate, jacqui, i m going to read this and get back to you, but our affiliate ktsk is reporting a tornado happened around 6 p.m. on central time. we re waiting for affiliate pictures out of this area, as jacqui said, it s not a big area, not an urban area with ....
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 ....