of traffic pretty quickly, and those people in the truck, people were very security yourks obviously, and they were able to move out of the way, you know, and the truck kept honking, and it looked like it was going to the hospital obviously to get them some care. don t go anywhere. we ll continue to talk about these pictures. this was going so fast on twitter, monitoring my twitter feed and someone sent a message. an official looking message that said if there s any available medical personnel to please head to joplin, missouri, to help out. it s going so quickly it went down to my feed. i want to say again on cnn, any available medical professionals, according to someone here on twitter and to me it looked like an official tweet, to head to joplin, missouri, to help out. also fema is standing by saying they are standing ready to support missouri after the tornadoes and the severe weather. that e-mail and that is just crossing the wire here into cnn.
it s from chasertv.com. rob, roll it. oh, my. and then just a short time ago, storm chaser, his name is steve polly got out in the middle of this driving on the interstate, and he said he didn t think he was going to make it touch and go for a while. these videos he took at a gas station. listen. come on. yes, it is. all right. our jacqui jeras, our meteorologist joins us now. some officials in missouri reporting that there are at least as many as 24 fatalities from this tornado that touched down, and they are saying there s widespread damage across the city s south side. that s right, don. it was just an incredible tornado that touched down just before 6:00 local time there. a multi-vortex tornado touched down in downtown joplin and just stripped a path of destruction through the city. there are many buildings which have been damaged. homes have been flattened and trees broken off and stripped from their bark, and, unfortunately, we re concerned that that death t