morgue photos of the body of a small child they thought might be skyular, and in fact it was. both families are heart broken but at least they know, they know where their child is. what s frustrating, however, to other families is that both found out about their kids unofficially by back channels. other families said to us, why can t their families have someone visit the morgue and check for their loved ones? of course, some identifications can only be made by dna, but some will be recognizable. we want the make it clear, every official that we met in joplin has been working incredibly hard and trying to do the right thing under very, very difficult circumstances. but some of the explanations for the delays and the red tape and the rules haven t made much sense to people searching for their loved ones and some people in joplin continue to be frustrated. tonight, the breaking news is that the local coroner tells cnn that starting tomorrow, some people under some circumstances will be al
to quickly try to whittle that down even more? absolutely. we had over a dozen folks able to get off that list late this morning. that s good news when you can find folks, that they re unaccounted for, and we got these facts out publicly. we want to whittle that down. but there s also some very, very sad stories on that list. we expect some of those folks to be found in a condition that s no longer living. we re still hearing a lot of anger about the situation in the morgue. gary tuchman, our correspondent, just reported on a family member who s been shown a picture of her 16-month-old nephew, deceased. for days, the family hasn t known whether he was alive or not. turns out skyular is in the morgue. she was shown that picture through unofficial channels, yet she and her family have not been allowed in to see the body and
who s been shown a picture of her 16-month-old nephew, deceased. for days, the family hasn t known whether he was alive or not. turns out skyular is in the morgue. she was shown that picture through unofficial channels, yet they have not been allowed in to see the body and receive confirmation that he is in fact dead. how is that possible? that s one of the reasons we moved to have all 232 of the folks that were missing, the folks that have made those reports in a private meeting with the folks at the morgue. but it s also important to note that this was an incredible storm, and this is not a series of bodies lying in a row that are easily identifiable. there are pieces of folks. there are very, very difficult scenes. it s not as easy as walking down a row and being able to instantly identify. the dna matches, unfortunately a significant number are going to
gary tuchman, our correspondent, just reported on a family member who s been shown a picture of her 16-month-old nephew, deceased. for days, the family hasn t known whether he was alive or not. turns out skyular is in the morgue. she was shown that picture through unofficial channels, yet she and her family have not been allowed in to see the body and receive actual confirmation that little skyular is in fact dead. how is that possible? that s one of the reasons we moved to have all 232 of the folks that were missing, the folks that have made those reports in a private meeting with the folks at the morgue. but it s also important to note that this was an incredible storm, and this is not a series of bodies lying in a row that are easily identifiable. there are pieces of folks. there are very, very difficult scenes. it s not as easy as walking down a row and being able to instantly identify. the dna matches, unfortunately a significant number are going to be necessary to confirm that.
receive actual confirmation that little skyular is in fact dead. how is that possible? that s one of the reasons we moved to have all 232 of the folks that were missing, the folks that have made those reports in a private meeting with the folks at the morgue. but it s also important to note that this was an incredible storm, and this is not a series of bodies lying in a row that are easily identifiable. there are pieces of folks. there are very, very difficult scenes. it s not as easy as walking down a row and being able to instantly identify. the dna matches, unfortunately a significant number are going to be necessary to confirm that. that takes a little while. it s a reality of a storm of this magnitude that s done this level of damage. but grant it that no doubt about it, and obviously one wants to wait for dna, but in the meantime, they ve been saying that might take two weeks. it doesn t seem reasonable to expect a grieving family to just be told to sit on their hands