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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110530:00:09:00

Is about twice as long as first estimated. now the national weather service has revised it s report based on aerial photographs of damage to trees. necessity now say the tornado s path was 13 miles long. also new numbers to report today, drew. the death toll continues to rise here. officials say there are 146 sets of human remains that have been recovered. without getting too gruesome, that doesn t mean that s the same number as the death toll because there may be duplicate partial remains. also, 43 people remain missing tonight. that includes four people listed as missing but whose family members say they are, in fact, deceased. some good news for this community. very early stages of its recovery, fema says it has approved $6.2 million in loans for 5,600 joplin area households, that s about $1100 per household. not a lot of money but a start. the city of joplin, now the water is safe to drink. ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110530:00:42:00

Protecting patients, laying over the top of patients because these ambulance doors immediately gave, blew through the er. reporter: when it was over, paul johnson could see the sky. i could look right up through the ceiling and see blue sky. i could see some of the hospital had to be gone. because i knew there was another floor above us. when i saw that, i said, this ain t good. this is not good at all. reporter: but johnson was okay and so was mcdaniel and his family. my grandpa has bruises and cuts on his back. my grandma has glass still embedded in her hair, but we re a lot better off that a lot of people. this is bad. oh, my gosh. this is awful. reporter: a lot of people in joplin were suddenly and severely wounded. but the biggest hospital in town was in ruins. ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110530:00:34:00

Kind of pulled him out from there at 2:00 in the morning. reporter: throughout this temporary red cross shelter,there are stories of dramatic rescues, close calls and agonizing losses. we are homeless, jobless and carless. but believe me, i think that we are so lucky to survive this. and right now we just have to start from scratch. it was a big question this week in joplin, where dot sick and injured go when their town s main hospital is blown away? we ll take you inside st. john s hospital next. [ male announcer ] edmunds.com says that lexus holds its value better than any other luxury brand. intellichoice proclaims that lexus has the best overall value of any brand. ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110530:00:07:00

One reason much of joplin is without electrical power. so, less than a mile into our journey, you see the first homes that have lost poort art of the roofs. on this house, a sign warning, looters will be shot. we can see some of the power company crews are working on repairing these downed electrical lines. that will be vital to this area s recovery. we re now about three miles into our journey and you can see behind me that by the time the tornado got here, it destroyed almost everything in its path. including one of the iconic images of this disaster, st. john s hospital. now about four miles into the path of the tornado, this is where we first came just hours after it hit and spoke with a family who was trying to salvage what they could, despite a driving rain and hailstorm. it was just starting off with hail. i m used to that. and then it just went insane afterward. reporter: here is the collapsed home depot where we first met 17-year-old andrea osborn, who was desperately sear ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110530:00:51:00

In your safe spot, if you re not underground in a storm shelter, you can t survive it. we ve seen so many tough storms this season. is there something about this season or the particular storms we are just unlucky, this one hit joplin, one other one hit tuscaloosa. a few things that are different. we don t know for years what exactly all happened until somebody s master thesis figures it out. let s go through the things that are different this year than a normal year. this is a normal jet stream, a normal pattern and storms firing oak observati oklahoma and texas. how is spring 2011 sdimpbt? it s colder than normal in the plains. this was a record snowpack. there were 72 feet of snow at alpine meadows in the sierra. railroad snowpack in the rockies and cold, cold air across the northern plains. every time a cold front came down, it was colder than it should have been. that cold air digs under and pushes warm air up. ....

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