duquesne see him walking around with children. he is always the same with everybody. he's never upset. and you can see from the staff support they absolutely love him. mr. gerald robinson. [cheers and applause] >> congratulations. >> i want to thank my friends, my family, my special principle. i call her mom at school. i want to thank your for the opportunity to give back to my community because i grew up in the bayview community. it is kind of rough around there. it is kind of hard. a lot of my brothers and sisters over there do not have a father figure. i'm not trying to be their father, but i am showing them that there are positive young black males that they can look up to aside from hanging out on the corner. i want to thank everybody. all of the staff, my mom, everybody. [applause] >> the next three review is for a special service award. i don't know about you, when i think my job is tough, i always think there are people do have a much tougher job than i do. that is, people who have to run the educational placement center in the school district. [laughter] but

1,000 people hurt on this day last year when an ef-5 category tornado ripped through joplin and duquesne, missouri. but they were the lucky ones. in just 30 minutes, the mile wide tornado had killed more than 150 people and damaged or destroyed some 10,000 homes and buildings. >> we turned on our weather radio and heard st. john's had been hit. and the announcer's voice had the fear in it that we knew it was really bad. >> reporter: today the scars are still everywhere. but new homes keep springing up. on this this anniversary day, the city broke ground on three new schools and the spirit of joplin is stronger than ever. >> the generosity and love and care that the people of joplin showed on may 22nd has defined us as a city. we aare joplin and i mapray we r forget. >> reporter: thousands are taking a four mile walk through the parts of the city most affected by the tornado. jina kim, news 4. >>> near the will every baseball fan dreams of catching a home run ball when at the go to a game. for one cincinnati fan, it happened twice in the same inning. 20-year-old caleb lloyd was watching h

who were hurt on this day last year when an event f-5 category tornado ripped through joplin and duquesnebut it they were the lucky ones. in just 30 minutes, the mile wide tornado had killed more than 150 people, damaged or destroyed some 10,000 homes and buildings. >> we turned on our weather radio and heard that st. john's had been hit. and the announcer's voice had the fear in it that we knew it was really bad. >> reporter: today the scars are still everywhere, but new homes keep springing up on this anniversary day, the city broke ground on three new schools. and the spirit of job lynn is stronger than ever. the highlight among the anniversary events is a walk of unity. thousands of people are taking a four mile walk through the parts of the city that were most affected by the tornado. in joplin, missouri, jina kim, news 4. >>> a couple who live in tornado alley got married against a one of a kind backdrop. caleb and kendra recently tied the night in harper, kansas. after walking down the aisle, their wedding photographer captured and amazing shot. the picture shows two tornadoes in t