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for "nightline," i'm matt gutman in canton, oklahoma. >> terrifying. stay safe, matt. as we said earlier, joplin, missouri, the town shattered by a tornado sunday once again under severe warning tonight. 124 people now confirmed dead. sunday's storm has been upgraded to an ef-5 tornado, meaning winds greater than 200 miles an hour. my co-anchor terry moran spent the day there as the city digs out. we spoke to terry earlier tonight before he and our crew were told they had to take shelter. >> reporter: cynthia, this was a day where the full horror of what happened here in joplin sunk in on the people here. it was a day when you saw across this devastated landscape, people coming back, picking through the rubble, looking for something, anything they could save. and it was a day when the tragic searches for the missing, many, many still unaccounted for, continued right through this rubble, search and rescue teams from across the country looking for signs of life and for victims. today in a landscape of utter destruction, the people of joplin, missouri, desperate, yet dete

matt gutman leads us off in joplin tonight. matt, good evening. >> reporter: hey, good evening, david. you'll find a lot of those heroes here at the new st. john's hospital. now, you visited the brick and mortar version across the street, that shell of a building. this place is now operational and it speaks to the resilience of these people. but all around, 13 miles of devastation, and that's what the president saw today. block after block after block. this is what the president saw on his drive in. disorienting sea of shattered homes and splintered trees. the street signs, the landmarks, gone. the president assured the victims of this tornado the whole country is with them. >> this is just not your tragedy. this is a national tragedy. and that means there will be a national response. >> reporter: and later on at joplin's community memorial, the president reminded us that -- >> there are heroes all around us. all the time. they walk by us on the sidewalk and they sit next to us in class. >> reporter: and while the president like

. >>> our matt gutman spent the day with the discovery channel storm chasers zeroing in on the tornadoes barreling down country roads at 80 miles an hour in a vehicle called the dominator. >> really coming together. >> reporter: this spring has been particularly good for the storm chasing business. their office is the 700,000 square miles that make up tornado alley. why would anybody in their right mind drive into the center of a tornado? >> who said we're in our right mind? mother nature's last great mystery. still so much unknowns about tornadoes. we don't know how they're formed, we don't know why some supercells put down tornadoes and others don't. >> reporter: our driver stopped because we found ourselves directly beneath a cloud formation beginning to swirl into a tornado. >> right there is the funnel. it's going to hit the ground. >> see the funnel forming right now. >> reporter: you feel the wind kick up. with more storms predicted in the coming days these chasers will continue to be in hot pursuit. i'm matt gutman in canton, oklahoma. >> a busy night for storm chasers and emerge

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matt, gutman, abc news. >>> and the other side of missouri, now. a story of heroism and heartbreak. 11-year-old parker freeman and his mother, hid under a couch when the tornado hit their house. he was thrown 50 yards. but in the pitch darwalked ford pounding rain, he walked for a mile, barefoot, to get help. >> and i came through there, over through here. and got on. crawled over like the lines and trees over there. i just thinking about my mom. >> your heart bleeds for that boy. sadly, parker's mother did not survive. but his heroic efforts did save his stepfather. >>> we have a happier tale of determination, from alabama. meet mason who disappeared when the twister destroyed his family's home. three weeks later, he returned, after having to claw a long way back home. he returned home three weeks later. after surgery, he is expected to make a full recovery and cheer up his family, who has lost so much. some remarkable stories from the disaster zone. >>> we'll have, of course, more continuing coverage of the race to find the missing there in jopli

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matt gutman, thanks so much. >>> tonight, we're getting a harrowing look at a different disaster. a portrait of the final moments for passengers on that air france jumbo jet that plunged into the atlantic ocean almost two years ago. lisa stark has been reporting here on the black boxes found deep in the ocean, and tonight, she's back with the story those boxes now tell. >> reporter: the black boxes, found at the ocean bottom, tell a terrifying tale. in just three and half minutes, the plane dropped into the ocean from 38,000 feet, plunging 18 stories a second. >> you don't feel like you're falling off a cliff or dropping. you feel like you're in a cockpit that's gone completely crazy. >> reporter: three and a half hours into the flight from brazil to paris, the captain leaves the cockpit to rest. two copilots at the controls as they skirt thunderstorms. they warn flight attendants the plane, quote, "will move about a bit." minutes later, the autopilot kicks off, probably because sensors that measure air speed have iced up and are sending false readings. "i have the controls," says

workers have all been monitoring two other whales that were successfully returned to the sea, and matt gutmanas more. >> here we go. here we go. animal in the water. >> reporter: this was the moment that so many work so hard for. >> we got them in successfully, and they swam away together, and the whole -- everyone just went off cheering. >> reporter: two pilot whales near death 48 hours ago released back into the ocean. >> whoa! >> reporter: teams of rescue have carefully hoisted them on to barges. keeping these whales so powerful in the water and so fragile out of it, hydrated throughout. they've been part of a pod, a family of at least 20 whales that beached itself in cudjoe, florida, thursday afternoon. trickering this massive rescue effort. dozens of volunteers working in shifts around the clock standing in the water holding the whales afloat keeping them alive. sadly, 14 have died. five other whales, too weak to float and breathe on their own are still being held as veterinarians closely monitor their status and the mystery remains, why would healthy whales like the ones who free beache

here's matt gutman. >> here we go. here we go. animal in the water. >> reporter: this was the moment so many worked so hard for. >> then we got them in successfully. they swam away together and the whole -- everyone just went off cheering. >> reporter: two pilot whales near death 48 hours ago released back into the ocean. [ cheers ] >> reporter: teams of rescuers had so carefully hoisted them onto barges and motored miles out to sea keeping these whales, so powerful in the water and so fragile out of it, wet and hydrated throughout. they've been part of a pod, a family of at least 20 whales that beached itself in cujo key, florida, thursday afternoon triggering this massive rescue effort. dozens of volunteers working in shifts around the clock standing in the water holding the whales afloat, keeping them alive. sadly, as of this morning, at least 14 have died. 5 other whales too weak to float and breathe on their own are still being held as veterinarians closely monitor their status, and the mystery remains, why would healthy whal

our matt gutman is on the story. >> reporter: fighting for life with every breath. so far, at least 13 of these pilot whales stranded near key west, have lost that battle. hundreds of volunteers and veterinarians are racing to save the eight whales that survived. corralling them in this sea pen, essentially holding the creatures afloat in four-hour shifts. >> it's pretty warm for them. they're tired. they're docile. >> reporter: they did it all night. keeping the 1,000-pound creatures hydrated, wet and alive. this morning, vets are going to have to make a fateful decision, which whales to release into the wild. and which to send to medical treatment. the group beached itself wednesday evening, disoriented, weak, and starving. haven eaton while. so, one of our jobs, too, is to get them rehydrated and ready for the next step of eating. >> reporter: there may be more out there. >> right now, operations are geared towards recovery. and they're spread out all over the place. >> reporter: as they scramble to save this pod, scientists are also struggling to find a reason o

our matt gutman is further west, in cashion, oklahoma, and joins us with the very latest. josh. this is the site of one of the spots where those nearly 40 tornadoes hit overnight across seven states. this was a one-story brick home obliterated, one person died. i'll take you to see the debris field. stretches across 20 miles across these fields. so far, say officials. now yesterday we got to see one of these tornadoes up close and personal. we were traveling with the storm chasers and we watched at one point as a swirling tornado began to form ahead of us then dropped down and we watched as it created this trail of destruction across parts of oklahoma. now, these storm chasers do it partly for the adrenaline but for the science. they want to figure better warning systems. we had some towns with no warning systems and they're worried this could cause death and destruction and hopefully their science can prove beneficial to folks in the midwest. >> some stunning images. matt gutman again live with the latest. >>> and president obama is address the british parliament at this

matt gutman is on the story. >> reporter: this crying, tired months old bear cub was discovered inside a suitcase by investigators. >> this is a very sophisticated smuggling operation. we've never seen one like this before. the guy had a virtual zoo in his suitcases checked in. >> reporter: two baby leopards, two panthers and two monkeys were also hidden in the passenger's checked luggage, headed for dubai. the animals had been drugged and placed in flat cages in small, plastic canisters punched with air holes designed to look like folded clothes. investigators believe these animals were being transported as pets. but most of the animal trade is in meat and folk medicine. >> basically, the total value illegally of the global black market is between $10 billion and $20 billion annually. >> reporter: this tiger is safe because she was born in the united states. had she been born in asia, she would have been the most highly valued animal on the black market for endangered species. only 3,400 of these tigers left in the whole world. an adult wild tiger could earn poachers $100,000. those s

matt gutman, abc news, joplin, missouri. >>> republican presidential candidate tim pawlenty begin this is day if iowa. if elected, he said he would support the current gop overhaul of medicare. michelle batchman spends the day in inspect. . she's not officially announced whether she'll run. >>> at potential kantd making wave this is week. sarah palin kicked off a tour in the nation's capital. more from david kerley. >> reporter: she said sunday would be the rollout of the bus tapped bus tour. there was no bus, just a bike. make that a harley. dressed head to toe in leather, sarah palin started her tour arriving, uninvited, to this motorcycle rally. >> it's a desire on our part to get across america and remind others about our foundation. how important sit to respect and protect our constitution. >> reporter: republican officials in pennsylvania and new hampshire have been left in the dark. that has left political professionals to wonder if palin is serious about running for president. >> these are the boxes you have to check. she's not checked any of them. still, she has a hard core ba

matt gutman, abc news, joplin, missouri. >>> a new report about last year's earthquake in haiti saidmay have died than previously thought. the associated press obtained the u.s. government report which says between 46,000 and 85,000 people died. the haitian government had put the total at 316,000. and that number led to a multibillion dollar international aid effort. >>> hip-hop star sean kingston is in the intensive care unit after an accident in south florida waters. investigators are looking into what caused the crash, but they say alcohol was not a factor. wplj's janine stanwood has details. ♪ beautiful girls ♪ >> reporter: sean kingston broke out into the music scene in 2007 with this song, "beautiful girls." now this cutler bay man says he saw the pop star almost die. >> he was vomiting blood. >> reporter: rivera, who is a coast guard officer, was in his boat on biscayne bay sunday. next thing he knows he is motoring toward the singer's friends yelling from the water moments after florida fish and wildlife officers say the miami-born r & b artist slammed his jet ski into the pa

with the details from joplin, here's matt gutman. >> reporter: this is the highest point in all of joplin, offering this panoramic view, west to east, of this destruction. 13 miles long. mostly whapeople's haround me are people's homes, destroyed. adding to that misery, learning of a housing crunch here in joplin. even people with money to spend can't buy or rent a house. we spoke to one woman who had to pay a year's worth of rent for a deposit to get into her apartment, there were so many people competing for it. realtors are getting hundreds of calls a day. the phones don't stop ringing. but the problem is, there's 30% fewer homes here in joplin to rent. they have nothing to offer their clients. there's a bidding war going on right now. and we canvassed hotels in this city and found there was no rooms available. we ran into one person who said. she had 100 calls that day at the marriott. but she said i have two rooms in my own house. i can offer them to anybody who can come. the circus came out. and an elephant helped move debris. some found it amusing. others did not. they found it sli

matt gutman has the happy ending in joplin, missouri tonight. good evening, matt. >> good evening, david. there was a happy ending and a new beginning for that couple. as we speak, aaron cox who took that incredible video is saying his vows to his bride, one of a few bright spots we saw here today. boarding up windows, clear debris, even jabbing needles. volunteers are swarming all over this town. they found messages left by survivors. we're okay. god saved us. god bless joplin. but so many here did not survive. for officials, it's been a day of grim arithmetic. the past two days, they whittled down the number of missing from 1300 to 105 and identified 52 victims. >> i spent almost four hours at the morgue yesterday. it's a very respectful process. >> reporter: the process of identifying the dead has just begun. among the latest, 18-year-old will norton literally ripped from his father's grasp as they huddled in the car. >> mark held him as tight as he could. the wind tore him out of the sun roof. >> reporter: there are the missing like dee ann h

matt gutman spent the day looking for answers. and he's back in joplin again tonight. and, matt, i can see from where you are how much devastation still remains. >> reporter: that's right, george. this is the highest point in all of joplin, offering this panoramic west to east view, this destruction, a trail 13 miles, and most of what you see around me are people's homes. now, adding to their misery, we're discovering there's a housing crunch here in joplin, that even if people have money, there's nowhere to buy, nowhere to rent. what do you do when your house is eviscerated in seconds? where do you go? holly fleming had no choice. >> i had to get a roof over their heads. >> reporter: she packed all ten of her children and grandchildren off to her mother's house and scrambled to find a rental, competing with other bidders. >> i said, i'll pay you a year in advance. >> reporter: and there went her nest egg. the tornado flattened 30% of the city. destroying an estimated 8,000 buildings. leaving up to 20,000 people homeless. most are with friends and family. others in hote

matt gutman has been following the case all day, and he's in myrtle beach, south carolina, tonight. >rter: today, this crying, tired months old bear cub was discovered inside a suitcase by investigators. >> very sophisticated smuggling operation. we've never seen one like this before. the guy had a zoo in his suitcases checked in. >> reporter: two baby leopards two panthers and two monkeys were hidden in his checked luggage, headed for dubai. the animals had been drugged and placed in small plastic canisters punched with air holes designed to look like folded clothes. investigators believe they were being transported as pets, but most of the animal trade is in meat and folk medicine. >> basically, the total value illegally of the global black market is between $10 billion and $20 billion annually. >> reporter: this animal is safe because she was born in the united states. had she been born in az yashgs she would have been the most highly valued animal on the black market for endangered species. only 3,400 of these tigers left in the whole world. an adult wild tiger could earn poachers

our matt gutman is there. he linked up with the team from the discovery channel's "storm chasers." they are, of course, part adrenaline and part scientists. matt is in canton, oklahoma. matt, what have you seen? >> reporter: diane, these tornadoes pummeled oklahoma today. >> it is large and in charge, right now, gentlemen. >> reporter: we saw at least three separate twisters. one had multiple vertices. right now, that tornado is picking up everything in that field, leaves, pieces of trees. one tornado we saw measured winds of over 150 miles an hour. that one nearly hit canton, oklahoma. sirens wailed, but onlookers still rushed out to the road to try to get a glimpse of it. you can smell fresh cut grass. that's because all of these trees have been torn by that tornado. another town was nearly hit but no sirens there. now, these storm chasers have been hunkering down in their trucks, also barrels down these roads, trying to find the tornadoes. two people were killed after a tornado slammed into a oklahoma city suburb at rush hour. three children also critically hurt. it got so bad, t

our matt gutman decided to follow up on the names and also take us inside the story of that family with the video, looking out at the tornado in their backyard. matt is in joplin tonight. matt? >> reporter: good evening, diane. this is the list, four pages, over 200 names. and among those names, billy and tammy cutner. this is what's left of their house. this is what's left of tammy. just a sweater still on a hanger. now, just moments ago, dogs came through here, they smelled this wreckage, they didn't find them. tammy and billy are still missing. and you can understand the mass confusion here when you see this video. this is new video captured on billy tiles' home security camera. as that ef-5 tornado, winds at 200 miles an hour, tore through his home as the family of five cowered inside. they survived. what is left in this area is this apocalyptic mash of homes, cars and businesses. the death toll now up to 125 and the missing person list that today we learned is more than 200 names long. people like 12-year-old zachary williams. >> one way or the other, i want to -- zach to be at pea

matt gutman in miami tonight. >> reporter: today, all-time highs in four states, and 24 other states are within pennies of their records. hawaii still has the nation's most expensive gas, but the nation's heartland is catching up. >> these prices are crazy. i'm putting $20 in here and by the time i get home it will be gone. >> reporter: but we learned today, the national average may have peaked, short of the $4 mark. oil and gasoline futures collapsed today. crude oil tumbled nearly 9% to less than $100. its lowest price in almost two months. gasoline futures, which help determine the price at the pump, down 23 cents just today. >> i am hopeful that in average places, prices will drop as much as 20 cents here in the next seven to ten days. >> reporter: so why the dramatic drop? it's partly due to sagging demand. americans are already driving less. a strengthening dollar has dragged down oil prices, as does poor economic news like higher than expected jobless claims. still, don't expect to get back to two buck gas like we had in 2009 any time soon. >> $3.50 a gallon price is going to

so, let's turn first to the 69 new twisters and matt gutman spent the day chasing them down and he'll tell us about that truck, as well. he's in piedmont, oklahoma, tonight. >> reporter: that incredible moment when the twister bared down on jeremiah morrison's tractor trailer was broadcast live on the local news. his father watching, recognizing his son's truck. >> i could see it coming toward me and i could see stuff in front of me, moving around and everything. i knew it was pretty much on top of me. >> reporter: the 29-year-old broke his arm but can't believe he's alive. >> all i remember is the truck got lifted up. i put my hands over my face and kind of tucked myself a little bit. i kind of felt like i was getting bounced around inside the truck. and then i realized i was outside the truck laying on my back in the grass. >> reporter: but the tornado somehow skipped past the cub he was sitting and went straight for the trailer. >> i think more about people that lost stuff in this. yeah, my company lost a trailer. >> reporter: it was a deadly 24 hours. this huge twister tore throug

abc's matt gutman got to work tracking some of them down.is morning. >> reporter: this is new video captured on billy tile's home security camera as that ef-5 tornado, winds at 200 miles an hour, tore through his home as the family of five cowered inside. they survived. what is left in this area is this apocalyptic mash of homes, cars, businesses. the death knoll now up. a missing person's list 200 names long. people like 12-year-old zachary williams. >> one way or the other i want zach to be at peace. i can't stand the thought of him just laying there, cold in those trailers that they're storing everybody in. you know, let him -- let him be put to rest. >> reporter: so they cling to this picture and wait. hours later they got the dreaded call. zach williams died. the state used reports from family members, hospital records and phone logs to compile the list. whole families are on it like the five members of the merritt family and the four members of the sherrick family. have you guys seen the sherricks? >> so they're right over there. >> re

all right, matt gutman discovered the reasons behind all of this. impressive stuff here.selling his old 2008 dodge pickup, it was. you bought it for how much. >> 18,500. >> reporter: how much did you sell it for? >> 20,000. >> reporter: that's right a $1,500 profit. >> we were pretty shocked and didn't fully understand that you know that it was worth more than we ever paid for it. >> right now, as far as the prices go, you won't get a better price for your used car. >> reporter: some models are up nearly 30% since the beginning the year. a lot of that has been fueled by the quest for cars that don't take much fuel. take that toyota prius in your driveway. a 3-year-old prius is worth $4,100 more than they paid for it. camries and ford focuses are not far behind almost $3,000 more. but it's not just fuel-efficient vehicles. take a 3-year-old ford explorer, had it sold in 2007 it would have gone for about $7,100. if you sold ford explorer today twice as much over $14,000. the price is so good, dealers like alex andreas of brickell motors say customers are becoming suspicious

matt gutman reports there are signs of. >> every these are terrifying few seconds after the tornado. >> he found them alive but many others weren't so lucky. as the search continues, joplin is slowly coming back. the sound of rebirth. mangled trees being cut back. skeletons of buildings being hauled away and new construction. >> we are thankful for our lives. >> about 500 dogs have been taken to this spca center. >> just last night as we were walking in, randy's reunion with lucy. miranda had feared the worst. >> anybody alive? >> this amazing scene in oklahoma, a dog finds a fellow canine very much alive. >> after a few days, many of the animals will migrate back to where their homes were. >> exactly what nathan did after a tornado, crawling for weeks on a pair of broken legs just to return to his old back porch. >>> tomorrow, president obama will tour the devastation and attend a memorial service in joplin. >> golden gate bridge opened 74 years ago yesterday and now the countdown has started for next year's 75th anniversary celebration. they unveiled a logo. you can see a whole lot

matt gutman, abc news, miami. >> no relief. >> incredible. >>> well, taking a look now at your friday mountain snow in the northern rockies and cascades. rain from montana to washington state. >> 58 in seattle. 70 in boise. 84 in sacramento. kansas city, 73. detroit, 63. fargo, 70. 72 in new york and boston. 80s from dallas to miami. >>> this should spice things up. lots of festivals and parades -- marking cinco de mayo yesterday but if you were in southern california and a frat guy you probably had something else in mind. >> this was the third annual burrito bowl in universal city. >> yahoo! >> students from usc, cal state, and ucla squared off to see who could gobble up the most burritos in eight minutes. >> frat guys eating as many burritos as they can. that just sounds disgusting. >> that's a friday night. >> oh, my gosh. the 2011 bragging rights did go to ucla. there was a cash prize, which the winners donated to charity. >> and of course, the all-important race to the bathroom quickly followed. >> cleared the room right after that. we'll be right back with more of "world news no

i'm matt gutman on safari in myrtle beach, south carolina. >> people will have strong opinions.re is something wrong about an elephant in a housing development. >> not my idea -- still looking for his jane which find interesting. what kind of woman -- >> i -- do you really? >>> coming up have your caught your spouse checking someone else? >> is it healthy? spouse checking someone else, not in that outfit. >> is that healthy behavior. ♪ i got troubles, oh ♪ but not today ♪ 'cause they're gonna wash away ♪ ♪ oh, i'm gonna take them away it's me? alright emma, i know it's not your favorite but it's time for your medicine, okay? you ready? one, two, three. [ both ] ♪ emma, emma bo-bemma ♪ banana-fana-fo-femma ♪ fee-fi-fo-femma ♪ em-ma very good sweety, how do you feel? good. yeah? you did a really good job, okay? let's go back to drawing. >>> everyone thought it would be dumb but "bridesmaids," everybody is going crazy. >> i love the actress from "mike and molly." >> here is a question to liven up any conversation, is it considered cheating if your eye wandering to check out another

. >>> that is matt gutman reporting. the death toll stands at 125 in joplin, missouri. the a series of warnings in dozens of states. and yesterday, a deadly tornado outbreak in arkansas, oklahoma and kansas killed at least 15 people. again, a very active and deadly spring in terms of tornadoes in that part of the country. >>> one other weather-related storely. if you have been having a tough time with allergies this spring there may be a good explanation for that. a study suggests that global climate change is making allergies worse than usual. karina rusk has more in this report. >> reporter: kathleen gets four allergy shots a mont month. for her and millions of americans the biggest irritants are tree, grass and weed pollen. >> i have been helped by the shots and i'm not miserable any more during spring season. maybe slightly uncomfort. >> reporter: a report by california watch says allergies are on the rise because of global climate change. dr. robert toronto says warmer weather impacts plant growth and thus pollen production. >> this year has been a particularly bad

abc's matt gutman is there for us this morning. so, matt, with a presidential visit, every detail becomes crucial. what exactly are we expecting the president will see today? >> reporter: hey, good morning, dan. well, he's going to arrive in a few hours, and the first thing he'll do is drive right down this street through the six miles of destruction. we've done it ourselves. it takes about 15 minutes from start to finish, and it's totally disorienting. there are no landmarks. there are no street signs, st. mary's used to be a grand two-story edifice, no more. then he'll talk to rescuers, people who, you know, unburied themselves out of the rubble, clawed their way out to get back to their hospitals to treat patients. incredible stories of heroics that you would think were improbable if they were in a movie. finally he'll speak and make remarks at joplin's community memorial, a week after the tornado struck but incidentally we've been talking to people for a couple of days and they're so busy rebuilding and clearing the rubble that

matt gutman, abc news, piedmont, missouri. >> that's the insult to injury that there's still more badhit the same area. >> an awful week. here is your thursday forecast now. as we said, 80-mile-an-hour winds, hail, flash flooding, isolated tornados from alabama to the adirondacks. showers and thunderstorms from new orleans to tallahassee. showers from billings to cheyenne, and up to a foot of mountain snow in idaho. meanwhile, some rain in the pacific northwest. >> all right. we're look at near 60 in portland and boise. 70, sacramento. 65 in the twin cities. 70, omaha. 81 in dallas. 80s from new orleans to atlanta. 90 in baltimore. >>> crews are now planning a fifth sweep of the rubble in joplin, missouri, this morning looking for survivors of course from sunday's deadly tornado. many more families though have been reunited with their loved ones. this red cross list shows all the people who have been found. in the wreckage of this wal-mart, a stranger helped protect this 3-month-old baby who was separated from mom and grandma. >>> the criminal case against jared lee loughner is on hol

our matt gutman is in joplin, missouri, this morning. matt, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, dan. amidst all of this wreckage and debris that you see, there really is some new rebuilding here. this is going to be a hair salon. it started just a couple of days ago. when we came, that roof hadn't yet been put on. this morning, it's already there. they hope to finish this place in 45 days. the pace of rebuilding and resilience that's incredible, just after that tornado. >> sara? >> these are the terrifying few seconds just after the tornado. >> sara? mike? >> reporter: aaron eventually found his sister and her boyfriend alive. many others weren't so lucky. that search for the missing continues. joplin is slowly coming back. the sounds of rebirth. mangled trees being cut back. the skeletons of buildings being hauled away. and this, joplin's first new construction. >> we're trying to get on with our lives. >> reporter: and we're finding reunions, but not always of the human variety. about 500 pets have been taken to this aspca c

matt gutman is live there this morning. good morning, matt. >> reporter: good morning, george.his was the president's first stop. this home belongs to hugh hills. a supply 85-year-old who rode out the storm in the closet with his chicken pot pie. one of the reasons the president might have come here is because this is the highest point in all of joplin, offering this panoramic view of this destruction. and trail of debris and destruction 13 miles long. ♪ [ playing "amazing grace" ] >> reporter: a moment of silence. a flag unfurled. a president who came to soothe. >> this is just not your tragedy. this is a national tragedy. and that means there will be a national response. >> reporter: this is what the president saw from his motorcade, street after street. apocalyptic flash of twisted metal and splinters. street signs, gone. >> we're doing everything we can to make sure that folks get the shelter they need. the support they need. we're working with the governor to cut through red tape. >> reporter: he stopped here, at hugh hill's house. he talked to his niece. >> he looked stra

first to matt gutman still in joplin, missouri. good morning, matt. >> reporter: good morning, robin. you mentioned that line of storms that came roaring through here producing a whopping 80 tornadoes in just 24 hours. hit missouri again, gutting homes, eastward in kentucky and indiana, it flipped mobile homes, ripped the roof off of homes. clearly, there has been no mercy in the midwest from this weather. >> oh, my god. >> reporter: overnight, a massive line of powerful thunderstorms and twisters with nearly 900 reports of severe weather including baseball-size hail around st. louis and winds more than 90 miles per hour in mt. vernon, indiana. heavy rain and hail pounded memphis overnight and in sedalia, missouri, as many as 25 people suffered minor injuries when a tornado hit several businesses and homes. here in joplin, the recovery process from the ef-5 tornado that devastated this city is under way. we've seen the tragedy from the ground. now, a new perspective. from the sky. as if a colossal eraser wiped away a six-mile strip

matt gutman joins us live from joplin. good morning, matt. >> reporter: good morning, robin.200 names on that list. on this block alone, four families missing. we took that list and went to nine different addresses. our first stop went to zachary willi williams. 12 years old. he was confirmed dead. however, we kept going. knocked on doors. talked to neighbors. we found the sherrick family. four members of the family had been living down the street. i took all of this information to tommy sherrick. gave him the hotline for missing persons. he told the state troopers that he is absolutely well and safe and has been staying in his house. >> cell phone service has been down a lot. it's hard for people to communicate. on the cell phones that are working, there are cameras. and we're getting more images of what the tornado looked like, don't we, matt? >> reporter: we are. and pretty astounding image you're seeing right here. backyard video. the toys turning into missiles. that trampoline going flying. this is taken from billy tile's house. five members of the family all cowering in

matt gutman spent the day with tarzan man. here's matt. >> reporter: george, good morning.ooking for his jane. and who wouldn't want to wake up with a bunch of these guys crawling over you in the corning. behind us there's 67 live adult tigers. they require so much dedication. 500 pounds of meat just for breakfast. and that's not something that everybody, every potential jane, is willing to put up with. so, this is the preferred mode of transportation here. imagine going to work on an elephant. >> take a ride, bubbles. >> reporter: swimming with tigers. and taking work home with you, with fur. you'd be some kind of tarzan. that's what cody calls himself. >> i believe i have a connection with them because of the way i have been raised. >> reporter: which is with tiger cubs plunked right in his crib. and with his sister, growing up. >> it's interesting. don't have to have a car. >> reporter: doubles is 30. and kody, 21. like the fictional tarzan, kody is typically quiet. this is how he best communicates. and yes, tigers, apparently do like water. and we learned his friends ar