the governor of missouri, jay nixon, activated the missouri national guard in response to the tornadoes and the severe weather that moved through the state earlier this evening. there is, there is a statement from senator roy blunt. let me read it in part here. just coming across the wire. roy blunt says our thoughts and prayers go out to the families impacted by this devastating tornado in joplin. while local officials are still assessing the extent of the damages, i am deeply saddened by the tragic reports of loss of life and extensive zrix resulting from this storm. my staff and i will continue to monitor the situation closely and urge everyone to use extra precautions in the region. the first of the statements that come out. you can expect much, much more, especially from the federal government. and you can probably -- i would very assuredly say a disaster area and probably a federal disaster will be declared as well here. we're going to have more on the other side of the break. as many as 24, probably more people have died in this devastating tornado that hit joplin, missouri. >>>

the governor of missouri jay nixon activated the missouri national guard in response to the tornadoesevere weather that moved through the state earlier this evening. also there is a statement from senator from roy blunt. just coming across the wire. roy blunt says our thoughts and prayers go out to the families impacted by this devastating tornado in joplin while local officials are still assessing the extent of the full damages. i'm deeply satened by the tragic reports of loss and life and extensive destruction resulting from this storm. my staff and i will continue to monitor the situation closely and urge everyone to use extra precaution in the region. the first of the statements that come out. you can expect much, much more, especially from the government and you can probably i would very assuredly say a disaster area and probably a disaster area will be declared as well here. we're going to have more on the other side of the break, as many as 24. probably more people have died in this devastated tornado that hit joplin, missouri. [ wind howling ] [ technician ] are you busy? mana

>>>nd we're bk here in joplin, missouri. sad to say no matter if you have a big screen tv, high definition, not high definition, as long as we have scenes like this one behind us, standing here witnessing this, it will never be perfectly conveyable on television. suffice it to say, the map has been redrawn, the topography, the map of missouri. it's hard to be optimistic about if they're ever going to be the same here. the good news, a lot of people are streaming in. national guard, kansas, oklahoma, arkansas, missouri. you can go to our website, nightlymsnb.com, our twitter and facebook pages because they need vowel tears here, knbut they ne our donations most of all. that's our broadcast for this monday. i'm brian williams and tonight, we're in joplin, missouri. we hope to see you again tomorrow evening. good night. >>> right now at 6:00, emotional reaction from the family of bryan stow in the wake of the suspect in that case. >>> the u.s. supreme court orders a drastic reduction in the california population and guess where

, missouri. more on that daily struggle here today from nbc's kevin tibbles. >> reporter: in joplin, the new day reveals what looks like a moonscape as traumatized residents pick through the mess that remains of their worldly possessions. many of the newly homeless now stay in an emergency red cross shelter at missouri southern state university. a friend spotted jane bryson on tv and came to offer shelter. >> i'm going to take her home with me since she lost her home and everything. >> reporter: some of the injured are treated in the teaching wing of the university's medical facility. now it's a clinic filled with volunteers. >> we have had iowa, arkansas, kansas, oklahoma. you know, as far away as california come in. >> reporter: patients like marcia mccullough all have the same message for loved ones searching for them. >> i just want to let my sister and my daughter know that i'm alive and well and only in minor pain. >> reporter: mary basher was in her apartment when it collapsed. she fell tw

missouri became missouri. now i ask you which is correct? missouri or missouri? >> missouri. okay. neither one. [laughter]. you can't say the native americans were wrong for saying missouri. you can't say the french were wrong for pronouncing it in their language, just different ways of pronouncing the same word. that is where we have the problem with the word different. different isn't a synonym of the word wrong. we have to be careful how we use it and our children. it answers the question, why do you write that? i write to tell the story. one that has fallen through the cracks, one marginalized by main stream history. either misrepresented or represented to the way in which it is a stereo typical, write to take those stereotypes, reshape them and give them back to you dressed in a new dress. i mean when i say different is not a synonym for wrong, it means that we should celebrate those things. everyone in this room is different in some way. but you should not feel bad about that. your uniqueness, as my grandson who loves to make up words, that is your wonderment. [laughter]. it

joplin, missouri, is under another tornado watch tonight. the national weather service says there's a 45% chance of a second tornado outbreak just one day after a deadly twister ripped through the central town and killed at least 116 people. tying it for single deadliest to hit american soil since the national weather service began keeping records 61 years ago. today survivors wander through rubble of neighborhoods today while police and firefighters from four states dig through the wreckage. they found seven people alive today and hope to find more but many fear the death toll will surely rise. these extraordinary pictures show you just how bad the situation is. you are looking at what used to be joplin's walmart. superstore took a direct hit from a tornado and reduced to nothing but rubble at a time when the store was crowded with weekend shoppers. st. john's regional medical center took a direct hit scattering x-rays as far as 70 miles away. i want to go straight to joplin live and sam champion. sam, i mean, scenes of utter catastrophe in

and especially in southwest missouri.would consider ground zero, i probably saw no less than 10 or 15 emergency, fire personnel, counties represented by cars and badges on their shoulder. and there were a lot of people frankly that didn't even get a call. they just knew to get this their car and to come in because nay knew we needed help. >> drew moore, thanks for telling your story. we appreciate it. >> you're welcome, carol. >> images of that destruction, residents saying the city of joplin looks like a war zone now, as you heard drew say. >> this is bad. oh, my gosh. this is awful. this is -- look at that. that is destroyed. completely. >> those are a couple of stormchasers. we'll also show you the moment of impact as that tornado roared through missouri. plus, a primary aggressor now in police custody after that brutal beating of a san francisco giants fan coming up. no matter what the market does e-trade can help. they've got strategies, screeners... [ sneezes ] bless you, peppers. ...24/7 customer support. anyway...

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joplin, missouri. it was exactly one week ago that an ef-5 tornado ripped through the city killing at least 142 people in minutes. a moment of silence will happen at 6:41 eastern. 35 minutes from now. it will mark the precise instant that tornado hit. our dan lothian is traveling with the president. dan, people are happy the president came or was it a distraction? >> reporter: no, they were pleased the president did make a visit. he was overseas for a number of days and was not able to come here any sooner than now, but according to white house aids throughout the time of his journeys across europe he did get briefed by his top aides and received a briefing this morning. the president flying in here and he circled around the area where it was most heavily impacted by that tornado. the president getting an aerial view and then landing on the ground along with some local state officials. the president had a chance to see the damage and devastation up close. he also met with some of the people who survive

missouri is a battleground states.of opportunities after this tragedy for the party in power to pour money in, and cantor is trying to say there's going to be a break on how much money you can spend. >> some libertarians are saying the federal government should stay out all together, like congressman ron paul, for instance. >> today is not the day to give that answer. today is the day to say whatever needs to be done will be done. >> quickly, what was your assessment of prime minister netanyahu's address before a joint meeting of congress. >> i don't understand why president obama allowed this test of strength to be set up the way it was. he could have a very productive meeting with prime minister netanyahu with disagreements backstage. instead, he stumbled in his thursday speech, and then with his reemphasis on sunday in his confrontation. congress delivered a message through netanyahu to the world that the prime minister of israel has a lot of friends in the u.s. congress. >> if you speak to white house officials --

john king will be right back from joplin, missouri.ve an update on the tornadoes that have killed at least two people in joplin, missouri. there are two tornadoes on the ground in oklahoma city, oklahoma. in libya, they're hearing thunderous explosions tonight. they come after the start of the nato mission. president obama join queen elizabeth and members of the royal family for a state banquet evening in london tonight. the president addresses parliament tomorrow. >>> a pentagon spokesman confirms wreckage used in the osama raid. pictures of the wreckage reveal there is quality. prime minister benjamin netanyahu made a speech to the joint members of congress. >> congratulations, america. congratulations, mr. president. you got bin laden. good riddance! >> up next, john king, more from him in joplin, missouri. he'll speak with missouri congressman about the devastation and the cleanup. [ male announcer ] bridgestone is using natural rubber, producing products that save on fuel and emissions like ecopia tires... even making parts for so

ali velshi is live in joplin, missouri.e yesterday when more severe weather went through and a lot of the search and rescue had to sort of be on hold. >> yep. i got here yesterday afternoon and it might as well have been nighttime. you couldn't see through the rain. it was heavy. it was thick. the destruction is so dense. i just want to give you some sense of it. it is a little hard to capture on tv. there is no foliage anywhere behind me. john is going to show you over there. there are trees. there are leaves. that's the line. that's the line that the tornado carved out. over here, there are no trees, stumps, branches, overturned and crushed cars. there are bits of houses all around me. i am standing on a foundation of a house. the house has been entirely ripped off the foundation. there is nothing left here except concrete and some wood that's fastened to it with nails and screws. this is the type of devastation we have seen but they just couldn't get to it yesterday. so the search and rescue continues today. 117 people c

patients were rushed to other hospitals in missouri, arkansas, and oklahoma.eyond the hospital, block after block, neighborhoods are wiped out. an estimated 30% of joplin is destroyed, hundreds of homes are leveled, cars are strewn about, and heartache hangs over the city of 50,000 people. sara and her two young daughters were inside their home when the tornado moved it 20 feet, leaving only the walls. >> we ran to the bathroom, i got the kids in. i swept everything off of the bed and put a mattress over us and held it down really tight. >> reporter: she's now looking for her daughter's favorite stuffed animal and trying to come to grips with the tornado's aftermath. >> loud and scary. mainly my kids were screaming, so i've been praying to god. he kept us all safe. >> no way to describe it. >> reporter: jim cook came to check on his 97-year-old step mother who survived the tornado. >> a gentleman came over and pulled her out. she's got scrapes and bruises and she's sore. but she's a trouper. >> reporter: while she survived, his boyhood home like so many others

however, we are geographically located near springfield, missouri, and kansas city, missouri and kansas kansas. the first responders that have come to joplin have been just amazing. the tier 1s have just been doing it phase line by phase line. initially what you're going to have is you're going to have a lot of debris clearing, you're going to be pulling people out of houses. it's all just basic search and rescue, which is not really galvanized or organized. but here, you know, they've really been on their toes and they've been really organized. so after that, once they establish a structure, you know, it's going to be day by day, phase by phase, and they're going to go down grid lines, down individual blocks and individual houses, they're going to have cadaver dogs, they're going to have fiber optic cameras, they're going to be in there and searching for these people and it's just been incredible right here. >> from what you've seen, ford, has the operation been as fast as it could have been. are you impressed by the speed of the response? >> yeah. i am absolutely impressed here. i thi

causa daños mortales: todo esto, a continuacion de comerciales azoto al estado de missouri cobrandometeorologico practicamente desaparecio multiples vecindarios.--andrea rega nos tornado azotó missouri cobrando vida de cientos de personas y haciendo desaparecer poblado >> lo que parece a lo lejos un bosque desforestado es la evidencia del paso de un tornado feroz árboles arrancados de raíz dejaron tras de sí huecos donde podrían caber 10 personas de pie >> todos en mi casa salimos a tiempo pero hay dos vecinos que están perdidos, indicó sobreviviente sin hogar este tobogán quedó colgando de un segundo piso a la entrada del hospital, pilas y pilas de autos destruidos y el helicoptero del centro médico también la mayoría de las heridas que dejó son fracturas de brazos >> vine a traer ayuda >> la media milla de destruccion que dejó el tornado también desapareció múltiples tiendas >> el 95% de esta zona del estado quedó así el número de muertos aumenta hora tras hora >> no es mucho, pero es mejor que nada: el precio de la gasolina ha bajado hace exactamente un año pagabamos un dólar por

maybe you've never heard of joplin, missouri, but it's part of a tri-state area there, kansas, missouri, and oklahoma. joplin, missouri, the town itself, 150,000 people. although if you go on to any of the geography references you may see 50,000 people. that's downtown joplin. that's the city of joplin. there are -- literally,there are suburbs of the city making the entire population of the metro area, as we'll call, it 150,000 people. there are people hurt in this. this was a dangerous, deadly, fatal, and as we know, it is still on the ground. as it moves east of joplin, on the right-hand side of your screen, there are fewer people living there. but to go through a major metropolitan area as it went through tuscaloosa two weeks ago and birmingham, that's when you typically get major casualties. we talk about these tornadoes on the ground all the time. people ask me, why don't they ever hit towns? because there are few towns, few and far between, but when a tornado of this size rolls through a city or a town, the damage escalates, the people injury escalate. have you so many other debri

this the joplin, missouri, now. look at the storm and the latest on the search for survivors is next. car connection calls the xf, yet an instant classic." with sports car styling and power, plus the refinement and space of a luxury sedan, the jaguar xf is a timeless blend of performance and craftsmanship. see how jaguar outperforms the competition at jaguarperforms.com or visit your local jaguar dealer. >>> rescue efforts going on right now after a monosister tornado hits the heart of joplin, missouri. parts of the town of 55,000 people are unrecognizable. at least 89 people are dead. and just in case you missed it, we take you there. the unforgettable, chilling moments. >> oh my gosh. >> this is what the massive tornado looked like as it was baring down on -- bearing down on joplin, missouri. but listen to this. this is what it sounded like from inside a convenient store where terrified customers rode out the storm jammed inside a dark refrigerated storeroom. we talked to one of those who was crammed inside. >> an

that right there is the town of joplin, missouri. right here, joplin, missouri. this is the other side. the wind going away and around at about 135 to 145 miles per hour last night. it was truly the only one. there's a potential in western oklahoma, but tomorrow is the day, tomorrow is the day that we could have significantly more tornadoes. here's why. because there will be warm air at the surface and cold air aloft, like a hot air balloon that rises because you fill it with the gas and the hot air goes up and balloon goes up. there goes the cell. it's a towering cumulus when it begins to rain, it changes because of the rainfall. but as it spins, if it's all by itself, like that one cell was yesterday, in joplin, it can spin a tornado out the bottom. that's what we're going to watch for the risk today and for a better chance for tomorrow. the one in joplin was called an hp, where it's a high precipitation thunderstorm. what that means is that if you were standing right here trying to look at the tornado that is right here, you would never see it because it's wra

joplin is located in southwest missouri.uth of kansas city in the four-states region as you see here. witnesses are telling us that the twister was half to three-quarters of a mile wide, if you can imagine that. the city is home to almost 50,000 people, but during the day that population grows to more than a quarter of a million as people come in to work and there are even more people in areas surrounding the city that makes it the fourth-largest metropolitan area in missouri. >> and i understand it was a very populous area where that tornado hit, major businesses in the area as well. >> health care providers are among big ones, suzanne, in joplin, missouri. st. john's regional medical center is 1 of 2 hospitals in this area and st. john's was hit directly by the tornado. city officials are reporting significant damage. cnn affiliate kshb said there were fires throughout the hospital after the tornado hit. >> carl, is this the first the city's been hit by a tornado? >> no, they saw something like this back in the 1970s. in f

he's in poplar bluff, missouri. jim, good evening. >> reporter: brian, folks in the midwest are once again reeling tonight. three states effected last night, 13 losing their lives, scores wounded and once again, hundreds left woundless. it's a killer tornado. absolutely killer tornado. >> look at the debris. it's a roof. >> reporter: as a series of tornadoes swept through oklahoma last night, they ripped through everything in their path, killing eight people. one twister roared through shawn shawnee, passing i-40. radio station kfor wads on the air and on the ground. meteorologist david payne was in the middle of it, while jim gardner described what he saw. >> this is unbelievable. this keeps growing and growing, and it's pulling everything in. >> reporter: left behind, a path of destruction and homes flattened right down to their concrete slabs. >> that's their hour, it's just gone. >> reporter: in northeast piedmonte, a frantic search for survivors. they found a woman and two children. this morning, the 15-month-o

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for all the latest from joplin, missouri.r sam champion and the rest of the abc news team are there. >>> the mothers of two american hikers being he would in iran got a rare phone call from their sons. it's only the third time in two years that josh fattal and shane bauer were allowed to call home. they said their sons sounded okay. the pair revealed they staged a 17-day hunger strike after they stopped getting letters. >>> a suspect was arrested in connection with the horrific beating outside of dodgers stadium in los angeles on baseball's opening day. that was when brian stow, a fan of the giants, suffered severe brain damage after the attack. a tip from a parole officer led them to 31-year-old giovanni ramirez. he's being held on $1 million bail. >>> switching gears and turning to sports highlights. playoff action now. espn news has the latest. >> good morning, i'm max bretos, this is your espn news update. after three days, we finally tip off game three between the bulls and the heat. all tied at 1-1, though the heat with

they found it here on the campus of missouri, southern state university. as you pointed out, people have been lining up. this line that you're seeing here, they're trickling up to the door. it's been lining around through campus to show up for this memorial service. we're told that the auditorium seats more than 2,000 people, but they've also made plans elsewhere on campus for overflow room so that once this gets filled up and people can still get the memorial service piped in to other rooms here. as you pointed out, president obama coming here. his message will be specifically to the people of joplin and then to the people of missouri. the federal government is here to assist in any way possible to help with recovery. i'll tell you the scene here is gripping. we're told by white house press secretary jay carney that the president did get a chance to look out the window of air force one as he was landing here on this very windy day and saw the devastation. i drove around and i can tell you that the ta devastation is still very gripping, even though it's mo

>> dan lothian live with the president in joplin, missouri. thanks, dan. >>> a moment of silence for the victims of last week's tornado, our casey is there. what is the scene? >> there are hundreds of people behind me here and they are leaving the site where they observed a moment of silence here and at several other areas around the city for the victims of the joplin tornado. congressman shaw saying we need each other, we need to pull together then the moment of silence happened and city manager mark rohr saying we will rebuild joplin, make no mistake about it. that process already starting to just begin to get under way. fema says it has new approved $6.2 million to be distributed to 5600 households in job lin who have applied fores aance. that's about an average of $1100 per household. not a lot bb but a start. the city lifted its water boil order. for the last week, you haven't been able to drink water from the city's supply. you had to use bottled water. now they determined the water is once again safe to drink. just one more example of t

now the disaster in joplin, missouri, is adding to things. lawmakers from alabama and missouri want to add more money to the homeland security spending bill for the next fiscal year. that would pay for domestic disasters. the house appropriations committee will mark up the spending bill today. >>> a text message is being credited for helping rescuers find a man trapped by debris after the tornado hit joplin, missouri. late sunday night the man sent his friend a text message that said i'm alive. he gave his location inside the damaged building. emergency management officials say they will continue searching the rubble throughout the week. >>> the trial begins today for the florida mother accused of killing her 2-year-old daughter. opening statements will be heard this morning in the case against casey anthony. she's accused of killing her daughter, caylee, nearly three year ago. the toddler was last seen in june 2008. her body was found six months later. casey anthony has pled not guilty and has claimed a babysitter kidnapped her daughter. ant

plenty of proof of that this sunday in joplin, missouri.urnalist chris turner went to service today in joplin even though the churches were gone. >> we open the service in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit. >> church was gone which was completely devastating. all of it, i mean, the whole community was gone. it looked like a bomb had exploded here. >> let us open sinning the opening hymn "joyful, joyful we adore thee." >> in less than 20 minutes lives were changed. some for eternity. people still alive were changed. buildings and houses were changed. joplin was changed. and it will never be quite the same for any of us. ♪ >> our church is our family. we are not just a building. >> so now we know what has happened. the question now is what will happen? ♪ lord, listen to your children praying ♪ ♪ send us love >> god talked about people gathering. it didn't say we had to gather in a building. the church is the people. we have no building. the chairs were used, something salvaged out of building. the material things, t

louis, missouri, and we all got together to help.ind of pushed our ways into the worst areas. and we have done it unorganized and this is what it has become. >> reporter: there she is giving orders again. diplomatically making relations with the local police officers and sheriff's department. that is la ringda there with her entire family. they spent $500 on hot dogs and hamburgers. everything else has been donated. an amazing outpouring of support here. the local and federal governments are here as well, but this is the most impressive to me and everybody who lives here is how much support they have gotten just from local communities and people coming in from outside the southeast. >> rob, that's good to hear. thank you very much. we appreciate your report. we'll get back to you. alexandra steele here at the cnn weather center, it is good to see that. i was down there and didn't hear one cross word. people were all helping each other, scores of volunteers giving away their products. and we want to keep the bad weather away from thos

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we are live in joplin, missouri tonight. a town bracing for a storm that's expected to hit any moment. death toll rising here in joplin, missouri to 124, and a staggering number of people unaccounted for. some 1,500 according to one local official. new tornadoes tonight also in our southwest, in oklahoma with fatalities and a tornado watch and curfew in effect here. as i said, that storm expected to hit some time in the next few minutes here. we're hoping to stay on the air. we've moved to a more secure location. i want to show you what's been happening in oklahoma, the storm there, simply unbelievable. this funnel cloud cut a tractor trailer in half. the driver escaped with his life. it was not the only tornado on the ground. at least four people killed west of oklahoma city in canadian county. at one point the national weather service had to evacuate its norman oklahoma storm prediction center. take a look. >> wow. woe got lightning really close. where is it? yeah. >> okay, we got another tornado on the ground. we're going

more rain pours down from joplin, missouri. diane sawyer, good night. >> the attack on a giant fan and criminal history of a suspected gang member. >> facing lay offs. jobs are cut from the budget but not the new office furniture. >> a daring demonstration below the richmond bridge. find out why they risk their lives to make a points. >> and defending the round up of thousands of horses . what might happen if they are allowed to roam free. >> we have breaking news. >> you are looking at a live picture from sky 7 hd, a tour bus run off of the interstate. it happened on lion road south of cherry glen. the chp said the bus veered off of the roadway and took out 50 or 60 feet of fence. >> 13 people were taken to the hospital. we don't know how serious they are at point. >> we don't know if there were tourist on board. >> we'll follow that as need be. >> the family of a giants fan nearly beaten to death. after a

yesterday, as i show you video coming out of missouri, another part of missouri, that dealt with reportedlys well. you're looking at video. it sure does look like tornado damage. roofs torn off homes, buildings flattened. it was a deadly area for some parts of missouri as well as into illinois and indiana. as i take you back over, radar is fairly quiet right now. even today, we're still expecting the potential for some of the storms to produce some strong winds as well as some large hail. anywhere in yellow. we'll be dealing with the slight risk today for some stronger storms, not like yesterday or the day before. but again, certainly some of these storms with the afternoon heating potentially could have some punch, thursday as well as through friday morning. i want to show you this image right here. this is going to show you joplin, missouri, and this right here, this is the image of actually the hospital. st. john's hospital. as you can see in the gray, that's the roof of the hospital. you can see the emergency room entrance there. and then as we take it ahead, this is the nasa image for

make no mistake, joplin, missouri, will rebuild, but it will never be the same. hello and welcome to this one-hour cnn special report on the joplin, missouri, tornado and other deadly storms. a twister's fury: in the path of destruction. i'm drew griffin. just hours from now president obama will be on the ground in joplin for his first look at what's left of this devastated city. 142 people have lost their lives. another hundred are missing yet amid the widespread destruction cnn found people already starting to rebuild. >> this is america. and we're going to rebuild it. >> reporter: four days after an historic tornado demolished much of joplin, missouri -- >> why don't you cut them and put them underneath? >> reporter: contractor darren collins started construction on the first new building to emerge from the rubble. >> at some point we have to stop scratching our heads and staring at the rubble and get things back to normalcy. >> reporter: he's rebuilding his wife's beauty salon. he built once before 17 years ago. on tuesday collins discussed the idea with shoc

a deadly tornado plowed through joplin, missouri.we're getting reports of at least 30 people killed. that number could go up. emergency management's director who we spoke to a few moments ago, telling us that at least 400 people were treated at one hospital alone for injuries. the governor has called in the national guard and declared a state of emergency. joplin's main hospital meantime there it is now, st. john's regional medical center, was extensively damaged. at least 100 patients had to be transferred to other area hospitals. >> direct hit on the hospital. we'll get a better handle on how much damage was done when the sun comes up. a reporter in joplin says the local walmart and home depot are gone. the tornado reportedly a mile wide, leaving a three-mile path of destruction. jamie green, photo journalist with the wichita eagle was coming back from a wedding when the storm hit. >> she had a split second to keep driving or get out of the car and take cover. she's on the phone. thanks for joining us, jamie. >> sure. >> what did y

hardest hit, missouri. devastating a local hospital. emergency officials there say at least 89 people have been killed. nbc's francisco reports. >> reporter: power witnessed first hand by a team from the weather channel. >> i'm not sure i have witnessed anything before like this in my life. >> the tornado pummeled the medical center and other buildings. to the north, the extent of the devastation was stunning. >> everybody okay? >> residents left with the destruction. >> we barely got out of there. >> forces left thousands in the dark. >> further south in reading, kansas, mother nature delivered a crippling blow on saturday. ef-3 tornado packed winds up to 165 miles-an-hour. the twister sparked a state of emergency across 16 counties. back in missouri, fears of more deaths as residents grappled with the death of the destruction. frances koe, nbc news. >> the tornado has hit home for one of our home. brian williams lived and worked in the hard-hit missouri town. last night brian spoke by phone about how this compares to the tragedy in al

>>desde joplin, missouri, angie sandoval, muchÍsimas gracias.s que se estÁn tomando en el senado para ayudar a nuestra comunidad y nadie mejor para hablar de eso que el senador del estado de nueva jersey, robert menÉndez. senador, gracias nuevamente por estar con nosotros. >>un placer estar contigo. >>antes de entrar en una propuesta que usted presentÓ esta semana en el senado, querÍa su reacciÓn a la corte suprema de estados unidos, que esta semana tambiÉn dijo que era legal que en el estado de arizona pudieran cerrar empresas que habÍan contratado a indocumentados. >>sÍ, fue una decisiÓn exclusiva a una ley que arizona tiene que el gobierno federal permitiÓ de que se pudieran usar por medio de los estados, licencias y esas licencias se pudieran eliminar para negocios que actualmente emplean personas indocumentadas. desafortunadamente creo que el estado de arizona lo llevÓ mucho mÁs alla de lo que era el intento, pero la corte suprema dijo, bueno, considerando que la ley federal permite que los estados determinen por licencias, el abrir o cerra

more on how joplin, missouri, is coping. that tore through town around 5:30 in the afternoon on sunday. by the time it was over dozens were killed. 25 to 30% of the town was damaged including the regional hospital. that was evacuated moments before it took a direct hit. >> missouri's governor declared a state of emergency and activated the national guard to help with a search for survivors. they could be facing more severe weather today which is unbelievable. al is there. we'll check in with him in a few minutes. >> the sky is so ominous. meanwhile, coming up, a guide to summer health. we'll help you separate fact from myth when it comes to enjoying the summer months ahead. later on, does your high schooler need help choosing a university and you don't know where to take the family this summer? we have five college towns that double as great family vacation destinations. >> that's two for the price of one. it works out well. first let's get to al in joplin, missouri. al, what's the latest? >> the latest is, matt, the skies a