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recovery time. >> as a busy public television executive sandy sends e-mail and text messages and ultimately her wrist and hands sent a painful message back to her. >> i woke up with a burning sensation in my three fingers i couldn't sleep. >> diagnosis carpel tunnel. the ligaments push on the nerves. >> push over like that. >> sandy was scheduled for surgery near her home in florida and at the last minute decided to fly to san francisco to consult with dr. bruce mccormac who has a less invasive. >> this minimizes the incision and least invasive way of relieving carpel tunnel. >> he uses a cath tar like device put through the wrist and minute. >> it is blunt. >> in the operating room, mr. mccorpac is preparing to sever the constructed tendon. he places the cathetar and making sure it is not contacting nerves before he makes the cut. >> carpel tunnel is one of the common orthpedic proceedures. we are not changing that success. we are taking away the invision so the patients don't have a disfiguring scar. >> it is a grinding sensation. >> sandy is away and less than 10 minutes, dr. mccormac releases the

recovery time. >>reporter: as busy public television executive sandy sends e-mails and text message but ultimately wrist and hand sent a painful message back to her. >> woke up at night with a burning sensation in my 3 fingers so painful i couldn't sleep. >>reporter: carpal tunnel syndrome. condition caused when thick legment put pressure on surrounding nerve in the wrist. >> push over like that. >>reporter: sandy was scheduled for surgery near her home in florida but at the last minute she decided to fly to san francisco to consult with dr. bruce mccormick who has developed a less invasive procedure to relieve the pain. >> this new technology basically minimizes the incision. least invasive way of taking care of carpal continual. >>reporter: rather than open incision the system use as catheter like device inserted through the wrist and hand. >> when it goes in competely blunt. nothing sharp on it. >>reporter: in an operating room at st. francis hospital the doctor will severe the tendon. first places the catheter then make sure it's not contacting any surrounding nerve before he makes the cut. >> carpa

recovery effort continues in joplin, missouri, tonight. take a look at this, following one of the deadliest single tornado strikes in half of a century. the images on television look bad, but seeing it firsthand is much worse. that's the sentiment of almost everyone there tonight. more than 100 people are dead and hundreds more are injured. here now is nbc bay area's jay gray. >> there it is. oh, gosh, that is a monster tornado. >> reporter: violent attack began just before sundown. the massive tornado at times three quarters of a mile wide cutting through the heart of joplin, missouri, ripping apart everything in its six-mile path. >> it's tearing up the entire city on the south side of joplin right now and it's a massive tornado. massive destruction. >> reporter: as soon as the wind stopped -- >> look at that. that is destroyed. >> reporter: the search for survivors began. >> i ended up pulling two bodies out of the rubble. there were people that were trapped. there was one i kind of shoved a wall to help a guy get out of his house. >> reporter: at least 116 could not be saved. >> when i got here, my heart just sunk. >> reporter: his brother and sister-in-l

television hello. good morning. i'm lynn berry. today we begin with the long road ahead. this morning, survivors in joplin, missouri are beginning the second week of what will be a trying and lengthy recovery. yesterday president obama travelled to the tornado-striked zone for the firsthand look at the devastation. nbc's jay gray reports. >> how are you guys doing? >> reporter: looking to raise the spirits of this battered community, president obama travelled to joplin on sunday. >> obviously the scene speaks for itself. >> reporter: the splintered wood and twisted metal spread for six miles, remnants and neighborhoods stretched to their limits. >> this is not just your tragedy. this is a national tragedy. that means there is will be a national response. >> reporter: it's help this city will need for a long time. >> it's overwhelming. >> reporter: but in this place where everything seems to be torn apart, sunday there was evidence that joplin is actually pulling together. ♪ >> reporter: thousands gathered for a memorial to remember and honor the victims of the storm. >> the loss of even one human life is a tragedy and we have lost scores. >> reporter: a city suffering as it begins what wil

chief craig fugate updates the recovery efforts, after deadly tornadoes and flooding ravaged the south and midwest. >> woodruff: from libya, alex thompson of independent television news has the story of an aid ship that defied a deadly attack to rescue migrant workers and refugees. >> to get in and get out of misurata port involves congregating around 1500 people in the middle of a shelling zone for anything up to five or six hours. it is not an easy call. >> brown: and paul solman has a conversation with the academy award-winning director of "inside job"-- a documentary on the financial crisis, economics professors and conflicts of interest. >> unfortunately, this issue is now pervasive in american academia and in my view, it's a grave threat to the independence of academic research in the university system. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: in 1968, as whaling continued worldwide, the first recordings of humpback songs were released. ( whale singing ) public reaction led to international bans. whale populations began to recover. at pacific life, the whale symbolizes what is possible

televised." scott-heron was 62 years old. >>> first the latest on search and recovery efforts in joplin, missourile are still missing, six days after a tornado plowed a four-mile long swath thigh the city. the death toll stands at 132 with more than 1,000 injured. we expect an update on those numbers at 11:00 eastern. president obama is returning from that overseas trip today and will be in joplin tomorrow. >>> and it is in joplin this morning where we find our own paul vercammen. paul you're standing in a pile of debris and i do assume that is a neighborhood or at least it used to be? >> it sure was. this is going to give you a sense of how difficult it was for the first responders early on in the tragedy. i'll take a walk and show you right here this was a neighborhood, the whole neighborhood is gone, and as i continue to stroll here you see off in the distance of this massive debris field that is a hospital, st. john's regional medical center. you would say a lot of the people could be brought here quickly. unfortunately, the hospital oblitera obliterated, parts of the fas sad completely torn