. >> reporter: tabitha plans to get to know her grandmother now. kind of sad to see it takes this to make you realize that you don't really have all that long because you never know when it is going to end, you know? i mean, for all i know, she could have been crushed or died or something. >> wow, what a story. so interesting that must have been played out hundreds of times across joplin, people just not knowing where to find her. how is her grandmother? >> she is doing better in the hospital right now. she's had a couple surgeries since that time. she's not critical but still fragile enough that tabitha has not been able to speak to her. she is too weak to talk, still. >> i was impressed with the neighbor on the block saying this one is there, this one is okay, was that the story of joplin in just multiple people searching for their loved ones? >> oh, yeah. people wanted to try to help each other as much as they could. aaron cole in the story knew everyone. his grandparents lived there, he mowed the grass of miss freeman, so we were able to connec

i'm standing right now in front of the home of tabitha freeman. her grandmother lives in this house behind me and was inside at the time. she was unable to contact her after the storm. she drove in from oklahoma yesterday to show up here to see if she could find any information. i knew a neighbor down the street that i had met earlier in the day said he knew everyone on this block and told us she was at the hospital. we called the local hospital here who gave us the numbers of three other hospitals outside of town and we tried calling them and we were able to locate her grandmother ellen in rodgers, arkansas, and she was okay. there are good stories, still, coming here in joplin, missouri. ali, back to you. >> thanks very much for that. >>> more violent storms moving to the east and south. in fact, three people were killed in georgia. storms brought a tree down on cars during a storm there. there was also significant storm damage in alabama. a family in the town of hatten lucky to be alive after trees toppled into their home. let's check in with r

. >> reporter: tabitha freeman has been trying for days to locate her 67-year-old grandmother, ellen.homes are so demolished they have to be identified with spray paint on the sidewalk. >> that's the bathroom and it's -- they always say the safest place to be is in the bathroom and look, it's just -- even if she would have been in there, she wouldn't have made it because it's collapsed in on itself. >> reporter: tabitha drove to joplin from oklahoma, hoping to get answers after not being able to contact nearby relatives and trying online services. >> i have a lot of friends and family here in joplin and it's just the not knowing, you know. i mean i know a lot of people are missing loved ones. >> reporter: earlier i met neighbor aaron cole who said he knows almost everyone on the block. >> yeah, she is alive. miss cook, she got stuck in her basement door in the entryway, she's all right too and i did know that miss freeman, she did make it too. she's in the hospital somewhere. >> okay. well, that will make it easier to find her. >> reporter: we called the hospital in joplin to see if s

tabitha hadn't seen her grandmother in years and she was very relieved to get that information.t kind of gives you an idea of what people are going through. you know, they can't communicate with each other because cell phones are out and problems on the internet. and the chaos after the tornado, there were three different reports of three different hospitals of where the woman was taken. >> and you can certainly tell by that story why that list, you know, the list that officials are putting out changes and the number changes so drastically over time. >> reporter: yeah, it absolutely does. and they do know that some people on that list are deceased, so as they continue to identify more bodies, it will continue to go down hopefully. carol. >> jacqui jeras reporting live from joplin. just a reminder, missouri's department of public safety will have that update on the missing at 11:00 a.m. eastern. we'll follow the news conference and bring you the latest numbers. >>> the death of a former marine and iraq war veteran at the hands of s.w.a.t. team officers. we'll have the startling r

distress and the loss of a father's companionship to 12-year-old tyler and eight-year-old daughter, tabitha. 42-year-old brian remains in critical condition at san francisco general hospital. his sister said the family would not be speaking about the lawsuit. abc 7 news legal analyst dean johnson says it's clear to him why the family has targeted the dodger organization for damages. >> we know that the dodger organization is potentially liable in this situation and secondly, this is about money and the dodger organization is the proverbial deep pocket. the individuals who are responsible for this crime undoubtedly will be named in the future when their names are known. >> reporter: johnson says the lawsuit could also have an impact on other public venues over how much security they provide. >> certainly if there is a big settlement or big verdict in this case professional baseball, professional sports in general, commercial landlords in general are going to be much more aware of their obligation. >> reporter: because of the severity of the injuries sustained, it's possible the family could

they can get all of your facebook photos and all of your information, even if you click on that one tabithamation is private. if you are suspected of committing a crime, law enforcement can go to a judge, get a search warrant, and get access to all of that information on facebook and all of that information on twitter. >> essentially that's not unlike getting a swarpt for getting a search warrant for home. if you have reasons to suspect somebody and it's good enough for a judge, you can go to their home and toss their drawers. so it's kind of the same thing but only in cyberspace. >> it's exactly the same thing. but i think people have the perception that if you use facebook and you click on that privacy tab, that there's no way anybody can have access to it. well, guess what? the cops, if they suspect that you did something wrong, what they can do is, you're right, just like going into a search warrant and getting access to your house, they are getting access to the cloud, if you will. and again, that's something that civil liberty groups are concerned about. they just want everybody to be