CBS Evening News - 2011-05-29
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[0:01] Tonight, one week after that deadly
[0:03] tornado strike, the people of Joplin,
[0:05] Missouri pray for the victims and
[0:07] President Obama console survivors as he
[0:09] tours devastated neighborhoods.
[0:11] >> We will be with you every step of the
[0:14] way until Jofflin is restored and this
[0:18] community is back on its feet. We're not
[0:20] going anywhere.
[0:21] >> I'm Russ Mitchell. Also tonight, hitting
[0:23] the road. Sarah Palin rides into
[0:25] Washington as part of Operation Rolling
[0:27] Thunder. Does it signal her entry into
[0:29] the growing Republican field? And back
[0:32] from the brink, bald eagles soar again
[0:35] over Catalina Island decades after the
[0:37] pesticide DDT destroyed their habitat.
[0:45] This is the CBS Evening News with Russ
[0:49] Mitchell.
[0:50] >> Evening. It has now been one week since
[0:52] that devastating tornado rolled through
[0:54] Joplin, Missouri. And today, the town
[0:56] got a visit from the president, and
[0:58] there were new signs of hope. Here are
[1:00] the latest numbers. 139 people died in
[1:02] last Sunday's tornado, and the number of
[1:05] people unaccounted for is down to 40.
[1:07] Ben Tracy is in Joplin tonight with the
[1:09] latest. Ben, good evening.
[1:12] >> Good evening, Russ. President Obama was
[1:13] on the ground here for about three hours
[1:15] today in Joplain to see all of this
[1:17] firsthand, and he offered help to this
[1:20] town where at churches like this one, it
[1:22] was anything but a normal Sunday.
[1:25] So this was your house?
[1:26] >> Yeah. And there's the front entrance.
[1:28] >> One week ago, Father Justin Monahan
[1:31] survived the tornado
[1:32] >> inside that door
[1:33] >> inside his bathtub.
[1:35] >> I kind of said, you know, Lord, if I