CBS Evening News - 2011-05-23
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[0:02] >> Tonight, the death toll passes 100 after
[0:05] a huge tornado hits Joplin, Missouri.
[0:08] >> Oh, it's getting big.
[0:09] >> Mowing down everything in its path. And
[0:12] the search continues for survivors.
[0:18] >> This is the CBS Evening News.
[0:24] Good evening from Joplain, Missouri.
[0:26] Tonight, virtually everywhere you look
[0:28] in this city of 50,000, there is
[0:31] destruction. A massive tornado ripped
[0:34] through here about 6:30 last evening,
[0:36] less than half an hour after the warning
[0:38] sirens went off. As the search for
[0:40] victims goes on, the death toll is at
[0:43] least 116. The tornado's winds reach
[0:46] close to 200 m an hour, destroying or
[0:49] damaging about 2,000 homes and
[0:51] businesses and carrying debris as far as
[0:54] 60 m away. The twister was the most
[0:57] destructive of 68 reported across seven
[1:00] Midwest states over the weekend. Some of
[1:02] the survivors in Joplain in southwest
[1:05] Missouri took refuge in a convenience
[1:07] store.
[1:09] >> Everybody get down low on the ground.
[1:12] This cell phone video shows almost
[1:14] nothing, but tells us everything about
[1:17] what it's like when terror is on your
[1:20] doorstep.
[1:24] >> There are 18 or 19 people huddled inside
[1:27] this store. No electricity, no way of
[1:30] knowing just how bad it was about to
[1:33] get. I can't
[1:36] >> people scream and pray.
[1:38] >> Jesus. Jesus.
[1:41] >> And say what they fear could be their
[1:43] last words.
[1:45] >> I love everyone. I love everyone, man.
[1:48] >> I love you.
[1:49] >> Then it's finally over.
[1:53] >> Okay.
[1:55] >> I'm trying to
[1:56] >> It was just over a month ago we were in
[1:58] Birmingham in Tuscaloosa, Alabama
[2:00] talking about the storm damage there.
[2:03] thin