At least 116 are dead and nearly 30 percent of city damaged. May 23, 2011 — -- Rescue efforts are under way as residents of Joplin, Mo., try to pick up the pieces of their lives after a ...

School doors open in Joplin, Mo., three months after deadly tornado. Aug. 17, 2011 -- For a town desperately seeking a return to some sense of normalcy, the ringing of school bells is more welcome ...

The remains of a truck is wrapped around a tree as Kayla McMinn gathers belongings on Vermont Avenue, near 18th Street, on Monday afternoon, May 23, 2011, a day after Joplin, Mo., was hit by a tornado ...

Update: the death count has risen to 116, making it the most-deadly single tornado in 60 years, the AP reports. On Sunday, a tornado cut a nearly half-mile wide path through six miles of the city of ...

The death toll from the nearly-mile wide tornado that flattened Joplin, Missouri on Sunday is expected to rise to over 100 people. And as rescue teams continue to tentatively probe the damaged area, ...

From the producers of "Dateline," NBC's new series "Survival Mode" will give viewers an inside look at some of the largest and most recent disasters through accounts from those who lived through them.

Steven Weersing, known to many as "miracle boy" after surviving the 2011 Joplin tornado, is opening up to PEOPLE about how the twister changed his perspective on family and fatherhood Two years after ...

JOPLIN, Mo. — A primetime series telling stories of survival focuses its premiere episode on the May 22, 2011 tornado, and features our very own Jeremiah Cook. According to NBC Universal, “Survival ...