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<p>Ashley Clark salvages items from a family member's devastated Joplin, Mo. home Wednesday, May 25, 2011. An EF-5 tornado tore through much of the city Sunday, damaging a hospital and hundreds of homes and businesses and killing at least 122 people.</p>

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'You feel so small and helpless'
May 26, 2011 9 p.m.

'You feel so small and helpless'

A tour through the broken heart of Joplin

JOPLIN, Mo. - Standing amid the ruins of what had been a Goodyear service center, Robert Alves turns in place to take a grim inventory.