Luckily Steven survived, and his friends eventually came ... Nearly half of the people who had the infection from the Joplin tornado died, according to the New England Journal of Medicine.

Almost 1,000 homes in the Joplin area were destroyed ... Davis and his brother survived the tornado by laying beneath a mattress in a hallway of their house. "It was traumatizing," Davis said.

May 6 marks 50 years since the 1975 tornado, which barreled through the metro, killing three people and injuring hundreds ...

At the time, it was the costliest tornado in history. Now it’s the Joplin tornado, which caused $3 billion worth of damage. This tornado was involved with an outbreak that lasted 2 days ...

The horror of the Joplin tornado is the subject of a new documentary ... into the building. Those who survived were scattered to nursing homes in four states, their records and medications blown ...