'I can't believe this is my old home': NBC News 錨，総合司会者 Brian Williams returns to トルネード，竜巻-難破させるd Joplin, where he had his first TV 職業

By Jennifer Madison
Updated: 22:59 BST, 24 May 2011

He was a 地元の reporter in Joplin, Missouri long before rising the 階級s at NBC News, but Brian Williams' return last night to the トルネード，竜巻-荒廃させるd city where he got his start was far from celebratory.

The beloved television 錨，総合司会者 配達するd a 報告（する）／憶測 visibly 荒廃させるd by the 難破 that littered the city, which was ploughed by a mile-wide twister on Sunday that （人命などを）奪う，主張するd at least 118 lives.

Appearing on the 天候 Channel, Williams, 52, compared the flattened city to the 地形 of the war-荒廃させるd Middle East, and said 鎮圧するd cars looked like they were 'covered in shrapnel'.

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Distraught: Brian Williams (left) was visibly 荒廃させるd by the 難破 that littered the city during his broadcast with Jim Cantore (権利)

Williams appeared on the programme last night, 報告（する）／憶測ing まっただ中に the がれき from the 破壊 with と一緒に newscaster JIm Cantore.

As rain 注ぐd 負かす／撃墜する on the 廃虚s, Williams talked about returning to the city where he got his start at 地元の news 駅／配置する KOAM-TV, as a 地元の 天候 reporter, and the 荒廃 of returning while 居住（者）s tried to 対処する with the loss of their homes, life's 所持品 and loved ones.

'The first thing I did today was go 支援する and check on my old apartment,' he said.

'I can't believe this is the city where I lived. I can't believe this is my old home. And no community should have to 耐える this. This is 侮辱 to 傷害. This is relentless rain.'

Relentless 天候: Williams continued his 報告（する）／憶測 as rain 注ぐd 負かす／撃墜する on the 廃虚s. 'No community should have to 耐える this. This is 侮辱 to 傷害,' he said

The broadcast （機の）カム weeks after Williams 報告（する）／憶測d on the 大規模な 雷雨 前線 spawned 137 トルネード，竜巻s, killed at least 180 people, and destroyed sections of Tuscaloosa, Birmingham, and Huntsville, Alabama

He called the earlier 報告（する）／憶測 his 'new （判断の）基準' - a 重大な 肩書を与える に引き続いて his ニュース報道 on Japan's 津波 and ハリケーン Katrina.

But looking around at the flattened homes that surrounded he said 'this breaks that to me'.

破壊: Williams compared the flattened city to the war-荒廃させるd Middle East. 'Cars looking like they're from Baghdad, covered in shrapnel,' he said

'This didn't used to happen,' he continued. 'This never happened when I lived here.'

He continued, comparing the 破壊 to his 報告（する）／憶測s on 衝突 in the war-荒廃させるd Middle East.

'Cars looking like they're from Baghdad, covered in shrapnel, hospitals looking like the ones I've seen in Baghdad and Afghanistan - this is out of 手渡す,' he said.

Williams 公式文書，認めるd 損失 to a 地元の hospital in the city's centre struck 特に の近くに to home, but was remarkably impressed by how quickly Joplin began 回復 成果／努力s, pointing out many roads had already been re-覆うd thanks to its resilient 居住（者）s.

Scouring for remains: 救助（する） 乗組員s dug through piles of 後援d houses and 鎮圧するd cars today in a desperate final search for 生存者s

救助（する） 乗組員s dug through piles of 後援d houses and 鎮圧するd cars today in a desperate final search for 生存者s of the mile-wide トルネード，竜巻 that killed at least 118 people when it 爆破d much of this Missouri town off the 地図／計画する and slammed straight into its hospital.

公式の／役人s said the トルネード，竜巻 that 攻撃する，衝突する at around 6pm on Sunday was the 選び出す／独身 deadliest in the country since in Woodward, Oklahoma, in April 1947.

Joplin 解雇する／砲火／射撃 長，指導者 Mitch Randles 概算の the 損失 covered a ４半期/4分の1 or more of the city of about 50,000 people some 160 miles south of Kansas City and said his home was の中で those destroyed.

Homes destroyed: 公式の／役人s said the トルネード，竜巻 that 攻撃する，衝突する at around 6pm on Sun day was the 選び出す／独身 deadliest in the country since in Woodward, Oklahoma, in April 1947

Williams, 錨，総合司会者 and managing editor of NBC Nightly News, got his start in broadcast television at KOAM-TV in Joplin over three １０年間s ago.

After several years working 地元の （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域s in America's 中心地域 and Washington, D.C., he joined NBC News in 1993. Three years later began 錨，総合司会者ing The News with Brian Williams.

By 2004, he had assumed his 現在の position, which landed him on Time Magazine's prestigious 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる） 100 Most 影響力のある People in The World, 収入 the 肩書を与える of the nation's 主要な news 錨，総合司会者 and comparisons to television news legend, Walter Cronkite.