Morning Express with Robin Meade

This week's small business success is a Florida family resort in the Everglades called Mack's Fish Camp. 

The name may not be familiar, but you might recognize the place -- it's been the backdrop for films like "The African Queen" with Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn, as well as "Cape Fear" starring Robert De Niro and Nick Nolte, to name just two. On TV you may have seen Mack's on "Bones" or "The Glades."

As her community plans to commemorate the anniversary of a tornado that destroyed huge swaths of town, and killed more than 150 people, graduating senior Taylor Mann says, "I didn't know what a community could be until I saw Joplin come together." 

Mann is part of Joplin High School's class of 2012. They went to school at the Northpark Mall because their school was so badly damaged in the storm.  She says even though they weren't able to finish their high school careers in the classrooms where they began, students received a brick retrieved from the rubble of their old school as a memento.

Joplin High School students have been going to school in a mall since a tornado destroyed their school on graduation day last year. Now the class of 2012 is preparing to accept their diplomas and senior Rachel Berryhill says, "It's cool to see how far we've come a year later."

Berryhill tells HLN's Robin Meade she's been impressed with the help that her city has received in the past 12 months. 

You don't have to be a former Celebrity Apprentice runner-up or a country music superstar like Trace Adkins in order to send a salute to troops. Tell us about a military man or woman in your life on our special Salute to Troops iReport assignment page.  You could see your hero on Morning Express with Robin Meade!

One year ago, a massive EF-5 tornado tore through Joplin, Missouri, killing more than 160 people and changing the city forever. In the weeks after the tornado hit, HLN visited Joplin and -- amid untold devastation -- found people determined to stay and rebuild their lives in the city they call home. Now, a year later, HLN returns to Joplin to tell the next chapter in this story of perseverance, courage and resolve. 

Robin Meade and Clark Howard lead HLN’s one-year anniversary coverage on air and online. "I'm someone who is all too familiar with the regularity of the tornado siren," says Meade, who grew up in the Midwest. "Joplin could be 'my town' for any one of us."

Hey everybody, just want to give you a heads up on the solar eclipse that will happen on Sunday evening in the western parts of the U.S.

I don't want you to think the world is ending and that the Mayans were right, but just seven months off. It's a rare annular solar eclipse, when the moon is in apogee (farthest away from Earth's center) in its orbit. That means the moon won't cover the entire solar disk as it passes in front of the sun. The image is often described as a "ring of fire." Remember the supermoon earlier this month? That was when we had the full moon and it was in perigee (closest to Earth in its orbit), making it 14% brighter than normal. The eclipse will start over Lubbock, Texas, around 7:30 p.m. MDT Sunday evening. The total eclipse path will take it near or over Albuquerque, New Mexico; The Grand Canyon, Arizona; Reno, Nevada; and off the west coast near Eureka, California. You can see the NASA projection here.   Remember, a solar eclipse is when the moon goes between the Earth and the sun, and the moon's shadow hits Earth. I've heard people say a solar eclipse happens when the sun comes between the Earth and the moon. If that happens Sunday, then the Mayans will have been right!

Russ Leatherman, also known as Mr. Moviefone, takes on three films opening this weekend: 'The Dictator' starring Sasha Baron Cohen; a dramatized version of the how-to-have-a-baby book 'What to Expect when You're Expecting'; and 'Battleship' which features some real military members on screen -- including Col. Greg Gadson who despite losing both his legs to an improvised explosive device in Iraq several years ago, is still active duty with the U.S. Army.

While Gadson is an Army Colonel in real life, his character in 'Battleship' is one step below, Lieutenant Colonel. But he DOES get to play most of his scenes with Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover model-turned-actress Brooklyn Decker. Which some might say makes up for the demotion. "You should go," says Col. Gadson, "because you'll feel great about our military after you see it." 

Last week, Kentucky businessman Rankin Paynter decided to see what bargains could be found at his Clark County Kmart before it was closed down. He was at the store just two days ahead of its closing and asked a clerk what would happen to all the merchandise left behind. The clerk told him a group of “power buyers” would be able to snap it up for a good deal. 

So Paynter decided to become one of those buyers with power. Only he used his power for good.

When a group of second-graders in Colorado Springs, Colorado, dressed up as historical figures for a class project, eight-year-old Sean King put on a jacket and tie to portray the reverend Martin Luther King Jr.

He also put on a fake mustache and painted his face black, and that’s where the trouble started.