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This community, several blocks wide and some 20 miles long, was completely disintegrated by this tornado. houses, where there were once these homes, now there are just bundles of what appear to be straw, tinder boxes, natural gas leaks, potential for fire. you do often have to measure these things in terms of human loss, the property loss is obviously, i must tell you these numbers are early, they are low, this is an emergent situation, search and rescue is still active here, theyre not able to ...

There are 31 confirmed fatalities so far, including 20 children. that number will rise, with reports of more bodies found overnight. of those 40, about 20 are children. at least 145 victims are in the hospital right now. the tornado, said to be an ef-4, which is the second-highest strength. it packed winds of 166-mile-per-hour to 200-mile-per-hour. up to 200-mile-per-hour in some places. president obama issuing emergency disaster overnight. we have this covered from every angle, with reporters f...

40 more bodies have been recovered. we expect the death toll to rise dramatically. more than 145 people are being treated in the hospitals. search-and-rescue efforts under way including at the school where theyre looking for any one that may be trapped. >> thousand of buildings are simply gone. to give you an idea of the magnitude of the tornado, db ebs has been found 90 miles away. unbelievable. we have seen the images of devastation. it can be hard to grasp, the size of this disaster zone. tom...

Be ready for that. 145 casualties made it to hospitals, many are walking wounded. good news number. >> since this storm hit yesterday, 101 people rescued by all types of first responders, fire, police, emts on the grown, pulling people out of rubble. in some cases, picking through the debris by hand. 101 poom have been pulled from the rubble and are alive this morning, a lot of that work was done overnight. and people have not given up hope here. we spoke to lieutenant governor todd lamb. lets n...

Already know, children. 145 people injured, again, that number will go up, maybe by a lot. and were asking about a count for the number of homes and structures destroyed. they do not have that count yet. i can tell you how weve driven through it over the last several hours, i dont know how they would begin to count. there were so many homes, structures destroyed. flattened in some cases by the power of the storm. it was an ef-4, there were wind speeds in excess of 200 miles per hour. at one poin...

Covered our car. >> couldnt be a safe situation. what was it like to be in the middle of it? >> probably not very safe. very intense, very stressful. worst part was knowing people were dying and nothing i could do about it. >> have you been chasing storms since 2007 roughly. where does this rank in terms of storms have you been in? is this the worst you have seen? >> the worst tornado i have ever seen. >> were getting report 51 people dead. 145 injured, those numbers will go up. as you were head...

These situations in terms of casualties, so i will tell you, at this point, 51 confirmed dead, 20 of those kids, 145 injured. but there are so many walking wounded. look at the pictures before you. families took to their own before they took care of themselves, they went looking for their kids, youll see people bloodied, theyre injured, but they wanted to find their kids. plaza tower, briarwood, two elementary schools hit just at dismissal time, 3:00 p.m. plaza towers, very bad, hand-to-hand sea...

Tornado shelters and basements. >> right. >> but the ground is so hard here, makes it that much more difficult to get a proper basement in your house. thats why there are so many different types of capsules people build. >> there will be a couple of news conferences later today. that death toll is expected to rise, 145 injured, were going to be hearing a lot about injuries. and right now were going to turn to an interview done by mike bettes who talked to a survivor who made it out alive. >> wha...

Theyre successful. thank you so much. nick have a learnsia. and we have a complete crew on the ground, john berman, pam la brown and george howell. they had to be moved because police have asked that all the media crews move out of the way. apparently there are a lot of houses in that area and they want to be able to hear in case there are people trapped under the rubble so they can get in and rescue them. so we are relocating them and they will be with us shortly with a live report from there. ...

From helicopters and probably very little dwaj. for the most part, it went through rural areas. that could have been just as bad as this one. >> yeah shl, but the great trag here is it passed through. nanks so much for that. again, continuing coverage of the devastating storm out of oklahoma. latest numbers are 91 people killed, including 20 children at about 145 injured. thats a great number of chirn. about 70. many parts of that area completely levelled and destroyed, including two schools. we...