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Fine. guess what, 160, the instruments yesterday blew off the top. so they dont even know how big the winds were. but they survived it. they lost the hatch -- >> we talked to them an hour ago. >> what did they say? >> theyre going to chase again to today because it is going to be another big day and tomorrow is another big tornado day. when we get into thursday, weoe were, theyre trying to pick up pieces. can you imagine any kind of winds blowing those pieces around? it could get very, very dice...

This is just before 3:00 that afternoon. school is letting out. at that moment, about nine miles southwest this tornado hits the ground and starts sweeping toward moore. parents have been told there was bad weather. they could pick their kids up from the cafeteria where many had gathered. we dont know how many picked them up. thats why nobody knows how many people were in the school at the time the storm hit. we do know this, just past 3:00, everything changed because the emergency sirens starte...

Right there. the tornado came out of newcastle right through here, and it was right there at this time. let me show you the structure of the storm, though, as we take a look three dimensionally. this was picking up debris, this was picking up shingles and trees and everything else on the ground, throwing it into the sky. thousands of feet in the sky. if we can rotate this around, its an amazing picture if you consider whats going on here. we have winds at this point 210 miles per hour. anderson,...

Because last night when it seemed like it was climbing, when we were talking to the people there, the investigators, its like wow, where could this go, because when you have a storm like this, that now we know 210 miles per hour, damage was complete. some of these houses dont exist anymore. theres nothing more to see, not even the refrigerator, not the kitchen, not a bathroom. theyre all gone. >> yeah, the state medical examiner when we talked to her, the spokesperson last night, she gave us bas...

You obviously remember the 99 tornado. how does this compare? is it worse? >> ive heard theyre very cl e close. youre talking about them being 225 and one being 210. they started in the same place. this particular tornado started on the same path straight off into these for a while. so its going to happen once in a while. you just have to be resilient. get back up.

Measured up, i want to check with chad myers and the weather center. chad, explain the ranking system? >> when you get an ef-5, that means some building doesnt exist anymore. by the three, youre losing an outside wall, four, youll lose a lot of walls and five youll lose everything. thats where we are now. 200, 210 miles per hour. when that tornado was on the ground as an ef-4, this is what it looked like. now we can look inside the storm and see how high that debris was picked up, sucked up and ...

That little part that you see there, that three dimensionality, thats the debris that was picked up in the tornado and thrown around. it went from an ef-0 all the way up to an ef-4 in 10 minutes. and then it got even stronger. it got up to that 200, 210 miles per hour. and there are many homes out there that you just cant find anything. the fact that we only lost 24 people a actually a blessing considering how many homes you see with nothing left. anderson?

Flexpen® is insulin delivery my way. covered by most insurance plans, including medicare. ask your health care provider about levemir® flexpen today. good to see you. im brooke baldwin here with jake tapper. were live in moore, oklahoma, where the story, really it is only as you can look around and see, it is one story today, the absolutely devastating impact of what we now know is an ef-5 tornado. >> the absolute worst kind of tornado. this is one of the most powerful ones, the one that too...

And 210 miles an hour. last night we were saying 166 to 200. gary tuckman is there. what is the latest on the recovery efforts? i know earlier in the evening, speaking to the lieutenant governor and youve been speaking to mayor, they think theyve accounted for everyone. >> i think the headline of the story right now is that the death toll is not higher. 24 is a horrible number. its a terrible tragedy that 24 people have died. but the mayor says he doesnt expect it to go higher than 24. ive seen ...

Just quickly to explain what that means and talk more about how the storm measured up, i want to check in with chad myers and the weather center. chad, explain the ranking system. >> when you get an ef-5, that means some building doesnt exist anymore. by the three, youre losing an outside wall, four, youll lose a lot of walls and five youll lose everything. 2 you lose a couple of shingles. five you lose everything. thats where we are now. 200, 210 miles per hour. when that tornado was on the gro...