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Four surveyors on the ground, teams of two. and they did find that it was ef-5 damage as weve told you there at the briarwood elementary school. max winds of 200 to 210. the blue coloring is where it was ef-0. ef-2 in yellow. the intensity changed dramatically as the tornado was on the ground. these storms are always evolving. it was an ef-5 for a very short period of time. notice the bright red. thats when it was ef-4. almost the worst of it in the strongest this tornado was was unfortunately w...

You think miraculous this person was fine as it happened. late today we learned the storm was stronger than we thought and at briarwood, they measured that this was the most powerful a tornado can be. the national weather service says that the peak wind estimated between 200 and 210 miles per hour, which is the fastest possible wind speed measured for a tornado. we have everything covered tonight as oklahoma tries to begin the recovery process. john king on the ground in moore. brian todd with t...

Losing a roof at 101 miles an hour, the walls at 139 and all of it will be gone at about 176. its actually a weaker building than the homes because its much bigger, broader rooms within it. then when you move to something like a hospital, its a whole different game because theres a lot of concrete, a lot of steel. this is a much more robust structure. here you talk about more impressive numbers like 114 miles an hour for a roof to go, 148 for the walls to start failing, 210 for it all to go. alt...

Of 200 and up to 210. those winds destroyed neighborhoods, leveling a city block after block. the miracle, it appears tonight that only 24 people have died. they say no one is still unaccounted for but the numbers could change. today cnn looked at the destruction. and brian todd went through some of the blocks with the citys mayor. >> reporter: we drove past blocks and blocks of shredded homes, mangled cars and fallen power lines. this is just one of the devastated neighborhoods in moore, oklaho...

Last class here. things like the hospital down here. weve all looked at this hospital today. its huge, standing right in the storms path. it gets hit like a giant sail. you might think this would be the first to collapse but the construction in a building like this is much more robust than you might think. look at the standards here. basically this roof is going to stay on up to about 114 miles an hour. the walls can stay in place up to 148 miles an hour. even if the roof and walls start failing...

Tonight. each will be searched, he says, three times, before being cleared. and the national weather service now says the damage in at least one area indicates the most powerful category of tornado, an ef-5. said winds reached 210 miles an hour, and the tornado was 1 1/3 miles wide. emotional scenes are playing out all across this community. as victims return to find homes reduced to rubble, or in some cases, no homes at all. cnns brian todd is here. you spoke to some of those and these are hear...

That image has given so many just a light and a ray of hope. thanks to jim and shanna and hezikiah. >> okay. thank you. were learning that that tornado at one point was an ef-5. as we have been explaining, thats the highest classification that a tornado can receive. at the time when the ef-5 was struck, winds between 200 and 210 mirps. thats up to 50 miles per hour faster, nearly 50 miles faster than that they thought it might have been when it struck briarwood elementary school. thats where h...

We had the thunderstorms, lightning. now a glorious, sunny day and around the neighborhood, of course, anything but glorious. a family in the home behind me for several hours and collecting the gear, mostly toys for their children. there are hundreds of these. not six or eight or ten or 12 of these. houses just reduced, reduced to crumbs and timber and crumbled and twisted and when you think about that, when you think about that, when you see the devastation, block by block, mile by mile and und...

Rubble, looking for little pieces of their lives. its not that easy to do. not just because -- and you can see the bricks that are piled up and appliances and so on. 200, 210-mile-per-hour winds. do you know how far that will carry something? sometimes people are finding things in their yards and theyre looking at them and theyre saying, this might mean something to someone. or these are photographs that i dont recognize. and you can understand how far things flew. in fact, on the medical center...

>> even lebron james would have had trouble pulling this off our writers say. this guy jumped off 100-foot tower in jerry and drains a shot on the way down. take a look again, nothing but net. it took a group of friends about 210 before they finally nailed it that guy had to jump off a building 200 times? >> you know what? some things are just worth it, aly. >> thats tenacity. >> tucker: it really is and unemployment. >> clayton: your spine is all unaligned now. >> alisyn: retina is detached but...