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Tornadoes do, wrecking just about everything in its path as it careened through athens, alabama, two years ago. one of a series of storms that killed about 250 people. a memory here or there is all that kevin and sarah beth hope to find. >> found another family picture. this is this years christmas picture, which was one of our ornaments. i found one. >> it only lasts about 30 seconds. i thought there was a hot chance, being read about in the papers. >> this is what kept the harrisons alive, a s...

Schools. they were built in the 1960s. they were cinder block and bring and then they had the flat roofs with metal trusses. it wasnt required back then for them to have a safe room or tornado shelter. the only thing there to protect the kids were those cinder block walls and you put that much force on them they collapse like a house of cards. >> when you talk to the people live in moore because of all the tornado activity and the devastation now, are they giving up on their town? i mean, are th...

Schools. they were built in the 1960s. they were cinder block and bring and then they had the flat roofs with metal trusses. it wasnt required back then for them to have a safe room or tornado shelter. the only thing there to protect the kid were those cinder block walls and you put that much force on them they collapse like a house of cards. >> when you talk to the people live in moore because of all the tornado activity and the devastation now, are they giving up on their town? i mean, are the...

Schools. they were built in the 1960s. they were cinder block and bring and then they had the flat roofs with metal trusses. it wasnt required back then for them to have a safe room or tornado shelter. the only thing there to protect the kids were those cinder block walls and you put that much force on them they collapse like a house of cards. >> when you talk to the people live in moore because of all the tornado activity and the devastation now, are they giving up on their town? i mean, are th...

With you here, i just wanted to -- the context of who these individuals are, this is an iconic image with these two parents carrying kids out. we see the mom there bloodied and battered. this was taken in the moments right after the storm system went through. who are these people? >> this is ladonna cobb, and you can see shes pretty battered, and this is her daughter jordan cobb, and i believe my coworker had to carry her out because they thought she broke her leg from a cinder block. and thats ...

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Cinder block fell on the back of my neck. >> reporter: the only section of the school somewhat intact is the bathroom and a couple of teachers tammy included decided to move the students in there at the last second and then everything erupted. the walls caving in. the car blown in to the side of the wall. with students on the other side, it could have been devastating. the teachers decided to move those students in to that area and thats what saved their lives. despite what you see here, everybo...

These buildings are built with usually concrete, reinforced concrete or cinder block. these have very, very strong buildings and theyll look at the degree of damage. and they can estimate what the wind speed will be. our tornado expert dr. greg forbes who is literally the worlds expert in tornado damage surveys. he was with us yesterday, he says no doubt in his mind this will be rated an ef-5 tornadoes with winds, that means, brian, in excess of 200 miles an hour. he says there was an oil tank a...

Eery sight going on there and somber work taking place as a group of first responders have a crane as they are slowly peeling back all of the debris from that school. they are working on one specific section of the school, and you can only imagine that thats where that group of children are. a question thats beginning to be asked around here that school structure was build back in 1966. its cinder block and brick. it does not have a dedicated hardened tornado shelter n. alabama we did stories ab...

Workers. the oklahoma city police department was asking people to keep back, he was tearing up after a father was upset they werent doing more. obviously, its traumatic for everybody and they are doing everything in their power to get these kids, these faculty members, out of this debris. >> lance, we hate to deal with numbers, but parents watching need to hear these numbers so they can understand whats transpiring, because the numbers tell the story. when we talked about an hour ago, 30 minutes...