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Center. as you can see behind me it was obliterated from the tornado that moved through here yesterday. this was in the direct path of the tornado and amazingly 30 patients that were inside moore medical center being treated were evacuated after the damage from the tornado. they were evacuated to surrounding medical centers. as i mentioned this is primarily an outpatient center. its a small hospital in comparison. weve seen search and rescue teams out here today. theres a bowling alley to my lef...

>> these reunions are so amazing. part of the good news that we see here in moore, oklahoma. you see parents who simply cannot hug their kids tightly enough. thats the local story here. this is already a national story, international story. thoughts and prayers streaming in from around the world right now. when we come back, well hear from the president. well get a report from white house correspondent jessica yellin into the white house response. what is the president doing right now to help th...

Of chemicals downed power lines, natural gas in a lot of these sites and right behind me here is a bowling alley and there are bowling balls throughout this area right behind me here. you can see the whole structure of the bowling alley just thrown apart from the tornado here yesterday. emergency exit door over there. the base, the entire infrastructure is completely obliterated from the tornado and over here to my left this is where my bowling alley used to be. this is just one example of so ma...

Devastating tornado. im in moore, oklahoma, right now. the latest information we have from the oklahoma city medical examiners office, 24 people have been killed, at least in this disaster, nine of those killed were children. im standing in this neighborhood right now. you can see it has been flattened by the storm here. the rain is falling steadily right now. this will hamper the recovery, the rescue effort a little bit, not make it easier on them. the people here need all of the help they can ...

Theyre at moore medical center. we were just listening. they were motivating each other saying hang in there. stick together. if conditions pick up, you know, be safe. go to a safe area. here at moore medical center, we know that 30 patients were evacuated here yesterday after the tornado. after the damage was sustained, the patients were taken out. most of the patients were here for outpatient reasons. again, this scene here that were seeing is what the picture is all over moore, oklahoma. john...

Pamela, as you say. when you see teachers hug those kids, you know how much they care about the children in their classroom every day. it was a beautiful sight to see in so many ways. pamela brown, not far from us at the moore medical center. thank you so much for being with us. i want to show you live aerial footage right now of the destruction here in moore, oklahoma. you get a sense of the scope of this storm. as we said, at some times this tornado was two miles wide. it tore a path some 20 m...

Thing for people here as they pick through pieces of their homes and try to put their lives back together? >> that there will be a better tomorrow. there is a road to recovery and that things will get better and do not give up hope. theres a lot of people out there that are saying prayers for them and formalizing plans to provide assistance and that assistance will thereby for them and hold on to that hope and realize tomorrow will be a better day. every day that goes on, things will get better....

Terrible catastrophe with that young woman that lived long after anyone thought any one could live. each situation ishope. no one here is giving up hope. it doesnt mean theyre not realistic. all it means is that they continue to dig, continue to look for survivors here and they are working as hard as they possibly can. elizabeth cohen in atlanta, thank you so much. >> elizabeth talking about some places that has been through experiences like this, awful experiences like this. one of those places...

Deployed from pima, the nations top emergency response system, the top executive that runs the organization is on a plane to moore, oklahoma, right now to help orchestrate the federal response. i will point out one thing the president did say. they did activate urban search and rescue teams from texas, nebraska, and tennessee. now these are specially trained people who are not just experts in urban search and rescue meaning pulling the kinds of debris and damage you get in city environments off ...

Them. theyre going to need some assistance from the others in the nearby area throughout the country and throughout the world. and were ready to respond and help them to whatever degree we can, whatever assistance they need. >> you are already have sent assistance a team from joplin, missouri, was sent down here to moore to do whatever they can to help. i have to ask you this, its been two years now, two years of recovery for you in joplin, missouri. still, whats it like to see these images here...