the tornado and follow half a mile away so you have a get away if you need to. as you ve been listening, they do change directions and can do so very quickly. i did find that very interesting that the storm was heading due east and all of a sudden it took this sharp right turn. just like that. the may 3rd tornado did the same thing. it hit a highway overpass and took every car underneath and killed a woman and then banked immediately right and that s when it headed toward moore all that time ago. when you re talking about a storm this powerful, as you ve heard this warning people on the 20th, underground is the way to go. it s the only safe way to ride out thoese storms. you saw people popping their heads out of their storm shelters. none of them was injured and that was a monster of a storm. it s amazing there aren t more underground facilities to
detention facility closed, keeping it open is not efficient, it s not affective, and it s not in the interest of our national security. and the president is expected to announce specific steps that he will take to close guantan o guantanamo. in addition, he will talk about how the u.s. can better secure its diplomatic facilities, especially in some of these very dangerous regions of the world. christine? dan lothian in washington, thanks. ahead on starting point, in oklahoma one of the worst scenes of destruction is an elementary school obliterated during that tornado. next, we ll hear from one of the rescuers who rushed to the scene to try to rescue students and came upon unmanageable horror. what does the future hold for moore, oklahoma. your prescription medication give you the burden of constipation? turn to senokot-s tablets. senokot-s has a natural vegetable laxative ingredient plus the comfort of a stool softener for gentle, overnight relief of occasional constipation.
you know, there will be more people after this tornado that buy them and have them put in. so we ll have more as soon as this is done. reporter: the mayor confirmed that all of the missing are now accounted for. at the city cemetery, hundreds of volunteers gathered with shovels and rakes to clean up for upcoming funerals. president obama will visit the tornado-ravaged area on sunday. at a white house event wednesday night the president reiterated his support. while the road ahead will be long, their country will be with them every single step of the way. reporter: for every story of destruction there are so many more of selflessness and heroism. at this day care center flattened by the monstrous winds, all of the toddlers and workers survived in a bathroom. paramedic lisa lester described what she encountered as she drove up to help the wounded. they were just covered in mud from head to toe. all you could see was the whites
reporter: the students were not found in a basement as officials initially believed. do you think had there been an underground shelter these lives could have been saved? oh, yeah, most definitely. underground shelters are some of the best things to have in a tornado. reporter: still, there are not enough of them, even in tornado stricken oklahoma. schools aren t required to have underground shelters. the main reasons? the high cost of retrofitting the schools and the porous soil. it s about the money and the statistics. f-5 tornado is very rare, 1% to 2% of the tornadoes. they don t happen very often. it s the very reason they don t have safe rooms for earthquakes, they don t work all the time. reporter: a painful truth for reporter: a painful truth for mikki dickson davis who lost her son kyle at plaza towers. with us living in oklahoma, tornado shelters should be in every school. it should be you know, there should be a place that if this ever happened again during s
of their eyes. reporter: she squeezed them all in this ambulance, 18 people in all. is that legal? no. reporter: lisa reunited with one of the women she helped that day. so glad i got to see you. i wanted to get your name. i couldn t remember yours and i looked at the paper, it was shannon. i m so happy. i m glad you re okay. i m so happy. thank you so much. just one of the many heroes here. you know, since the moment the tornado struck so much of the focus has been on the plaza towers elementary school that was simply flattened by the tornado and seven of the children who were killed were killed there. i m joined now by cnn s john king. you got a remarkable close-up look at the devastation there. it s a wasteland. it s numbing. it s sad when you get to it. you imagine, this was a place of laughter and learning. on a full day, more than 400 students in this school, plus the teachers. the elementary school is the heart of any community. going through their normal day. 15