tornado several years back, it leveled neighborhoods, it was a big tornado. i figured, you know, as new as those back buildings were that my two daughters were in that they would have something like that in place. that s why i chose to leave them at the school, because i thought they were safe. and these nails, she wasn ted your nails blue. she painted my nails. the day before. she had on matching nail polish. it was the night before, and she had it she had it all over the place and i had to clean it up, but i don t want to take it off. i would leave those nails on as long as i possibly could. i will. she sounds like a remarkable, remarkable girl and i wish i had a chance to meet her. so sorry for everything you have been through. thank you. thank you. grieving so much right now. they told me after they planned her funeral, at the end of the service, they will have a
these classrooms all gone. more on the front side too. you can see the door leading into what was the classroom. front wall of the school. is there a place in the school where people fared better? you can see where there are still walls standing up. that corner, the map part of the tornado came through this way, so this is the area that took the most as it went through this part here. so that s you can see where the walls are standing, where they are not. 460-something students, unfortunately, we did lose seven. but by looking at the damage, u.s. a miracle that we din lose a lot more. none of this touched. tractors haven t been through. this is how it lanned. this has all been searched.
came back in the roads, flooding wherever you go. the sky is clearing up, not the case in surrounding areas. flash-flood warnings as this was coming down. you can see the devastation, you can see the houses where the roofs are caved in in some cases, no walls and belongings strewn about everywhere. it s obvious when it rains on top of that, everything gets soaked. heartbreaking from the people trying to return homes trying to salvage anything. matt hill, his house was destroyed. he went back to try to find an xbox that he bought from his nephew. good thing he went yesterday, today he won t be able to salvage anything, but a lot of it has already been salvaged. i was talking to someone who said at a local church, a table full of pictures that were picked up after the tornado at various homes, and someone came by, one of the survivors, came by, looked at the table of
we learned that some 13,000 homes were damaged, destroyed, or effected by this storm. thousands of people here are waking up homeless this morning, staying with friends or family, in hotels. state insurance officials tell us claims are expected to top $2 billion. it s easy to see how you get to that number. plus, today was supposed to be the last day of school here in moore, oklahoma. today the kids at plaza towers elementary school, they were supposed to attend an end of the year talent show. instead, students will just say good-bye to their teachers for the summer. the funeral for little antonio is scheduled for today. she is survived by her mother and her father and two sisters. she was just 9 years old. everyone who was missing in the aftermath of the tornado is now accounted for. the official death toll stands at 24. that number not expected to change. ten of those killed, ten of them were children. and the challenge ahead of this town of 56,000 people, the challenge will be long
struck. people want to be doing here is keeping their lives back together again. and they re waking just one us innance that they didn t need here. i think of the kids too. i was in a tornado when i was a little kid. and i remember how long after that when there was severe weather, how really afraid i would get. lightning, rain, thunder. those kids, a fresh, scary memory what they have gone through, and many don t have homes to be hunkering in right now. no doubt. no doubt. and we talked to a lot of children right now. the parent are taking extra measures with kids. i spoke to one mother yesterday who was taking her take the child s mind off everything that is going on here. so difficult for so many people. before i told you those folks huddled in a bank vault during the tornado, and they are now