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Of any kind, youre stunned at the devastation. the school was shaped like a u. most of the two legs are gone. the crossbar still remains. a full day there are more than 400 children there. it is a miracle, its a miracle that only seven young lives perished in that school. it is a fair question tonight. had this been a newer school, had there been a different shelter, might hit been different? listen to this. the first responders came and flooded that school. they said they heard screaming, peopl...

With the treasury department about when it was going to come outs, but deny they had anything to do with the planted question. charles, i want to get to darrell issa on one revelation that we didnt know about. >> yesterday the community interviewed the director of exempt organizations. she in fact participated in an irs internal investigation that concluded in may of 2012, may 3rd of 2012, and found essentially the same thing that mr. george found more than a year later. for more than a year, th...

All e >> massive. actually. theyre saying that a lot of people are saying the devastation here was worsean in was on the may 3rd, 1999 tornado. though the death toll then was higher. a lot of people said the width of the tornado here, a mile and a half, was wider than that one in 99. which makes obviously the devastation much worse. as we look around here, you cant see it right now. we are seeing cars that are just everywhere. and, we have seen it before. but the devastation, people are saying i...

Live around here who have been through this kind of thing before? >> yes. we actually lived in our home 31 years. >> and has it been untouched by tornadoes in 31 years? >> all around us, this is the first time we took the hit. several of us moved in when we were young, we were growing old together, you know. it is our turn i guess. >> and because you have friends who have gone through it before in previous tornadoes losing their homes, have you been talking it through with them, have they told y...

Little boy was still alive. now wonlders why the school didnt have a better shelter plan. >> i think every school in oklahoma should have an underground shelter. it shouldnt take a tornado this size and this many kids hurt, missing, lost their lives to realize they need underground shelters. >> that was nbc news kate snow reporting. coming up, what happened at one of the other elementary schools here in moore, oklahoma as our live coverage continues. [ indistinct conversations ] [ male announc...

There are certain dates that resonate across the country as dates. 9/11 for example, everybody knows what you mean if you say 9/11 or september 11th. for generations just saying december 7th had about the same effect everyone knew what you meant if you just said that date. for the people of newtown, connecticut, its the same. the date for them which will always mean the same thing now forever is december 14th. thats the kind of context you needed if you want to understand the front page of the o...

Story that perhaps no one else in the world can tell. she has lost her home to a tornado twice. both right here on this same spot. this is not your first time? >> no. i was here in 99. >> reporter: here in 1999, that infamous day, may 3rd when the fastest winds ever recorded inside a tornado topped 300 miles per hour. trampling an 18-mile path through moore. that stunning resemblance to mondays path. and right there, where the deadly paths cross, ms. davis house. this was nancys house before. th...

The most serious, kept track of patients in the hospital at the time, then when it is time to evacuate, arrange in an order to be transported out first. within getting patients out of the building, across to the warren theater, and making sure everybody was safe, i believe the first patient left probably within three to four minutes, us getting out of the building to the warren theater. >> how many patients did you have to evacuate? >> there were 30 patients in the building at the time, 9 were s...

Theory a sound proposition. if youre going to have to spend money on something else, you spend less money on something other than something else. but the reality is that federalism debate, the interstate commerce debate belongs in another forum in another place because if we help each other state by state, whether its a natural or manmade disaster, then we ought to follow that consistent pattern. if on the other hand, later in a more deliberative moment we decide that, no, the state will pay hal...

>> where is your house from your office? >> im located about six blocks south of the briarwood elementary school. so it is about ten miles from my office. so i drove home, packed up my wife, my child, my pets, drove back to norman to clear the path of the storm. >> so then what did you do after that? >> after i was quite certain that the tornado had crossed i-35, i returned to my house, put on my uniform, couldnt get anywhere -- >> was your house okay? >> had damage, minor damage, mostly roof, b...