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Process. in february of this year, officials in moore announced on their website that they were trying to get more funding for shelters but fema requirements in their words were a constantly moving target. that was in february that they said that. then yesterday of course 14 years after the big may 3rd tornado, ten years after the other big one that hit moore in 2003, it happened again. and we cannot know for sure what difference more safe rooms would have made in moore, oklahoma, when that torn...

Tornado down to 24 people, including a three month old baby and eight other children. 237 people are listed as injured. here is a look at new video of the tornado just as the tornado was forming. the path of the storm now officially stands at 17 miles long. it was on the ground for 40 minutes with a base of 1.3 miles at its widest point. as many as 20,000 families could be displaced. just a few hours ago, oklahomas governor mary fallin took an

In february of this year, officials in moore announced on their website that they were trying to get more funding for shelters but fema requirements in their words were a constantly moving target. that was in february that they said that. then yesterday of course 14 years after the big may 3rd tornado, ten years after the other big one that hit moore in 2003, it happened again. and we cannot know for sure what difference more safe rooms would have made in moore, oklahoma, when that tornado struc...

Lois learner will be at the center of this controversy. conservative groups and she will be taking the fifth. we will hear a lot from congress on this issue. lets take a listen in. >>. >> the director of exempt organizations, rulings and agreements, division of the irs. a tremendous amount of attention centered about the inspector general in court of our investigation. the committee learned that from this pause that she in fact participated in an irs investigation that concluded in may of 2012, ...

Live coverage. thank you for being with us. the sun has just set on the day after here in moore, oklahoma. some people who survived yesterdays tornado have returned to this street where all of the homes have been destroyed and theyve been looking for something, anything that they can pick out of the rubble that was once their homes. >> thank you for joining us on this day two of the tragedy in moore, oklahoma, coming to a close. >> this is the cover of the oklahoman, worse than may 3rd. >> as ...

This is it behind me, as i step out of the way, let joe zoom in. this is the front of plaza towers elementary school. this school is basically gone. >> reporter: in the hours after the tornado, dramatic images, young children were rescued, and with darkness, the search for survivors continued. some children had escaped harm, their parents picked them up before the school went on lockdown monday. the majority stayed inside as they practiced in drills many times. math teacher rhonda crossway was h...

Hospital here in moore and had to help move patients to safety as the tornado approached. shannon, i imagine it was a lot of feelings of helplessness when a tornado is approaching. who could feel more helpless than patients in hospital beds that cant do anything for themselves. what did you have to do? >> you know, that was our job that day was to make sure the patients felt safe and the staff felt safe, so we were confident in what we were doing. we knew we needed to take care of them to protec...

Oklahoma city area had five. we are doing as good as we can right now. >> mayor lewis, can you take us through what happened today on what turned out to be the very good news that there were many fewer lives lost in this tornado than we thought 24 hours ago. how did that news unfold for you? >> i was actually walking through the neighborhood over there i believe with the governor when the news first came to us from the medical examiners office from the state. it was quite surprising because we h...

21, 1988. this is somebody 50 years old, maybe this was sitting outside their home. people now speak of this like this. may 3rd, 1999. may 20 yesterday the storm hit a little under 24 hours. when you meet these families, we met these remarkable people who were in their house in 1999. they lost everything so they built a small basement. they survived with eight members of the family including a 2-year-old grand child in there yesterday. they say they will rebuild and stay right here. >> what happ...

Reed, tell me where you were and what happened. >> southwest oklahoma. there are also tornado storms out there but they didnt produce a 5 tornado. we actually went right by the cumulonimbus cloud that became that monster supercell that will produced the tornado that went through moore, oklahoma. it looked high based. it looked relatively small and soft. it went from basically a very weak little cumulonimbus cloud to a monster supercell in a very short amount of time. that happens and the ingredi...