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With damage assessment. its definitely going to be on the high ef scale, greater than ef-3. you know, i hadnt toured all the city. i saw massive damage in shopping centers, i wouldnt be surprised to get ef-4. i would hold off going any higher at this point until the official damage assessment tomorrow. >> were looking at pictures you yourself have taken as youve been driving around. fairly apocalyptic even there. these are live pictures, actually, i have just been told. so this is right now in t...

>> well, we will rebuild, we have seen time and time again the strength of our people, the courage, the perseverance, come back much stronger after tragedy. whether the may 3rd tornado that struck moore. the community have done very well. in a great period of time for our state with a strong economy, low unemployment. this has certainly thrown us back a long ways, but well regain our strength and i know our people and, you know, wey one thing we became famous for in 1995 during the bombing of th...

Now. like i said, this is tornado alley. this is something that were, you know, we live with, especially during the month of may. i will say that may 3rd, 1999, which was -- which went down as one of the deadliest tornadoes we have experienced here in oklahoma, pales in comparison to this tornado. this tornado, our chief meteorologist in his opinion, this tornado, of course not confirmed, but this tornado in terms of deadliness, the damage that was sustained, three times more powerful and deadly...

The clothes and stuff. i dont think theres any saving them. >> this is your life right here? >> yep. ill get it together again and get it going. >> were you able to recover any pictures? any moe men toes? anything that was sentimental to you, steve? >> not yet. im hoping to tomorrow. we had them in little plastic containers. so i havent goot to go through them yet to see if theyre even there or destroyed or what. hopefully theyre not. you cant replace pictures of family. kids pictures when theyr...

After i hit my head, i was landing on top of the dog and i could hear her just will perfecting and i cannot believe we actually survived this thing. >> while youre hearing this young woman talk there. shes lucky to have found her dog. many families have lost so much more. looking at the oklahoma here, a great veteran yabl newspaper, a great headline sometimes does say it all. "worse than may 3rd." one family lucky to be reunite here on the cover. many not. this is what they call an emergent situ...

One, this one was may more slower. it took its time and just sat there and just tore up everything in its path, and it just took its time and it just tore up more and it just destroyed everything in its wake. the may 3rd tornado, it was kind of a fast tornado, not too fast, but it just was a little quicker. i mean, it tore up a lot. but this one just seems just way more horrible than the may 3rd one. >> mr. stephens, a great escape for you and your family again. im so grateful for that and an fo...

You do. >> thank you. >> coming up on "the lead" the severe weather threat is not over. with tornadoes not out of the question in many areas well go to the cnn weather center for the latest forecast. plus, it followed almost the exact same path. well show you the eerie similarities between this storm and what they call around here may 3rd. thats the may 3rd, 1999 tornado that hit this part of oklahoma. thats next as our special coverage continues. hoo-hoo...hoo-hoo. hoo-hoo hoo. sir... ill get i...

>> and michael, before we let you go, i have to ask you, do they think theres anyone in that medical center now? do they feel confident they got everybody evacuate snd. >> everybody has been cleared from this medical center. there is a police presence here. were just watching some of the vehicles, making sure that nobody comes in here, breaking into anything, going through cars. they have done a search. no bodies were found. and again, no casualties are being reported here at this medical center...

Martha: so many in oklahoma thought 1999 was as bad as it could ever get. take a look at the front of the oklahoma newspaper though. worse than may 3rd, which is the way they have always just described simply that day back in 1999. on the cover is a photograph that is just stunning. it is two injured teachers as they leave some of the youngest victims away from brierwood elementary school. just below it, a police officer rescues a young boy from the rubble of plaza towers elementary school. the ...

I want to thank all of you coming out tonight. its a very go very sad day for the state of oklahoma, a very hard day and tremendous disaster that has hit this community of moore and other areas of the state beginning yesterday with a terrible storms that passed through so many different areas and certainly today there was big tornado that came along in the same path as the may 3rd tornado in 1999. its hard to believe it could happen to moore again. first of all our prayers and thoughts are with ...