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>> thanks, ashleigh. going to wipe water off of us here. a line of thunderstorms coming through. i want to introduce everybody to special people. deana, connie, your dad lives across the street. the storm went through, next to him. his house is gone. his house was spared. the house next to him is gone. his house was spared. hes okay? >> hes fine. they were at the hospital. they were at the hospital at childrens during the time of the storm, so he escaped that and he is, you know, otherwise he pr...

>> yes, sir, i can. >> tell me what your needs are in moore right now. >> right now we need power. what we have is a lot of onlookers and stuff, we have a lot of volunteers. were still going through debris, still looking for people, doing search and rescue. right now, the power service for the telephones are kind of intermittent, come and go. right now, were still looking for victims. our heart goes out to families of the victims and all of those injured. still finding people in the rubble that ...

Last huge huge twister went through there. another one in 2003. a huge one just referred to as the may 3rd twister. he was mayor then. is he mayor now. he said, quote: it doesnt get any easier. one person you did not hear from there because she is not in town right now but she is going to join us live in moments is the superintendent of schools, and there are real questions about what happened at plaza towers elementary, the devastation there. just unspeakable. so she has agreed to join us, and ...

Neighborhood could get hit by golf ball size hail in the next three minutes, this one in the next five minutes. expect torrential rains, 502055 mile-per-hour winds as this storm, todays storm comes through 50 miles per hour. the meteorologist warning its not as if this is tornadic activity but the storms on the way again and tomorrow again, megan. its incredible. >> megyn: they do not need that shepard, thanks so much and the great work you did last night as well. see you 3:00 p.m. eastern right...

Patrol. we called out the national guard. certainly many other emergency services throughout the state. the hospitals that are responding so well to those that have been injured in this terrible storm that has struck our state. martha: so much leadership is required of governors in these kinds of situations and mary falin has been out front since the beginning of this. well bring you hear remarks. she will be speaking lynch as well soon. that will happen in "americas newsroom". bill: if you can ...

Came right through this town. folks are very cognizant of weather but when you see something like this, does it give you a perspective on certain things? >> may 3rd of 99, which is what im sure you going back to, the f-5, we were affected by it also. it missed the center of it missed our house by three-quarters of a mile, decided to make a left-hand turn but we saw the devastation from it. was hoping that i was never going to have to be in this position but unnorfortunately, s is where we are at...

And saw the tornado come down near newcastle. >> thats where their this started. >> may 3, 1999, started near one and traveled from one along i-44, much locker path. hours before it got to oklahoma city. this hat all the similarities. the similarities is this tornado developed very rapidly. it came down and within about a minutes time it widened to a quarter mile. now two, two and a half minutes into the erred tornado, the tornado went from f0 to f1, f2, f4. right now the standing is ef4. we hav...

And we knew that houses on either side of the interstate, we knew there would be a loss of life and mass devastation. we started this way. when we got here, what we saw was unbelievable. i had been here for may 3rd tornado. this was nothing. may 3 every nothing compared to this. im talking everywhere you looked debris field so high, so far, so wide. wounded people walking around the streets. you know, walking wounded. they were bloody, people that had stuff sticking out of them from things that ...

Governor of the state of oklahoma do doing what they need to do. helping in times of great tragedy like nothing they have seen here. they talk about the may 3rd, 1999. they killed 42 people. they said it is a storm they would measure all others. worst they had ever seen and worst they considered. today it has been eclipsed as the states medical examiners office at least 51 people have been killed in this storm that has raked across that area. in a square mile been estimated between 30 and 60, de...

Destroyed nearly 5,000 homes and businesses. this time experts fear the damage footprint is twice as large. heres the 1999 path, and heres yesterdays. you can see the town of moore smack in the middle. the oklahoman ran this headline this morning, worse than may 3rd, the monster returned. the article then captured the worst fear of any parent, the day ended with ultimate horror, where are the children? >> its the most heart breaking part of the story, teachers racing to save their children. at l...