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Were you inside the home when the tornado struck? >> yes. >> can you tell us what that was like and how you escaped. >> well, i was working in my garage and i heard on the radio, they said that the tornado was taking the same path as the may 3rd, which went north of me that time. so -- then they said, its directly headed toward the warren theater, and thats when i perked up and said, well, okay, and i started making some preparations. and i could actually hear the roar of it coming from the sout...

Children victims trapped at the bottom of that school right now. this is eagle drive right here, we understand there could be as many as half dozen more fatalities on this street alone in this area. the emergency personnel have backed out of the school, theyre pulling in more vehicles, theyre backing people away. and i understand theyre going to start pulling these tiny victims out of the rubble here shortly. >> its too difficult, lance. >> lance, hang in there, my friend. >> that was kfor veter...

Lightning show. we heard thunder all night and again today. last week, we thought wed seen a terrible tornado and we did, tore up big parts of the state. and just as theyre starting to recover from that, yesterday happens and then again today theyre expecting some storms. it was interesting to see the front page of the paper here today. there was a storm here on may 3rd, 1999 which is viewed as the worst, most powerful tornado in the history of the world. >> we were saying, people around here sa...

Weve got a tough job ahead of us, were going to be here to help the community as long as it takes. >> mayor? first of all i would like to say thank you for everyone who is here today. i apologize, the air conditioner is not working, were on generator power. so just bear with us. i have a lot of thank yous to say. first and foremost is the president of the united states. who sent me a fema director. i couldnt do without him. the governor who has been here on site ever since this happened. and i j...

Oklahomans. we had some in-state -- out of state folks help, and theres been good news in this very, very dark cloud. >> oklahoma lieutenant governor tom lamb, thanks for joining me. were going to let you get back to work. i do want to show everybody the enormity of the situation as its been covered in the headlines. the front page of the oklahoman reads "worse than may 3rd" referring to the storm that happened in 1999 as we have been talking about. the other headlines also talk about exactly --...

Things are uncomfortable from that. theres been a little bit more rain. i want to bring in mark ellerd. you rif helive in a corner houst there. you rode the tornado out in your house. tell me about the experience. >> i was just enjoying my day at home, working in my garage. i heard the radio saying the tornado was taking a path of the may 3rd one and it was headed toward the warren theater. thats when i stopped what i was doing and made preparations to get ready. as i heard the roar, i grabbed m...

Piece. you saw federal and state officials on the ground there asking people to register for assistance should they need it. and the governor, mary fallon saying we will rebuild and we will regain our strength. as far as the news headlines go an untold number still missing. they cant put a number on that now. the governor had no update on the number of deaths. thankfully the number went down from the numbers that were being thrown around last night between auto and 80 as high as 90. the latest n...

From hail damage. >> reporter: how long have you lived here, jarld. >> ive lived in this edition three years. >> reporter: we know this city in particular has had a history of violent tornado. 19 9 a tornado came through this town. when you see something like this, does it give you perspective on certain things? >> may 3rd of 99 is when youre im sure going back to. the ef5. we were affected but it. the center missed our house by three quarters of a mile decided to take a left-hand turn. we saw t...

For sure. thomas roberts reporting that earlier. it looks exactly the same as what i saw then. the difference that i really see is that, unfortunately, it hit that hospital. thank god the patients were safe, but they were put in imminent danger. and the two schools. last time around i recall seeing more residences. and i think the devastation im seeing her is exactly the same, but i think just more of it. >> and at this stage, there appear to be fewer fatalities when compared with 1999. yet the ...

Family and one adult whos really helping to buffer some of this trauma the kids have gone through. parent of it is to try to get these children back to some sense of normalcy as quickly as possible. and obviously under circumstances like were seeing in moore, its going to take a long time for people to get back to a recovery phase where it will look anything like the normal that they had been used to. so lots of challenges now going forward. >> craig fugate, the head of fema, whos down there, tr...