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From melody. you were watching toby, is that right? >> watching. yes, im watching toby, yes. >> you got separated last night. >> yes, i was at work and they were all -- theres two other dogs and a cat besides him. and i was at work and i knew they were going to be gone. and i found them last night. and then i moved again to another friend who lives, almost got hit right over here, and they got out again this morning. and so i thought they were gone and two lovely ladies foun them for me. i dont ...

Through state government. we know how to deal with disaster. and i think what people need the most is just some time to figure out what to do and then well get the resources to help them do it. >> kurt, people have their roots here. it is as we say, tornado alley. and they have warning but there was no place to go are they going to rebuild? are they going to try to stay? >> people rebuilt here before after the may 3rd, 1999 tornado. now that was an interesting shift in that many homes that rebui...

Large residential area, with so many families affected, are you confident that there is enough temporary shelter shet up tonight for people to be able to get indoors? we know that more bad weather has hit tonight and may be further on the way. >> one thing oklahoma is good at, were good at a lot of things, but its factual, were good at responding to tragedies like this, whether its april 19th, the may 3rd tornado of 1999, 2003 tornado that struck this same area. were good responding. and part of...

We have seen, especially when you look at the damage? >> well, when it comes to chasing tornadoes and that, weve seen many different kinds, hundreds over the years. when theyre out in the field and theyre not doing anything that doesnt seem like much, but when it gets towards a residential area and businesses and populated areas, it changes dramatically. it goes from something thats not doing anything to something that could be possibly killing or injuring people. thats what the case was this ti...

Frank keating served two terms as governor of oklahoma during both the oklahoma city bombing disaster and the may 3rd, 1999 record-shattering tornado that also hit moore and he joins me here in our studio. governor thank you very much. and you know many of the officials there, mary fallon was your lieutenant governor and emergency rescue, the mayor of moore was also the mayor in 1999 you saw this in 1999. what is this community going through? and as the chief executive, mary fallon is about to a...

State of oklahoma. i was listening to you talk about the may 3rd tornado in 1999 and i was in office when we had the april 19th bombing in 1995 also. its been a time when oklahomans have had to pull together, many times. and so we are really good at natural disasters and rapid response. it was remarkable last night when i was at the various different command centers and on the ground site, especially at the plaza tower school, to see the effort and the coordination and the collaboration between ...

>> all right, back live in moore, oklahoma. that was reporter mike bettes from the weather channel giving a sense of what has happened here. its really hard to put into words. >> it is. >> even with the pictures that go with the words. because when you stand here and look around, its -- its as if it was the day after. >> thomas roberts is here with us. he brought over the front page of the "oklahoman." worse than may 3rd. theres also another cover here in addition that was just brought to us. >>...

Harbor. around here, that was the day that lived in infamy. so when you see the headline that says worse than may 3rd, you know how horrific it was. >> and thats what everyone was saying who lived through this. that nothing compared to even that tornado and that epic weather event back then. lets go back to new york. brian shactman is standing by with melissa rayberger with fairly good insight into this area being a reporter here. >> be safe, guys, i see that lightning right behind you. well get...

That can basically work through this. the town is basically a total debris field. it looks like it was bombed. most of our major businesses are still intact. two or three of the housing additions are in really bad shape, a couple of them are leveled as youve probably seen on news reports. the hospital is completely destroyed. we have like i said most businesses are up and running. a lot of the people, we had plenty of warning time, at least some people say we did. we had 15, 20 minutes warning t...

They did not have underground sheltering in place. we hope that thats the case. we hope the death toll does not resemble that may 3rd tornado. >> mike, was that the exact path of the may 3rd tornado? >> this was along the exact path. then as it came deeper into moore, its toward the southern side of the may 3rd path. i dont want to make comparisons too much to may 3rd in terms of -- what ill say is i believe this tornado is wider and i think were going to find that there are many more structures...