possessions. i m looking at somebody right now running towards me. i m not quite sure where he s going, but the neighborhood is not standing anymore, wolf. it s completely gone. the pictures we re showing our viewers, nick, right now, what used to be a beautiful little elementary school in moore, oklahoma. the plaza towers elementary school. obviously, leveled by this ef-4 tornado that ripped through this part of the oklahoma city metropolitan area. moore is right outside of oklahoma city. you see rescue workers on the scene right now, the national guard of oklahoma has been activated. more and more rescue workers are on the way right now. they are trying to find survivors. they are especially looking underneath the rubble for third graders who may have been trapped at this elementary school, the plaza towers elementary school. this is an awful, awful situation that we re seeing
by the teacher those grades were escorted there before the tornado hit. they were not in the school at the time. they are safe. i ve just walked up on another triage center, essentially, a red tarp laid on the concrete. there s a woman here whose head is wrapped, blanket over here, she is breathing. i suspect she s with a loved one right now. i don t know if she s associated with the school, or not. as we mentioned, the school is in the middle of a neighborhood and the neighborhood is gone, as well. there will be victims at the school and i suspect in many of the homes, as well. unfortunately, sounds like there will be. folks got to know those rescue workers have to step gingerly, they can t move real quickly. they don t want to step on a student that may be buried under rubble. they want to listen for voices, maybe kids crying for help or just crying. and so that s why they have to move a little bit slower than the parents would like. absolutely. let me tell you, there are, obviou
yes. i heard people calling for help. there was one woman, she just needed help getting up. there was debris over here. she was unhurt. i did see a young man. he was walking through the neighborhood, he just looked stunned. he had his arms over his head crying and the man told me later he was pulled out from underneath rubble and he was unhurt, but he was looking at his destroyed house. he looked like he was alone, looking for family or just anything. you posted this one, this is a very sad one, these men are looking for a lost little boy named tommy. did they find him, do you know? no. i was in the middle of the neighborhood and a woman ran up and said that a little boy was missing and he was possibly in one of the homes underneath the rubble, so all this was just a group of men helping out that were organized and they ran over on top of the home and were screaming his name, but they
towers elementary. we can confirm that 2:45 a message was sent to parents on the internet saying we are currently holding all students until this current storm danger is over. students are being released to parents only at this time. we will notify you when the student release begins. you need to put this in context. there s no way for these people to communicate very much. the administration building was also damaged. we have not confirmed any of this with moore school administration, but we unfortunately think that the kids, some kids were in those two buildings because of the lockdown order and because of of what we re getting from our news desk right now. we will of course continue to update you on that as quickly as we can. let s go to lance west who is on the road. are you getting closer to the damaged area? i m in the neighborhood walking just now. i just talked to a gentleman.
strolling around. it s 134th and western. it s in the city limits, right on the edge of town. old family that s literally lived there decades and decades. it s almost since the saddle men of the area. you can see the horses and people wandering around. you know these areas. i m going to show our viewers these pictures, congressman. if you can narrate and tell us where it is, what s going on since this is your neighborhood. this actually is my neighborhood. let me get your station here. this is right near oklahoma city. it s surrounded by oklahoma city on three sides and norman to the south. so it s congressman, we know that for the last 24 to 48 hours, there were a lot of tornado warnings, so i assume people were ready