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Storms. they are not done yet, wolf. >> kfor chopper reporter is narrating what he is seeing right now. listen to this. >> on top of the roof, they have a roof like we do, its a plastic or rubber vinyl roof over, you know, a flat pitch. theyve got shingles and stuff on there that came from neighboring houses, so that building when they put it up, yeah, go ahead. yeah, well be on it here in a second. go to your left, travis. keep going left and straight down. its right out my door. zoom out. righ...

Blender, turned on pulse and dumped it out. rescue workers scrambled through the devastation to reach the injured. >> because there were tree limbs flying we hunkered down. >> i-40 was littered with debris as two semis were overturned. this one was blew off the overpass and flattened. >> my brother-in-law called me and i was at home and he said that a tree had fallen on my mothers house and i needed to pick her up. shes 79 years old. shes dieabetic and blind. residents were in utter disbelie...

The amount offing devastation there? >> im used to seeing trees ripped up but the house usually there. this was gone. everything was just gone. like you took the house, you put it in a gigantic blender, turn on pulse for a couple of minutes and dump it out. >> reporter: rescue workers scrambled through the devastation to find survivors. >> there were tree limbs flying we hunkered down and hoped for the best. >> reporter: i-40 was littered with debris as two semis were overturned np 18 wheeler bl...

>> reporter: the massive amount of rain dumped in the area had rescue workers scrambling to reach the injured. >> the electricity went down. then hitting. then tree limbs were flying we hunkered down and hoped for the best. >> reporter: i-40 was littered with debris as two semis were overturned. this 18 wheeler blew off the overpass and flattend. overnight video of the rescue crowd tossing debris around trying to find victims. >> i was at home and my brother-in-law said a tree fell on my mothers...

Time ever. we dont live in tornado alley. then it is wider and deeper and goes farther and farther and suddenliy there is a city and you are still watching. yousuddenly the tornado has passed and this is what is left behind. there arent enough choppers to show you the area. we know some areas are fine. those are the areas the tornado skirted, but the areas where the slow-moving monster of a funnel cloud actually went through are left in many cases reduced to nothing. we know two elementary schoo...

Either taken away by this storm or killed by this storm. from moore, oklahoma. that this tornado was on a path so eerily similar to one from 1999. and sure enough, through that town it went, a mile wide at the bottom, to two miles at some points. with winds up to 200 miles per hour. like clear cutting a neighborhood, like clear cutting trees where houses could replace them. yet today the houses were already there and men, women and children were in basements listening to the national weather ser...

And intersections spawning to multiple injuries. parents of these children could be seen rushing to the school, dodging downed power lines and scattered debris. it has been a seen of unbelievable chaos. a girl ho a tends briar wood elementary tells kokh television the reporter that her school was trashed. there was simply nothing left there. several children have now been pulled out of the rubble alive in one of these schools. plaza towers elementary school there in moore after the massive torna...

Accounted for. >> i will see if i can get the name of that church, i dont know right now, i was told by the teacher that those grades were escorted there before the tornado hit. they were not in the school at the time. they are safe. i just walked up on another triage center. its a red tarp laid on the concrete. a womans head is wrapped, a blanket over her. she is breathing. i dont know if shes associated with the school or not. as we mentioned, this school was in the middle of the neighborhood ...

Granbury, texas. there are fatalities. there are people still missing. there are at least 120 homes in habitat for humanity complex, i guess, that had been built, complex that had been destroyed by these storms that rolled through overnight. >> six people dead. were told now 14 people still missing. more than 100 injured. these pictures youre looking at are of large homes. this is not the habitat for humanity area that was destroyed. so clearly, the scope of the damage here as dawn breaks in tex...

Everything this morning are reeling. >> the only place in our house that was safe enough was our hallway. i grabbed a mattress, you know. theres just nothing left. im sorry. theres nothing left. >> a habitat for humanity neighborhood was apong those neighborhoods hit worst. 110 homes there, most of them now gone. thats where officials say the six people who were killed actually did die. the rescue workers are on the ground this morning searching for those who are missing and also surveying the d...