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We have a 28 damage indicators. we look at hotels, motels if they are damaged. multistory complexes. even gas station canopies. and as far as a home goes, a single or multifamily home, 1,000 to 5,000 square feet is on the chart and they look at various degrees of damage. if that home is completely gone, a total loss, its gone down to the slab, the winds generally about 170 miles an hour. if houses were blown off their slabs, immediately thats ef-4 damage. to get to an ef-5 you have to have signi...

6-year-old and two 4-year-old twins. amber and nathan are their names. they said the twins saved their blankets, but wanted to come back to find something for their six-year-old. the six-year-old goes to plaza towers elementary but was out by 11:30 because she at the ends early morning kindergarten. >> i was helping their mom search the rubble. i found two very beat up digital cameras. i was able to get them open and the discs were still in there, pull out both discs and give them to her. see wh...

>> thats fantastic. people are looking for things, trying to find what we could possibly find. she seemed a little -- she was very alert, present, but also a little dazed, looking at this, thinking where do i even turn. >> well, the house to her, she explained, this was the living room, this was the kitchen. you look at it, it is a slab. hard to make anything out except for the bathtub, and that saved their lives. >> in the middle of it all, saved everybody. thomas roberts, thanks for being here...

The hour, one minute after the next, on the ground with an ef-4 power. thats about 166 to 200 miles per hour. ive seen some homes that are completely gone. ive seen homes where there was a slab and there should be a house on top, its gone. that indicates even the potential of above 200 miles per hour which would bring it up into the ef-5 category. weather service not going to do that for a couple days. they have to go out and look for it. they dont want to go out and look at it while search and ...

The slab. if you didnt have a storm shelter, you didnt ride it through because there was no safe place in these homes. there was no closet to get into because there were no closets left. my mother rode the storm out underneath the stairway in their home and fortunately she survived but it devastated most of the house. >> congressman, what is the deal with shelters, who has them and who doesnt and why? obviously theyre not mandated by the state. help give us understanding of how it works here. >>...

Come, lets go inside. for most of the people, there isnt any inside. inside is gone. the inside is outside. youve been looking now at some of the new video coming in. weve been looking at the national weather service there out there looking at this damage. theyre going to determine whether it was the ef-4 or an ef-5, somewhere on that tier point of 200 miles per hour. ef-4 is 166 to 200. ef-5 is 200 or above. ef-5 means parts of homes you cant find them. entire outside walls are gone and inside ...

Youll notice, im seeing little pieces of debris in the sky rotating around the tornado. we know it is certainly in contact with the ground. youre in the town of carney or anywhere neither northeast of carney, take every precaution you can. put on the helmets, your motorcycle helmet. get underneath anything strong. underneath the stairwell. most homes are on slabs. they dont have basements. they just dont. so very difficult to build a basement. you literally need to use dynamite. most are just on...

Gra granbury, texas neighborhood? >> 16 is not a lot for an outbreak, but wednesday was not an outbreak kind of day. shouldnt have had two tornadoes. what we had basically five, we call them parent super cell thunderstorms, dropping tornadoes. sometimes they were skipping up and down, up and down. nd at damage you s and the damage you see is ef-4. 165 to almost 200 miles per hour. and i saw a few pictures where there was nothing left in the home except the slab of the home itself. all of the sti...

Big picture? >> i went right down in the heart of it today and i mean, what you see out here, what you see behind me right now, is just the small beginning of it. theres homes -- homes that are just -- theyre not there. i mean, theyre gone. we had a list of the 17 or -- yeah, 17 regular homes, 19 mobile homes that were destroyed and when i say destroyed, there was nothing there but a pad, and then we had numerous others. we had a total of 97 homes out of 110 that suffered severe damage. >> 97 ou...

And when i say destroyed, there was nothing there but a pad, and then we had numerous others. we had a total of 97 homes out of 110 that suffered severe damage. >> 97 out of 110. i understand a number of them were actually habitat for humanity homes. >> yes. those were a lot of those homes and you could pretty much identify, those were built pretty much the same way, this and that. they were structurally well-built homes. they were a smaller home, but you know, they were on a slab fastened down....