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Were having a very difficult time even getting in to the area because i-35, as you had told us before, traffic had been stopped so people couldnt drive into the storm, but then you had traffic backed up for miles with nowhere to go and now responders cant get through. >> its definite, people say they are ready to go home, how can we get out of here? you might just want to -- i know it stinks, stay here tonight, but youre going to clog up the roadway with people wanting to get on here. might not ...

Through the storm, but again, one teacher laying on top of three kids, trying to protect them from the debris. plaza towers elementary, as youve seen from the air, is basically gone. most of the walls are destroyed. there are cars that were tossed into the front of that where the office building is. theres now a car, a dodge durango sitting in the front of the school where the office is. again, right now we cannot get our live truck back into the scene. hopefully, in the next couple of minutes w...

If it had been heading north, it would have hit our neighborhood. i was with my father trying to go north to get to a storm shelter at our grandparents house. thats about the time the storm went east into the moore neighborhood, where i went later and took those videos. >> theres the second video that you posted, completely obliterated neighborhood two miles from my home. describe what were seeing. >> well, i parked my car and walked towards where i saw police cars and all the people and i was w...

Now, the important thing to know about this is this is a dangerous storm and the way the velocities are looking, it could produce a significant tornado from pauls valley up to white bead, up to buyers. paoli. buyers at 5:06, stratford 5:11. arbor by 5:24. up into pottowattomy county. this has all the earmark signs of producing a tornado if it isnt on the ground already at pauls valley. pauls valley right now. theres also a strong circulation up the road from pauls valley between pauls valley and...

Now are for the little ones. >> they were moved to another location before the storm hit the school. >> right. >> our concern right now is for the children and faculty who may still be under that rubble. if we can go back to lance. our producer right now may be able to contact him. and if so, wed like to know where he is so we can zoom on him to show what his perspective is on that scene, because weve been going to him live. >> hes down there somewhere, but he may have been moved back beyond tho...

We can go from nothing to 130-mile-per-hour storm. >> joining us on the phone, i know youre in stuff with authorities in your home state, congressman. what are you hearing about casualties? >> not yet. actually its my hometown. i talked to my wife. i can literally recognize the homes and the businesses. its early to know. never helpful to speculate about this. fortunately the warning system is very good. the national severe storm laboratory in norman, oklahoma, they do an unbelievable job. peopl...

The walls of homes may be gone but there may be an interior closet or room still okay. if you get to the ef-5, thats over 200, there will be nothing left except the concrete slab that the house once sat on. something else i want to talk about here, wolf, i dont believe were done yet, theres a tornado warning for the town of comanche, texas, southwest of dallas-fort worth. and dallas-fort worth, although 100 miles away from you, there are still tornado possibilities getting to you, especially int...

Get down there. they tell me they rent out these stalls. they dont know how many people may have been out here at the time because people kind of come and go as they please. again, people like lando who is out here, works out here, lives out here, no idea this tornado was coming. almost like a sixth sense he noticed everything got quiet and immediately reacted to that. and linda, kevin, more than likely saved his life. >> obviously, the case. but weve been on the air since 2:30 giving live broad...

Equipment. i see a tractor about 50 yards from me that they are trying to get in so they can, hopefully, remove heavy debris, but for those who may just be joining us, we know the third grade class was in a hallway in a classroom taking refuge from the storm and that part of the building is completely gone. there are no walls standing of this school. it is wiped to the foundation. nothing more than a big pile of debris. like i said before, we can only hope and ray for the best that they can find...

Theres a lot of people trying to help. >> lance, theyre pulling third graders out. we hope that of course they were in their tornado positions and that some of them will be okay. lance is on his way over there right now. you got to understand when you go down to these scenes and you see this firsthand, when youre there living it, it is an extremely emotional event as well as all those involved. and lance is one of our best reporters, but hes human just like the rest of us, and it is a devastatin...