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Water table that can fill up with water very quickly in a rain. i had a home in edmond, oklahoma, didnt have a shelter at all. it was knocked off its foundation before i lived in it and then rebuilt. but i think you can actually get aboveground safe rooms. there are enough places in this school that in interior rooms -- this is the school were talking about, interior rooms are still there. if you put some type of a safe room, these are all the safe rooms we know about so far that have been funde...

Seasoned reporters who cover these kind of things all the time are having a really difficult time with this. >> i have never seen anything like this in my 18 years covering tornadoes here in oklahoma city. this is without question the most horrific -- >> okay, lance -- >> a parents worst nightmare. two elementary schools directly in the tornado path in moore, oklahoma. both of those schools flattened. a look at some new video in a reunion between frightened students and parents at this elementar...

Hospitals are about five miles apart. we have two on the southern in norman and one in norman medical center. we knew for awhile either one or all three had the potential to be in the tornado path. luckily the southernmost hospitals escaped damage and moore took a direct hit, but we had luckily in oklahoma, as you know we have a fair amount of warning time, lead time leading to this type of severe weather, as a health system we have procedures in place to move patients where they need to be, saf...

The way. they are doing repair on that roof there. we have one of the power companies out trying to repair the lines. we were over there earlier today and they kicked us off those streets so they could get in there. the tornado path came from in front of me, across the strip mall, across the lake and right up the hill where you can see several homes and trees that were taken out as a result of this path. the good news is everybody has been accounted for. the bad news is another severe outbreak l...

We have every available individual that we can get out doing the search work. thats basically where we are. >> chief, the first search is done and the city manager mentioned the second deeper search. what are some of the specific things that are different about the second search, and are there specific places that youre looking now that might have potential survivors still? >> well, as far as the second search, its a little bit slower, more methodical search of those areas. as far as specific ar...

>> chief, the first search is already done and the city manager mentioned the second deeper search. what are some of the specific things different about the second search and are there specific places that you are looking right now that might have potential survivors still? >> the second search is a little slower of those specific areas. its the tornado path, the destruction path. we are searching every structure that has been damaged or destroyed. the third search will be similar to that, and t...

Every available person we can get out doing the search work. >> the first search is already done and the city manager mentioned the second deeper search. what are some specific things that are different about the second search and are there specific places that youre looking right now that might have potential survivors still? >> as far as the second search, its a little bit slower, more methodical search of those areas. as far as specific areas, basically its the tornado path, the destruction p...

more tornadoes are possible today across the region. right now, the death toll stands at 116. that ties the single deadliest tornado record in u.s. history. so far, rescue crews have pulled 17 survivors from the rubble but time and the weather, now the enemies. precious hours are slipping away as bleak reality set in. t.j. holms in joplin. you went out with one of the rescue teams. what did you see? >> reporter: last night, i couldnt believe what i was seeing, carol. i have been cove...

3:00 eastern. how does this tornado rank in overall weather history? nbc meteorologist bill karins joining us now. bill, it is obviously one of the deadliest in history. give us the context here. >> andrea, it is one of the deadliest in our life times. unless you remember the tornadoes of 1953, not many of us do, this is it. this has been an incredible event. this combined with alabama makes it historical, almost unheard of. this is what it looked like last night. this was a zoomed in radar on t...

Additional resources. this is an jourpy that we cannot complete alone and so well need the help of state and federal resources to help tuscaloosa return to normalcy. >> i dont know if you saw it -- were you there? did you actually see this tornado go through? i mean, were looking at the footage of the camera that was taken from the sky cam in tuscaloosa. it looks like something that hollywood would have created. this is just a vision of horror. were you outside? did you see any of this? >> i was...