the tornado hit. it was a direct hit. they had a 16-minute warning beforehand. the oklahoma city medical examininger's office says, however, we can expect the number of casualties to keep rising, as the search for more victims continues. president obama has now declared parts of oklahoma disaster sites, meaning that people there will be eligible for federal assistance. >> this is the same tornado that ripped through moore on monday afternoon about 3:00 p.m., when the kids were still in school, packing winds of up to 200 miles per hour. it stayed there on the ground, witnesses say, for almost 40 minutes, cutting an enormous deadly path of destruction. >> we were going, pulling walls off of people. there were people crawling out from everywhere and anywhere. basically, just a war zone. >> joining us live from moore, oklahoma city. alicea, residents are saying it looked like a war zone, like