rubble that was once their homes. >> thank you for joining us on this day two of the tragedy in moore, oklahoma, coming to a close. >> this is the cover of the "oklahoman" this morning, worse than may 3rd. >> as a nation, our focus is on the rescue. >> we can confirm according to the medical examiner. >> the death toll has been correcd. >> 24 fatalities have been confirmed. >> 24, including 9 children. president obama declared the region a major disaster area. >> fema administrator craig fugate. >> fema director craig fugate is on his way to oklahoma. >> he is on his way to oklahoma as we speak. >> the devastation unlike anything people on the ground have ever seen. >> for 40 minutes, tore through block after block of homes and businesses. >> damage measured in miles. >> leveling everything in its path, including two schools and a hospital. >> we have a lot of tornadoes in oklahoma but we don't have tornadoes like this. >> our prayers are with the people of oklahoma today and we will back up those prayers with deeds for as long as it takes. >> tonight, rescue workers here in moore, oklahoma, continue the work of searching for any signs of life from those who could still be trapped after yesterday's devastating tornado hit this community. we now know the tornado was an ef-5, the strongest type on the scale. winds as high as 210 miles per hour. officials have revised the number of fatal victims of the tornado down to 24 people, including a 3-month-old baby and eight other children, 237 people are listed as injured. here is a look at new video of the tornado just as the tornado was forming. the path of the storm now officially stands at 17 miles long. it was on the ground for 40 minutes with a base of 1.3 miles at its widest point. as many as 20,000 families could be displaced. just a few hours ago, oklahoma's governor mary fallin took an aerial tour of the entire path. >> we started, took an aerial tour where it started to where it ended, flew over schools, neighborhoods, businesses hit so hard. it is amazing that anyone could survive that type of force and devastation with the tornado. i've seen a lot of disasters in the state of oklahoma, i think this is one of the very worst we've seen in our state's history. >> we're also seeing new video like this one from facebook user jason ledger showing his neighborhood just before the tornado hit and again as he emerged from his storm shelter. [ no audio ] >> the lord giveth and the lord taketh away. >> joined now by msnbc's chris jansing who has been reporting from moore, oklahoma, all day. kris, you got here 24 hours ago. >> yeah. >> take us through the news of today, especially involving the change in the number of fatalities. it was a much higher number 24 hours ago. >> it was. officials tried to correct it quickly. if you look behind you and see the devastation and multiply that by 17 miles, which is the length of this, as you said, a mile and a third long, you realize this looks like a war zone. it is actually being described as the fog of war, the chaos that often ensues after a disaster like this. there is so much effort put into finding people who may still be trapped, recovering those who may have died, that sometimes in that confusion, in the lists of people who are missing, things get misreported and that's what happened here. >> i saw that path from the air today, there's some stunning areas of precision where really a house that's just a few feet away is completely okay and then the house here is totally devastated and the house on the other side is completely okay, it is remarkable in some areas how narrow the path became. >> just at the end of the block there's a medical center completely gone. you also see right next door to it where children were playing at the time, there was a daycare center, all of that has been ravaged, has to come down. across the street there's a movie theater, people got messages on the phone, saying bad weather coming, all went out into the hallway. >> they were in the theater. >> in the theater watching movies. everybody's phone started going off at the same time. then they came and evacuated them into the hallway. they heard it, it sounded terrible. but then it passed and they thought maybe it wasn't so bad and walked out and everything around them was gone, including some bowling lanes right across a parking lot. >> right across that parking lot from the movie theater is this hospital center which has been completely devastated. it is just across the street from where we're standing now. that's the kind of weird precision we're talking about. hospital totally wiped out, movie theater okay. just a parking lot separating them. >> i was showing you when you arrived, on the roof, there were ariel shots that showed a car on top that looks to me to be a five to six story medical center. talking to meteorologists, you talk 200, 210 miles per hour winds, those are winds can move a car the length of a football field. there were people not just coming to these houses today, people that parked at the medical center that worked there who were visiting patients there who came to see what happened to their cars, and they weren't there. they're somewhere but they couldn't find them. >> we will be joined by debbie gidry, one of the homeowners in the area. debbie, where was your house? >> my house is right there. >> right there. that was your house. >> it sure was. >> did you lose cars also? >> they're still in the garage, next door to each other. >> red one? >> red one and silver. >> looks like they might pull out of there. >> may be all right. a motorcycle is on top. >> two houses down, saw a teenager who refused to give up on his car that looked almost crushed. after an hour, he backed it out with no windshield. >> good for him. >> drove it away. >> you're smiling about this. is it that you feel that it call could have been worse? you're happy to be here? >> absolutely. you know, i mentioned to one of live around here who have been through this kind of thing before? >> yes. we actually lived in our home 31 years. >> and has it been untouched by tornadoes in 31 years? >> all around us, this is the first time we took the hit. several of us moved in when we were young, we were growing old together, you know. it is our turn i guess. >> and because you have friends who have gone through it before in previous tornadoes losing their homes, have you been talking it through with them, have they told you here is the way it works, here is what happens next, here is what fema does, all of that stuff? >> i have gotten a lot of advice, texts. may 3rd, '99, my parents' home was involved, we have reference from that year, but lots of help. everybody has been real informative. it is just kind of now they call you and tell you what the next step is. >> where are you staying? >> my parents live in moore, we're with them. they don't have water or electricity, so we're camping out. >> i can't get over your good -- good cheer about this, and i'm kind of stunned by it. have you been through some grieving hours about the losses -- >> well, a couple of times that i kind of looked at it and felt a total loss, but the most important thing is that my husband walked out and i walked out behind him, and that is what is important. >> how are you feeling about the task ahead? do you think you'll rebuild on this spot? >> we think we may. this is home. >> have you been able to talk to neighbors? >> we did. one neighbor, two neighbors were in the storm shelter with us. it is kind of an exciting story. we were in with the door locked and secured and we heard noise. it has a steel plate on the top of it. so even the smallest piece of hail sounds like it is a huge boulder. we thought we were hearing hail, it was the neighbor pulling on the door, trying to get in. so we unlatched the door, let him in. it wasn't probably two minutes until we heard the noise. >> chris jansing, you been on the street all day and is this the spirit that you have been encountering? >> it is remarkable. we just saw a family almost all belongings left were in three wagons, and a little harley with a three-year-old on it, they found the three-year-old's dog. they were so elated by that, they said look, this is everything that matters to us. our family. and it is a little stunning to see. but you really get the sense that tornadoes are not a surprise to anybody here. >> not here. >> you hope to dodge a bullet, but if you don't, it seems like the community is coming together. i have seen it a dozen times today, lawrence. it is amazing. >> debbie, why aren't there more storm shelters here? >> well, you mean as far as individuals having them? >> for homes and for the community? >> i think because it happens quite often you can get lulled into a false sense of security. >> the last one you survived. >> yeah, it was fine. it was over there, you know, it will be fine. actually the storm shelter we have was within the house when we bought it, part of the home when we bought it. but several people on this street have one. but there's a sense of it is not going to happen to me, or i get enough forewarning, i'm going to outrun it, i'll go someplace else. >> i have seen a bunch of them today, they're not cheap. >> no. >> that steel door you were talking about is very serious structure that you have to put in there. there could be a cost factor for a lot of people. >> there was in 1999 an incentive program they helped people that wanted to put in storm shelters, the mayor said earlier today when i talked to him, he thinks that saved a lot of lives. some people took advantage of that. he would like to see that happen again, this time give people an opportunity to defray some of the costs. >> debbie, what do you need now. what's the first thing you would like to have? >> i would like to have a shower. >> okay. after that, just talking to, you know, my insurance folks and finding out what their direction is and the next step. we'll go from there. >> debbie, i am so glad that you're out here and smiling about this. >> thank you. >> and i think we all share your sense of priorities. getting out alive was what mattered. >> absolutely. >> debbie, thank you very much for talking with us. we will be back here in oklahoma. just amazing. i woke up with this horrible rash on my right side. an intense burning sensation like somebody had set it on fire. and the doctor said, cindie, you have shingles. he said, you had chickenpox when you were a little girl... i said, yes, i did. i don't think anybody ever thinks they're going to get shingles. but it happened to me. for more of the inside story, visit shinglesinfo.com [ agent smith ] i've found software that intrigues me. it appears it's an agent of good. ♪ [ agent smith ] ge software connects patients to nurses to the right machines while dramatically reducing waiting time. 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[ static warbles ] magazine special edition. this gives a glimpse inside the national weather service forecast center which isn't far from here in norman, oklahoma at the university of oklahoma. according to "time" the warning that the center issued 16 minutes before the twister hit included the rarely used term "tornado emergency." that designation was created during the devastating may 3rd, 1999 storms that touched down in chickasha, oklahoma. the point of the phrasing was to con vain this was something different from what anyone in the area was likely to have experienced before. more coming up from oklahoma. i'm tony siragusa and i've been around the toughest guys in football. and now i'm training guys who leak a little to guard their manhood. with man style protection... whoa... of new depend shields and guards. who are you? this is my house. perfect. come with me. built you a little man space under here. how 'bout that. sweet. see depend shields and guards are made to fit guys. that's awesome. i trained that guy now it's your turn. go online for my tips to help guard your manhood. with new depend, shields and guards. as a nation, our full focus now is on the urgent work of rescue and the hard work of recovery and rebuilding that lies ahead. >> today, the moore, oklahoma fire chief provided this update on the search and rescue effort. >> we will be through every damaged piece of property in this city at least three times before we're done, and we hope to be done by dark tonight. no survivor has been found recently in the past few hours. no sir. >> any found today? >> no, sir. >> joined by paramedic crew chief shawn lauderdale who aided the rescue effort. shawn, where were you when the tornado hit? >> i was actually in norman. i was in my office earlier in the day and saw the storm coming, went to my house to evacuate with my wife and child. >> where is your house from your office? >> i'm located about six blocks south of the briarwood elementary school. so it is about ten miles from my office. so i drove home, packed up my wife, my child, my pets, drove back to norman to clear the path of the storm. >> so then what did you do after that? >> after i was quite certain that the tornado had crossed i-35, i returned to my house, put on my uniform, couldn't get anywhere -- >> was your house okay? >> had damage, minor damage, mostly roof, but put on my uniform, then i walked the six blocks to the school. >> then what was the scene at the school? >> it was pretty chaotic, a lot of parents, lot of responders, trying to figure out where i could fit in to help. >> how did you help? >> just helping coordinate getting people out of the school and then at some point caught a ride with another agency ambulance up to the warren theater to meet up with the crew. >> the scene at the school, you have parents who are arriving, were they allowed into the school? was there any restrictions on that? >> they weren't up in the rubble but were all around it obviously concerned, looking for their children. >> did you know some of the parents and families? >> i do. my children attended briarwood. >> were they saying hey, sean, asking you about names, is my kid in there? >> wasn't necessarily that specific, but a lot of people looking to me asking if i knew where so and so was. >> and when you got there, you had no idea what the situation might be, how bad it might be in there. how long did it take you to establish what the damage was and how many kids were going to be injured in that? >> well, just right away i heard radio reports on the way there and just right away from seeing the devastation, i knew potential for a lot of injured people. >> and knowing that it is children that you're going into, is there a different mindset going into a scene where you're going to try to rescue children? >> it is not really a different mindset, just a job to be done. there's more emotional involvement because i have kids myself, just focusing on getting the job done. >> what are you telling your own kids tonight about their own safety? >> that, you know, i mean, as parents, we work hard to keep them safe and just that they're fortunate. they're not, you know, a lot of other people out there not as fortunate tonight. >> when i see some of the kids that were in some of the worst situations talking about what they went through, i'm left wondering how kids here are going to feel safe going forward. what can you say to them? this is such a random kind of event. you never know where it is going to hit. hard to prepare for. >> i agree. i think it is going to be individual for each child in how they're going to be able to cope. >> sean lauderdale, thank you for joining us and for what you're doing in town. really appreciate it. we will be back after this. i don't like to golf. i love to golf. ♪ [ grunts ] yowza! that's why i eat belvita at breakfast. it's made with delicious ingredients and carefully baked to release steady energy that lasts... we are golfing now, buddy! 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