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offer his condolence. he also spoke to reporters what's next of plaza tower elementary school. president obama spoke for about 10 minutes. >> good afternoon everybody. obviously, a picture is worth a thousand words and what we're seeing here it gives you some sense of what the people of moore and people of oklahoma has been dealing with over these last several days. there are a couple of acknowledgements that i want to make. let me begin by just saying whenever i come to an area that's been devastated by some natural disaster like this, i want to make sure everybody understands i'm s...

0 going to bounce back but they need help just like any of us would need h help if we saw the kind of devastation we are seeing here. and we have about 1200 homes that have been completely detroyed but we have 12,000 that have been damaged in one way or another and that is a big piece of business and a long with the schools we have a hospital that has been destroyed. it is going to take a lock time for this -- a long team for this community to rebuild. i want to urge every american to step up. if i have one message for folks here today, go online, donate to the american red cross. and if you a...

0 disaster. alex? >> yeah, you can imagine the sight for him as he will be on approach on air force one as he heads to the air force base. from the sky, charles, it still has just this very defined mark of where exactly that twister went through, doesn't it? >> reporter: it's a scar. it's a scar across this part of oklahoma. and it's very similar to the one that was in 1999, the may 3 tornado that killed so many people. that's probably the last time a president was here in moore, oklahoma. that was president clinton back in 1999 who came to tour the devastation back then. one thing the preside...

0 if you missed any part of the show, find us on i-tunes. fareed zakaria gps is next for our viewers here in the united states. this is gps, the global public square. welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i'm fareed zakaria. coming to you this week from london. we will start with the brutal killing of a soldier here on wednesday. what was behind it, how should we react? i will give you my take. and has austerity in britain failed? we'll ask the ft's martin wolf. then syria, next month the two warring sides are to come together, but is there a deal to be had? we...

0 community with strong character. there is no doubt they're going to bounce back, but they need help. just like any of us would need help if we saw the kind of devastation that we're seeing here. we have about 1200 homes that have been completely destroyed, but we've got 12,000 that have been damaged in one way or another. and that's a big piece of business. along with the schools, we've got a hospital that has been destroyed. it's going to take a long time for this community to rebuild. so i want to urge every american to step up. if i've got one message for folks here today, go on line, don...