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>> do schools have shelters in them? >> some schools do have shelters. the old fallout shelters are basements. this school that we're so concerned about plaza towers had a basement. quite frankly that's why some of the children drown because they were in the basement area. water came in. it was what it was with the tragedy yesterday afternoon. there are basements. there are shelters. unfortunately not everybody has one. >> lieutenant governor is now out on the ground like so many others trying to survey and help. cnn.com/impact. go there. it's the page to show you how to help. the need is imme...

School in the basement area. again, right now i don't know how many kids were still in the school, how many got out of the school, but we know some of the kids, obviously, got out of the school, because we talked to a couple of them. some of those kids were safe, escaped injury, some of the teachers doing their very best trying to protect those kids, may have been severely injured, maybe even killed in this storm. again, it's indescribable when you look around, literally, 360 degrees, everywhere you look, total devastation in this area. we'll try to have much more when this continues. >> jesse...

Hitter literally hugging the sides of the walls. they were in the hallways outside the classrooms hugging the walls. again, teachers laying on top of some of those kids as debris was coming into that school. indescribable scene. i can't imagine what it was like for those kids, young kids, second, third, fourth graders. some of them have gotten out but there were rescue crews asking us if we knew if there were kids still inside. i didn't know. they were asking people that were in that area. they said -- they thought they were in the back in the basement area. rescue crews going in there and dig...

The child that was born there never saw a doctor. in fact, the women never saw a doctor during the ten years or so that they were in the house. they were confined to a basement area. there were chains and ropes. at some point they were allowed to live in the upper story of the house, it is a two story house with four bedrooms. they were allowed outside into a backyard area and the way they describe it, they were forced to wear wigs, keep their heads down, to duck out and to hide essentially and there were multiple time when beaten when they disobeyed. the big question, how did they get out? th...

"the boston globe"? elizabeth warren's office on capitol hill, she's in a double-wide. >> a trailer? >> uh-huh. >> i don't think it's getting in the way of her doing her job but she can't have meetings in there. she has to go underground to some basement area. she's in a trailer. they put her in a trailer. >> it happens. >> why in a trailer? >> that's fine. it will all work out. >> why is that? >> well, there is a seniority. certain people have to leave. >> you look at the inside. this looks like the same bus that the president threw her under when he was going to name the person to lead up fo...