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School. >> the school was built in the 1960s, actually, when i was a kid, it was a polling place. i've been there a million times, used to look up precinct numbers for my mother who was a mayor and state house member from there. and used to do the grounds keeping when i was a kid putting myself through college. it's a densely packed neighborhood. a lot of wonderful people. not a high-income area, it's just hardworking, average americans. school was honestly the best place for those kids to be in that square mile area. it's the strongest structure, reinforced interior walls and you're in the ha...

Power of the tornado. might it get upgraded to a five? and give us a little insight into the scale. we had melissa with us onset who said they didn't even have up to a five back in 1999. >> well, the thing about it is, in 1999 tornado came through moore, oklahoma. they did, in fact, they actually measured winds, over 300 miles an hour with that particular tornado. we don't believe we had actual measurements with doppler radar on this one. but what they'll do is storm survey teams will come in here from the national weather service and they'll look at the damage. and what they do is they have d...

>> you grew up here, obviously -- >> less than a mile from where you're standing. my parents are buried and my grandparents much closer than that. yeah, that's home for over 50 years. >> and, tom, obviously you know coming from moore just how devastating these tornadoes can be. but obviously this has to surpass your worst nightmare. >> it really is. joe, i never thought i'd see anything worse than what i saw in '99. this is our fourth really in 15 years from '98, '99, 2003 and now this. it's just even worse in terms of the loss of life, obviously. we've got a high number now. i've been talking...

And a light went down and hit me in the head. and all the other girls were screaming and they were crying. >> i had to hold on to the wall to keep myself safe because i didn't want to fly away in the tornado. it was coming, it was hitting, and everybody said put your head down, put your head down, but some people got hurt, but we made it alive. >> just absolutely devastating, heartbreaking. we're back here in moore, oklahoma, the thunder and lightning kicking up here. willie, you hear those stories from those kids and it's heartbreaking, of course. a decision was made yesterday to keep the kin...

I love you booking.com booking.yeah! this is a neighborhood that has well-built homes. these are brick homes, framed homes. and so the problem with this is that we've got, you know, search and rescue here, city of oklahoma city that has to go through house by house by house and see if they can find any survivors and see if they can find any bodies. this is going to be a grim scene. this is the driveway, this home does not exist anymore. in fact, there's a car on top of the home. there's a beam that came a couple of blocks away from a school over there. but i want your to look down in here. t...