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The kids out of that building. and when you see this building, you will see how difficult it was. that was from a fifth grade teacher. we went back to briarwood elementary school with robin, the teacher, today to get a look at the school and the place where they rode out the storm. take a look. >> this part here was where i was at, and it's wall to the ceiling. it was absolutely terrifying and we heard everything going on overhead. it's nothing like what happened back there, where it approached the building. >> so you took the kids from out of your classroom into this hallway here first? >> ri...

Saturday and sunday before. and i said you're safe, you're in cinderblock walls, you know. no one could have known -- >> the roof is basically corrugated steel. >> right. but this was the building that sustained hardly any damage. >> so what part of the building is this? >> that's where my son was. >> your son was right over there? >> yeah, with mrs. biddle. you see the green bulletin board and the brown door? she had them tucked into that corner. >> they were sitting literally in that corner? >> in that corner. >> that's about the only corner that survived. >> that is still existing. her desk...

Oh, my god. >> the cell phone video taken from a fifth grade teacher. i revisited the school earlier today. take a look. >> this part here was where i was at. and it's wall to the ceiling and so when -- while it was absolutely terrifying and we heard everything going on overhead, it's nothing like what happened back there. where it approached the building. >> so you took the kids from out of your classroom into this hallway here first? >> right. >> so these are cinderblock walls. >> yep. that's what i told my students in the classroom. i said, look around you, we don't have any glass in our

Their neighbors. >> and lance, we want to verify this, again, you're telling us that 75 children were yet in class when that storm hit plaza towers, and that they believe those 75, they're searching for all of them right now? is that correct? >> that is what i'm being told by one of the rescuers on the scene. there were 75 people inside that building in hallway which was the secure place, the safe environment, the tornado shelter, if you will. but the walls are gone. cinderblock walls that are eight inches thick and the roof is completely gone. it basically looks like it collapsed in on itself...

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