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Underground shelters. the main reasons? the high cost of retrofitting the schools and porous soil. >> it's about the money and the statistics. f-5 tornado is very rare, 1% to % of the tornadoes. they don't happen very often. it's the very reason they don't have safe rooms for earthquakes, they don't work all the time. >> reporter: a painful truth for mickey dickson-davis who lost her son kyle at plaza towers. >> with us living in oklahoma, tornado shelters should be in every school. it should be -- you know, there should be a place that if this ever happened again during school, that kids can ...

Nephew and any other survivors. and you went there to -- in hopes of rescuing people. >> yeah. i didn't really get to, i guess. i -- i tried, though. i mean, that's all i can do. >> reporter: instead, he encountered unspeakable horror. four children buried under the massive debris of the collapsed school, suffocated by its sheer weight. >> they probably would have made it if they weren't pinned. >> how were they pinned? >> pinned by different debris, desks, two by fours, pieces of metal. >> reporter: the students were not found in a basement as officials initially believed. do you think had th...

It took a direct hit from the tornado where seven children died. john king got a chance to tour the devastation with moore police sergeant jeremy lewis. >> in terms of when people first responded here, i mean, where did everybody go? >> we basically just surrounded the school and started running into different areas. some of this has been cleaned out due to the search and rescue efforts. there literally just climbing over debris. people were yelling for help, so just pulling people out as quickly as possible. and that went on literally for hours. >> this was a hall of classrooms that led to --...

The storm touched down here. >> reporter: as survivors pick up the pieces a memorial service is scheduled this weekend to remember the 24 lives lost, including the seven children killed at the plaza towers elementary school. the tragedy at the school is raising more questions about why schools don't have safe rooms for shelter. >> anybody that lives in any tornado area should have one. but it's just a matter of cost. you know, there will be more people after this tornado that buy them vand them put in. so we'll have more as soon as this is done. >> reporter: the mayor confirmed that all of the...

Islands. the sense of despair, disbelief. and what does this actually mean? >> appreciate your reporting. stay safe down there. we'll on talk to you soon. now i want to turn to mexico where a desperate search is under way for survivors. he issers tonight racing to pull a young girl out from under a collapsed school. what's the latest on this dramatic search and rescue? >> hi, don. well, it's been a chaotic day. behind me you can see all of the thousands of people who have turned out to support the rescue workers who are working just a block away inside that collapsed school building. and what ...