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Become different and you're forced to be there every day and a high-pressured situation. your not with your family. it's the least they deserve. the cost factor, i've always thought, that the media should pick that up because generally, the reason you're sequestered them is to keep them isolated from the media. so i always thought if the courts were smart, they would charge for the pool coverage or something like that -- >> i know what you're talking about. i see your lips moving. easy for you to say -- >> you know -- >> well, i don't take a to si s position, obviously. six people, which we le...

Now. let's go to chris jansing who is in oklahoma. chris, so many questions about how that school had prepared for a tornado like this. some second-guessing but the one thing nobody seems to be second-guessing about is whether this school should have had a safe room or an underground shelter. why didn't it? and did the other schools across the area have these safe rooms? >> reporter: yeah, it's an important question. about a hundred of them do but it's a cost factor, joe. it's 1.4 million on average to build one of these safe houses in a school. so a small percentage of them actually do have t...

Individuals having them? >> for homes and for the community? >> i think because it happens quite often you can get lulled into a false sense of security. >> the last one you survived. >> yeah, it was fine. it was over there, you know, it will be fine. actually the storm shelter we have was within the house when we bought it, part of the home when we bought it. but several people on this street have one. but there's a sense of it is not going to happen to me, or i get enough forewarning, i'm going to outrun it, i'll go someplace else. >> i have seen a bunch of them today, they're not cheap. >> ...

>> greta: how about your home state arkansas, are they part of the suit or not? >> they are not. we have a democratic governor and democratic attorney general so far they've chosen not to join the lawsuit. but both have said they have serious problems with the unfunded mandate portion. this could cost between 100 and 200 million dollars that they don't have. what you are going to see is states are going to be forced to make huge cuts in education, transportation or create revenue by raising taxes. there's not a governor in america that wants to go out there and raise taxes on his people right ...

We've seen what happens in states like tennessee and massachusetts, when you try to have a mandated coverage. the costs are always far more than anyone anticipated and the waiting times go up, not down to see a doctor. it isn't the cure all that we've been sold. >> greta: how about your home state arkansas, are they part of the suit or not? >> they are not. we have a democratic governor and democratic attorney general so far they've chosen not to join the lawsuit. but both have said they have serious problems with the unfunded mandate portion. this could cost between 100 and 200 million dollar...