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200-mile-an-hour winds brought them to their knees. this is one of the most powerful in this country's record. as the search and rescue transitions into recovery operation. >> national weather service confirms the tornado that blew threw they are monday afternoon killing 24 people, they have confirmed it was an ef-5 tornado. the scale does not go higher than five. 2400 homes damaged. 10,000 people affected. damage is expected to top $1 billion. show you video of the storm. you can see the funnel cloud forming seven minutes after it was issued by the national weather service on monday. within m...

April but was part of how they should roll out the revelations. >> there were discussions about the timing of the release of the information and the findings of the report. >> reporter: facing one tough question after another, carney continued to push back. >> we can go down the list, what about the president's birth certificate. >> some white house officials and treasury officials discussed aspects of the matter, the president was deliberately kept out of the loop to prevent suspicions of presidential meddling. christine? >> thanks. let's go to john and chris in oklahoma where they are coveri...

Just one street, just one neighborhood. but countless reminders of the enormity of what happened here. the living room set with no living room. a muni van in a space that defies the laws of physics. >> we give you a sense of the power of this storm, this is a guard rail this heavy piece of twisted metal. part of a highway which is a few blocks that way. somehow this tornado moved this guard rail from the highway right to here, this shows you how powerful it is. but there is another sight i want to show you which gives you a sense of the damage that this storm could do. it's a simple, small ima...

Discoveries. >> 24 people lost their lives here in moore, oklahoma, including 9 children. you remember, yesterday the government came out with numbers much higher than that, a little bit of solace. those numbers are not expected to change. part of the story of this epic tornado here. >> search and rescue mission here is now really transitioning into a recovery operation. the national weather service confirming that the tornado that carved up this town was an ef-5, winds topping out at 210 miles an hour. >> reporter: according to state insurance officials, damage claims likely to top $10 millio...

Probably took 200-mile-an-hour wind for this damage to occur. they have preliminary gone out and can see we have seeing ef-5 damage around briarwood elementary school. you saw it clearly on the path, not every location on the path had that kind of intensity. the moore medical center, around it, we are seeing ef-3 damage close to where you are standing. i want to show you one of the ways we look at that. here is the before picture of the moore medical center. let me show you what it looks like after. one thing we look for for an ef-5 wind is to be able to see the damage or two-story buildings e...