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Local police. very important because people want a sense of security. we have no looting after the oklahoma city bombing. we had to my knowledge no looting after the 1999 level 5 tornado. i would hope this would be the same. people pitch in to help one another but you need coordinated professionals to help them, hold hands with them and make sure they can see the light at the end of the tunnel, something i'm sure is going on right now. >> and from a security standpoint we are seeing a lockdown in the area. there are road blocks and national guard troops. it feels pretty good from a security st...

21, 1988. this is somebody 50 years old, maybe this was sitting outside their home. people now speak of this like this. may 3rd, 1999. may 20 yesterday the storm hit a little under 24 hours. when you meet these families, we met these remarkable people who were in their house in 1999. they lost everything so they built a small basement. they survived with eight members of the family including a 2-year-old grand child in there yesterday. they say they will rebuild and stay right here. >> what happens now? >> well, we are just going to get with the insurance one step at a time. >> we like our nei...

The death toll was about 40 or so. that has been downgraded. now they are saying 24 is the confirmed death toll. brian todd was at a press conference a short time ago with an update on rescue efforts. what is the latest on how rescue efforts are going? >> reporter: they do still consider this a rescue effort and not a recovery effort just yet. much of this is still a rescue effort. one of the officials, the fire chief of moore told us a short time ago that they are going through every single piece of damaged property at least three times. and they haven't finished doing that yet. they are send...

>> > welcome back to our continuing coverage of the oklahoma tornado here in moore, oklahoma. we just got a word from the national weather service that says the speed of the peak wind yesterday in this tornado that hit moore was 190 miles per hour. that is how strong it was. this is not the first time this area has been hit by a powerful tornado as we were talking about with john king back in may 1999 an ef-5 tornado hit the area, killed 36. it was on the ground for nearly 90 minutes. if you take a look at this map the path of the '99 tornado in red and the one that tore through here yesterday...

Another tornado hit in 2003. the death toll is 24 here in moore. the searches are still underway. frank keating was the governor of oklahoma when the ef-5 twister struck the area. you have been through this before. what lessons have you learned that would be most helpful. >> thank you and john for being there. i am in the wrong city. you are in the right city. we are grateful that you are there. the most important thing is to make sure that the emergency management folks know each other, coordinate, are speaking on the same frequency and can respond to a man made or natural disaster. you have ...