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Rescue operation? how many homes were destroyed? when we come back we're going to speak with the lieutenant governor of oklahoma and put these questions to him and find out what is the exact situation in moore, oklahoma. ♪ [ female announcer ] from more efficient payments. ♪ to more efficient pick-ups. ♪ wireless is limitless. ♪ all stations come over to mithis is for real this time. step seven point two one two. verify and lock. command is locked. five seconds.

Homes gone, pat em who owned those dogs probably looking for them right now. animal rescue a big part of tragedies like this and the loeb solitary flashlights looking through some of the rubble and debris of these homes. it is a sight to behold in the school, the plaza towers school. we are right up next to it. simply flattened like so many of the neighborhoods here. the last 20 hours here, in this town of moore, population 55,000. it's a day that the area will anywhere forget. let's look back. the massive tornado tore across 20 miles of oklahoma city suburbs, in just 40 minutes. from the sky,...

Gotten officials on the ground. you have tons of manpower, it just takes time. >> it takes time. this tornado would be like a two-mile-wide lawnmower blade going over a community. so when the schools leveled, neighborhoods are wiped out, businesses are flattened. it's significant and the clean-up will be for some time. >> it's terrible to think about it, but that's what it looks like. governor, thank you for joining us. we'll be in contact, you let us know anything we can do to help. we'll take a quick break from moore, oklahoma. a community in need, this is a story that is just beginning for ...

Welcome back to our live coverage of the aftermath of this devastating tornado in moore, oklahoma. i'm john berman along with chris cuomo here. and this morning residents here are waking up to a recovery effort, a rescue effort. still very much under way. the plaza towers school is the site where so many hopes still rest right now as they dig through the rubble by hand. trying to find possibly any survivors that may still be there. or figure out exactly if there are any bodies left there as well. >> we understand the situation at this school has become a little complicated. it has a basement. ...

These situations in terms of casualties, so i will tell you, at this point, 51 confirmed dead, 20 of those kids, 145 injured. but there are so many walking wounded. look at the pictures before you. families took to their own before they took care of themselves, they went looking for their kids, you'll see people bloodied, they're injured, but they wanted to find their kids. plaza tower, briarwood, two elementary schools hit just at dismissal time, 3:00 p.m. plaza towers, very bad, hand-to-hand search going through there now. carrying key bring through, listening for sounds, bringing in dogs wi...