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But there are a lot of people that do ride the bus. and now that the busses are running on natural gas, they don't throw out as much pollution to the earth. so i feel good. i feel like i'm doing my part to help out the environment. welcome back to our coverage of the aftermath of the devastating tornado in moore, oklahoma. people here in this town, the city of 55,000, are waking up and picking through the pieces this morning. as the search continues, hopefully, a rescue effort probably a recovery effort at this point. let me give awe sense of the numbers we're looking at here. 51 people kill...

The new ones hit in the '99 tornado, they do have built-in storm shelters. >> reporter: do you think that's something that will change after this? >> i'm sure it will. we'll definitely look at it. the school system and city are two separate entities, i'm sure we'll talking to them and try to get fema moneys to help rebuild these schools. >> mr. mayor, thank you for joining us. mayor glenn lewis, mayor of moore, oklahoma, the rescue effort continuing. as of now, what he's been briefed by the fire chief, only four people, four people listed at missing at the moment in the entire town of moore. t...

>>steve: we're looking at images from your neighborhood. you must be in shock. >> disbelief. i've lived in that home across the street from that school for 15 years, and nothing has ever come that close. >>gretchen: james, do you know if they were able to rescue any children alive last night when they were there? >> i do know that they had rescued about six children that they had found that were alive, yes. >>gretchen: there's hope that these 30 other children who are missing may be found alive this morning at daybreak? >> i pray for them, yes. >>steve: as we all do. james rushing, who lived a...

And prayed like hell and luckily the only room was spared was the room we were in. >> reporter: debris turned through the powerful black funnel as the storm soared. you can hear piercing winds reaching up to 200 miles per hour. at a family farm, as many as 100 horses killed and most of the barns demolished. >> two of the stalls like this, came together, and i was in between them and it just -- it just pushed us down the shed row. >> president obama declared oklahoma a disaster area late monday and called the state's governor. >> i know there are families wondering where their loved ones are, w...

Possible tornadic activity. >>gretchen: this morning "the oklahoman" newspaper declared the storm worse than the storm that hit the town 14 years ago. >> that certainly says it all, that headline there: worse than that. preliminary reports are putting it in the same league as some of the country's worst storms. the national weather service is classifying yesterday's tornado as an ef-4, but that could be upgraded as rick has been telling us about, after they get on the ground and are able to fully assess the damage done this. the winds yesterday reaching up to 200 miles per hour. take a look at...