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Ambulances, so many cars around. >> two blocks away from the elementary school, reportedly hit hard by the tornado. as far as my eyes can see, the homes are demolished. there is debris everywhere. chimneys cracked, houses ripped apart. the outside of the homes completely leveled. the neighborhood is not standing anymore. it's completely gone. >> and there are several neighborhoods, neighborhood after neighborhood, simply not left standing today. driving through here, you get a sense of the devastation, but i want to leave you with one image of hope. where i'm standing right now. in front of th...

National weather service that the tornado that hit moore, oklahoma, was indeed a top of the scale ef5 twister with winds in excess of 200 miles-per-hour. the most dangerous of all tornadoes. there have been only 58 of them since 1950. back then the classification was like, f-5 and then they fine tuned it, so i you go to the new ef5 level, it's a little arcane. suffice to say by that math only a couple of dozen of those. oklahoma city itself was last hit by just such a storm a few years back, and now repeating the horror all over again. and my next guest knows this better than anyone and one of...

Three kids. the kids were fine. we wheeled her out to an blans. >> we're two blocks away from the school reportly hit hard by the tornado. the homes are demolished. there is debris everywhere. chimneys cracked. houses ripped apart. the outside of the homes completely leveled. the neighborhood is not standing anymore. it's completely gone. >> waiting for dawn, hoping against hope for more survivors in moore, oklahoma. >> 2 1/2 hours until daybreak. we'll get a much clearer sense when the lights come out. >> thank you for joining us through the late evening and the early morning hours. i'm suzan...

Tragic and we are sad, but it could have been a lot worse if we hadn't had the heads-up by media warning people. we had our emergency center activated early on sunday. >> everybody watched the images as the tornadoes dropped out of the sky. two in two days. >> governor mary fallin, thank you very much for joining us live from moore. just know the prayers of the nation are with you. >> we need the prayers. thank you. >> my goodness. >> we all do. >> unspeakable tragedy. for her to be in charge of the state is a huge undertaking. our thoughts are with her. >> it's 7:30 in new york city. 6:30 in ...

So he sent me a text-messaging and i don't know how he -- essentially said, try to leave work early. get home, get our dogs, prepare to get underground, and i finished up a couple of things at work. at that point a tornado warning had not been issued yet. i was leaving work, the moore city limits, ten-minute drive from oklahoma city and i'm listening to him on the radio and he said tornado on the ground barrel toward moore, and i looked toward the weis and see this giant funnel cloud coming our way ask the cars on the highway are trying to seek shelter under understand passes and they can't mo...