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You talk about trying to communicate. the usage of cell phones has rendered them useless because you can't get a signal in or out, even texting is difficult. for the times when people needs these most, they're not able to use them. we're told that the phone companies are coming in and, but it's just the par ral size that's all around moore as people try to get home. some of these people actually live in the community and are being turned away. >> i was going to ask you who is trying to get in presumably it's people trying to help, and rescuers saying no we -- but it's also people who live in t...

Stories of kids trapped in schools and so many children dying, number one. number two, i think this tornado will be proven to have been on the ground a lot longer time. they are saying now 40 minutes. it's wider, it appears. two miles wide. that's quite a swath to take out everything in its path. it stayed on the ground so long. >> death tolls above what we saw in 1999 and half the number is children. we hope the number doesn't grow. as we try to go through the school it probably is. >> someone who grew up in moore, oklahoma is our friend toby keith. he said, the storm has devastated the commu...

Dallas area views and the oklahoma area that the tornado watches, again, just the threat of tornadoes -- doesn't mean a warning where they have seen one land -- but thunderstorm warnings are festival in effect for the entire dallas area. all counties in and around dallas still have the thunderstorm warnings in effect. we'll keep you posted. >> emergency responders from joplin, missouri, in moore, helping. joplin suffered one of the worst tornadoes in u.s. history two years ago tomorrow. its mayor is on the phone with us now. mayor, must be eerie déjà vu for you. >> completely. i was glued to...

Atmosphere continues to be unstable as they look through. this is some of the folks looking through plaza tower elementary which was leveled. right now there in moore, oklahoma, you've got a line of thunderstorms. that's why we had to move our trucks because of the lightning? >> we had to move our trucks right by that elementary school and everybody was set up, the national media, local media. about ten minutes before 5:00 eastern time they came through and said everybody had to get out. they were bringing in more response vehicles. and they still believe there are people trapped under the are...

Senator, thank you for being with us. it must be difficult for you not to be here in oklahoma. but i'm sure you have been speaking to them all night. give me a sense of what you have heard of the recovery effort, rescue effort going on right now, right near in moore? >> yeah, chris, first of all, there are several of us who were there in 1999, the thing that's amazing, if you look at the map as to where this thing came through, same thing as 1999. the devastation about the same, but a smaller area. i talked to albert ashworth, the emergency management person in oklahoma. he says one of the big...