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Kids, of course, were told to shelter in place and a number of those children lost, but when you get here on the ground and you look at the devastation you looked at how these buildings are literally torn to shreds, you realize there was so little time to make any decisions at all. >> so little time. and in most tornadoes, it's the randomness that's so frightening. it touches down on one side of the street and the other side is untouched. not here. mile wide on the ground for 40 minutes. this is devastation like we haven't seen in a tornado. >> you come through here, it's just a shock to your ...

Course, as you have seen on tv, several of the schools were totally gone. we have a lot of rebuilding to be done. there are families that lost homes. some families don't have insurance. not only did we have the storm yesterday that struck moore, but earlier in the morning yesterday i was at bethel acres where the trailer park was totally destroyed, lost around 50 homes there, lost a couple of lives there. and carney, oklahoma, up north. many other communities were struck sunday. we have a lot going on in our state. i have been blessed to receive a tremendous amount of phone calls from other go...

Quick radar update. so far, so good. these storms are just to the south side. it was actually a pretty strong one even with a severe thunderstorm warning just south of moore, oklahoma. i think it's only going to, you know, barely touch the moore area. and once that's gone, there's nothing really behind it. we may get fortunate here that we're not going to have a lot of muddy earth to deal with out there. that's a good thing. as far as the tornadoes went, we continued with about 16. we showed you this with the pass intersected. the threat today, still a chance of severe weather, this will be da...

We had to pull a car out of the front hallway off a teacher. i don't know what that lady's name is, but she had three little kids underneath her. good job, teach. it ripped our house up. i've still got a little girl buried in there. i've got to go. >> we thought we died because we locked the cellar door, it got louder and next thing you know, you see the latch coming undone and we couldn't reach it and it ripped open the door and it just glass and debris started slamming on us and we thought we were dead, to be honest. >> all right, we're back, mika, here in moore. and obviously you look behin...

With us? >> james langford. >> live from d.c. you represent oklahoma city, right? >> i do, just north of you, actually, the district, you mentioned tom cole, that's his district you're standing in, i represent the district north of there. >> just north. obviously as somebody that grew up in oklahoma, you are certainly used to -- >> right. >> tornado warnings, tornado watches and then when the tornado hits. but i would guess looking at these pictures nothing could prepare you or the people of this great state for what happened yesterday afternoon around 3:30. >> no, we've actually had fewer tor...