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She has to do. and you know, we'll see what can be done for the people that were affected by it. >> alonzo adams, thank you for your photographs and officer joining us tonight. >> thank you very much. >> just after the tornado struck oklahoma, kfr tv's john welsh threw a helicopter over the tornado's path of destruction. here is what he and the anchors saw. >> there's veteran's memorial park right there. that is gone. everything in it is gone. the housing edition to the left is going to be like wimberl creeks. it's completely gone. a gymnasium building, that is completely trashed. the track fr...

0 the mayor of moore, oklahoma. glen lewis. mr. mayor, what moore developments can we expect to learn of overnight? >> we're not sure. right now. right now, we're in practice mode because we have an outage at the oklahoma city water plant where we get our water. our water treatment is at a trickle right now. we requested help from other agencies around. we've got water from our other fire trucks. but they tell me they're going to have that on by 1:00 in the morning, which is about an hour away. so i'm waiting for that call. we hope that we will find maybe some people alive in some of this rubb...

captions paid for by nbc-universal television and good morning, everyone. welcome to a special edition of "today." it's 7:00 on the west coast. it's 9:00 in the morning in moore, oklahoma. we got matt lauer surrounded by the destruction, everywhere in this community. we'll check in with matt. we got some headlines to bring you this morning. some good news at least for the time being. the medical examiner revising the number down to 24 people. we can give you the latest on this tornado, this is a depree path that was several blocks wide and we're told it stretched for more than 20 m...

Welcome back. you may have noticed you were digging a little deeper at the pump these days. that's because the average price of a gallon of unleaded gas is up to 3.65 a gallon. that's up 11 cents over the past two weeks. this is just in time for the summer driving season. we go to new jersey. what is driving up these prices? >> reporter: john, much of the price hikes are coming from the midwest. we're seeing gas prices rise by more than 43 cents a gallon. a lot of refineries are close for schedule maintenance. they are close for inspection, repairs that kind of thing. refineries are switching ...

Windy. >> reporter: yeah, the wind starting to pick up, cramer. we just got a tour of grand strand we went inside, most of the community in rubble. carol, there is zev devastation everywhere. you can hear the roar as this half-mile wide tornado tears across the land, heading towards shawnee, oklahoma. there were two dozen reports from oklahoma to iowa. 45 homes damaged, at least one person killed and a dozen injured. >> it's coming up on a handful of houses here. >> reporter: a trailer park hardest hit near shawnee, oklahoma. mobiletomies tossed over. john welsh says he's never soon anything l...