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Directly impacted by monday's tornado. right now fema has more than 400 personnel on the ground here trying to support the response. trying to make sure survivors get the federal assistance made available by the disaster declaration signed by president obama. now, the white house says the president is being updated on the tornado response throughout the day today. homeland security chief janet napolitano was going to come today to get a firsthand look at the destruction. we'll hear from her in a live news conference in about an hour. as i said, there's a lot to bring you up-to-date on. from th...

As soon as the cleanup process is complete, he plans to propose an ordinance that would require all new housing developments to have either a safe room or a shelter. coincidentally, anderson, glenn lewis was also the mayor of moore in 1999 when the devastated tornado shredded the community. he posed similar ordinances back then. because of that there were housing complexes here that survived the brunt of the damage. because of the neighborhood that we saw leveled by this tornado because it was an older community, it didn't have the same housing codes. so that could explain exactly why we saw t...

Against the reds in about an hour. thanks for talking to us. how is your family doing? your relatives still here. >> they're doing well. thanks for having me. i had most of my dad's family lives in that area. and thankfully everyone's safe and all their homes are safe as well. >> what was -- when you heard the news, when you were watching the images on tv to know this area so well, what was that like? >> you know, i was really helpless. it was gut wrenching. i wanted to be there and help my fellow oklahomans. i was sad i couldn't be there in that moment. but the way the first responders respon...

To drown out the sound with musical instruments and a lot of parents credit her with saving them. do you remember when you were in school here safety measures in place at your schools? did you have drills and stuff? >> absolutely. i think it's kind of all over the state. but, you know, getting in the hallway of the classroom and kneeling down and putting their head between your legs, i remember doing that all the time. especially this time of year with the way this is tornado season and that type of thing, taking those measures to keep us safe. >> i know there's a lot of obviously the needs in...

You open the door and take a look inside. and you see it's very cramped inside. there's not much room, but plenty of room to survive. walk down the steps with your family. you can probably fit seven or eight people and fit important things in here, clothing, pictures, valuables. you come in and just shut the door. and you are safe and sound as a tornado goes above you. there's no doubt the people would have survived if they went inside this shelter. when the storm's over, you open up and you all come out. one thing to keep in mind you may say, wow, if the rubble falls on us, how do we get out?...