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You're not going to be able to get in because they have shut off the traffic. let's go back to lance west. >> reporter: i'm outside the yellow tape. i can tell you that they brought a dog in, getting ready to do some search and rescue operations. it does look like they have taken some back boards up to the mountain of metal and cinder blocks and it looks, from my perspective, like they may be communicating with someone. if there is a victim undhear rubble, they haven't been able to reach them yet but it looks like they may be talking to someone trapped under the debris. it's an encouraging sig...

Towers elementary school. let's join him again on the phone. lance, i know this is a very emotional, devastating scene that you're looking at. >> yeah, certainly is. we are here just five feet away from the school right now. what was apparently the gymnasium, there are firefighters and other emergency personnel doing their best to save -- those are classrooms right there? okay. those are classrooms and hallways i'm told. i stand corrected from some of the parents out here waiting to get word. it is our understanding right now there are at least 15 children trapped under this debris. >> oh my g...

That are in effect right now. they are southern lincoln county. pauls valley. pauls valley. pauls valley. all of garvin county. and southern jefferson county. right now the most immediate threat to life is in pauls valley. kevin and linda, we'll check in with reid timmer and with back with you. >> we're doing our best to get information from moore and parents down there. we received reliable information at this point that many of the students were sheltered at the school at moore high. we are told they have not yet been released. the kids are scared but we're told the teachers are doing their ...

As i can. >> all right. >> got a lot of people trying to help. >> all right. lance, they're pulling third graders out. we hope that -- of course, they were in their tornado positions. hopefully some of them are going to be okay. lance is on his way over there right now. you have to understand when you go down to these scenes and see this firsthand, not just through the prism of the television, but when you're there living it, it is extremely emotional event for reporters as well as all those involved. and lance is one of our best reporters, emmy award winning reporter, and he's going to get th...