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Tornado warnings since the 1950s, this will probably go down as one of the two or three greatest fatalities for a single tornado. >> you know, when you compare the cost of the damage and the loss of life, i think that houses can be replaced but people can't. >> a lot of people think this may top joplin. the most expensive tornado we had at $2.8 billion. and they're saying this one may top it. >> hopefully a loss of life. >> we get newspapers from all across the country here at nbc and "morning joe." i just want to show you a couple of them. because we always get a few iconic images from these ...

Hour the congressman saying it is still a search and rescue. they hope that somebody has somehow found a way to survive in the middle of all of that. >> it's just one area. there is house after house after house after house after building because usually in tornadoes you have a swath, an area, one massive building. everywhere here. >> yeah. >> everywhere. roofs have been ripped off. >> and you can see this, they've already been through all of these homes. they found some survivors in some of the homes. but they still are going to come back later and search to see if there are any fatalities. a...

Children victims trapped at the bottom of that school right now. this is eagle drive right here, we understand there could be as many as half dozen more fatalities on this street alone in this area. the emergency personnel have backed out of the school, they're pulling in more vehicles, they're backing people away. and i understand they're going to start pulling these tiny victims out of the rubble here shortly. >> it's too difficult, lance. >> lance, hang in there, my friend. >> that was kfor veteran reporter lance west reporting yesterday taking in the terrible news and having a hard time ke...

Lightning show. we heard thunder all night and again today. last week, we thought we'd seen a terrible tornado and we did, tore up big parts of the state. and just as they're starting to recover from that, yesterday happens and then again today they're expecting some storms. it was interesting to see the front page of the paper here today. there was a storm here on may 3rd, 1999 which is viewed as the worst, most powerful tornado in the history of the world. >> we were saying, people around here said that was the day that lived in infamy for them. everybody remembers the day. >> winds over 300...

Half here is the southern portion of the destruction. literally all of the houses in here, this, folks, is all gone. there's none of that remaining. that is all what has been destroyed. that is literally about 1/2 mile wide through that region. now, as we jump interstate 35 to the other side of moore, oklahoma, these other elementary schools were hit too. apple creek elementary school also highland east junior high school. there was a shopping center up here. had a bunch of pharmacies, cvs, walgreen's, lowe's, that was on the northern edge, and a lot of this devastated too throughout the regio...