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It was just debris. there was just cars beat up. my mom was flipping out about her car. are you all right, bud? i know this is pretty wild to take all in at one time. have you had a chance to talk to your mom? yeah, she was on top of me. she was able to be with me. reporter: ginger zee, abc news, moore, oklahoma. with more than 100 people injured, doctors, nurses and hospital staffers have been working for hours, around the clock to treat incoming patients. the spokeswoman for a large trauma center near the storm zone gave us an update a short time ago. right now we have seen a total of 60 patients. not all of those are still at the facility. we have nine listed in critical, 19 in serious. those are obviously still at the hospital. we have seen 29 that were either in fair or good condition. some of those have been released. i m not sure on the number, but they are leaving the hospital after being treated. ....
The good news now is that students in the school and adults associated with the school tell us that no children died. that tornado passed right over that school. we were less than a mile from it when it hit the school. and you could see the explosion and the debris, once it hit that large stone structure. but a little 7-year-old girl pulled me aside and said, i was in that school. and a teacher grabbed me and the rest of the students and said, we re going to the safe room. and we all got there and we were quiet. and the tornado came and it passed, and we walked out and we were all alive. and that was her quote. she was taking it in stride, because she was sitting in front of what used to be her home, which no longer existed. so this search and rescue, in this immense of a disaster, will ....
Background. look at metal debris, all the vegetation gone. it is really just incredible. that look on the mother s face, you can tell, that s a look of relief. she s leaning into her child. she s one of the lucky ones. yeah, she really is. and a lot of the pictures you ll see are a lot of the same pictures. the washington post, obviously a national newspaper, same picture showing you the same thing. this a more general headline. huge twister kills dozens in oklahoma. you know right now we know the death toll is at 51, at least 20 of them children. so you see a picture, a mom holding their child, obviously a safe child. just a sigh of relief for this parent. take a look at this. from the new york times. you talk about children. this is a child who was pulled out of the rubble. and that is just an amazing story. we hope today that we ll get something like this although the governor of oklahoma herself says at this point it s not really a rescue, it s a recovery. but you know ....
Elevate that to ef-5 after storm surveys are completed. at this point in time. yes, the reports are ef-4 preliminarily. meteorologist jim dickey, live in accuweather. thank you for that. the tornado sirens started wailing 16 minutes before the storm actually hit. that gave residents like melissa newton time to hunker down in a safe place. she describes the few harrowing moments. i looked to the west. and i see it. hail about the size of golf balls was pounding my car at the time. i got home, got our dogs as fast as possible and got into the shelter and right afterwards, probably within five minutes that storm hit. now that i m out, looking around, our neighborhood is covered in debris. there are shingles, pieces of sheetrock, wood in our yard and all across our neighborhood. some homes completely gone. it s devastating. there are two by fours going through people s roofs like projectile objects. hearing the storm as it came over my house, this loud ....
Background. look at metal debris, all the vegetation gone. it is really just incredible. that look on the mother s face, you can tell, that s a look of relief. leaning into her child. one of the lucky ones. really is. a lot of the pictures, the washington post, national newspaper, same picture showing you the same thing. this one a more general headline, huge twister kills dozens in oklahoma. you know right now we know the death toll is at 51, at least 20 of them children. so you see a picture, a mom holding their child, obviously a safe child. just a sigh of relief for this parent. take a look at this. from the new york times. you talk about children. a child pulled out from the rubble. that is just an amazing story. we hope today that we ll get something like this although the governor of oklahoma herself says at this point not really a rescue, it s a recovery. ....