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Like that. we would certainly view it from a far distance. then do what we could to help, you know, in the aftermath. when you deal with tornadoes this large, it's -- like i said, it's just incredible devastation. >> what were you able to do to help people yesterday? >> well, we were in a 15-passenger van and came down here to the movie theater which is just down here. and they had a triage unit set up. we asked if we could help with anything. we actually transported some people out of there that needed to get out of town that had lost their cars in the tornado. we were able to help some peopl...

This has been some 24 hours. let's listen to the voice of some of those who watched the tornado close up as it happened and others whose lives were upended in the storm. >> this thing is huge. keep going left, travis. keep going left. right there. boom. there it is. there it is, mike. on the ground. >> right down 19 approaching santa fe. we had to bail out because it was coming right at us. >> i have never seen anything like this in my 18 years covering tornadoes in oklahoma city. >> you see the latch coming undone and we couldn't reach for it. it ripped open the door. we thought we were dead....

Up where i went to college. the idea of a tornado in massachusetts is just unnormal to me. anyway, dr. greg forbes, thank you so much for your expertise at this time. our coverage of the massive devastation from yesterday's tornado will continue after this. and what were you looking at -- what you're looking at right now is a time lapse video of yesterday's tornado. there it is. we're getting the full pictures. it rips through moore, oklahoma, with wind speeds now clocked at over 200 miles an hour. the tornado was at one point three miles at its widest. covered nearly 20 miles in a span of jus...

The only way to go especially when you have a tornado this big. you know, the news, the weathermen tell you all the time if it's that big, if you're above ground, you're not going to survive it. so, i mean, really the only thing i can tell people is that, you know, the seriousness of having a storm cellar is at a ten. >> and people have told me in the last 24 hours that it's hard to build because the ground is so hard down there. is it expensive or difficult to put a shelter in? to dig it in the ground? >> you know, i mean, the clay here, it's red clay so the clay is -- the dirt is hard. expen...

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