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A community already familiar with tragedy in Moore is grappling with the death of a high school student after a fatal motorcycle collision Thursday.

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Looking at on-screen now. why is that and what will happen in light of what's happened here? >> well, most of the newer schools actually do have safe rooms in them that are added automatically. plaza towers is a much older facility, almost 50 years old. we have a lot of safe rooms. actually, oklahoma has been honestly the leader, the first of those programs were proposed and developed here. and we continue to push ahead. now i think there's going to be a healthy discussion about going back and retrofitting schools. i know that discussion has already begun at the state level. and it's also, you...

Like juan said, my house was totally wiped out in the storm, and as i checked to make sure all my family was okay, i ran down to the plaza tower elementary, and that's when i saw juan, and we, you know, we went and -- like i said, my brothers and i were already there and juan found us and we ran and grabbed the man yelling. he's a stranger to me and hopefully one day i'll meet him. >> juan, i know that you sent this in as a cnni reporter, really an extraordinary piece of video, and i appreciate you joining me tonight with jarrell to tell me about. it. >> okay. now a remarkable update to a st...

Figure out where they're going to go for shelter. >> we now know that of the 24 pleased to have died, including ten children, seven of the children who died were killed at plaza towers. but according to the moore police chief today, of six missing people, all have been accounted for, five of them alive. is that your understanding, congressman? >> yes, it is. although, you know, you're always very careful with numbers. in a situation like that. and we obviously have -- we had an earlier mistake, although one you're happy to get because it lowered the death toll. but they're really working hard ...