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Seen the destruction out here. we see homes that are completely destroyed, almost unrecognizable. cars that have been flipped, trailers that have been mangled. and when we arrived on interstate 40, we saw people being rescued from their cars. some people were able to seek shelter just in the nick of time. some of them receiving tornado warnings on their cell phones. take a listen at what a man had to say. >> my wife was at work, i had the baby with me. we jumped in the storm cellar on our phone. thank god we had the alert on our phone of the come out 15 minutes later and looked like a war zone...

And don't cross him. because if he could -- wipe out this man's life, what dud could do to me? >> after blasting away august meier, starkweather got his car stuck in the mud outside meier's farm. walking along the dark highway, the two were spotted by two popular bennett teenagers, 17-year-old robert jenson and 16-year-old carol king. in a fateful decision, jenson offered them a ride. wasn't long before starkweather had them at gun point in the back seat. their bloody bodies were found in a dank storm cellar near august meier's farm. jenson had been shot six times in the head. king once. her p...

Haley, join me. welcome to you ladies. >> good evening, piers. >> first of all, the pictures, i can still see flashing before my head of you with this terrible spike through your leg, obviously very shocking at the time. my first question, how are you? >> i'm doing well. just taking on new treatment, and just taking it day by day. and the prognosis is looking good for full recovery. >> obviously there was another big tornado that hit your area only a few days ago. where were you when that happened? >> i had just been released from the hospital. i had to go back and went -- had been released th...

Into our storm cellar. >> what were you thinking? >> so we got to ride out -- just not again. just really not wanting to deal with it, and, of course, with the injury already, it was -- it was definitely hard getting in and out of the storm cellar. and, you know, luckily we didn't sustain any damage or power outage so we were very lucky in that sense. that was the last storm that we encountered. >> right, extremely fortunate and glad to hear that. let me turn to your daughters. ashley, you're 10 years old. you were at school when this first tornado hit. what was that experience like for you? >...

Frustration i guess because not everybody has a storm shelter. i think us oklahomans, i have a basement here in downtown el reno above one of our historic buildings and we had people from the restaurant, people from the liquor store and people from a church right down the street come in so i think we all -- i think there needs to be more legislation and more emphasis on trying to get these shelters in different areas. >> for a lot of folks it's a couple thousand dollars. it's a lot of money and even for schools that haven't been retrofitted, some of the older schools don't have it, as we saw i...