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No other option will save your life. >> as the giant twister came towards moore, residents had minutes to prepare. the warnings went out and people braced if are the worst. >> here it am cans. here it comes. i have to watch this thing. it may be going towards me a little bit. >> forecasters tracking it second by second begged people in the path 20 take shelter. >> you cannot delay. you can't think or delay. you have to act. >> the tornado is right in front of us. >> tornado watchers made it clear that the difference between and death would be a cellar door. >>. >> the only way to guarantee to ...

>> parents make a judgment, you know, because you believe the schools are going to be safe. schools are built -- >> they're built to be shelters. everywhere in the country. >> the high school that the senator was talking about was actually a shelter. people were there because they were told to go there. it was meant to be a shelter. so you make a judgment, and the school says, we're secure, so let's leave the kids here. >> and i was surprised how few houses have basements in moore. why is that? >> i'm not really sure, geographically -- why they don't do it. i think it's just -- well, i know wh...

So we have a sense now of what went down late yesterday and how quickly it all hit. here's sort of a tick-tock, a chain of events put together by kfor. >> it is a mile wide debris cloud, it is a mile-wide wedge, violent tornado. the only way you're going to guarantee you will survive is if you are out of the way, below ground, storm cellar or basement. >> this thing is huge. keep going left, travis. keep going left. right there, boom, there it is. there it is, mike. on the ground easily. >> right down 19th approaching santa fe. we had to bail out of it because it was coming right at us and we'...

Wasn't going to hit us. told my wife jumped in the truck and said i have got to go help. >> have you been out here ever since. while we are i want my photographer to go off shoulder. back there behind us is a neighborhood that is so disseminated, russell. >> it's crazy. we save countless people out of their storm cellars. >> how many would you say you counted because you went door to door with law enforcement. we went probably two or three storm cellars. i just went door to door. we just went through there and tried to find anybody. >> shepard: how do you know that someone is trapped? are they...

80 members of the oklahoma national guard have been called up to join local emergency crews, looking for survivors overnight. 101 people were pull ed alive from wreckage of their homes. >> a lot of those were in storm shelters. we're very hopeful as we continue our search today, we'll find more people in same or similar situations, where they may be under debris in storm shelters. >> all right. i want to bring in nbc meteorologist bill karins who has the latest on what happened in moore. bill, so, sunday evening, we have one set of storms causing the tornado issue that we had in one part of ok...