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It's okay when your time comes to ride it out in the coat closet and close the door, not so with an ef-4 or an ef-5 when everything is ripped to pieces and strewn for miles. >> you know, bill karins talks about a lot of these homes don't have basements. we saw that one shelter, how many of these homes are equipped with that kind of safety dynamic where they can find that kind of shelter if they have to? >> well, here's an interesting fact about 1999, it struck down the road before it hit moore. that was a much older town that was built of solid brick and they usually, most of them had storm ce...

Cellar doors. they had taken cover in storm cellars when the warnings came in and he pulled people alive. people pulled from the rubble back there. that was just a few hours ago. if we make our way around here, look at trees, trees that are entirely stripped of bark. there is no more bark on this tree here. this is what 200 mile-per-hour winds can do. you can see the metal that is twisted up in the tree back here. after all of the leaves and branches and everything have been stripped off. as we continued panning around all this way. you can see the same picture all the way around. sean, it's d...

There are people that are missing and so we desperately want to get people pulled out. you know when i talked to that guy who was telling me how he pulled people from their storm cellars after this hit, some of them walking out, martha, with not even a scratch, not even a bump, not even a bruise. so there is that hope that we're holding onto today. martha: casey where, are there shelters set up? where did everybody go? obviously they can't get back into the neighborhoods that you are standing in right now. what is your sense of that part of the story? >> well, there are a number of shelters se...

Reminiscent of joplin, missouri where you looked for miles and all could you see is destruction. that is what we're seeing at moore, oklahoma today as people remain unaccounted for. we have seen the number of dead increasing quite a rapid pace. sean, one of the things that stuck out in that press conference is that people have to register their storm cellars with either the local municipality or the state. so they are going through and matching those records to see who had storm cellars so they can try and locate those people. let's face it, this is part ofre to storms. they know what they are...

Comforting with them throughout the deal. crosswhite reunited with one of those students during her interview with savannah. here it is. >> i was in a stall with some kids. it started coming down. i laid on top of them. one of my little boys said, i love you, i love you, please don't die with me. please don't die with me. i never thought i was going to die. the whole time i just kept screaming to them, quit worrying, we're fine, we're fine, we're fine, we're fine. >> reporter: i do have a student here who wants to say thank you to you. this is damian klein. and his mom, brandy. >> i told you w...