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Safe rooms and we do know that teachers and kids describe trying to hide in closets and hallways and hide in bathrooms as that twister approached. they knew to get safe. they just had to make do trying to get safe as best they could in a normal building. we know that at one of the schools all of the children survived. one of the other schools some kids were lost. how many yet we do not know. at a press conference this afternoon, oklahoma officials said they funded over 100 safe rooms for schools around the state just not the schools that got hit yesterday. oklahoma officials are talking now ab...

Are in moore but broadly over the state, are you getting the right amount of help? not too much that it's crowding out people's ability to do the work and not too little so that you are needing something that you're not getting. is the help that you're getting from around the country what you need at this point? >> that's a very important question and very appropriate question. too much help can at times be counterproductive. just yesterday last evening the fire chief here in moore said we have enough volunteers and enough help in that regard. the professional help, the first responders, medic...

There are certain dates that resonate across the country as dates. 9/11 for example, everybody knows what you mean if you say 9/11 or september 11th. for generations just saying december 7th had about the same effect everyone knew what you meant if you just said that date. for the people of newtown, connecticut, it's the same. the date for them which will always mean the same thing now forever is december 14th. that's the kind of context you needed if you want to understand the front page of the oklahoman newspaper today. worse than may 3rd. the monster returned. when you say may 3rd in oklaho...

Get our heads around exactly what the disaster site would be like in terms of scale and seeing it on the ground today in daylight, what can you tell us about how things are looking and how this compares to previous disasters. >> rachel, it's horrific. absolutely horrific. as you and i discussed last night, i was at the emergency operations center. i saw the images on television. i arrived on site here at 5:50 this morning. once the sun finally rose and i saw daylight absolutely horrific devastation here in moore, oklahoma. to the credit of the rescue workers and first responders overnight i kn...

Their shelters i have no idea of how reliable they are. >> what do you think is stopping the country from building more of these safe rooms for homes and schools? obviously there is expense. they're not the most expensive things in the world particularly if you average them against the cost of recurring disasters like tornadoes in parts of the country we know to be prone to them. do you think that if we had more safe rooms it would have made a difference in a situation like moore yesterday? >> very definitely. it would have made a difference especially in those schools. you know, we know that ...