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>> 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...

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...

Damage there is horrible. i mean, literally, from about half a mile to 3/4 of a mile, from when this developed, it was producing ef-3 damage. 150 to 160-mile-per-hour winds. here, we're thinking 180180 to possibly 200 miles per hour. the national weather service out assessing that today. >> the difference between a 4 and 5 at this point is not much for the folks in moore. anyway, jim cantore in moore for us. thank you very much, sir. we're expecting to hear from the president in just a few moments. our live coverage of the tragedy in oklahoma continues right after the break. [ female announcer...

>> you were tracking this storm and this front for a good 48 hours before it hit. what made this different? what about it made you know this was going to be a big problem? >> reporter: you know what's interesting, the tornado parameters weren't as high as they were yesterday -- or, as they were two days ago. so that kind of surprised me a little bit. but it looked like just from watching the radar and the satellite, that something came into the backside of this. and the tornado, you have air motion that's coming in on the east side. and you heard from simon and juston, talking about that. but ...

Of damage, but it was in a very rural area. the homes that it hit were obliterates, but it hit very few homes because it was in a very rural area. and we even said monday morning, this could have been much worse, if this were in a more urban populated area, suburban area. and by the time i got here monday from the flight, that was hitting the ground there in moore and we had it all over again. >> are you getting all the help from the nofederal government tt you're looking for right now? >> we are. president obama's been on the phone with our governor, mary fallin and declared this a major disa...