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Photographs taken are pretty graphic. she joins me now on the phone. suzanne, we're looking at a picture which tells it all, really. your leg was literally speared, we believe it's by the leg of one of the children's tables. describe to me what happened. >> well, we were aware of the situation, the impending weather. it progressively got worse and the fastest time ever, it just seemed like it was so, so quick. we were taking our tornado precautions, we could hear it approaching. it sounded like a jet, just low, coming closer and closer. we crowded the children under desks and me and a fellow t...

Developments. moore, oklahoma, residents, where i am right now, they were allowed back into their neighborhoods within the past couple of hours. they had been kept out for their own safety. there are more injuries from the tornado than we thought. the governor now puts the total at 325. and the scope of this disaster continues to grow as well. state insurance officials say 4,000 claims already have been filed. and damage will likely top $2 billion. the damage is catastrophic, but so many people i've been speaking with around town here tell me they are thankful simply to be alive. jody told me ...

Which is highway 18. the funnel is just to my south and west now. right on top of i-40. if it can tighten up -- it seems to have a problem, mike, even trying to tighten up all the way. it seems to just be drifting a little bit. it won't take much for it to do it. it just seems to be having a little bit of a problem. we hope that it can get past the populated area here of shawnee before anything happens if anything happens at all with it but it seems to be having a little bit -- i've got more scud on the north side to it. it seems to have a problem even trying to tighten up but if it can, we'll...

>> rain, it's picking up all the rain from the backside. from our vantage point, it's harder to see. you're right on it, travis, but just as you can see all that gaesh golly. we're getting really beat up by some wind here. but as you can see, all that rain just sucked it up and it made it very, very hard to see the inflow band we're in right now, mike, this is absolutely crazy. we're getting tossed around. but as you can see, it's right up i-40, and like you said, the shawnee mall, definitely take your tornado precautions very seriously. >> appreciate that. it's a large debris ball. right over...

Like. >> it started out we were watching storms, the first set of storms had went through and so we -- you know, we were geared up at after prom and we thought all the storms had went away and we had, you know, the karaoke machine going and we had the party getting ready to start and a group of parents about, you know, 40 volunteers because it is a community thing that we do and sponsored by the parents, and, you know, then the tornado warning started sounding. and we already had some students that had already showed up and so we started taking, you know, our tornado precautions and we just we...