>> it's completely destroyed.

the houses are destroyed. they are completely levelled. >> the death toll from monday's tornado in a suburb just south of oklahoma city. it now appears to be increasing dramatically, the sad news. the oklahoma medical examiner's office has been told to expect about 40 additional bodies. that would bring the number to people killed in the storm about 91. one of the worst tornados in america in recent memory and the threat of more storms is not yet over. >> it has been ten hours since we first saw the monster tornado touch down. the images. have a look. heart-breaking. 30 square miles are in ruins. we're hearing incredible stories of bravery and survival.

>> they lifted a wall off of these kids. several kids. >> was the wall on your son? >> uh-huh. >> is he okay? >> fine. has a little scratch on his leg. perfectly fine. >> how scary was that? >> just listen to that. you can hear it. it is that eerie howl. the pressure that is so intense that their ears were popping. it is the second highest level a tornado can be with winds between 166 and 200 miles per hour. just unbelievable. >> it's a parents' worst nightmare. two elementary schools directly

in the storm's path. both of the schools flattened. aerial images taken when it was still daylight out. this is all that is left of plaza towers. the bodies of seven children were pulled from the rubble and rescuers are searching for as many as 24 children unaccounted for. some have been found in nearby shelters but no one is quite sure what is there under the debr debris. >> one of these students inside that elementary school hit by the tornado describes what happened inside the classroom. this is brady. he is just in the sixth grade. >> i was in my classroom building, and we were told to get in our tornado precaution

systems. then they moved us to the boys and girls' bathroom. and then some kids were not following directions of staying away from under the sinks and stuff. >> uh-huh. they got under there and cinder blocks and everything collapsed on them. they were under. so that kind of saved them a little bit. but they were trapped in there. teachers had to hurry up and get them outside. a gas leak happened over on 149th. >> a brave little boy there. talk about following instructions. they have done it time and time again. he is describing cinder blocks on top of some of his friends. we want to bring in gary who was in moore, oklahoma, right now live throughout the morning. and gary, i can only imagine the sense of what this community has

gone through. what are they telling you? >> well, people here really can't believe it. it's like a nightmare. i feel the same way. i have been standing outside where the plaza tower school used to stand. i have been here all night and it's a sickening feeling. you don't recognize the school. for hours i have been watching the men and women on the rubble. hoping that he found somebody alive. >> i want to remind people that these are the latest images we have. they're not live. >> these are pictures people are

still searching. it is not as frantic as it was earlier in the evening. we don't know, as you mentioned earlier just how many people, children, are still unaccounted for. earlier they said it was 24. we got the only good news that some of those children were in shelters and indeed were not killed. that is a great relief. we certainly know there is great distress and sadness. a man was sitting on a stool being comforted by fire officials, tears rolling down his face as a doctor came and said please, sir, i hate to tell you this, please be prepared for the worst. don't expect to find survivors here. it's a horrifying situation.

this is a very busy middle class neighborhood. you see nothing recognizable. i just can't help but think back 18 years ago. the oklahoma city federal building, the bombing where so many children in that day care center and i stood outside that federal building and watched them search for possible survivors in that building where 160 people had died and here we are, the same city suffering again while they search for this city's children. it's so sad and traumatic. >> i want to remind our viewers we are looking at pictures just coming in. we are seeing the rescue workers. they have got various colored helmets on and different type of outfits and uniforms.

i imagine there is heavy and light equipment and everything they can possible use to try to detect whether or not there is life? >> earlier in the evening there was no machinery being used whatsoever. the feeling was that they were hopeful they would find survivors and they wanted to be sure that no one could be hurt by the equipment. they realized that it was unlikely to find survivors. they still have not found any bodies. that's not good or bad news, just a fact. there is just tons of rubble here so they decided to bring machinery and bulldozers and drills and people were using axes to clear some of the rubble away so they could get a better look. as of now, it's so interesting that they have not recovered any bodies. we see all the little stretchers that have been out here for hours and medical equipment.

none of it has been used. there have not been any survivors or victims recovered. there were lots of doctors and nurses here all hoping to be able to save lives. >> that is just heart-breaking. when you think of all the people who had hoped that they would be able to help to rescue and they were told -- sent home. you know? there is not a need for you here. >> this is something we have been talking about and i bet they are talking about it in moore, oklahoma. miracles happen. on the phone now, a 24-year-old who lives one street over from the path of the tornado and hid in her closet when the tornado passed through. we hope you and your family and your friends have all come through this all right but you saw this storm go by? you saw people rush towards the school? can you tell us about what

happened? >> i live, you know, a mile from the highway and two streets south of where the tornado just flattened the neighborhood. as soon as it went by, my neighbors came out of their houses and checked on each other. everyone just flooded towards the elementary school. people were riding in the back of pick up trucks and grabbing equipment and getting to the school as fast as they could. >> the people of moore have been through so many terrible storms. what was it like in those first moments? did people emerge panicked? shocked? or do people know the drill and just work through it? >> this is the first time i have ever been through a tornado this close. when i first came out of my house people were saying this is worst than may 3 and i kept thinking oh my god, how could this possibly be worse than may 3. but, you know, just seeing all

the destruction and seeing houses flattened and neighborhoods gone, it was -- it is terrible. >> i want to ask you about that. even as people were rushing towards the school you had to be taking in the scene around you the destroyed and barren ground where your town once stood. >> my first reaction is to try to block out my emotions. try to, you know, almost remain numb so i could focus on trying to help people. people were trying to get in and out of neighborhoods. it was hard. and i am still shaken up. but you know it's oklahoma. at first you're sad and scared and then you realize you have to help your neighbors and help people out and that's what you do.

do you have somewhere safe to sleep tonight? do you have a working phone to get in touch with the people you want to? >> i had several friends message me if you need a place to sleep, i have an apartment for you, i have a bed for you. that's really heartwarming. that's pretty much what oklahoma is. it's neighbors helping neighbors. my phone works. i was able to get clothing out before we drove out of our neighborhood. my house doesn't have water, power, gas, or anything. for now i am just staying with a friend. >> it is good to talk to a tough young lady. one more tough gal from oklahoma who has come through this. and that community is coming together. >> she is one of the lucky ones.

if you can only imagine if you don't know where somebody is. if it's a friend or a family member. they're missing and you don't know where they are. there are ways to try to find and get information about where they might be. one place, the red cross. it's got a safe and well website. that is up and running right now. you can find it at safe and well.org. you can list yourself or you search for family or friends. people also of course as they do in times of tragedy reaching out through social media to connect with friends and loved ones. you can visit facebook.com/mooretornadolo facebook.com/mooretornadolostand found. people ask what can i do? you can always donate to the red cross. visit the website. this is www.redcross.org.

or text redcross to 90999 to make a $10 do nation. there is something that each and every one of us can do. this is a community that will be suffering for quite some time. >> it's 13 minutes, now 14 minutes after the hour. our extensive coverage of the tornado that hit oklahoma continues. we will be back right after this. ♪ [ female announcer ] from more efficient payments.

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there. the damage is so extensive there in oklahoma that the president signing a disaster declaration that he typically does, giving the state access to federal funds as well. emergency aid and that is going to be crucial in the days to come. >> this picture of president obama speaking on the phone with oklahoma governor. he told her that the state is in his and the first lady's thoughts and prayers and promised support in the recovery efforts ahead. >> we are doing everything we can to get all the resources out throughout the community. we have other areas of the state that we are dealing with right now. we will bear no resource. we will bring every single resource out that we can.

>> there were two elementary schools in the direct path of the tornado. >> and the kids are turning up in places that some have not thought of. some had been found in nearby churches. dozens remain unaccounted for. you mentioned two schools. they believe that no one inside of the second school was killed. they believe all the children in the second school, blackwell school, made it out okay. >> george, do we have any sense at all whether or not people think that there are still babies, children, inside of that building? >> reporter: you know, inside the school, well, when we look

at what gary saw just a few minute ace go. it's fair to say that activity is still continuing. throughout the day we have noticed investigators and firefighters and deputies filed by us to go in there. it's not happening quite as much. we see activity happening. not exactly sure what this is. a couple of marked units with lights on. no sirens that are leaving this location. we will make calls to get some understanding. better context and perspective. fair to say that things are slowing down a bit. also in the neighborhoods we have seen people going house by

house, these people with flashlights, keeping up that search. earlier it was relatives looking for relatives. they have all been told to leave just to make sure that looting doesn't happen. now it is, you see these teams going house by house. we're seeing a little less of that activity. things seem to be slowing down a bit. not exactly sure what to make of that. but we will certainly try to get some better context on what's exactly happening. >> that school is going to be, i think, for all of us and the entire country, the focus of so much sadness and grief and hope. walk us through as best you can. what actually happened there? what was it like in the moments before the storm hit, while it was hitting and immediately afterwards? >> reporter: we spoke to so many people. we spoke to one woman who was

still looking for a relative after the storm came through. we spoke to a mother who told us he did that duck and cover move that you do. i remember being taught that back in amarillo, texas. that's just something you learn. that's what they did and this mother said that is how she found her son. we heard stories about people in the neighborhoods who got out of the way of the tornado first but then they came back and they went searching for people, for their neighbors. i want you to listen to one exchange that we had earlier. listen. >> after the storm came through, i found my way back into the neighborhood. i had to drive through some fields to get in but i got in. it was just carnage.

it had to be done. people needed to be helped. people were just running up and down the streets. i got them hollering out. if you can hear me, call out. we started finding people and getting people out. we saw some unfortunate things but we also helped a lot of people and that's what's important. >> there is a lot of emotion that goes into this. it's hard work to go and dig through all of the rubble. it's hard work to deal with the conditions out here. it's muddy and quite nasty. we did get rain earlier. it's a really bad situation. but we do see these people who are keeping up the hope who are still searching. that search continues over there in the glow tonight. i know a lot of people, parents, relatives are hoping that we get more good news out of this, guys. >> george, thank you so much. it is really very touching.

this guy is not a fire and rescue guy. he is just a neighbor. he starts to cry because he is seeing things he has never seen before. >> you think they would have been through everything in tornado alley. this is a place that gets hit time and time again but not like this. that brings us to the storm itself. fast-moving, massive in size. kicking up debris and leveling buildings along the way. there is still a threat out there? >> there is. it is much weaker as far as the storms that could form overnight. we will get into that in a second here. there are a lot of people that lost their lives yesterday that did everything right. did everything that we normally tell them to do. get into your storm shelter. get away from windows to the center of your room. we have teachers that have got their students exactly where they needed to go. i have been on drills with schools before.

they did everything right. this event was very difficult to survive unless you were underground or in a fortified storm shelter. there were a lot of places in oklahoma city that do not have basements because of the geology there. it is difficult to drill down. you basically have to use dynamite here. 22 mile path. on the ground for 40 minutes. preliminary ef-4. it could get pumped to an ef-5. we showed you that two mile wide debris ball that had everyone's homes in it. it traveled 22 miles. that is why the image here, when it was coming through moore this is why sometimes you find people's belongings, and i think we will, 10, 15, 20 miles down the path. let's get to the current conditions and show you what is going to be happening here as we

head through tonight and into tomorrow. the threat certainly diminishing for moore here. we're not quite done yet with the storm system. right now we basically have a squall line here there are no -- no tornado warnings. watches continue which means conditions are favorable. let's zoom into the place. we will get it finally tomorrow. moore, we have had a few showers rolling through. we still have a severe thunderstorm watch box here. but no tornado watches for the area that got hit today. all of that will transcend to the east. this is the area we're going to watch, dallas, shreveport, little rock. we're going to get the heat back and also the potential for the strong storms to develop once again. guys? >> all right. thank you so much. appreciate it. we're going to be taking a close

look minute by minute, hour by hour at what they are dealing with on the ground. the desperate search for survivors. this one turning tragic. this is in oklahoma. i'm going to tell you this is a heartbreaking story. under the rubble this was just hours ago. >> it is 27 minutes after the hour, 10 hours and 27 minutes since the storm hit. our coverage continues after this. [ male announcer ] erica had a rough day. there was this and this.

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them. we have no cell. we, you know, if they're out there and watching, please let them know that i and my family is okay. we'll make it. we'll be okay. but everything is gone. >> everything is gone. it took only a few moments for so many to lose so much in the oklahoma city metropolitan area. >> she has got a lot of spirit and heart there, but she has lost everything. and the monster tornado has now killed dozens of people. dozens more have been hospitalized. it is now past 1:00 in the morning and rescuers they are still racing against time and darkness searching for possible survivors. we are only really just beginning to learn how devastating this tornado has been. in the oklahoma city suburb of moore, there is destruction in

every direction. in some locations, what they're finding is absolutely heart-breaking. >> it was a race against the clock. desperate rescue crews and volunteers, anyone who would pitch in. they are trying to save those buried under the rubble of a 7-eleven and liquor store. >> they just keep walking towards me. >> somebody has pulled from the debris. a woman and baby were still missing. it was believed the mother had taken the baby into a freezer to weather the storm. a dog sniffed out something. a digging frenzy of desperation followed only to unearth a limp

baby's body. moments later, another find. this is heartbreaking. we're looking at another body being pulled up. we believe it's the mother of the 7-month old. we are looking at a man, two women and a 7 month old baby as fatalities at this hour. >> we just started grabbing and throwing debris trying to get anybody out. >> reporter: as you can see, my photographer and i, we were there as well trying to help and you're just digging as fast as you can with all the hope in the world that maybe you will have a good outcome. in that situation, that was not the case. but we sure hope tomorrow there are good outcomes. >> it's hard to watch. they are just -- these are neighbors. these are people who are just hoping for signs of life and are so devastated and disappointed. >> reporters are trying to help,

ordinary people are trying to help. it is now dark and dangerous. this is the kind of work experts do carefully. they are still looking for signs of life but the news has not been good. we have been talking about 51 people confirmed dead. now we have reports still waiting for official confirmation. there may be another 40 bodies on their way to the medical examiner's office. the human toll has been heartbreaking and enormous. >> the sun will come up at 6:22 in oklahoma. we will get a much better sense and picture of what this community, what this country is going to be faced with. what we will be dealing with in the days ahead.

>> welcome back to our continuing coverage of the oklahoma tornados. >> it is the bottom of the hour. here is a quick reset. the confirmed death toll stands officially at 51. we're making that point very, very carefully because the number of confirmed deaths is expected to rise dramatically. >> and texas is sending the state's elite search and rescue team to oklahoma city as search and rescue continues now into the second day.

experienced storm chasers were just flabbergasted, surprised, shocked by what they saw. >> it's going to go just to our north. >> i know. >> listen to it. you can hear it! listen! >> look at the color of the cloud. >> it's tornado alley. people in oklahoma are used to being the target of massive storms. >> this is not your first rodeo. you are seeing what is on the ground today. how does this compare. >> you're right. it's not my first rodeo. what strikes you when you stand here and look at the rubble like i'm looking at right now of the elementary school is first thinking about joplin in 2011.

158 people were killed in a tornado that devastated a medium sized area. we sent in some video. a short time ago. the first video from close up of the scene here at the plaza tower elementary school. we have not been permitted to shoot video because of security and because many of the roads have been washed out. while i have been here for several hours this is my first opportunity to get the pictures. i know that this. >> gary, if i could interrupt you for a moment. can you describe for a moment what we are seeing the individuals with various uniforms and helmets? what are they doing? >> they are doing their best to try to perform a miracle.

try to rescue a living human being from the rubble of the elementary school. it has not happened. they are diligently working. they have brought in machinery previous to the pictures being taken. bulldozers, drills. axes to try to clear away the tons of rubble. the fact is they have not rescued anyone but they also have not brought out any bodies. there are 24 children thought to be unaccounted for. some of the children have shown up in shelters but we do know there are still children missing. no bodies have been recovered and no survivors have been recovered. they're still working hard and will work all night. everything is destroyed here. it reminds me of the tsunami of northern japan. but you see good people, military people, doctors,

nurses, firemen, fire women, policemen and women all coming together to try to rescue, and here it has been a crushing disappointment that they have not been able to pull anyone out of the rubble of the elementary school and we do know there are some victims who have perished. seven children have already been pronounced dead who were in the school when the tornado came. we always talk about tragedy that sometimes you say it was really fortunate that it didn't happen in the middle of the day. if this had happened later these children would have been out of school. it's so tragic that these kids were still inside the school building. >> it really is. it is very tragic. and one thing you had mentioned that we should point out is they had heavy equipment machinery but they put it aside because they wanted to make sure that the structure didn't collapse further or did any further

damage. literally using their hands, picks, shovels, small tools to see if they can't lift some of the debris and material and find someone who has survived. we're going to get back to you they were full of students. they were in session and that's where those kids got trapped. >> we are going to talk now to a teacher who survived the storm with her students inside one of the schools. i cannot imagine what that was like for you or your children. tell us about it. >> i was with a teacher, a mentor of mine. about two hours. many parents took their kids out. we were trying to keep it light and make sure they were not too scared.

we were passing our phones back and forth and keeping each other apprised of what was going on. >> where was your school compared to the storm? how close did it come? >> about three blocks away. we are off 240 and bryant. and if you go over from 27th street it goes 12 then 4th to 19th. the storm went between 4th and 19th. >> so presumably you were inside of the debris field. the wind was carrying and whipping around must have been hitting at the building. >> we primarily heard the hail. a lot of schools here don't have windows which turned out to be a blessing. it was hail and wind. i honestly didn't see much. we were locked down for -- i lost track of time. three, maybe four hours.

>> how was it that your students were able to survive? can you describe what that was like and what they did? >> we just did our normal tornado procedures. you go into the designated wall on the building. and you cover. you get up close to the wall and cover your head. we just -- we kept them talking and kept them as calm as we could. our kids did a really good job in our room. i know a lot of teachers had students really upset and understoodibly so. >> your kids were not crying? they were not hurt? you're being very calm. sounds like you did a miraculous job. >> it was hardly miraculous. we were just trying to -- we were just passing our phones back and forth and trying to keep track of what was going on and making jokes and trying to

keep it light for the kids. it was a blessing we didn't have windows so we really couldn't see what was going on. that would have been a lot worse. >> all right. thank you so much for joining us, for being with us early in the morning. it's just a blessing that your children are okay. that you're okay. and certainly when the sun comes up there is going to be a lot of recovery and some real tough conversations to have. >> and 1,000 stories about brave people like that who had the job of taking care of youngsters and other people and their neighbors. people who volunteered and rushed in. an extraordinary community that is enduring well past the breaking point. it's just remarkable to hear from these people. >> we will hear a lot more as well. >> we will be back right after this. you make a great team.

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>> welcome back. it is ten minutes to the hour, nearly 11 hours after the terrible tornado struck oklahoma. in that time as we have been reporting this story we have been hearing amazing stories of survival in the devastation of moore. >> you saw the governor trying to get a sense of what took place on the ground. >> we wheeled her out to the ambulances because there were so many cars around. as far as i know most of the kids got out. kids everywhere and people running around screaming. cars on their sides.

schools just gone. i mean you really can't tell what was the front and what was the back any more. >> now. they got guys like that who were just stepping in. those are the kind of stories we will hear as well. >> they kept their heads and they knew what to do. >> this powerful tornado causing miles and miles of damage. entire neighborhoods flattened. houses literally disappeared. >> tens of thoses of people without power. a look at the destructive tornado's path through town. >> moore is just south of oklahoma city. look at the density of the neighborhood down here. we talked a lot about plaza towers elementary school. look at the school here. there are about 350 homes in an easy walking distance to that

school. they were all subjected to the same type of force. look what it did. here is the school before the storm hit. here is the same school afterwards. devastated by this storm. and just south of that, look at the theater down here a popular gathering place. beforehand it was much different than it was afterwards. clean and pristine. and then smashed to pieces this is important because those are samples all within the center of this path which seemed to have been at the strongest right through here. about a mile wide side to side. in the most immediate intense part of where that storm hit. not counting the many thousands

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>> welcome back. the day began with an urgent warning and the destruction that followed was swift and incredible. >> this is a day that people are never going to forget. >> breaking news. a tornado just touched down in new castle, oklahoma. >> if you are in the moore area, please take cover now. >> oh my goodness. it is three quarters of a mile wide. the western side. it is highly populated areas.

this type of tornado, this is getting very scary. >> this is so big, it really doesn't look like a tornado. >> this is not something to play around with. just get into the storm shelter and stay in there until you hear that the storm has finally passed. >> you're looking at the results of one of the most destructive tornados in recent memory. the shredded part of the oklahoma area. >> it is unbelievable what we are seeing right now. block after block after block of homes. shocked residents hugging each other in the streets. >> i have never seen anything like this in my 18 years covering tornados here in oklahoma city. this is without question the >> it was unbearly loud, and you could see stuff flying

everywhere. just about like on the movie "twister." . >> if you could walk over here, you were telling me this right here is basically where you lived. you not only worked here, this is where you lived. >> as you can see, my belongings. and then a couple of fans for in the shed row. and, you know, it's just -- lost everything. >> our viewers in the united states and around the world as we continue our live breaking news coverage of the devastating tornado that struck the u.s. state of oklahoma. i'm jonathon mann. >> and i'm suzanne malveaux at the cnn center in atlanta. right now it is 2:00 a.m. in oklahoma. and now you're looking at pictures. these are pictures of the search. it is the rescue and recovery efforts that are going on. they are going on all night long and into the morning, well into the early morning hours.