welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm chris cuomo in moore, oklahoma. we are tracking the situation here from a devastating tornado that struck this community at 3:00 p.m. yesterday. we'll give you all details and the latest on casualties and the efforts to recover. >> i'm ashleigh banfield, live in phoenix, arizona, a half hour from now jodi arias is expected to stand up and address a jury that's expected to decide whether she lives or dies. this is really the last-ditch effort, her last appearance before this court, determines her fate. i'm going to bring you the latest throughout this hour, as well. chris? >> all right. ashley, thank you very much. we have a two of tiered system here of what's going on. as soon as jodi arias is going on, as ashleigh told you, we'll switch over to that. for now we're here in moore, oklahoma. all around us, this is what

happens when you have a bowling alley that is attacked by a tornado. steel girders, aluminum reinforced walls everything that held up this massive structure twisted like a pretzel. that is the devastating power and violence unique to a tornado. they are still trying to assess it with tornadoes they assess them by damage. the damage here, people in the community say it's as bad as they have ever seen. good news, the government has been giving us casualty numbers throughout the morning. those numbers are going down. why? well, they're getting better coordinated reports. things that are being repeated are getting sorted out. right now, we have a death toll in the 20s. some of them unfortunately are kids, lost their lives in an elementary school because, remember, this struck just as school was getting out. that number's gone down today. that's a breath of fresh air for some people. we want to play some sound of

what it was like on the ground, people trying to make it through the horror of a tornado. take a look and listen. >> everywhere you looked, the debris field was so high and so far and so wide, wounded people walking around the streets, you know, they were walking wounded. they were bloody, people that had stuff sticking out of them from things that were flying around in the air. there were cars crumpled up like little toys and thrown on top of buildings, buildings two, three stories tall that were levelled. it was devastating. >> 4,000-pound cars stacked here as if you were in a parking garage. the need is great, immediate, and long-term. search and rescue going on. we understand that less than 50% of the certain area has been combed through by teams. we've been watching hem here with dogs this morning. one other good break, while it's windy here, storm cells are moving in the area, the rain's held off. search and rescue is able to

continue. all of the state's assets, national guard, are already in place. surrounding communities are helping out. the president took to the white house today to make his pledge of support saying we are all oklahoma after a disaster like this. take a listen. >> the people of moore should know that their country will remain on the ground, there for them, beside them, as long as it takes. for there are homes and schools to rebuild, businesses and hospitals to reopen, parents to console, first responders to comfort, and of course, frightened children who will need our continued love and attention. >> here, they anxiously await the president to come and visit because his presence on the ground adds urgency. the rain's starting to come down. but the weather's holding enough for search to continue. the big of the threat here with these kids that were trapped in

schools one school, the plaza tower, horrific. search and rescue is going hand by hand. we know kids lost their lives in the basement there, those are the best reports that we've had out of it coming from the government. another school, brierwood a focus of attention, parents with no cell service new york homes, and no information about their kids. if there were families for all of their distress, best news of the days when they got school that day and found their kids. take a look and listen at some of the reunions. >> where is she? >> she's out? she's out?

okay. let's go. >> he was so brave. so brave. >> horrible situation but imagine the midst of the chaos finding your kid. imagine how much relief there is for these parent. speaking of relief, the need is very great. we keep direct you to cnn.com/impact. you go to the website, you go to that page, you will find ways to help the community. acres and acres of homes in the community are gone. where there are houses, there are now just haystacks. tinders, shards of woo wood and

metal, that's all of the homes are now. clothing, everything you need to survive, water treatment plant isn't running now, power is spotty, gas mains are open. it's a very difficult situation. please go to cnn.com/impact and see how you can make a difference there. another thing that we're trying to figure out this morning about search and rescue, how many teams can be sustained over how much time. we have seen the dogs here. we had them right next to us. and it has become an open question, how long it will take them to get through the entire situation. 20 miles long is the search area and some places two miles wide, that's what they believe the diameter of the storm was, 2 200-mile-an-hour-winds blowing. and they have been going at it as best they can, not getting a lot of earth-moving machinery here yet either. why? many streets impassable. this is not an easy area to get to. we're watching them come, seeing

the first responders come, but they are not here in the force and the number that they need to be. that's why they wait. that's why it's largely now a function of manpower in many of the communities here, literally digging through homes. now that's on the overall effort. the specific efforts, you have people going through their own homes, helping in their own blocks. we have stephanie elam joining us now who is with somebody, with a family, monitoring people's efforts, to try to figure out what is left of the lives as they knew them. stephanie, are you with us? >> yes, chris. you know, one of the things that is so hard, you look at the devastation of someone's home and you think about the loss of lives of loved ones. but another part of that is a loss of life of a dog or a cat or a pet. we all know that they're like family. and these people just showed up here and they've been yelling for the name of their dog, trying to find their dog, sifting to see if they can find any sign of their pup and also

looking for whatless they can find in there. it's just very hard for people, as they're going through the rubble. it's difficult terrain. look down here, just to give you an idea why officials really don't want people walking through. there's nail sticking out, live wire. if you want to look for your pet, fine but don't go digging through yet because they're afraid of the conditions. we did speak to another neighbor and asked him how difficult this situation is compared to other tornadoes because this is where his family's from and this is what he told us. all right. we don't have that sound for you. what i can tell you, his family's in joplin, missouri and le said it's hard to compare which is worse because it's just so devastating no matter what, going through and looking at all of the places where your memories are. talking about looking at places where they took pictures of

their twin daughters, first day they went to kindergarten. it a collection of memories that have been tossed around like they have no meaning. when actually they are just nothing but everything to them, chris, and that's what makes it so difficult today, as they come out here to piece things back together. >> on one level, it is so hard to look at everything that's mattered to you and see it's gone but just hearing from people moments ago how it brings into focus what really matters to them, when they hear about lost loved ones, kids. they look around if they have their family they feel lucky because they have hope for the future. we'll come back to you. when we we come back, monitoring the situation here in moore, oklahoma, a fluid situation, still halfway through with search and rescue. loss monitoring the jodi arias situation in arizona. when we know that she's going to take the stand in her hearing to find out whether or not she gets death penalty.

we'll take you to that as bem stay with cnn. see you after the break.

it's going to go just to our north. listen to it. you can hear it. listen! >> look at that cloud. >> listen to the roar. >> oh my god. oh my god! >> this is not good. dear god, please keep these people safe. lots of debris in the air.

>> big -- there's a whole roof just came offer off. >> voices of the storm chasers that do the brave work of going up against mother nature and capturing images that the rest of us can understand rest of those forced to live through. joined by them now. why are you cold? it's been getting colder here. it's hampering the search and rescue. you don't have a coat on. is that part of being a storm chaser? >> i don't know. the sun came out, i got warm. shed the hoodie. >> i'm old and cold. your sense of what it it's like on the ground and how this compares. for context, to our left, take the camera there, dave, this was a bowling alle ing alley, this . you see the lanes, the lanes going across your screen. that's what this was. it's made of steel. different types of steel girders and aluminum bracing and walls.

this was a really strong building. and it has been twisted up like it was nothing. you see a lot of hard weather and results. kevin, starting wirth you, and pass the mike so everybody can give their perspective, how does this one compare? >> this compares to tornadoes of the like of which would be joplin, missouri, two years ago. of course, the may 3, '99 that struck moore back in may of '99. it's absolutely horrendous damage to see. >> on the ground, lauren, take the mike, what are you seeing in terms of what people are dealing with here? >> everywhere you turn, there's new damage, new car completely obliterated and the buildings swept clean. this is the kind of damage where unless you're underground, you know, it's almost impossible to dig out. miracles are happening. people are digging out. but many people didn't. >> you were telling me earlier there's something unique about a

tornado. hurricanes are terrible, devastating cyclones and there's something about a tornado. what makes it uniquely violent? >> such a concentrated energy. the angular momentum in a small area. unlike a hurricane it's several hundred miles, it's -- especially an area like this where it's going through the heart of a city, the effects are just catastrophic. and right there i mean you couldn't be a mile down the road and be fine, you'll see houses where they're fine and yet their neighbor across the street completely obliterated. >> nothing wins. any type of structure against a tornado this size, this strength is going to lose. >> underground shelters. >> only thing you have. >> colt, set up for me the video we're watching earlier. i want to play more now. >> okay. >> what the scene was like in terms of your watching this tornado and realizing how strong it actually was. >> well, we got to the south moore high school parking lot, that's where we filmed majority

of our footage from, and as it started approaching you can see the violent motion near the ground. and it was -- you can -- it was a mile and a half, a mile out, you can hear the roar. when we moved back to the east, dropped south to get out of its way, a little bit looked like it was going to be too close, so we were dropping back south a bit the roar was almost deafening. >> just from the wind and all of the different debris? >> the debris swirl, the wind. debris colliding with the ground and the air. it was incredible. >> we have it here. let's relive what the storm chaser made it through. go ahead and play it. >> go north. back behind it. >> back through the debris field, guys. >> search and rescue, guys. >> this is the damage. damage path right now. houses are completely levelled. >> it's unrecognizable. >> houses are levelled.

>> this doesn't look like it was ever a development. >> no, it doesn't. >> oh, no. this -- >> oh my god, guys! look at those people. we have to help them. pull over. right here. over right here. >> lauren, you're driving? >> yeah. >> take the mike. tell me, what is it like, how do you negotiate distance and where you can be, wanting to see versus not wanting to be become one of the victims in. >> it's real lay difficult situation, especially town. so many things going through your mind, not only the storm, the collar cloud, is it still tracking east? is it going to include and go more north? but also trying to figure out traffic and where you're going to negotiate roads and listen to your navigating and he's pointing out roads. so many things at once. one point, it's like, no, we need to go south. and it's -- it's definitely difficult and interesting experience. >> this thing's moving 30, 50

miles an hour. you have to adjust speed accordingly? >> you do. you have to adjust for the fact it's increasing in size not only forward but at you but it's away just when it wedges out. you've got to keep an eye on the winds and debris, once the tornado's moved from houses across the way, as winds are picking up into the swirl of the tornado, it's already past you. yeah. >> these stick homes, kevin, seem to be absolutely of no resistance to this type of force coming over. obviously, steel reinforced building were nothing. the hospital, which is just right next to us, which is a place that people go to for safety, for shelter, was just decimated by this. obviously it can take on everything. in particular, these wooden houses we see really fall apart fast. what order do you see it going? is it roof first, then walls? what do you see happening? >> to be honest, it can vary from what i've seen. it typically is the roof that

will fly out first, as the wind catches up underneath it and it will take it up. but in terms of a mobile home, those can just be shredded and rolled and torn apart almost instantaneously in a tornado like this. and there's no safe place to be if that's the case. >> one thing we have seen that is also unique, as was this tornado is the response by this community. do you see a calm? people are hurting. and tears. but often tears get you through it. but there is a resolve, a wry zil yens. shelters, low population, the community takes in its own, treats everyone as family. we'll take a break. when we come back, we're going to talk about how the oklahomans here in moore are already trying to recover and we will tell you why this place is special. not just because of its vulnerability, but because of its resolve when we come back. stay with us. >> we'll be fine. we'll -- we'll rebuild again. ♪

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> welcome to cnn viewers everywhere. i'm chris cuomo, in moore, oklahoma. the situation is what you see on your screen. a massive tornado tore through this community yesterday at

about 3:00 p.m., just as schools were getting out. 20 miles long worth of damage. two miles wide in some places, winds sustained over 200 miles an hour. and remember, this wasn't a hurricane. it's a tornado issue ne issue n violent, the cutting of the energy takes and makes its way through anything in its path. death toll, injured, numbers are developing. we have a bright spot of information for you with that. we'll tell you in a second. we've heard that over 100 people have been rescued. search and rescue's been hampered throughout the course of this recovery because of weather. but right now it's back on. and they are marshalling all available assets, most importantly, those in the community are helping themselves. they're taking in people who have been in harm's way. looking through to see what's left of their lives, and they are counting their blessings, those who got their children back. a big source of concern here was

that two schools were hit significantly by this, one of them really bad. it's literally searching through things by hand. kids lost their live there's. the other one a lot of great reunions. i want to bring in pam brown, reporting from the beginning. start with the bright spot. the government had been putting out numbers, over 50. but they said it's early, we don't know what is duplicative and what isn't. a bright spot still early. >> the death toll has gone down to 24 people and 9 children, including 9 children, 6 from the school you mentioned. though this is a bright spot, chris, it's very early. there are a lot of people, including children, that are still unaccounted for. and we have seen the search and rescue teams searching through the rubble. out here earlier with cadaver dogs at this bowling alley that's obviously now a mountain of rubble. but they are still searching for people. it was interesting hearing them talk. they huddled around here.

this has been very tough for them, too. they have a lot of challenges trying to find survivor trapped into the rubble, talking about chemicals, downed power lines, the fact that the elements are picking up at sometimes. now it's fine. but it's been very tough for them. they were encouraging each other, saying, hang in there, rely on each other, let's get through this, do what we're here for and find people who could be alive but are trapped, as we speak. >> to remind people here, standing on a carpet, what used to be a bowling alley, a helicopter from the national guard, doing overhead survey so you know what you're hearing. this is a bowling alley. steel reinforced, massive beams, all twisted. they have to make their way through this in order to do search, yes? >> it was incredible watching them earlier today with the cadaver dogs running throughout here and the teams really, you have a tough situation because this is heavy material. we're talking about steel girder right behind you.

you know the scraps here of metal hugging the pole. this is a potentially dangerous situation. but they're doing a good job of coming to these places and moving on to the next place. they had their work cut out for them. cnn.com/impact, find out how to give. the water treatment plant from moore, not online, which means water is scarce. asked to conserve. 50,000-plus without pow, waiting for that number to come down, less than 24 hours since the horrific event. of course those who lost their lives, those still remaining, injured, developing in a picture here. we'll take a break. following two stories for you, the disaster here in moore, oklahoma, and also, the big legal question for jodi arias, whether or not she deserves death penalty for her homicide conviction. the latest on both within we come back after the break. tzer fruit chews. they work fast on heartburn and taste awesome. these are good. told ya! i'm feeling better already.

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welcome back to moore, oklahoma. i'm chris cuomo. right now we're in front of what used to be a bowling alley. if you can pan down for a second, dave, dave's our photographer, i'm 220. this is a piece of met that can about support my weight. this tornado twisted it like a pretzel, wrapped it around a tree, took steel girders are three times the width of this, tossed them aside, made into a pretzel, removed the building from being anything like what it was. the hospital next to us, supposed to be a safe zone for people, a shelter, was totally

decimated. they had to go through it and look through piles of cars where rooms used to be, where operating rooms used to be, that is a look at the situation on the ground here in moore, oklahoma. yes, they've dealt with this before. and in 1999 they had a devastating tornado come through. in 2003, they had them. they had them routinely, sometimes severely. this community is set up to be a target each and every time. the tornadoes take similar paths, many of the homes don't have shelters, many homes zroen basements, so there is no safe area new york guarantee you make it through. so every time it's a roll of the dice. and every time they come back, they try to recover. that's what's going on now. not even 24 hours into this. we know there are a lot of missing, unconfirmed loss of life numbers that we're getting. we're trying to give you the information as soon as we get it and know that it's right. what we're experiencing firsthand is the resilience of people here in oklahoma to make it through, helping each other,

marveling they are alive at all today. i want you to listen to one woman's account of making it through the tornado. >> i was holding my dog, i was sitting on the stool, holding my dog. this was the game plan through the years. you know, to go in that little bathroom. and the electric never went off because the electric went off in the bathroom about the same time i felt the stool come up out of the floor and i rolled around a little bit and when it stopped, i was right there, that stove cooker is what i saw. >> you were lying there, in the rubble. >> i never lost consciousness. and i hollered for my little dog. he didn't answer, didn't come. i know he's in here somewhere.

>> reporter: the dog, the dog! hi, puppy. the dog! >> oh! oh. bless your little bitty heart. help me. oh, oh, oh, oh. come on. >> can you get him? >> oh. oh. oh, oh. i thought god answered one pray, let me be okay. this was my second prayer.

>> you have to remember, you have to put yourself just imagine for a second being in this woman's shoes, all she had left that she loves at that moment is that dog and to find it is just the greatest relief. so many families down there who had the same worries about children and when they found them just changed their lives, changed their perspective on what had been lost versus what really mattered. a lot of people living through really traumatic situations here right now. things the worst is over, but it's not that much better yet here. we just heard there's a line of storm cells coming through. it's going to be wet, cold, difficult for search and rescue. cnn will be here on the ground bringing you the latest. we're going to take a break now. when we come back, tracking what happened here in moore, oklahoma, and also what's going on in the jodi arias death penalty hearing. we'll take you to that as soon as we get word she's taking the stand. stay with us.

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helmets and hid in the choose sweat played like hell and luckily, the only rooms that were spared was the room we were in. >> just lucky to be alive, so many people have told us that here in moore, oklahoma. if you look behind me, you see what used to be a steel building and it lets you know that being inside doesn't make you safe. if you're not in a shelt, many deep underground, it is a roll of the dice whether or not you make it through a situation like what happened here yesterday at about 3:00 p.m. in the afternoon. many people had about 10 to 15 minutes to react. for days they knew there were storm possibilities that could create tornadoes but in the final moments, that urgency, it was 15, 16 minutes, which they say is good in terms of warning but where do you go? what do you do? listen to what this one man did, that a decision that probably saved his life. >> it was all windy and stuff before the tornado came. i didn't have -- i had no idea it was coming. just figured it was like yesterday, you know, big storm

coming and all of a sudden it went quiet. when it did that, being from oklahoma, i came outside to see, i seen -- i seen debris flying over that way and i thought i might have had a little while. i tried to let the horses get loose and free out of the stalls so they'd have a chance. i didn't have very long at all. i jumped into one of the stalls here and that's what these here used to be, and they collapsed over on top of me and sat a pickup truck on top of it, pushed it down here this cement way. it was just unbearably loud you could see stuff flying everywhere. >> you know, you get a little bit of an indication there of what it takes to survive, kind of acting on your wits, hoping almost on chance in situations like this. and it really brings out the love of one another in this community to try to help through this. it's a prayerful community. we keep being told people are

lean on their faith. the need is great. cnn.com/impact. please go there and find out how you can help. some of you online saying, hey, is this news or a telecast. at times like this, it's a telethon, rather. in times like this, the first job is to help one another. the reporting happens coincidental to that, whether a journalist or first responder, whatever, everybody wants to help. you at home can do more than you think. please go to cnn.com/impact. look at the organizations. see what there is that you can give because the need here is absolutely comprehensive. from shelter to clothing to all of the things that you look in your home and value, many of these people have lost all of that. please, take it on yourself to take a look. one of the things we're trying to do here now is give you a sense of what it was like to live through it yesterday. we're going to take a break. we'll show you ireports people with their own cameras, which we

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i'm chris cuomo, here in moore, oklahoma. welcome to all of our viewers a. i wish i could tell you what i'm standing in front of is unique. i wish i could tell you i found the one building destroyed here in moore, couple company. unfortunately, that's not the case. too common, 20 miles long, in parts 2 miles wide a tornado came through here at 3:00 p.m. eastern, local time yesterday. and totally decimated everything in its path. including homes cars, buildings, infrastructure, power, lighting, everything we need to survive every day is gone. the water supply is damaged.

the treatment plant is not up and running. open gas mains, live wires on the ground. everything you can imagine is what the community is experiencing for itself now less than 24 hours after the event. people lost their lives. children are reported as missing, number of injured continues to climb. it's into the hundreds now. over 250 people injured that visited hospitals. forget about walking wounded who are all over. to bring you how we goat to here, we want to show you our ireports, people like you who took their camera and decided to show what it was like to live through the moment. so, here's the experience for people here in moore, oklahoma. when the tornado hit.

>> wow! >> that was it through their own camera, their own experience, their own lives and that's what it was like for them here. look at that. it's like the skies opened up and sent down this monster that just attacked their community. and now they have to figure out how to live through it figure out where their home comes from for the future. in so many it comes in understanding they may have lost their things but kept their loved ones. we'll go to break. we're monitor this story and the jodi arias death penalty hearing. we'll pick that up when she takes the stand in her own defense, trying to avoid the death penalty. we leave you with this. u.s. marines here in moore,

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for all of our viewers here in the u.s. and around the world, i'm chris cuomo in moore, oklahoma. right now we're going to go to my colleague, ashleigh banfield, in phoenix, arizona, monitoring the jodi arias death penalty hearing. ashleigh, what's the latest? >> chris, this has been an unorthodox case and this is it today. there is only one person who can save jodi arias' life at this point and it's jodi arias. we have now full confirmation she will address the jury. late at this point.ral minutes - hearing was supposed to get under way a few moments ago. the podium's been set up in the courtroom for jodi arias to address this jury. but one thing we don't know at this point whether she'll ask them to save her life or if she'll ask this jury to end her life. it is one of the most unusual circumstances in a death penalty

case in the united states. you just don't often have a circumstance that is such a mystery leading into the ultimate request which is to have someone hold your life in their hand. i can tell you this, at a time we were supposed to be actually hearing jodi arias speak, she, with her lawyers, has gone into the judge's chambers. oftentimes we don't have a signal in the courtroom to show you, we only have the great seal, right up behind judges' benches to show you because we're not allowed to show the courtroom while there's not a gavel-to-gavel proceeding in the way. paul callen joining me live in new york city. at this point, there is no one else who has stood up for this woman to ask these jurors to save her. i don't know that i've ever covered a case where that has been the circumstance. so, effectively, what does this jury have to deliberate once she's finished speaking? >> well, they still have the right to make their own decision. bear in mind her defense attorney did make an opening

statement during the sentencing portion of the trial and he said he would plead for a lenient sentence, he would offer evidence that she was a person who was a good friend, who was a talented arist, and that she had had an abusive childhood. interestingly, none of that evidence was offered by the defense, leaving, as you say, the only person left to present evidence is the defendant, jodi arias. a bizarre situation in a murder case. the defense attorney rested his case. he said, i'm not going to present any mitigation evidence when the judge refusedo declare a mistrial. >> i can only ask you if what is happening right now really is preparation for a massive appeal, because there are so many strange twists na have happened right at the 11th hour of a proceeding in the united states which is the most dire, a proceeding in which the state decides to take a human life.

there are millions of appeals you can find on any given day at any kind of garden variety case like this, but are they setting up specific appeals with what's happening now? >> they are certainly trying to. and, ashleigh, if they're in meeting right now if the defense attorney, jodi arias and the judge, are meeting without the prosecutor present, that's called an ex parte hearing and that generally occurs when the defendant and the attorneys are having a disagreement. and the judge would get involved in that disagreement. sometimes the attorneys are trying to withdraw because the client is saying she's going to do something that they don't want her to do or agree with her. so we don't know what's going on in chambers. but if jodi arias intends to ask for death, truly an unprecedented situation in certainly in an arizona courtroom, i can't remember having seen it in any american courtroom, actually in court. this would be a bizarre

situation, if that's what happens. >> i've never seen a defendant get up before a jury in a death penalty case and ask them to take her life, which i think makes this so incredibly unique in this high-profile case. paul, i want to ask you to stand down for a moment as we watch this. we are careful to monitor the proceedings and we want to get the proceedings back to you as soon as jodi arias emerges from the judge's chambers. don't forget the courtroom staff has placed that podium right in front of the jury. and the jury knows that the next person is going to take it after two of the family members last week of the victim spoke so emotionally on behalf of their brother. now, it's going to be her. and they know that she is the one that's going to be speaking soon. we'll watch that for you. in the meantime, i want to get back to my colleague, chris cuomo, who is standing by live in moore, oklahoma, with more of what's happening in that very, very devastating situation. chris?

>> thanks, ashleigh. going to wipe water off of us here. a line of thunderstorms coming through. i want to introduce everybody to special people. deana, connie, your dad lives across the street. the storm went through, next to him. his house is gone. his house was spared. the house next to him is gone. his house was spared. he's okay? >> he's fine. they were at the hospital. they were at the hospital at children's during the time of the storm, so he escaped that and he is, you know, otherwise he probably would have stayed in the house, he probably wouldn't have left. >> when you saw the house, and you saw what it would have been like for him, what's that like for you as the daughter to see where your daddy would have been if he was home? >> it's terrifying. i lost my home in the may 3rd tornado, so to see that he would have been there and, yeah, a lot

of damage. >> his home made it, that's in quotes, because the windows are blown out, glass all over the house, no power, no water? >> correct. >> so dad can't stay? >> correct. >> did you two fight it out who he gets to come with? >> she has space, notme. >> he's going to come with you, he's safe. when you look right next to him, there's no homie mor, what does it remind you of? what kind of situation this is. >> may 3rd. >> of course, what we know, you know, of course he wasn't in the house very long. he just moved back in october. but just to know that everything will be different from here on out. it will be zblahard. >> good to have you here. keep him there. glad i got to meet you this way without any tragedy. >> appreciate it. >> we're going to break. more stories of people who made it through the storm. what moore, oklahoma, is doing recover.

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