hello, everyone. i'm ashleigh banfield reporting live in phoenix, arizona, where the jurors who listened to jodi arias live and sorted sex tales, copouts and confessions are now deciding if she's going to face prosecution. >> and i'm john berman live in moore, oklahoma, where there are so many stories of survival. so many stories of hope as this town begins the process and it will be long rebuilding after this disastrous tornado that simply devastated and flattened this town. thank you so much for being with

us this morning. we are going to start with this recovery effort. overnight, officials saying it has shifted from the rescue phase to a recovery phase. they haven't given up hope, though. as they pick through the rubble, they're still looking for the possibility that someone could be buried underneath. but right now, it say recover effort. they say that 24 people have died. they do not believe that number will change. 9 of those were children. more than 200 people had been injured in this devastation. we're covering this story from every angle, again as the scenes here, you can still see the rubble, see the devastation, as the american flag is flying some so many places. you see the messages of hope. let's go to nick valencia, he's covering the victims' angle. 24 people dead. what do we know about them, good morning, nick. >> reporter: good morning, john, this is a disaster that's not just impacting residents in the state of oklahoma. this is something that's having an effect on residents throughout the united states.

yesterday, i spoke to a woman in gleason, tennessee by phone who said she hasn't been able to get in touch with her sister since the storm hit. >> my mind is everywhere. i was -- my boss actually pulled up the site. and she did that for me because i can't think straight. and i'm kind of in a fog. i just -- i don't want to believe that. i don't. but if, you know, i can't reach her, i can't find her, i don't know where she is. and i don't know if she can get to me or get ahold of me. or anything, to let me know that she's okay. >> reporter: now for people like erica sandoval, people can't get to loved one. the cell phone towers are down.

it's been difficult for loved ones to reach out to family members they believe are missing. >> it is hard to get to people here the cell phones only spotty. we've been talk to get fire chief and other rescue officials here. they tell us if you know you have family members that are looking for you, find some way to contact them. but it is so hard to do. nick, i also know you spoke to the mayor here. what did he tell you? >> reporter: yeah, i spoke to mayor glenn lewis, he told me off camera in an interview just after this is done here, he plans to propose a plan for moore that they have a safe room or shelter back in 1999, he did the same thing then. for the houses that went through that 1999 tornado, john, they suffered the brunt of the damage and their still standing. the community that was shredded and devastated on monday was an

older community. it didn't have the same housing standards and that could explain why it was flattened and leveled by the severe and intense winds, john. >> nick valencia, thank you so much. nick just mentioned the other tornadoes that have blown through here, infamous, may 3rd, 19 1999. people still talking about it. some some ways that hardened this community, they know how to recover from situations like this. there's a steely resolve from people here. stephanie elam in a hard hit area. what are you seeing, stephanie? >> john, that is so true. in fact, i talked to one resident. out there with me, we were walking around, we see these homes and they just look like they were ripped apart literally. this one man did say this is one good thing to come out of this, the city is going to have to rebuild. people who could not find jobs will now find jobs. and that's the one good thing that came out of the devastating tornado.

he said people in moore, oklahoma, this is what we do, we rebuild. if you look out there, there is a crane. they've moved since i turned around, but that is where we did know the location of the park plaza tower elementary school is. a lot of the efforts today moving towards recovery, and that's what a lot of people are doing now, trying to figure out, making sure that they can get their lives back together. get their kids back together. in talking to them. and there's counseling available throughout the counties here to let people talk to people if they need it, if they're trying to rebuild. and one other thing that i want to talk to you about, john. this is good news that i'm happy to share with you. i got a text message from dana. she's the woman i showed looking for the dog sugar. within an hour showing up at the shelter, people were calling her they saw the pictures on facebook and what we've been showing here on cnn and hln, because of that, they're reunited with a dog that's

perfectly fine. she just had debris in an eye. otherwise, she's safe and back with the family. they're beyond thrilled, john. >> that so great. that is great news. stephanie elam, thank you so much for that report and news. there's so many instances of great news in this town. there are so many strong people and there are heroes, frankly, everywhere you look. a lot of these heroes is teachers. one of those teachers was tammy glasgow. she was a second grade teacher in the briarwood school. it was quick thinking that helped her classroom survive. she saw the tornado coming and she crammed about 20 students into a closet in a bathroom. >> before i shut the doors because the bathrooms have doors. i said i'm going to shut the doors, i said, i love you. the boys looked meet strange. i went in the girls, i said i love you, they said we love you back. and we all prayed.

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it's a very strange twists and turns in the jodi arias trial just keep coming it seems, until the very bitter end as the jurors are finally deciding if she should get death or life in prison for killing travis alexander in a most cruel way. the convicted murderer spoke in court for nearly 20 minutes yesterday. a strange beg for mercy, so to speak. she was showing family pictures. she was showing some of her own artwork as well. telling the jurors all about the

good causes that she'd like to actually do in prison if she's there for life if she'd like to help others in the prison and help others outside the prison. all of this in an effort to convince jurors that she should spare her life. adding that she never imagined that she could do something that she did. have a listen. >> when i took the stand, i was quick to anxious the questioned posed to me. in many times i was quick to defend him in the same breath. i loved travis, and i looked up to him. at one point, he was the world to me. this is the worst mistake of my life. it's the worst thing i've ever done. it's the worst thing i could have ever seen myself doing. in fact, i couldn't see myself doing it. before that day i wouldn't even want to harm a spider. to this day, i hardly believe that i was capable of such violence but i know that i was. and for that, i'm going to be

sorry for the rest of my life. >> so now that's it. there are no more words to be said, except for what's being said very, very quietly in secret in a jury deliberation room. we know now there's been at least an hour and a half of whether jodi should live or die our casey wian has been following this today. what about the jury? are they literally going right back into the court or are we getting bombshells? >> the one thing we've come to expect is expect the unexpected. no, we do expect the jury to go directly in the jury deliberation room and resume their deliberations today. we don't know how long the deliberations are going to go. jodi arias, as you know, gave a series of interviews last night. with one of the interviews with the as az republicen she said

her defense attorneys are going to happen quickly. she's actually moved her items out of the county jail in preparation for transfer by the jury whether it's going to be life in prison or the death penalty. we can gather clues, though, about how this jury operates from its previous deliberations. it took less than three days of deliberation time an a four-plus month trial to render a guilt verdict. the actual aggravation phase deliberations went very quickly as well. if i recall correctly, that was about an hour and a half. so this jury tends to deliberate very quickly. we'll have to see if that's what happens today, ashleigh. >> and they had what, a 20-minute statement that they need to deliberate. but then those closings which were very impassioned by the prosecutor and defense attorney. casey wian, let us know when you see the jurors return if we do get to see them. casey wian reporting live in phoenix. did jodi arias actually succeed in doing what she was

trying to do, get the sympathy of the jury for mercmercy? i'm going to bring in our contributor paul callan. there were a lot of people who watched that live they were astounded. people said they were astounded that it was such a matter of fact presentation from a woman who effectively should have been begging for mercy. instead, presented a power point complete with props, pictures and a t-shirt. how do you assess what you saw happen in the courtroom yesterday? >> well, it was jodi arias being jodi arias. those who saw her testify 17, 18 days on the stand, saw someone who is cold, calculated, deliberate. flashes of intelligent. very bright. a planner. and in the end, when you expect an emotional plea for life, to see her being cold and calculating, and, you know, she

kind of reeled off all of the things that she had just found out about prison. and why prison would be a good place for her. you know, not the kind of thing you want to say to a jury that's deliberating on death. she holds up this survivor t-shirt which, you know, reminds the jury that her claim was she was a victim of domestic abuse. a claim that they unanimously rejected is i think a slap in their face to say, i'm a survivor, and i'm going to make these t-shirts and support the domestic abuse programs. so my own view is that it's going to backfire her. she made prison, ashleigh, almost look like a trip to disney world. you know, we're going to have language lessons and book clubs. i'm going to grow my hair and donate it to cancer victims and it's going to be wonderful. now, usually people say i don't want to give her the death penalty because life in prison would be the worst punishment

for somebody like this. but jodi arias has managed to turn that on its head and make prison sound like a very nice place. so it doesn't sound like a good thing to say to a jury, but this is the death penalty, and people have individual views about this, as do these 12 jurors. so it's hard to make a prediction in the end. >> well, and let's not forget that this is a nonsequestered jury. they go home to their familied. they walk by newsstands. they're not supposed to engage in any conversation or media on what's happened. but it's everywhere. it's almost impossible to not hear someone. i've heard three or four conversations in the last 24 hours in restaurants about people angry over what's going on. so, you know, the fact that she asked for death to a reporter only days ago, and then asked for life in front of them yesterday, who knows if they know anything about that. paul, hold on if you would, we have a lot more to discuss in terms of what's happening in this dynamic that's playing out behind me. later this hour, jodi arias

still talking, still giving interviews. once again granting interviews after walking out of the courtroom. this time to a local affiliate. you're going to hear from here yet again. stay with us on that. we have more than 200 people who were hurt when that monster ef-5 storm mitt moore, oklahoma. and one woman had the job to make sure that you of them got medical treatment. you're going to hear her story and what a monumental task that was, given the circumstances she herself was in. live from moore, oklahoma, next. just by talking to a helmet. it grabbed the patient's record before we even picked him up. it found out the doctor we needed was at st. anne's. wiggle your toes. [ driver ] and it got his okay on treatment from miles away. it even pulled strings with the stoplights. my ambulance talks with smoke alarms and pilots and stadiums. but, of course, it's a good listener too.

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everybody that lives here goes through it. i understand everybody needs blankets and places to stay, transportation and water and supplies. so everybody just pitches in and gets it done. but it will be -- this is going to take a little while. this is pretty bad here. >> that's country music star

toby keith. and moore resident, talking about the people in this town, knowing how to respond to a disaster like this. there are so many examples of quick thinking and quick action that saved lives. one of those was right behind me at the moore medical center that was destroyed by the storm. there's a tornado warning the sirens went off. emergency room director dr. stephanie barger, she takes quick action and manages to move all the patients to a safe place. amazingly no one in this medical center was hurt. this doctor spoke to our very own dr. sanjay gupta. >> you were the e.r. doctor on call in the hospital that was in the middle of a major tornado. your hospital did well. how do you feel about that today? >> i don't think it's hit me really. i still don't feel like i can take any credit for that. like i said, i was just doing my job and knew what i had to do.

i can't imagine -- it's very emotional, i'm like, wow, everybody did get out. but, yeah, i -- words can't even describe, you know, how i feel. like i said, i do keep getting a lot of thank yous. >> dr. sanjay gupta with me here right now. there's no questions she saved lives, countless lives and yet she's so humble. >> you learn about these things theoretically through your medical training. obviously, she had never been through anything quite like this. she rose to the occasion. she had about ten minutes' notice. she was watching tv all day, then they have a code black which basically means it's time to do your thing. some of it's obvious, move patients to the center of the hospital. staff as well. taking mattresses and covering people's heads because the shrapnel injuries can be a significant concern. you want to protect the head and the brain obviously. not a scratch.

again, we've been out here for a couple days. it's just hard to believe. i was with some storm assessment people yesterday. they said the same thing, they cannot believe that no one was injured there. >> they kept saying no one was injured in this medical center. i frankly did not believe it. you talk about injuries. what kind of injuries are they seeing here? >> well are there's sort of three waves of injury. the primary wave is from the force of the storm itself. the second wave is the shrapnel. anything can become shrapnel. they've seen impalements. broken buses, crushed bones. spiral cord injuries which typically occur from the third wave. something falling on somebody, the bodies, the operators themselves, moving against something that's not a wall or something like that. those are the type of injuries they're seeing. they're not seeing many brain or head injuries. i was just listening to the sound of toby keith. people know tornadoes. they know to protect their heads, use the mattresses and

blankets to protect those injuries. thankfully, those paid off here. >> it's interesting the lack of more serious head injuries. the number of fatalities. 24. it's a horrible number. one is too many but 24 is a lot lower than a lot of people thought based on the destruction here. it's a lot lower than actually reported at one point. we were told 51 by the medical examiner's office, 51. how could they make a mistake like that >> this is going to sound too simplistic, it's an issue of double counting. 51 is almost counting twice. 48 would have been double counting. the m.e.'s office is responsible for this. funeral homes will be calling in numbers. it's a bill ma cal bray to think about it. >> it's understandable that mistakes are made. >> dr. sanjay gupta, thank you

very much. a lot of people looking to help here, those hurt, those injured, those people who lost their homes. one of the great ways to find out how you can help, visit our website, impact your world. cnn.com/impact. all kinds of information there. we were talking about the hero doctors who saved lives. there are also teachers. one of those is second grade teacher tammy glasgow, her quick thinking no doubt saved lives. as she got kids into the bathrooms. let's listen to what she says. >> they were all singing the national anthem. we were about to have a program in two days. we were about to perform the national anthem. they were practicing, they were just trying to forget what was actually happening. >> we will hear more of her truly amazing story a little later this hour. we'll have more from moore, oklahoma. also more news from around the world when we come back.

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apparently, a violent confrontation, according to the fbi. and we're just getting this information now -- a violent confrontation was initiated by this individual, during the confrontation, the individual was killed. the agent, the fbi agent who was involved, also sustained injuries. nonlife-threatening, we're told. the incident is now under review. the fbi is not commenting further, but this does open a whole host of other questions with regard to who this person down in florida was. and as, what his connection to the bombers was. and all of the different crimes that the two bombers suspected of having committed in the boston area. not just the bombing, don't forget. there was also the m.i.t. officer murdered. there was a shoot-out with police. and there was a murder, a triple homicide, back two years ago, that has also been reopened. and a lot of investigative questions about that triple homicide are now reopened because of the investigation of

the tsarnaev brothers. a lot of questions still. this amazing development. our national correspondent susan candiotti is live working her sources. susan, what are you hearing be about the connection that are being made? and just what was being investigated when they took it down to florida to this now dead suspect? >> hi, ashleigh, my sources telling me they've been taking a look at this particular man in florida for at least now after the bombing, that investigative leads led them to him, because they were told, the fbi, that he was friends with the tsarnaev brothers, both tamerlan and dzhokhar. and that's what made them take a closer look. to look for any possible connections. and they're trying to dig into that now, to see, in particular, what that connection might be. that led them to florida. that led them to the massachusetts state police questioning this man on more than one occasion, according to my sources. and something went wrong.

late last night. there was, as publicly being described by the fbi, a violent confrontation. and there was a shooting. and the fbi agent fatally shot this man, according to my law enforcement official source in self-defense. the agent himself was also injured, but as you said doesn't have life-threatening injuries. right now, they've got a review team that's taking a look at that shooting itself. here's what we know about this man in florida, not only was he friends, but he was also from chechnya, just as the tsarnaev brothers were. we know, according to my source that he was living in the united states legally. that at one time, he was living in boston. and that he had been a legal resident here since around 2008. now, as to what the particular link might have been that they were interested in, if it went beyond that, we don't know. but i'm today that they are looking very closely at some things that have not been

described to me just yet. ashleigh. >> and susan, i think you hit the nail on the head, there are a lot of crimes right now that a lot of different investigative bodies are looking at in connection with the tsarnaev brothers. i just mentioned the bombing, the aftermath of the bombing, the shoot-outs, the m.i.t. murder and then all of a sudden that big surprise reopening, or relook, at that triple homicide indicate in waltham, massachusetts. and when i hear that there are state police from massachusetts down in florida joining the fbi in the investigation. it makes me wonder if they are looking at a broader spectrum of crimes and this connection to the florida suspect than just the bombing itself. but they're really being tight-lipped on that? >> yeah, it's hard to say right now but those are all the things, of course, that you have to ask questions about. and we are asking questions about. i know that one of our cnn affiliates spoke with a friend of the man who was fatally shot in orlando. and this friend acknowledges that the fbi had been on his

friend's tail for at least a month now. this friend, on behalf of the one who was shot, said that his friend had no connection, had no prior knowledge to the boston bombings. but perhaps had knowledge of something else. that, we have yet to find out. but, of course, ashleigh, you're right, those are the questions we're asking. >> that is just a remarkable, you know, development in this, labyrinthian investigation. susan candiotti, excellent work. our national correspondent reporting live. the irs official at the center of the investigation into the targeting of conservative groups pleads the fifth. lois lerner refused to give full testimony at a congressional hearing just a little over an hour ago. but she did say something. she said "i did nothing wrong." >> i have not done anything wrong.

i have not broken any laws. i have not violated any irs rules and regulations. and i have not provided false information to this or any other congressional committee. and while i would very much like to answer the committee's questions today, i've been advised by my counsel to assert my constitutional right not to testify or answer questions related to the subject matter of this hearing. after very careful consideration, i've decided to follow my counsel's advice and not testify or answer any of the questions today. because i'm asserting my right not to testify, i know some people will assume that i've done something wrong. i have not. one of the basic functions of the fifth amendment is to protect incident individuals. and that is the protection i'm invoking today. >> stay tuned for more on that because that investigation is far from over. first, she said she wanted to die.

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welcome back. it's an amazing day here in phoenix, arizona, at the maricopa county courthouse. this is the day we could have a final verdict on the fate of jodi arias after what has amounted to one of more bizarre murder cases. not only the guilt/innocence phase, but this death penalty face. jodi arias standing up in front of the jury to giving what amounted to a power point presentation, list by list,

giving reason why they should spare her life. to many it was bizarre. she would grow her hair for a cancer donation. and she would spare her family anymore pain, thus, not giving her the death penalty. one. more bizarre aspects, maybe the jury knows something about this they shouldn't, or if they do by accident or happenstance, that woman gave an interview to ksaz, a local affiliate here in arizona, minutes after she was convicted of first degree murder. in which she told a local anchor here named troy hayden, that she wanted to die. it would be easier to die than spend her life in prison. and yet, she made an appeal to the jury that she wanted to live and yet again, gave another interview to troy hayden with ksaz explaining herself.

have a look at what she said to him. >> i never heard you say "i'm sorry." >> i don't think i used those two words. but i feel that i made my remorse. and if i didn't adequately convey it, then i regret that but certainly -- >> do you want to do it now? >> well, there's nothing i can do to take back what i did i wish that i could. i really, really wish that i could. i can never make up for what happened. >> do you want to say "i'm sorry" right now to travis alexander's family? >> certainly, i'm definitely sorry. >> you talked about lies today. and the lies you told in the courtroom. you told me two weeks ago that you'd rather die than go to jail for life. go to prison for life. was that a lie? >> no, i meant that when i said it. >> so what happened? >> well, the same day i was convicted i received a visit from my family. one might have cousins drove it home and told me how much it

would affect them if i did anything to myself and that sort of thing. >> so she said that she wasn't lying to that correspondent when she said she wanted to die. and that she's not lying now. when she says she wants to live we have our hln legal correspondents beth karas and jean casarez joining me and dr. drew pinsky on call. let me begin with you, beth karas, as a peril prosecutor, how do you spit through most of that and not want to bring back the tape and show it to the jury and say, when does this woman tell the truth, and why should you believe anything that she's pleading to you now? >> i'm sure juan martinez was squirming, wishing he could do that but it would have to be proper rebuttal. but she did say in her statement that i'd made statements before i wanted to die but i didn't have the perspective that i have now. the jury doesn't know she said as recently as two weeks ago.

they know from evidence from the trial she did say it early on when she was arrested. she did give a reason for it, that would basically mean there wouldn't be any rebuttal evidence to it. but he probably wishes he could have said more to the jury. >> boy, i'll say. who knows if any of those jurors who are not sequestered have heard some kind of wind in the atmosphere as they travel back and forth between the courtroom and their homes. it's everywhere. everyone is talking about it in this town. jean casarez, to you, you watched the family of travis alexander in that courtroom, when she said i never meant to hurt them. i never meant to drag him through the mud. i never meant to defame him. their reaction was palpable. >> no question about it. they've heard this before. she's been on the stand for 18 days. back to jodi and her suicidal

ideation, she and her journal wrote about suicide. that she was interested in suicide. and, ashleigh, i spoke with jodi's mother where she said she wanted to die. i was at the jail, she was at the jail, ready to see jodi the first time after the interview. her mother said to me, she did-k do good in prison. there's something that she can do. i think her mother was very, very responsible for part of the allocution yesterday. i think her mother told her you can teach others in prison. there are issues with rehabilitation. there are women that are going to get out of the prison that jodi can be in. she can be a teacher of reading and writing and reading books and having women build a life for themselves. maybe she can't get out, but she can help other women get out. >> it's hard to watch. i got to be honest, after seeing

the alexander family and friends sobbing for five months in that courtroom. and then watching jodi's own mother and father really mostly stoic through that entire allocution, it was remark only. dr. dre,w, i want to bring you n on this, the whole notion that a defendant gets up in front of a jury that begs for mercy. it feel it's very much like the dark ages that you beg for you not to kill me. it was done by power point and props. i just wanted to get your feeling as to how effective it is to just do the check list, and not just truly drop all the drama and simply appeal to their nature, to the jury's nature? >> well, i think, ashleigh, and that's what everyone was hoping for from jodi arias. that they were hoping for some sort of impassioned appeal. but, of course, jodi isn't really connected to her feelings. that's what's so disturbing and

unsatisfying about working with her. she has a borderline personality disorder. so all of her feelings get projected on us. that's the way borderlines function. saying things i wish you'd put me to death. this is how borderlines work. i have a murderous rage, you've seen evidence of that, i can't get anywhere near it. she doesn't know she has it. i'm going to project it on to you, you'll kill me, and i'll be guilty of my rage. also i agree with what jean was saying about the mom having been responsible for the nature of the appeal she gave yesterday but i think it's a gross miscalculation to think that the jurors would want her to have a satisfying gratifying life of service. or from my perspective as well, would want her working with other inmates. she's not the one i would select to be being a teacher or somebody being of service to other people in trouble. >> well, beth, jean, dr. drew,

thank you for your insight. clearly this jury has a lot to wrestle with. they've been wrestling with it for 90 minutes already. those deliberations resume behind us in this courthouse. thank you for your perspective. two years ago today, the people of joplin, missouri, what forced to dig through rubble after a monster tornado tore through their town. but what lessons can the residents of moore take from the people who were victimized themselves in joplin? that's coming up next. [ male announcer ] when gloria and her financial advisor

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welcome back from moore, oklahoma. devastating. crushed and crumbled they're towing them out of this parking lot right here. they have a lot of work to do. there are so many of these damaged vehicles here. as the recovery efforts really just get started here in moore, it's important to note an anniversary because it was two years ago today that a devastating tornado tore through joplin, missouri. 161 people were killed there. so many more injured. that town really suffered just terrible, terrible damage. little earlier this morning i spoke to the mayor of joplin about what her message is for the people here in oklahoma.

>> there is going to be hope. there is hope because devastation doesn't last, but determination does. >> joining us now by skype is the director of joplin and jasper county emergency management. thank you so much for being with us, keith, i really appreciate it. let me ask you right off the bat here how are you marking this anniversary in joplin? it's been two years since you suffered that devastation. >> john, last year we had a full-blown -- remember the first year anniversary. this one's a bit more subdued. we're going to have a few speeches. we'll have a remembrance at 5:41 which was the particular touchdown time of that tornado. we'll have a lot of tents set up with information booths and one thing we're pushing is the mental aspect, the healing that's going on and celebrating establi accomplishments we've had in the last two years. >> talk to me about these accomplishments. what's the status of the recovery in joplin? >> well, in my opinion the

recovery's going very well. we have over 85% of the structures that were destroyed have been permitted to be either rebuilt or replaced. one of the things that we tried to do is put a very positive spin on this. it's not often that when you lose a large section of town like we did, almost a third of the city, that you can step back after a bit and say what would we like to do with this particular area? it's almost like a new canvas. so we've done a lot of research in talking to our citizens, what do you want to see here? do you want to see running trails? do you want to see schools? do you want to see businesses? how would you like this to be scaped and how would you like this to look? that's driven a lot of what we're doing. >> and what's your message to the people here as you look at the destruction that's surrounding me in moore, oklahoma, right now. what is a message you would like to send to residents here? >> i want to echo what the city mayor had to say about hope and determination. in my experience they have something going for them that

others don't, they do have some experience having been through this 14 years ago. it gives them a certain amount of confidence that they've been through this once and they can surely go through this again. the bottom line here is in our business we say all disasters are local. every disaster starts locally and it ends locally. and they understand that all the help that's come to them is good help and glad to have it. but in the end that help is going to go away and they're going to be looking after themselves and they can do this. they've done it before. by golly, they can do it again. >> your message of hope is certainly being heard in this town. we really appreciate it. keith stammer up in joplin, missouri. our thoughts go out to you two years after the disaster that struck your home. thanks for being with us. >> thank you. >> our continuing coverage from moore, oklahoma, will continue in a moment. we have more stories of the heroes who helped save so many lives here.

as we close out this hour, we wanted to remember some of the heroes that helped save so many lives here in the town of moore, oklahoma. and there were so many lives saved by quick thinking and quick action. one of the people who helped save a bunch of young lives was second grade teacher tammy

glasgow. when she heard the tornado warning, when she heard the sirens, her quick thinking had saved so many kids. she stuffed as many as she could into the closets and bathrooms of this school just before the storm hit. >> i glanced up once and you could just see it. it was just like brown, huge, never ending. all the way up to the heavens. and then i got back down, a cinder block fell on the back of my neck. so i crouched back down and happened to look up again and you could see that it was -- the sky was clearing but there was just stuff flying everywhere. so i said not yet, not yet and got back down. and finally the rain started and we could tell that it was getting lighter. >> it was getting lighter. hero teacher tammy glasgow, she saved so many lives and so many thanks to her for her quick thinking and quick actions.

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