confessed to his role but also fingered tsarnaev in the killings. he was being questioned about the slayings at his home in orlando when he talked an fbi agent who shot him dead. that's it for dead. that's it for us. we'll be back in moore, oklahoma, tomorrow night. thanks very much for watching. that does it for "360." "early start" begins now. recovery mode. people in moore, oklahoma, sifting through the debris of where their homes once stood and figuring out how to rebuild as estimates of damage here continue to grow. linked to murder. new information that dead boston marathon bombing suspect tamerlan tsarnaev may have been involved in three killings two years ago. terror in london. a deadly attack in broad daylight on a man who may have been a soldier. welcome to "early start." i'm christine romans.

>> i'm john berman. thursday, may 23rd, 5:00 a.m. in the east. we're going to begin here in moore, oklahoma, where i am holding an umbrella because it is beginning to rain here. it's been three days since the tornado, that huge tornado, ef 5, tore apart this town. the search for survivors is now officially over. emergency crews are sifting into -- sifting through rubble and shifting into full recovery mode. it's happening all over here. first i want you to take a look at this image right now. it's a google earth image. is in what madison place drive looked like before this morning. this is what it looked like last week. let me show you what it looks like now. this is where i'm standing. this is madison place drive right now. what a difference a few days makes. it's a sobering reminder of how much people who live here have lost. we want to remind you of the latest. the facts here, president obama will be here on sunday to assess the damage. also lack at the relief effort.

and of course he will be comforting the victims here. state officials tell us claims are expected to top $2 billion. the mayor of oklahoma city says some 13,000 homes have been damaged, destroyed or affected in some way. fema is making it clear resources are available for this disaster but if another catastrophe like a tornado or hurricane like sandy strikes the u.s. any time soon, the agency might not have enough money then to trorl respond. as we mentioned, this town really in full recovery mode. you drive down the streets, you see so many people working. everyone who is missing in the aftermath of the tornado, everyone who is missing is now accounted for. the official death toll stands at 24 people, 10 of those people children. the challenge ahead, it is so daunting. officials now estimate the twister damaging or destroying more than 13,000 homes, causing up to $2 billion in damage. >> oh my god!

>> reporter: sglrs have a all over the country are now in oklahoma to help those in greatest need like this pennsylvania man and his team who traveled here at the first sign of trouble. >> fortunately, we were monitoring weather patterns and realized that this storm was going to happen. when the storm happened, we were only two hours out and were able to bring in almost $2 million of equipment wind two hours after the storm touched down here. >> reporter: as survivors pick up the pieces, a memorial service is scheduled this weekend to remember the 24 lives lost, including seven children killed at the plaza towers elementary call. the tragedy at the school is raising more questions about why schools don't have safe rooms for shelter. >> anybody that lives in any tornado area should have one. but it's just a matter of cost. there will be more people after this tornado that buy them and have them put in. so we'll have more as soon as this is done. >> reporter: the may why are confirmed that all of the missing are now accounted for.

at the city cemetery, hundreds of volunteers gathered with shovels and rakes did clean up for upcoming funerals. president obama will visit the tornado-ravaged area on sunday. at a white house event wednesday night, the president reiterated his support. >> while the road ahead will be long, their country will be with them every single step of the way. >> reporter: for every story of destruction there are so many more of selflessness and heroism. at this day care center, flattened by the monstrous winds, all the toddlers and workers survived in a bathroom. paramedic lisa lester described what she encountered as she drove up to help the wounded. >> they were just covered in mud from head to toe. all you could see was the whites of their eyes. >> reporter: she squeezed them all in this ambulance, 18 people in all. >> that legal? >> no. >> reporter: lisa reunited with one of the women she helped that day. >> so glad i got to see you.

i wanted to get your name. >> i couldn't remember yours and i looked at the paper. i'm so happy you're okay. >> i'm happy to see you. >> i'm so happy, thank you so much. >> reporter: there are so many acts of hee roarism ever have where you look, so many people coming together to help the rebuilding effort. you see armies of people raking laups and picking up rubble. it is such an inspiring sight to see amidst the tragedy here. this, of course, where seven children, they were killed in the plaza towers elementary school when that tornado struck. really the school took a direct hit. cnn's john king toured the devastation with moore police sergeant jeremy lewis. >> in terms of when people first responded here, i mean, where did everybody go? >> we basically surrounded the school and started running into different areas. some of this has been cleaned out due to the search and rescue efforts. literally just climbing over debris. people were yelling for help.

so pulling people out as quickly as possible. and that went on literally for hours. >> this was a hall of classrooms that led to -- >> classrooms on each side. >> connected? >> that was a wall there, a classroom straight ahead. there was classrooms out here. you can see there's still tile. >> right. it's just gone. >> this classroom is gone. these classrooms are all gone. >> more on the front side here too, anywhere we see tile? >> you can see the door leading into what was the classroom. >> the back wall with the board. that's the front wall of the school there? >> front wall would have been there, yes. >> is there a place in the school where people fared better? >> you can see where there's still walls standing up. obviously that corner, the main part of the tornado came through this way. so this is the area that took the most as it went through this part here. so that's -- yuck see where the walls are standing and where

they're not. 460-something students. unfortunately, we did lose seven. but by looking at the damage it's a miracle that we didn't lose a lot more. and none of this has been touched. this is what it looked like. there hasn't been tractors moving anything. this is how it landed. people have been through, there's nobody left if. >> this has been searched. we had to go through all of this. this goes for 15 miles the other way, just like this. >> 15 miles? >> just like this. >> 15 miles just like this? >> 15 miles, yes. >> reporter: the damage there just so staggering. of course, the devastation at plaza towers elementary school weighing so heavily on everyone, the loss of seven young lives weighing on everyone here. it is weighing particularly heavy on one tornado survivor who rushed to the plaza towers elementary school with the hopes of saving some young children. pamela brown is here with that part of the story. >> we've talked to so many people who right after the tornado, they wanted to help.

they rushed wherever they could to help. i spoke to one resident in moore, oklahoma, who did just that. he went to plaza towers elementary school hoping to save lives. what he saw still haunts him. >> reporter: moores dent adam baker is big a hand to a close friend whose home was flattened by monday's catastrophic tornado. it's helping him cope after he found himself helpless in the face of tragedy at plaza towers elementary school. >> it's just -- utter devastation. i mean, i don't know if there's really a way to describe it. >> reporter: right after the storm hit, he was one of many who rushed to plaza towers to find loved ones. he desperately searched for his nephew and any other survivors. and you went there in hopes of rescuing people? >> yeah. and i -- didn't really get to, i guess. i -- i tried, though. that's all i can do. >> reporter: instead, he encountered unspeakable horror.

four children buried under the massive debris of the collapsed school. suffocated by its shear weight. >> they probably would have made fit they weren't pinned. >> reporter: how were they pinned? >> pinned by different debris. desks. two by fours. pieces of metal. >> reporter: the students were not found in a basement as officials initially believed. do you think had there been an underground shelter these lives could have been saved? >> oh, yeah, most definitely. underground shelters are some of the best things to have in a tornado. >> reporter: still, there are not enough of them. even in tornado-stricken oklahoma. schools aren't required to have underground shelters. the main reasons, the high cost of retrofitting the schools and the porous soil. >> it's about the money. and the statistics. an f-5 tornado is very rare, 1% to 2% of the tornados. they don't happen very often, same reason they don't have safe rooms for earth quabs.

they don't work all the time. >> reporter: a painful truth for mickey dixon davis who lost her son kyle at plaza towers. >> with us living in oklahoma, tornado shelters should be in every school. it should be -- you know, there should be a place that if this ever happened again during school that kids can get to a safe place. that we don't have to sit there and go through rubble and rubble and rubble and -- and -- and may not ever find what we're looking for. >> reporter: a feeling that adam baker knows all too well. >> i pulled them out. and basically just tried to put them in a row. respect 33 as i could. >> reporter: what was that like for you? >> terrible for me. but it's my duty as an american. it's a hole in your heart. just to see these little broken bodies. >> just getting chills to hear that. the national weather service by the way has confirmed at this point the school is the only

spot where they can confirm the ef 5 strength winds. winds of 200 miles per hour. or more. which isn't surprising when you see all of that devastation and what happened there. >> when you heard from the city mayor saying they would hope to have shelters in all these schools, i talked to parents of one of the victims, one of the little girls who died, they wish there was a shelter in that school. that's something everyone here is talking about. >> easier said that done but in light of what happened, you're seeing online petitions from residents, you're seeing state legislators saying, look, we need to do something, let's propose some legislation. we could see some change. >> thank for being here, we appreciate it. still ahead, terror on the streets of london. a deadly attack on a man thought to be a british soldier, an attack in broad daylight. the country on high alert right now. a live report coming up. the fbi linking dead boston marathon bombing suspect tamerlan saw her 95 to a triple murder two years ago. startling new information next.

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welcome back. fears of a terror attack in britain have riot police in the streets and security beefed up at army bases this morning. you're looking live in london where london police are searching for evidence in a bizarre and gruesome killing in broad daylight. >> we swear by the almighty allah, we'll never stop fighting until you leave us alone. we must fight them as they fight us, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. i apologize that women had to witness this today but in our land our women have to see the same. you people will never be safe. remove your governments, they don't care about you. cameron is going to get caught in the streets. when we start busting our guns do you think the politician is going to die, no, it's going to be the average guy like you. >> what do we know right now? >> all we know at this point is

that they're working on the investigation. two suspects are now in custody. they're under arrest, in separate hospitals. i'm right by the police cordon. this was actually the scene of the crime about 100 meters or so behind me. i apologize for the noise, a helicopter overhead. but basically what we know is that the man, young man who was killed, we believe is a serving british soldier. we do not know, he has not been formally identified, we also don't know the names of the attackers yet. all we have really is that video you saw, that incredible video where he seems to be asking bystanders to tape the murder and also to take his statement. it really is some stunning video footage. i also have with us now a guest, and this is graham wilder. graham, you were an eyewitness to this, in fact, you live just three doors down from where this killing happened. what happened? >> well, i mean, as i said, i

come out from where we live just up the road there. as i turn i see the actual car on the pavement. so i just carried on driving because i had to go where i actually live. and that's where i thought it was just a traffic accident. i see a geezer laying down against the wall and i see two people leaning over him. and i presumed they were trying to resuscitate him, that's what they looked like they were doing. i went and parked the car up in the garage. and as i parked the car in the garage, we start to walk up towards where it was. and a lorry pulled up and a little car pulled up then he come out and started saying, phone 999, phone the police, whatever. that's when he actually pulled the weapon, the handgun out, waving it about. the geezer in the car sped off. >> so there was a man with a gun. >> yeah. he was dressed all in black. he was the tall, black guy.

he was over 6 foot. he had the handgun. so i backed off towards my back gate. as i was on the phone to the police on 999, i was talking to them. but then as i was talking to them a bunch of schoolkids come up through the alleyway. between the houses. >> horrific scene. >> get in, there's someone up there with a handgun. i actually seen the handgun in his hand. >> thank you very much. that's very vivid description of what happened. as you point out, he had a gun, and in fact, he fired it, i believe, and then he -- police were able to shoot both of the attackers serious injuring them and they're now in the hospital. thank you very much. as you can see, i mean, this was an incredibly traumatic event that happened. eyewitnesses seeing all this. it really is a very grisly, shocking event, christine. >> i know. even looked like passersby didn't even know what was going on. the video of this man, one of the suspects, ranting about --

ranting about why he did that. a woman is walking by, pulling her groceries or pulling her bag. just a very, very odd and disturbing scene. atika, thank you so much. tamerlan tsarnaev, the boston marathon suspect, laepged to a gruesome triple murder. a chechen man killed by an fbi agent wednesday in orlando confessed to slashing those victims' thoets in 2011 and that man claims tsarnaev also participated in the murders. john zarrella is live in orlando with the details on this. what can you tell us? >> reporter: good morning, christine. this is still a crime scene more than 24 hours after ibragim todashev was shot and killed. turns out the fbi had their eyes on him within days of the boston bombings. the common thread between

todashev and one of the bombings appears to be waltham, massachusetts. sources tell cnn this man knew boston bombing sources tsarnaev and confessed to being "directly involved in a brutal triple 2011 drug-related murder in waltham, massachusetts. a federal law enforcement official tells cnn that todashev also implicated tamerlan tsarnaev in the murders. todashev is dead, shot during questioning by an fbi agent and two state police officers in the kitchen of his orlando apartment. law enforcement sources told cnn todashev confessed to his role in the triple murder then became violent and attacked the fbi act. he was then shot and killed. a friend said todashev knew the boston suspects but that was all. >> he knew them two years ago when he used to live in boston. he knew them.

he didn't -- he wasn't real close friends, just happened to know them. and i guess it was his fault, one of the waltham, massachusetts, victims. the fbi is checking to see if they can match his and todashev's dna to the crime scene. there were other decks between the men. sources tell cnn they came from the same region of chechnya. both men were in mixed martial arts in a studio in boston and on a mixed martial arts website. tamerlan tsarnaev's phone number was found in tosashev's cell. earlier this month he was charged with batly after getting in a fight over a parking space at a local mall. while it appears todashev was a violent man, his connection to

the boston suspects may go no further than a murder case and friendship. todashev had bought a ticket to go to russia on may 27th. the fbi had known about that and told him, don't get on that flight. >> what an odd turn in all this. john zarrella, thanks. developing right now, a humongous sell-off of stocks in foreign markets and it will have an effect on you. i'll tell you what's driving the sell-off and what will happen to your 401(k) today. n, there's fusion proglide. our micro thin blades are thinner than a surgeon's scalpel for our gentlest shave. switch to fusion proglide. gillette. the best a man can get. switch to f[growl]roglide. we used to live with a bear. we'd always have to go everywhere with it. get in the front. we drive. it was so embarrasing that we just wanted to say, well, go away. shoo bear. but we can't really tell bears what to do.

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recovery mode. people here in moore, oklahoma, sifting through the debris of where their hopes once stood. now trying to figure out just how to rebuild. >> jurors deadlocked. what will happen to jodedi arias if jurors can't agree she should be sentenced to life or death? defending gons. president obama takes the podium

today right after new information released shows americans, americans killed by drones overseas. welcome back to "early start. i'm christine romans. >> i'm john berman here in moore, oklahoma, where the search for survivors is now over and really everything has shifted full gear into recovery mode. president obama is coming here on sunday. there's so much devastation to see. so many people to comfort in this tornado-ravaged town. state insurance officials are telling us claims are expected to surpass $2 billion. that's easy to see when you look at all this destruction. according to oklahoma city's mayor, some 13,000 homes have been damaged, destroyed or affected in some way. 10,000 people right now left without a place to live this morning. this town now facing the daunting task of burying 24 of their own, including 10 children. government officials here are pushing for new laws to require safe rooms or shelters to be

built in every new home in this town moving forward. first, there's so much debris to be moved and so much rebuilding to be done. that's why i want to go to george howell standing by live, moore city hall. what's the latest on the recovery effort this morning? >> john, they just threw the local paper out, "the more man transcript." take a look at it, "return to rubble." more venture back into the disaster zone. the six people who were missing, those six are now accounted for. and it does go into that process of going into hard-hit areas and starting the process to think about rebuilding. there's a lot of debris, a lot of damage, so people can now understand that people are all accounted for, go back into those neighborhoods, look at the damage, look at the debris. some of the homes are insured, some weren't. at least they can start that process. >> so the mayor here, george, is pushing for a92 law that would

mandate safe rooms or some kind of shelter in every new home that's built. what are the specifics of this? does this include schools? >> well, you know, there are two different proposals. first, the creation of a fund by governor mary fallin here to take donations to build safe rooms. safe rooms at different schools. you know, officials here believe this is a mandatory thing that just needs to happen. and also there is a state representative who is pushing the idea of a bond measure to basically generate money so that homes moving forward, and schools, have storm shelters. specifically with schools, making sure that these public schools have underground storm shelters. listen to what they both had to say. >> that's going to be up to the local school districts and the bonding capacity of the school districts themselves. but i think it's certainly wise to put in some type of storm shelter, whether it's a room that has been fortified and is being used for dual purposes as

a classroom, band room, whatever it might be. and we actually have begun doing that over the years when we've had tornados that have struck schools. >> well, i think, first of all, i certainly don't think there should be a requirement of the federal law. it's none of our business. second thing is oklahomans aren't stupid. they'll fix this problem and they'll address it. >> senator tom coburn there. you get the sense oklahomans are looking at what happened here, again, we're talking about upwards of $2 billion. you know, in repairs that will have to happen. some of the hopes insured, many of them not. talking about a tornado that was 1.3 miles wide. it was on the ground for 40 minutes. went 17 mimes before all the damage was done. they're looking at what happened, john. they're looking at ways to fix it. >> i think they are. they're always looking at ways to make things better, particularly in the schools. some of the questions of so many of the parents who lost their

children in the plaza towers elementary school are asking this morning. thanks for being with thus morning. i had a chance to speak to one of these families who lost one of their precious children, 9-year-old daughter in this case. 9-year-old emily was one of the many children who died when the tornado flattened the plaza towers element secretary school. . >> how did you find out about emily? >> we knew when we couldn't find her. at all. she wasn't -- any of the kids that got pulled out and we waited until 2:00 in the morning and that's when they told us she could possibly be a child that's -- that's dead. >> reporter: i talked to these parents. they're simply brokenhearted. i spoke to them right after they spent the day planning the funeral of their 9-year-old daughter. you can hear my entire interview at 8:00 eastern time on "starting point." our hearts go out to that

family. they showed such strength. they just adored, adored that little girl. when i was finished talking with them are really wish i'd had a chance to meet her. >> i look forward to seeing that interview. our hearts go out to them. defending drones. president obama delivering a major speech today on terror policy and the future of drones one day after the administration said four americans, americans, had been killed in drone strikes overseas since 2009. many of those details had been classified. more now from cnn white house correspondent dan lothian. >> reporter: hours before president obama delivers a major national security speech, his administration is now acknowledging

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allah we'll never stop fighting until you leave us alone. >> the victim believed to be a soldier was run over then hacked to death. police looking for evidence. the specks were shot and are now under guard in the hospital at this hour. britain has tightened security and put riot police in the streets. dead boston bombing suspect tamerlan tsarnaev has been linked to a gruesome 2011 triple murder in waltham, massachusetts. a law enforcement source says ibrahim today dechef confessed to slashing those victims' throats and claimed his friend tsarnaev participated in those murders. todashev was killed earlier in a confrontation with an fbi agent and massachusetts state police. jodi arias' jury tries to break through a deadlock over life and death. the jurors who earlier decided arias was eligible for the death penalty have so far been unable to reach a unanimous verdict on

the sentence. here's cnn's ted rowlands. >> reporter: travis alexander's family broke down in tears when jurors announced they were having trouble deciding if jodi arias should live or die. >> ladies and gentlemen, i have received your note indicating that you are unable to come to a unanimous decision. >> reporter: jurors had been deliberating less than three hours when they sent a note asking what they should do if they couldn't agree. the judge told them to go back and keep trying. >> i am merely trying to be responsive to your apparent need for help. >> reporter: if jurors can't agree what to do, arizona law dictates a new jury be brought in which could extend the almost five months long televise trial that's been ratings goat for networks and stations across the country. >> was jodi arias a battered woman? >> reporter: the media's obsession has been fuelled in part by arias herself starting five yes, there is ago when she

held this nauz conference from jail proclaiming herness? >> nothing to do with it. >> reporter: since then, arias has continued to do interviews and while her story has changed over the years, her willingness to talk about it hasn't. which she was asked about this week by phoenix television station ksaz. >> why are you talking to me? >> because we're interested in what you have to say. >> what i've decided to do at this point is utilize the mouthpiece that i have, so to speak, to bring awareness to domestic violence. >> reporter: maricopa county sheriff joe arpaio has come under fire for allowing arias to talk to freely from jail. he tweeted this response, some of you are mad about the jodi arias interviews, please understand we can't step on her first amendment rights. we allowed them, now no more. we did not buy jody makeup, we wouldn't do that, the media provided it to her. after the judge told them to keep going the jury continued to deliberate for the rest of the

day without reaching a verdict. they'll be back at it at 10:00 pacific time. ted rowlands, cnn, phoenix. the storm system that spawned the oklahoma tornado has moved to the east now. >> this has been one of these really tough, slow-moving systems rfsh the same low that produced all that severe weather in oklahoma and across the plains each day has been progressing to the east producing severe weather with it. today's no exception. we'll continue to see more severe weather now progress into the northeast. with that, here's where your severe outlook is today. just a slight risk. most likely in the northeast. we're talking about strong straight-line winds. the potential for large thunderstorms and hail is out there. but another risk area now is pack in the forecast. this time the panhandle for texas. and with that we're looking for intense showers today and even isolated threats of tornados. another day to stay vigilant out there. what we are going to be talking about is more showers in the recovery area of moore.

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back with you now from moore, oklahoma, this morning. as you can see all around me it's a town that has suffered so much damage, so much devastation. but it is also a town this

morning taking pride in all of its heroes and there are so many. specifically the teachers who helped protect and comfort students as this deadly tornado barreled through. our brian todd had a chance to talk to one of these heroes. >> reporter: the sound of the terrifying moments when the tornado hit. lynn bretton and jessica orr are shaken, their voices quiver when they talk about it. monday afternoon when this massive tornado struck, they huddled with 25 kids inside a bathroom at briarwood elementary school. bretton covered two kids with her body and kept thinking -- >> don't let me die, just let me get these babies out of here. >> reporter: as the roof was torn off and the ceiling caved in on the bathroom, listen to the audio recording on bretton's cell phone of horrified kids, bretton trying to reassure them.

>> you're okay, you're okay, you're okay, you're okay! you're okay, you're okay, you're okay, you're okay! >> i didn't know what to tell them, i just kept telling them, we're okay. my mind, i was praying. >> she said, father, just protect us, put angels between us and the tornado, i know you're stronger than this tornado. and some of the kids were praying. the teachers were praying. i looked miss bretton in the eye and we could hear a roar. >> reporter: bretton teaches sixth great, orr teaches fifth grade. the kids 10 or 11 years old. the most intense part of the experience when the tornado was at its strongest played out over the course of ten minutes.

afterward, this is what was left of briarwood elementary school. at one point, one of the kids shouted at bretton, "i love you." >> i love you! >> i love you too! we're okay! we're okay! >> reporter: everyone survived. the teachers say no one was hurt. >> the sound, you could hear it start to go away. and i thought, we made it, we made it, thank you, god. >> reporter: lynn bretton said the advice she'd give to teachers for a situation like that count your kids, know who you have, and stay calm. although she says that's next to impossible. brian todd, cnn, moore, oklahoma. >> so many heroes. also so many tragedies here and families coping with unimaginable grieve. jerry bondi's story is wrenching. she is hospitalized coming to grips with the death of her

husband. she tells anderson cooper they were holding on to one another in a bathroom in their home when the twister came bearing down on them. >> i felt like i was in a blender. that's the best way to describe it. the wall just kind of came down on me. and kind of swirled. and i held on to my husband as long as i could. and he just flew into space. >> you felt him pulling away? >> yeah. and i don't know where he went. >> were you speaking to each other during the storm? >> yes. >> what were you saying? >> well, we -- he was telling me how much he loved me. and i said, i love you. and the whole house just went. >> the whole house all around you? >> it's gone. >> so tragic. there's obviously so much need here. we want to remind you, if you want to help the victims in oklahoma, there's a great way to

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as the estimates of the damage continue to grow. linked to murder. new information that dead boston marathon suspect tamerlan tsarnaev may have been involved in three killings two years ago. and terror in london. country on high alert this morning after a deadly attack in broad daylight on a man who may have been a soldier. good morning. zoraida is off today. i'm christine romans. >> i'm john berman. it is thursday. it is may 23rd. 6:00 a.m. in the east. we are here in moore, oklahoma, again this morning because the search for survivors here, it is officially over. less than 72 hours after that epic e-5 tornado tore through this town. this morning, the crews are officially sifting into full recovery mode. and there is a lot of work to be done and there is a lot to tell you about this morning. first, i want to show you a really interesting, staggering image to see. this is google earth image of madison place drive. this is what it looked like monday morning, just three days

ago. monday morning. this is what it looks like now. i'm standing on madison place drive. you can see all the homes around me damaged, destroyed. some simply flattened. the debris here is everywhere. shows you the difference that an instant, just a single instant can make. it's a reminder here of all the lives that were lost and just how much work lies ahead. some of the facts this morning, we've learned that 13,000 homes here were damage ord destroyed by this storm or somehow effected. thousands of people are waking up homeless this morning, staying with friends, family, in hotels here. state insurance officials tell us the claims here are expected to top $2 billion. plus, fema is making it clear that resources are now available for this disaster. they have enough money for this, they say, but if another a tas t trofy strikes the u.s. any time soon, that's when the agency says they may not have enough

money to properly respond. president obama coming here to moore tos is assess the damage and to comfort the victims. so much tragedy here. the official death toll stands at 24. ten of those killed were children. the challenges ahead right now of this town of 60,000 people right now have a daunting recovery ahead. officials now estimate the twister damaging or destroying more than 13,000 homes causing up to $2 billion in damage. >> oh, my god! >> reporter: volunteers from all over the country are now in oklahoma to help those in greatest need, like this pennsylvania man and his team who traveled here at the first sight of trouble. >> fortunately we were monitoring weather patterns and realized that this storm was going to happen. when the storm happened we were only two hours out and were able to bring in almost $2 million of equipment within two hours after

the storm touched down here. >> reporter: as survivors pick up the pieces a memorial service is scheduled this weekend to remember the 24 lives lost, including the seven children killed at the plaza towers elementary school. the tragedy at the school is raising more questions about why schools don't have safe rooms for shelter. >> anybody that lives in any tornado area should have one. but it's just a matter of cost. you know, there will be more people after this tornado that buy them vand them put in. so we'll have more as soon as this is done. >> reporter: the mayor confirmed that all of the missing are now accounted for. the city cemetery, hundreds of volunteers gathered with shovels and rakes to clean up for upcoming funerals. president obama will visit the tornado-ravaged area on sunday. at a white house event wednesday night the president reiterated his support. >> while the road ahead will be long, their country will be with him every single step of the

way. >> reporter: for every story of destruction there are so many more of selflessness and heroism. at this day care center flattened by the monstrous winds, all of the toddlers and workers survived in a bathroom. paramedic lisa lester described what she encountered as she drove up to help the wounded. >> they were just covered in mud from head to toe. all you could see was the whites of their eyes. >> reporter: she squeezed them all in this ambulance, 18 people in all. >> is that legal? >> no. >> reporter: lisa reunited with one of the women she helped that day. >> so glad i got to see you. i wanted to get your name. >> i couldn't remember yours and i looked at the paper, it was shannon. i'm so happy. i'm glad you're okay. i'm so happy. thank you so much. >> heroes around every corner right now in this town. since the moment the tornado struck, a lot of the focus here has been on the plaza towers elementary school.

it took a direct hit from the tornado where seven children died. john king got a chance to tour the devastation with moore police sergeant jeremy lewis. >> in terms of when people first responded here, i mean, where did everybody go? >> we basically just surrounded the school and started running into different areas. some of this has been cleaned out due to the search and rescue efforts. there literally just climbing over debris. people were yelling for help, so just pulling people out as quickly as possible. and that went on literally for hours. >> this was a hall of classrooms that led to -- >> classrooms on each side. >> connected? >> there was a wall there. that was a classroom straight ahead. there were classrooming out here. you can see there's still tile. >> right. this is gone. >> this classroom is gone. these classrooms are all gone. >> there are more on the front side here, too. anywhere we see the tile -- >> you can see the door into what was the classroom. >> the back wall of the

classroom, yeah, the board. and that's the front wall of the school there? >> front wall would have been there, yes. >> is there a place in the school where people faired better? >> you can just kind of see where there's still walls standing up. obviously that corner, the main part of the tornado came through this way. so this is the area that took the most as it went through this part here. so that's -- you can just kind of see where the walls are standing and where they're not. 460-something students, unfortunately we did lose 7. by looking at the damage, it's a miracle that we didn't lose a lot more. and none of this has been touched. this is what it looked like. there hasn't been tractors moving anything. this is how it landed. >> people have been through and reasonably certain no one is left? >> it has all been searched. that's what has taken so long. this goes 15 miles the other way. >> 15 miles? >> of just like this.

>> 15 miami miles of just like yes. >> there is a steely resolve here in moore, oklahoma. but even with that, a tragedy like this gets to you and recovering is really easier said than done. our pamela brown spoke with a rescuer still trying to process what he witnessed, what he went through at the plaza towers elementary school. pamela is back with this story. >> right after the tornado he rushed over to plaza towers elementary school. one of the first people on the scene. what he came across, the discovery that he saw he says will forever haunt him. moore resident adam baker is giving a hand to a close friend whose home was flattened by monday's catastrophic tornado. it's helping him cope after he found himself helpless in the face of tragedy at plaza towers elementary school. >> it's just devastation. i don't know if there's really a way to describe it. >> reporter: right after the storm hit, he was one of many who rushed to plaza towers to find loved ones. he desperately searched for his

nephew and any other survivors. and you went there to -- in hopes of rescuing people. >> yeah. i didn't really get to, i guess. i -- i tried, though. i mean, that's all i can do. >> reporter: instead, he encountered unspeakable horror. four children buried under the massive debris of the collapsed school, suffocated by its sheer weight. >> they probably would have made it if they weren't pinned. >> how were they pinned? >> pinned by different debris, desks, two by fours, pieces of metal. >> reporter: the students were not found in a basement as officials initially believed. do you think had there been an underground shelter these lives could have been saved? >> oh, yeah, most definitely. underground shelters are some of the best things to have in a tornado. >> reporter: still, there are not enough of them, even in tornado stricken oklahoma. schools aren't required to have

underground shelters. the main reasons? the high cost of retrofitting the schools and porous soil. >> it's about the money and the statistics. f-5 tornado is very rare, 1% to % of the tornadoes. they don't happen very often. it's the very reason they don't have safe rooms for earthquakes, they don't work all the time. >> reporter: a painful truth for mickey dickson-davis who lost her son kyle at plaza towers. >> with us living in oklahoma, tornado shelters should be in every school. it should be -- you know, there should be a place that if this ever happened again during school, that kids can get to a safe place, that we don't have to sit there and go through rubble and rubble and rubble and may not ever find what we're looking for. >> reporter: a feeling that adam baker knows all too well. >> i pulled them out and basically just tried to put him in a room as respectfully as i

could. >> what was that like for you? >> it's terrible for me, but it's my duty as an american. it's a hole in your heart just to see these little broken bodies. >> it's tough to hear that. and you wonder how he's ever going to recover from being there and having to do that. john, in light of what happened, we could see some change. there is online petitions from residents pushing for requiring shelters in schools. there's a state legislator saying that they're going to push legislation, as well. we could see change but also it's easier said than done. as we talked about, you have to think about the cost and the fact thats there's a high water table, porous soil, a lot of hurdles. >> very much a part of the discussion here. you sooe first responders like that who were there on the scene sifting through the rubble on monday. they're back at work. it's not like that happened and they're resting now. they're back at work all day every day doing their job.

>> he went back to work on monday, he told me. i asked him, have you had a chance to let this sink in. he said he hasn't. he's been busy not only working but helping out his friends go through their homes and find their belongings. >> they're all going through that together right now here in moore, oklahoma. 11 minutes after the hour. coming up, london's mayor calling it a sickening and unforgivable act of violence. a soldier hacked to death in broad daylight. and now the country on high alert. a live report from london next. plus, linked to murder? why the fbi thinks boston marathon bombing suspect tamerlan tsarnaev may have helped kill three people in 2011. the new details on that coming up. act of soaring across an ocean in a three-hundred-ton rocket doesn't raise as much as an eyebrow for these veterans of the sky. however, seeing this little beauty over international waters is enough to bring a traveler to tears.

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the man who captured that bizarre scene. >> reporter: the man with the bloodied hands is not talking to a professional cameraman. he has deliver rately sought out as passerby who was filming with a phone camera. the man who filmed those dreadful scenes prefers not to be identified but he told me about that unreal conversation. >> he came straight to me. he said, no, no, no, it's cool, it's cool. i just want to talk to you. >> reporter: the amateur cameraman said the bloodied man and second man seemed to be waiting by the body for the police to arrive. >> why don't you run? you can run. it was the time the police was taking to come, that was 30 minutes. and in 30 minutes, the guys, they come running, taking the train, go away. >> reporter: instead, the two men talked to women, allegedly apologizing. then according to this witness, charged towards the first police officers to arrive.

>> why he brought the gunmen, city police, straight, run to the police. they run straight to the police and they start to change gun, bang, bang, bang, you know. >> they didn't try and run away at all? >> no no, no, no, they didn't try. they didn't try. >> reporter: with the two men injured and restrained on the ground, the police moved the amateur cameraman away. >> move back, please. >> reporter: he asks them why they had taken so long to respond. >> you come early. >> please move back. >> why didn't you come early. look, the guy is dead now. that's the time you come. you take 30 minutes to come. soldier is dead. you guys -- >> reporter: the witness says he had been on his way for a job interview when the world seemed to go mad. >> that's very sad for me to see someone die that, you know,

because he didn't do nothing to die today, you know. and for me, it's very sad sand training thing for me. very sad. >> wow, bizarre. the alleged attackers shot an undergua underguard at the hospital this morning. they are searching for evidence. let's get trath to atika in london with the latest. good morning. >> yeah, what we have some more details about the victim. we understand that he has been formally identified. it is confirmed he was a serving british soldier, but his family does not want his identity to be released at this point. that's what we have the latest on him. as for the two suspects, the attackers, they are under arrest. they remain in separate hospital beds. now i have an eyewitness to the scene. this is lucky awale.

you arrived at the scene right there after the police were there. can you tell us what happened? >> at first we see people running aside. i thought maybe there was an accident and i went along with my cousin. and then we see this blue car and thought -- this guy was standing in the middle of the road with blood and he was talking like crazy. >> what did you think this was? >> at first, like i said, i thought it was an accident. when i see the guy, he told a knife and saying call the police, call the police. he wasn't scared or running or doing anything. >> thank you very much. i really appreciate that. i talked to a number of eyewitnesses and they call this very traumatic, shocking. >> atika shubert. we're having trouble with your mike there. the video is just really sad and bizarre. and the suspect screaming that they wanted to start a war.

we want to start a war tonight, they said. all right. stunning new information this morning about the killed boston bombing suspect tamerlan tsarnaev. cnn has learned that he's been linked to a gruesome triple murder outside boston two years ago. a law enforcement source says a chechen man who was killed by an fbi agent wednesday in orlando that, that chechen man confessed to slashing the victims' throats in 2011 and he claimed tsarnaev participated in the murders. john zarrella is live in orlando with the details. tsarnaev was a sparring partner of one of these deceased men from 2011. after the boston bombings they suddenly started to investigate that lead. >> yeah, there's no question about it, christine. there were a lot of things that brought them between the bomber and ibragim todashev. this is still a crime scene more than 24 hours after todashev was shot and killed by authorities. now, some of todashev's friends

have said that within days of the boston bombing the fbi were already looking at todashev. and the common thread between todashev and one of the boston bombers might have been massachusetts. sources tell cnn this man ibragim todashev knew boston suspects tamerlan and dzhokhar tsarnaev and todashev confessed to being, quote, directly involved in a triple murder in massachusetts, a federal law enforcement official tells cnn that todashev also implicated tamerlan tsarnaev in the murders. but todashev is now dead, shot during questioning by an fbi agent and two massachusetts state police officers in the kitchen of his orlando apartment. law enforcement sources told cnn todashev had confessed to his role in the triple murder, then became violent and attacked the fbi agent. he was then shot and killed.

a friend said todashev knew the bombing suspects but that was all. >> he knew them back like two years ago, back when he used to live in boston. and he knew them. and he didn't -- he wasn't like real close friends. he just happened to know them. and i guess that was his fault, mistake. but he had no idea that they were up to something like that, like bombing and everything, you know what i mean? >> reporter: now dead, boston bomber tamerlan tsarnaev knew one of the massachusetts victims. the fbi is now checking to see if they can match his and todashev's dna to the crime scene. there were other connections between the two men. sources tell cnn they came from the same region of chechnya. todashev lived in boston two years ago. both men were in mixed martial arts in a studio in boston and on a mixed martial arts website. tamerlan tsarnaev's phone number was found in todashev's cell. earlier this month todashev was charge with aggravated battery after, according to orlando

police, getting in a fight over a parking space at a local mall. while it appears todashev was a violent man, his connection to the bombing suspects may go no further than a drug murder case and friendship. now, he had also bought a tick get to russia and he was supposed to leave on the 27th of this month. but the fbi had told todashev not to get on that plane. christine? >> john zarrella, thanks. still ahead, new airline ratings are out this morning. which airline is tops? the answer, you know what, it might surprise you. we're back after this.

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in full recovery mode, here in moore, oklahoma, the focus shifts to what's next as the tallies of damage and destruction, they grow. and indecent misconduct. a former military sergeant accused of secretly videotaping female a cadets. jurors deadlocked. what will happen to jodi arias if jurors can't agree if she should be sent toeenced to life death? i'm john berman here in moore, oklahoma, this morning. when president obama comes here to moore on sunday, it will be so many people to comfort and, of course, so much destruction to see. you can still see it all around me here. state insurance officials tell us claims are expected to surpass $2 billion in this

tornado-ravaged town. some 13,000 homes damaged, destroyed, or somehow effected. 10,000 people with no place to live, staying with friends, family, and hotels. and this battered town is now facing the task of burying 24 of their own, including ten children. after two agonizing days of search for survivors as we said this town now is really in recovery mode. it's about cleaning up. there's so much debris to be removed and so much rebuilding to do. george how well is live at moore city hall this morning. george, what's the latest on the recovery efforts? >> john, good morning. you know, just a few minutes ago we saw the local paper that was thrown out. it really tells the story. "return to rubble." moore residents venture back into the disaster zone to begin salvage after deadly tornado. you know, so as you mentioned, you know, all the people have now been accounted for, the missing have been accounted for. now it goes into that new mode of going back into these

neighborhoods, terribly damaged neighborhoods, and starting to think about how to rebuild. beer ta we're talking about a storm that caused so much damage, officials believe it could be in excess of $2 million. it was on the ground 40 minutes, stretched 17 miles, and 1.3 miles wide, caused just a swath of damage through this town. so now that process, john, is just starting to look at it and start to rebuild out here. >> one of the things people are now doing, george, is to try to plan for the future. the mayor here in moore is push for a new law that would mandate safe room or storm shelters. give us the sense of the specifics of how this would work and if it would include schools. >> well, you know, this is -- and you see a lot of officials from senators, u.s. senators, to the governor here looking at these different concepts. this plan, according to the mayor, would basically require new homes to have safe rooms. that is quite an added expense when it comes to building new

homes, but officials here are looking at what happened in this case and they say it's worth it. even the governor is proposing an account, you know, for donations to come in to build safe rooms for schools and for private homes. you even see a state representative looking at possibilities of bond measures to create the money to build these safe rooms and underground shelters at schools, looking at what happened, john, they're saying it's worth it. >> really gives you a sense looking at all this destruction about how these rooms, how these safe rooms and shelters can save lives. thanks for being with us. of course, there were the homes and n. moore that were devastate and destroyed but there were also a lot of businesses in this town that suffered a great deal of damage. jay tapper visited a prominent strip mall to see just how bad things got there. >> reporter: one look at the camden village strip mall and you can see not only the tornado's fury but also its

cruel capriciousness. at one end, a chinese restaurant torn to shreds. at the other, a pub virtually untouched. >> the tornado just like came -- >> you can see the way it came. dan mcginnis, the pub on the end. you can go in there and sit down and have a hamburger right now if it had electricity. it didn't go that way. it went this way. i mean, they're not touched. they didn't lose a single -- a chair wasn't even turned over. there were two beers still sitting on the counter. >> come on. >> yeah. >> reporter: lisa tally's father owns the mall and she awe saw her here touching base with the tenants and directing the clean-up crews. >> there's a girl down there working right now for cheers. she lost her house yesterday. she has nothing. and she is up here helping him, you know, she's a manager of that store, but, i mean, she text me last night. i said are you okay, she said, i have no home and i have no job. >> reporter: but she also heard stories of survival such as two from the family that owns the chinese restaurant.

they survived by hiding inside their freezer. >> they went into the freezer of the chinese restaurant? >> yeah. she sent -- katie and her daughter, she made them leave and her and her husband rode it out in there. >> in the freezer. >> in the freezer. >> reporter: next door is what was once the office of chiropractor tyler baden. boden came by to sort through what was left. >> what are you looking for? >> just whatever you can recover? >> cash box, we've got some patient files here. i want to try to get as much of that secured as we can. we're just going to start calling. there's a long list of patients and we'll just do the best that we can. and, you know, i just hope -- i just hope everybody is okay. >> reporter: for the folks cleaning up here today, tomorrow looks different than they

planned. >> like i said -- >> reporter: michael moran's dream, his business, nutrition 101, it's devastated. it's gone. so what happened next for your business? >> well, we've been here the last two days, yesterday and today, trying to salvage what's left. unfortunately i did not have insurance on the store. so everything i had i put into the store and at this point we want to get everything that's still usable, to pick up the pieces and try to recover and move on. >> reporter: moran still seemed shocked that he escaped in one piece, running as the tornado chased behind him after hearing a dire warning on the local news. >> i just missed being in this for about two minutes. >> i think the meteorologist is right. >> i actually -- without him saying that i probably would have tried to stick it through staying here and there's no telling what would have happened at that point. >> reporter: the tenants here at camden village did survive, even if their businesses did not. and now the hard work begins of putting things right. >> i know my dad and his team of

people, i mean, they're goes to bust their tail to get this thing put back up real quick. >> reporter: they would not have it any other way. they would not be anywhere else. >> i would never leave here. have you seen how amazing the people are around here? it doesn't get any better than this. why would you leave a community that -- you know, you can't live in fear. >> reporter: jake tapper, cnn, moore, oklahoma. >> the people here are amazing. one of the sites you see, such a vivid image of people going through their businesses, their homes, trying to look for anything to salvage, find something to keep. it's hard in what you see them leave with is often so interesting. it's just a stuffed animal, even finding a stuffed animal is meaningful for them. >> thanks, john. let's get to other headlines. a sergeant at west point accused of secretly videotaping female cadets in the shower and bathroom the army investigators are trying to contact a dozen women unwittingly caught on camera at the academy.

pentagon correspondent barbara starr is here with more details on this. good morning, barbara. >> good morning, crust teen. we've been talking about these sex assaults, sex crimes in the military. but for the army, it doesn't really get any seedier, any more invasive than this incident. another black eye for the u.s. military. this time an army sergeant first class is charged with allegedly secretly videotaping female cadets in the showers and bathrooms at the u.s. military academy at west point. it went on for nearly three years. his job, to mentor and train cadets. the sergeant's conduct was discovered last year after criminal investigation he is now charged with indecent conduct, dereliction of duty, cruelty, and maltreatment. the story was first reported by the "new york times." it's the latest in the series of high-profile cases of sexual misconduct in the military.

president obama is outraged and vowing to crackdown on assaults. >> he has zero tolerance for sexual assault in the military and believe that those who participate in it dishonor the uniform they wear. >> reporter: chuck hagel says accountability must improve. >> starting with some of the questions about victims saying, and rightfully so, that they didn't feel their commanders were accountable enough to be able to come forward and register a complaint. >> reporter: at ft. hood, texas, another sergeant first class who worked on preventing sexual assaults is under criminal investigation by the army for allegedly trying to force a female soldier into prostitution as well as abusive sexual contact and maltreatment of subordinates. an air force lieutenant colonel was arrested on sexual battery charges for allegedly groping a woman near the pentagon where he worked on sexual assault

prevention. you know, look, sexual assault crimes, sex crimes in the military have been going on for years. just as they do in civilian society. but many military leaders will now tell you that they believe it is time that they must deal with what they see as an emerging cultural problem in the military. how the u.s. military treats its military women. christine? >> barbara starr, thanks for that. just in to cnn this morning. british prime minister david cameron speaking out right now about a brutal attack on a soldier, a soldier who was hacked to death on a public street. live on downing street right now cameron says security operations are under way and that the country will be resolute against its stand toward terrorism and he just said that this was a betrayal of islam and the muslim community. the suspects were shot. they are under guard that the hour in a hospital. police have spent the day back at the scene looking for evidence. the country on high alert right

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welcome back. 44 minutes after the hour. developing this morning, the search is on right now for a missing child after a fourth grade field trip turned tragic during a gravel slide caused by heavy rain. search teams in st. paul, minnesota, will be out with rescue dogs this morning looking for this missing child.

another child killed in that slide. two others were hurt. we're told the ground beneath the kids simply gave out. boston bombing suspect tamerlan tsarnaev killed in a shootout with police is now being linked to a gruesome 2011 triple murder in massachusetts. a law enforcement source says ibragim todashev confessed to slashing the victims' throats and claimed that his friend tsarnaev also participated in those murders. todashev was from chechnya, killed early wednesday in orlando during a confrontation with an fbi agent and detectives. the chicago board of education is shutting down 50 schools around the city. city officials say 140 chicago schools are now less than half full and that the closures will consolidate those underutilized schools. the chicago teachers union says the move could expose students to turf wars and gang violence. 46 minutes after the hour now. this storm system that spawned the oklahoma tornado has moved

to the east. meteorologist peterson is fol w following the system for us. good morning. >> good morning. one of the things that made the severe storms so strong was all the cold air behind the low. the same low is pushing, like you said, straight to the northeast today with that tailing cold front producing showers down to the south. it is so cold we're going to be talking about the potential for some snow flurries at the highest elevation peaks with this system. keep that in mind, i want to show you real quickly, i know everyone is worried about this memorial day weekend. the farther south you are you're going to start to see clearing first and by the end, we're still going to talk about showers in maine. the farther south you are looks like a better weekend will be shaping up for you. in new york, by sunday or so we'll start to see things clear up. here's what it looks like though. severe weather still in the forecast. that threat, that same low is the same low now that's pushing into our area. most likely here we're talking about some straight line winds and larger hail. but again, we're looking at another threat area in the pan hand of texas in through portions of oklahoma. here not as strong of a threat

that we saw last week. we are talking about a slight chance for tornado in that area as well. we are watching though, we're seeing where some cells are popping up. lightning in the area in oklahoma where we're trying to do that recovery. it looks like that will be the case straight through the weekend. we're going to talk about nice moderate temperatures, 70s and 80s but as long as we see the thunderstorms developing, we're going to be talking about chances for some heavier showers, even some winds, 15, 30 miles per hour. that could hinder some of the recovery efforts out there. >> thanks for that forecast. coming up, moore, oklahoma didn't know how many heroes there were. we're going to meet a doctor from the moore medical center who went above and beyond. always infinity. [ marcy ] it's like memory foam. [ female announcer ] the only pad made from a revolutionary material. [ erina ] it totally fits to your body. [ female announcer ] it's incredible protection, you'll barely feel it. always infinity. tell us what you think.

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oklahoma, everyone. john berman here. today started out like any other for this doctor but monday ended like none other as the doctor on-call at moore medical center emergency room, she sprung into action as the ef-5 tornado barrelled toward the hospital. i want piling gurney mattresses people to protect them. they comforted patients as they rode out this devastating tornado. despite the catastrophic destruction to the hospital no one died, really there were no injuries, and many survivors are crediting the team's selfless heroism. look at the destruction there. it's amazing that no one was hurt. thank you for being with us, especially despite the weather here, the rain and lightning bearing down on us. explain to me what happened that morning. you hear the tornado warnings. you know you have minutes to get ready. what do you do? >> right, well, the hospital did a great job of alerting us and we had the tvs on so we knew

that it was a possibility that it was coming for us. our staff and team did an excellent job of getting all of our patients back into the -- what we call our safe area. that's more in the central portion of the hospital, our fra fast track or clinic area. we were there 15 or 20 minutes. we were still treating patients. i don't think we knew that it was really going to come. i knew that it was definitely one that had touched down and we still had the tv on in that area. and so we -- at one point we finally looked up and saw that it was headed our direction for sure. the power went out and at that point we were -- we told the patients to get the mattresses. we were handing out blankets and sat on the floor and ducked for cover. >> as it was going by you. >> right. >> what was that like? what were the patients saying? >> well, it was very calm, amazingly. everybody was -- i don't think we had one patient that was maybe just crying.

it was a little girl, she was 7. she was there for an asthma attack. but everybody else was very calm. it was amazing. >> a testament to you being cool, no doubt. we spent a lot of time outside of what's left of the moore medical center right now. there's so much damage there. when you went out and saw what happened, what did you think about the destruction? >> i had no idea that it was even -- i didn't even get the depth of it until probably the next day. but i had no idea. i talk about this a lot, the area that we were in, nothing was touched. it was -- i don't know if anything was really out of place. we had one ceiling town that was down, wires, dust in one portion. but other than that, it was -- i had no idea. i thought we were okay where we were. >> you grew up here. you're on okie, from oklahoma. >> right. >> is that how you knew what to do or do you get training to

perform like this? >> well, i think every day in the er is probably a little bit of a test and just kind of a little bit you have your busy days and crazy days. and during my training we talk about disasters, but -- so i was somewhat prepared but i don't think you really ever are until you're in this situation. i think you get on a mode to go and do what you know to do and it's more instinct. >> obviously somehow you were wired for this type of event. those patients were lucky to have you. dr. stephanie barnhart, thank you. we're back right after this. i'm tony siragusa

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pain, tear, and remembrance. a lot of grief in moore, oklahoma, as people try to recover from the loss of 24 lives in their community. one of those victims, 9-year-old daughter emily kanaster. she was one of the seven children killed when the tornado flattened the elementary school and her parents can't stop thinking about what happened when the tornado touched down. >> i have a lot of questions about what happened. you know, it's -- it's unsettling because i want to know that she went in peace. >> that's all i want to know. really, because it killed me that night not knowing where she was at. all i did when i closed my eyes was picture her flying through the air, being trapped somewhere, crying for mommy and daddy and i don't want to picture that. i couldn't sleep at all. i couldn't sleep. >> you can hear john berman's entire interview with the

conatzer's coming up at 8:00 on "starting point." a group of dogs bringing comfort to the hardest hit victims. golden retrievers with a lot of experience with this disaster. therapy dogs trained from a group from illinois. they provided comfort to victims from the new town, connecticut, school shootings and the boston marathon bombing. we told you how nba star kevin durant donated $1 million. he is visiting one of the damaged neighborhoods and meeting one of the families who lost everything. >> i talked to a family. they're going to have to -- boy, what's left of the house and build from scratch. that's going to take a long time, man. some families dy don't know a te going to do in the next few weeks. it's very unfortunate. as much help as we can give, these families need it. >> if you want to help the victims in oklahoma, you go to cnn.com/impact. that's "early start."

i'm christine romance. a special edition of "starting point" from moore, oklahoma, starts right now. picking up the pieces, survivors return searching for a shred of normalcy. some lost their homes, others lost their lives. one elementary school flattened, unrecognizable. >> a lot of 460-something students. unfortunately we did lose seven. but by looking at the damage, it's a miracle that we didn't lose a lot more. >> reporter: complete devastation. one oklahoma town in shambles with an entire country ready to lend a hand, ready to help rebuild moore, oklahoma. >> so we're going to help them recover. we're going to help them rebuild for as long as it takes. and eventually, life will go on. and new memories will be made, new laughter will come, new songs will be sunk.

>> reporter: survivors recount each moment. it is shocking, raw, and heartbreaking. >> the wall just kind of hanged down on me and it just kind of swirled. and i held on to my husband as long as i could. and he just flew into space. i don't know where he went. >> good morning. welcome to "starting point." i'm christine romans. >> i'm john berman. it is thursday, may 23rd. we do begin here in moore, oklahoma, where i have to tell you it's been raining very, very hard here. you may see some lightning behind me. it's been 72 hours since that tornado of epic proportions tore through this town. and this morning the search for survivors is actually over. emergency crews are shifting into full recover rry mode.

we learned that some 13,000 homes were damaged, destroyed, or effected by this storm. thousands of people here are waking up homeless this morning, staying with friends or family, in hotels. state insurance officials tell us claims are expected to top $2 billion. it's easy to see how you get to that number. plus, today was supposed to be the last day of school here in moore, oklahoma. today the kids at plaza towers elementary school, they were supposed to attend an end of the year talent show. instead, students will just say good-bye to their teachers for the summer. the funeral for little antonio is scheduled for today. she is survived by her mother and her father and two sisters. she was just 9 years old. everyone who was missing in the aftermath of the tornado is now accounted for. the official death toll stands at 24. that number not expected to change. ten of those killed, ten of them were children. and the challenge ahead of this town of 56,000 people, the