that it has brought. i'm anderson cooper. live with special coverage from moore, oklahoma. this battered town is being slammed again. it is a miserable day here. heavy rain today is hampering recovery efforts. lightning and thunder, authorities warn that strong winds could send tornado debris flying through the air. this comes as people here start the painful task of burying 24 of their own including ten children killed in monday's tornado. 9-year-old antonia being buried first. her funeral is underway. her obituary says she always danced, not walked, to the beat of her own drum. she and six other students were killed when the twister demolished plaza towers elementary school. today is the last day of school in this district. the district superintendent says they will go ahead with graduation ceremonies on saturday. >> it's the beginning of a healing process. and this community needs to begin that healing process. and we're going to do that and do the best we can and make sure

that our students are all taken care of. >> the scope of the devastation here, it's hard to really get your hands around it. the mayor of oklahoma city says the tornado damage or demolished at least 12,000 homes. a children's book found in the rubble captures what many people are feeling right now, it reads "i remember my old house, its rooms so bright and wide, its halls will echo for all time with the laughter heard inside." george howell has been talking with people who are just beginning to pick up the pieces of their homes and lives. where are you now, george? >> anderson, we're right here in front of city hall at moore -- in moore. and here's the thing in the next hour we're expecting to get another news conference to get more information on where we are with this recovery. so far here's what we know. we know that 353 people were injured in this situation. we also know that a 2,200 people applied for fema assistance.

and we know of the six people who were missing, those six people are all accounted for. and at this point, anderson, as you mentioned i thought the rain had passed and then we got hit again. so the rain comes and goes. there is flooding in different parts of oklahoma city. that's only adding to the problem because, again, you have all the debris all over the place, you have nails sticking up. it's a mess out there. that's what people are having to deal with as they start to get back into these communities, get back to their homes and decide whether they can even, you know, repair those homes. >> we're seeing some of the video. we saw this really starting yesterday in earnest, just hundreds of people, volunteers who'd come from all surrounding areas with rakes and brooms and all sorts of things, bags to start cleaning up. how long is the cleanup expected to take? do they have an estimate? >> it's hard to guess. you know, because when you get out into these neighborhoods and you see the damage, clearly this

could take months. it could take several months before people can first of all remove all the debris and then start that process of rebuilding their homes. we do know that people are finding shelter in many different places. and it will be a long-term sort of situation because they can't go back into those neighborhoods. it's going to take some time. >> george howell reporting from moore. george, thanks very much. we're going to check in with george throughout the day. he's at the city hall. of the ten kids killed in the tornado, seven were inside the plaza towers elementary school. the school took a district hit. the tragedy's raised questions about why that school and others did not have tornado shelters. pamela brown joins us with more on that part of the story. there is a new push and a lot of folks around here would like to see more schools with tornado shelters. >> yeah, we're seeing a big push from politicians, parents, residents here not only in moore but throughout the state. a politician, a state lawmaker is saying he wants to push for legislation to make it a requirement. there's a petition with 6,000

signatures, of course that keeps going up by the minute making it a requirement as well. but there are several challenges. after the big tornado in '99 we've been talking about, it was a requirement to have shelters, safeooms in schools. but it's retro fitting those older schools that presents the big challenge here, anderson. we know that fema has spent $57 million since '93 putting safe houses and shelters in private and public residences and also partnered with the emergency management offices in oklahoma which has installed 100 safe houses. but there are several challenges especially when it comes to cost. let's take a listen to what one official had to say. >> for the most part the safe rooms that we have funded through this program have -- yes, for the schools, have been below ground. and they're usually utilized as a band room or a music room, something that's multifunctional that we can actually move kids to in the event of severe weather. and that's for the most part what we've done. keep in mind, most of these

projects have been anywhere between $600,000 to $1 million and they've usually all been applied to brand new construction of new schools. >> you heard that $600,000 to $1 million, that's not cheap. and there's other obstacles, anderson. the poor soil, the high water table, it's tough to build on and then cause leakage and deal with maintenance fees. there are several hurdles. >> the expense obviously is a huge one as well. you've been talking to -- you know, we're learning more and more about people who lost their lives here and slowly people are starting to talk about their loved ones they've lost. you talked to a parent who lost a child. >> we've been talking to parents. yesterday we talked about the rescuer who went to the school and pulled out the deceased children and they all have strong opinions about this. the parent, she lost her son kyle at plaza towers elementary school, obviously devastating for her. and she was adamant, she said, look, we have to protect our children. our children are sacred. there's no excuse for not having shelters for them in the event of a tornado. let's listen to her.

>> i know the schools did what they thought they could do, but 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. >> and, you know, we've been hearing from a lot of politicians, the mayor, the governor, everyone wants to have these shelters in schools. it's just these challenges that we talked about. and they're realistic about it. >> right. i talked to the mayor a couple days ago, he said, look, the cost it's just very expensive and not sure there's enough political will to pass this to make sure this actually becomes mandatory. so we'll see if this really does change things sgr sgl and if the community comes together and donates or how that's going to play into it all.

but i think in light of what happened we could see some change. >> all right. well, pamela brown, thanks so much. coming up, the medical center that took the direct hit from the tornado, workers, patients, their families all escaped. coming up we're going to hear from a hospital manager who helped clear everyone out. you're also going to hear one woman's story of grief and hope. i spoke to her yesterday. she rode out the storm in the bathroom with her husband. she explained how he was taken by the storm, literally ripped from her arms and what it was like to live through it all. >> felt like i was in a blender. >> felt like you were in a blender? >> that's the best way to describe it. pp#@mroú

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they're destroyed. >> but jod di survived by hiding in a shelters. she's one of the many looking at the rubble that used to be their homes and asking why me and what do i do next? we're going to try to continue to follow their stories and bring as many answers to what we can. we'll get back to that in a minute. first, suzanne malveaux has a look at headlines from our cnn newsroom. >> thanks, andserson. a rocky day on wall street. markets, japan, europe, also posting some losses. the sell-off being blamed partly on reports showing manufacturing has slowed in china, but we're looking at the big board now. a bit of a rebound here. up 20 points or so around -- hovering around 15,000. another story, there are new unsolved triple murder and they are linking now the boston bombing suspect, tamerlan tsarnaev, to that crime. a federal law enforcement official says that tsarnaev took part in a triple homicide. this happened in massachusetts

back in 2011. the victims' throats were slit from ear to ear, marijuana was spread over their bodies, thousands of dollars were found at the scene. a source says fbi investigators were told about tsarnaev's involvement by his chechen friend, that would be, brgim. first look overseas this hour. most urgent national alert for terrorism in eight years that's because of this, a brutal killing of a british soldier in daylight in public. now, this is what happened yesterday in central london. two men who witnesses say did it are now in jail. now, british police are working on a motive. they're also worried about more attacks and raising concerns of

security. nick robertson joins us in london. i understand there might be an identification of the soldier killed and we know more about the potential suspects. >> we do. that soldier has now been named by the minister of defense, suzanne. he's been named as lee rigby, a 25-year-old soldier, he had a 2-year-old son. what we've learned here that may be very interesting is that he served in afghanistan in a fire support group in helmend province. the ministry of defense wanted to make sure that they could confirm he was an active duty soldier and wanted to make sure his family is informed. now we know a 25-year-old soldier who had served in afghanistan was the young man who was killed here just yesterday. the two men in custody at the moment under armed guard, separate hospitals in london.

when the police arrived on the scene, the two men tried to attack the police. they were shot, injured, taken to separate hospitals where they remain under guard, suzanne. >> there has been a lot of talk about the video that was released here and certainly a lot of people reacting to this that one of the suspects claiming that this was revenge for muslims, we understand that muslim community leaders in britain have spoken out against this. >> oh, condemned it outrightly and very swiftly within hours yesterday condemning it. saying that anyone who acts in this way is not inside islam, is not a muslim, that removing themselves from the religion, this doesn't represent the religion. and this is something the british prime minister has been following up in his addresses here in this area of london where the attack took place, meeting with community leaders. one of the things he's been stressing is the strength of the community and how this doesn't

represent muslims and the muslim community in britain or around the world, suzanne. >> and, nic, we're getting a photo of the victim from the ministry of defense. tell us what you know about him as we show his picture here. >> lee rigby from the north of england came from the town of halifax in the north of england. 25-year-old man, a 2-year-old son we understand. served in afghanistan in 2009 in helmen province in a base often meaning running weapons, potentially artillery weapons, potentially mortars, that sort of thing to support troops in the field. those are the details that we're getting so far. as david cameron, the prime minister, put it earlier on today, we have lost a brave soldier. >> such a tragic story, nic, thanks so much. really appreciate it. in the united states there

are now new questions about last month's deadly explosion you might recall this happened at a fertilizer plant in west, texas. reuters now reports that a local emergency planning committee was told a year ago that potentially deadly chemicals were stored at that plant. now, that because it is required by law. but there is no requirement to train first responders in how to deal with those chemicals. reuters says firefighters in west, texas, never had any chemical disaster training. and as you recall, 14 people were killed in that fire and explosion including nine first responders. about 200 people injured as well. coming up next, remarkable -- you're not going to believe this. this is a story about a pregnant woman who was thought to be dead, then gave birth, then brought back to life. unbelievable. we're going to have that in 15 minutes. that's it for me now. back to anderson cooper in moore, oklahoma. anderson. suzanne, thanks very much. a teacher keeps her class safe.

coming up the gripping video from the moments she kept her kids alive. that story's next.

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. >> that was a teacher from briarwood elementary. happy to report all of her kids are okay, everybody in that school is. she's just one of many people coming forward with heroic stories. it has been a miserable day here. as you know, there has been rain and thunder and lightning. the skies have now just cleared. it's getting quite warm. hopefully that will get people out to help in some of the

recovery efforts that we saw really starting in earnest yesterday. the principal at briarwood is going to join me tonight on "ac 360" this is our special coverage from moore, oklahoma. there's a lot to tell you about. each day we've been meeting people whose lives are forever changed. their stories of survival and loss are incredible to hear. 24 people were killed during the storm, one was a man named hemant bhonde, he was 65 years old in poor health. his last words were "i love you." his wife survived the storm, she was injured. i talked to her and her daughter yesterday in the hospital. >> do you remember what happened during the tornado? >> my husband and i went to our middle room, which is normal in oklahoma you go to your middle bathroom, you know, where there's no windows.

and i heard it coming, but i thought, well, it will just take the windows. i felt like i was in a blender. >> you felt like you were in a blender. >> that's the best way to describe it. the wall just kind of came down on me. and it just kind of swirled. and i held onto my husband as long as i could. and he just flew into space. >> you actually felt him flying 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, 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. >> were things hitting you? >> yes. yes. you see, i mean, i'm cut all over. >> that's how you got the abrasions on your face. >> that's the least of it. >> and you were saying you feel

like your husband flew to heaven. >> i do. i have no -- i know he's taken care of. >> and that gives you peace? >> yes. okay. and i know i'm -- i was left on earth. i have a few broken ribs and a lot of cuts, but i was left on earth because i've still got work to do. >> how are you doing? >> i'm okay. you know, we talk about the outlooks and everything. and then, you know, very positive. dad was positive. he wouldn't want us to be crying. and right now it's -- you know, now it's staying positive and knowing he's in a better place, not in pain anymore and stock exchange in the sky is where he's at probably. >> did he like the stock exchange? >> he's a big stock market guy.

>> yeah? >> yeah. >> so many families have suffered such loss here. jerry went onto tell me that she will rebuild again with the help of her daughter and her friends and her mom. the medical center took a direct hit from the tornado. luckily workers, patients, their families escaped. coming up, we're going to hear from a hospital manager who helped clear everyone out and saved everyone. ♪ [ agent smith ] i've found software that intrigues me. it appears it's an agent of good. ♪ [ agent smith ] ge software connects patients to nurses to the right machines while dramatically reducing waiting time. [ telephone ringing ] now a waiting room is just a room.

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when did you find out that she'd passed away? >> while the emt guy was over there, she'd been holding onto his pant leg. he was standing next to her, and she had her fingers gripping his pant leg and kept talking to her. all of a sudden her arm went limp. and some military guy had taken his shirt off and had that over her chest to kind of keep her warm and he pulled it up over her face. kept telling him she wasn't gone, she was breathing. >> so sad. i spoke to her yesterday. she's recovering in the hospital, her daughter, shannon quick, died in front of her in

the aftermath of the tornado. she leaves behind two sons ages 8 and 13. one of them is still in intensive care, had surgery yesterday. they were all together when the storm hit. you're watching our special coverage live from moore, oklahoma. people in this town are starting the painful task of burying the 24 people killed by the tornado. a funeral was held today for 9-year-old antonia, candelaria. the incoming superintendent to the elementary school says the two schools destroyed will be rebuilt. the weather has been a problem again today. storms are hampering recovery efforts. it's sunny right now, but we have seen severe rain and lightning and thunder and meteorologists warning high wind could turn debris into projectiles. hospitals are preparing for emergencies like the one here in oklahoma, but when this storm hit the local hospital was in

the direct path of the tornado. moore medical center was ripped apart, none of the patients inside were seriously hurt, which is incredible when you look at the damage. that's basically due to the staff getting patients to a safe place. nick, good to have you here. as the storm was coming, what did you do? >> we were aware the storm was on its way. we had somewhere to about 15 to maybe 18 minutes warning. we have a safety officer at one of the locations that's monitoring the weather. so we had as adequate as we could have warning that something was goipg to happen. so we had plenty of time to kind of game plan. we had a disaster plan to follow. i was able to touch base with all the other nurse managers in the building, the two others and game plan where the patients were going and what time we were going to move them. >> so you take them out of the rooms and where do you bring them? >> the first thing i did was take the emergency department patients we had at the time out of their rooms and move them to the interior of the hospital. there are centralized portions of the build thag are designated

safe zones. we moved them and got them to the safe zones and then i left my charge nurse in charge of that and then moved onto game plan with the other nurse managers on the upper floors. >> i understand at one point people were putting mattresses, blankets over people's heads just to protect them. >> absolutely. lots of blankets, lots of padding the best we could do. we went upstairs to game plan how we were going to get the inpatients out, the medical surgeon patients and the plan for those folks. all my partner, the nurse manager from that portion of the building talked through how we were going to do it, set the plan in motion and got it moving. luckily most of the patients were somewhat mobile. >> 18 minutes, that's not a lot of time, but when you're dealing with patients in all different kinds of distress, what was the most difficult time? >> the most difficult time personally was going upstairs for kind of my final check just

to make sure there was nobody left in the upstairs portion of the building. i went down all the hallways banging on doors yelling making sure there was no stragglers or visitors. we came back downstairs, found out there was in fact one more patient upstairs with the nurse manager and two other nurses that was in the process of giving birth. >> oh, my gosh. >> ran back upstairs and talked to them. and, you know, found out where they were. they were in the surgery suite and that's why i didn't see them the first time i went around. went to the surgery suite, met with them, discussed what we were going to do. and, you know, she was in the process of giving birth. >> so what do you do? >> we felt that it wasn't -- the best thing was to leave her where she was and get her in a safe location and stay right there. so basically we -- that's what they did. >> so she continued to labor all during the tornadoes. >> absolutely. the nurse manager and two of the nurses stayed with that patient the entire time. you know, we game planned what

we were going to do. i helped coordinate and basically said get every blanket you can, pad her up and i'm going back downstairs to deal with this and we're going to roll the dice and see what happens. >> was she okay? >> she was absolutely fine. >> the baby? >> the baby got delivered about 45 minutes later once we moved her downstairs, out of the building, onto an ambulance and out of the building. >> that mom has a story to tell for the rest of her life. no other mother can complain about delivery. that's the worst delivery story ever. >> she stayed the entire time. there was a point when i left them and went downstairs and there was a waiting room with a big bank of windows that faces the southwest and that's when i knew we had seconds. i walked out of that hall, saw into the waiting room and the huge bank of windows i saw the tornado in the neighborhood across the street. there was debris in the air. i knew we had a couple seconds. >> were you worried that the safe zones might not hold? when you look at the exterior structure of the building, i mean, it's just ripped to shreds. >> i was worried, but there was a moment when i was downstairs

with my charge nurse sally and other nurse manager shannon and, you know, shannon asked me where do we go now? and i just thought, okay, well, we're going to hold on and we'll sort that out after this passes. that is what happened. >> could you feel the storm when it hit? >> there were different areas where patients were. we have a lot of community members looking for shelter. there was a patient care area where the actual patients were that were also in the central portion of the building. like i said, i came down the stairs after seeing the tornado through the windows, i came down the stairs, rushed into the hallway which is the in central hallway in the building, which is also one of the safe zones, got behind the fire doors and, you know, as all that was happening you could feel, i mean you could already feel the wind coming in through the front doors, glass had broken out as i was stepping out of the stairwell and got behind the door and held on. it was a double door, double fire doors. one of them got ripped open and that's when the hallway turned into a bit of a scary scene.

i could guess there was probably about 30 people in the hallway. i was behind one of the fire doors and kind of got stuck between, you know, when one of the doors ripped open, the pressure -- i mean, at that point all bets were off. the door that i was behind opened and kind of pinned me against a wall. so i kind of had a unique perspective. i felt safe because i'm between a huge door and wall and i'm looking down the hallway and able to see all the folks there just kind of rolling and tumbling. the wind was incredible. >> the wind is whipping through the hall. >> straight through that hallway. >> and people are tumbling through the hallway. >> absolutely. once it passed i stood up and everybody that was at the end of the hall ended up in a bit of a pile, started sto stand up, brush off and everybody got up so quick, at that point sorting through i need to know if you're injured, i need to know what we're going to do. start filtering this way. i need to know who's injured and who's not. i was absolutely surprised that there was really no injuries. a lot of bumps, bruises, obviously scrapes and cuts, but

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can you say something? >> that's juan recording what it was like moments after the tornado hit. he and his neighbors were searching digging through the rubble looking for someone. right after this he actually did help find one man and rescue him. look around at the destruction here in moore. it's almost hard to believe that so many people did survive. we're going to get back to our tornado coverage in just a few minutes, but first suzanne malveaux has some other news from our "cnn newsroom." suzanne. thanks, andserson. we have a pretty amazing story to tell you about. this is a baby girl alive and well today. and that alone unbelievable when you actually hear about the terrifying ordeal that her mom went through to deliver. i want to bring in elizabeth cohen to talk a little bit about what they're calling this texas mom a miracle mom. when we first heard about this story it was almost unbelievable to even imagine what had happened, but tell us about this. you talked to her extensively and her heart was not beating

when she was delivering. >> that's right. so if we back this up for a minute this woman's name is erica, she's a mom who lives in texas. i talked to her at length this morning. she uses the word miracle both in terms of her own survival and her baby. so what happened is she's a high school english teacher, she's 36 weeks pregnant, so about eight months pregnant. she goes into a friend's classroom and says i feel faint, puts her head down and collapses. her friend has the students in the classroom run and get the nurse. the nurse and the athletic trainer come in and start doing cpr on her and using the defibrillator in the school. we're looking at the pictures. that's baby elena and her daddy. you can see she's still getting oxygen, but she's doing well. but to back up to the story, the nurse said this woman's heart is not beating on its own. i'm beating it for her. i'm doing cpr, but her heart has stopped on its own. so an ambulance came and they did a c-section. and, suzanne, she was so unconscious at this point that they did not use any anesthetic

in the c-section. they cut into her stomach with no anesthetic at all. that's how unconscious she was. >> and there were some people who thought maybe she was dead, but that was unclear whether or not she had been brought back to life. but we know that her heart was not working on its own. >> her heart was not working on its own. and i asked erica were you actually dead? and she says i was never declared dead, but she again was so unconscious that they were able to do the c-section and she didn't feel a thing as they were cutting into her stomach. her baby was born, they got her out in less than a minute. you can do a c-section really fast when you need to. they rushed the baby to the intensive care unit. and they noticed that she started doing a little bit better. that once the demands of the baby were off of her, she started doing a little bit better. they brought her into intensive care, they put mom into a medically-induced coma. she was in that coma for five days. she was in the icu for two weeks. and then she was discharged from

the hospital to a rehab hospital. >> do the doctors have any idea what was wrong with her? how did that happen? >> yes, this is what they figured out. do you remember the stories you and i i think have done some of these together where high school athletes collapse in the gym? >> sure. >> that's what happened to her. she had a heart condition she didn't know about. it's a thickening of the heart muscle so it doesn't work well, the heart doesn't beat properly. and you don't know you have this until something like this happens. it's silent until something like this happens. but they're doing well. i talked to her, i mean, this woman was in a coma. she was so unconscious she didn't feel skcalp als going ino her. beautiful. absolutely gorgeous. >> she is beautiful. you can see she needs a little oxygen, but that's it. mom says we're doing great because the nurse was amazing,

the kids who got the nurse were amazing, the ems people and everything just fell into place and she's getting care now where gabby giffords was getting rehab when she was recovering. so great care from beginning to end. >> and you have more on this story on the web. >> yeah. cnn.com, you can read more about it. >> thanks. also want to take a weekly look around the world regarding education. for girls, gaining access to basic education is pretty tough, especially in haiti. so today we want to introduce you to someone special. she is rose matri and she is just one girl who's rising up. >> open your mind. open your mind. >> translator: my name is rose matrie, i have one brother and four sisters. i am small. i like wearing my uniform. i wear navy ribbons, a navy dress, black shoes.

and i'm beautiful. i live in a house that is slightly cracked. my mom works as a dressmaker. when i leave the school, since this is my last year, my mother will not be able to pay for me to go to school. i want to go to a big school in order to develop my talents. on this board i do my homework. and every afternoon my mother buys me chalk. when i let my imagination go, i think of extraordinary things. i will be a teacher because i love to teach children. to give them courage. >> good for her. rose matrei, she is now 13 years old in secondary school and cnn

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well, country music star toby keith had just flown out of his hometown of moore when monday's tornado touched down. i walked with him through what was once a busy neighborhood. i talked to him about the resilience of the community. what's it like for you to see this place like this? >> ain't nothing i've ever seen before growing up here my whole

life, 35, 40 years. we've seen this a lot. so it's pretty much, gets you right here every time. >> it seems like -- i mean, i've seen a lot of it too, but every time it seems like different. every time it's -- you never get used to it. >> no. it's a different path every time. we're about two miles south of where the last one -- or mile and a half south of where the big one of '99 hit. but there was one the day before this one that knocked shawnee out that no one talked about, but those people up there if you ask them theirs was just as devastating. it looks like this up there in places too. it's part of living in the plains. >> seems like everywhere we go we see people trying to salvage whatever they can, the possessions of their house, whatever they can get out of the rubble. >> well, my sister, my sister-in-law and my niece all got hit. and if your house looks like something like that where you still got a structure left, if you can get a shot of that, then you can get most of your possessions back. insurance company fix your house. if you had a storm shelter, which you should have, then

you're rocking, you know? it all comes back. >> this is where this is the slab of somebody's foundation. obviously they didn't have a basement. it seems i think a lot of people don't live here are surprised nobody has storm shelters. they're expensive. >> if you go into the neighborhoods, a lot of people that can't afford them will have them and then three or four people won't and they'll share. everybody knows where the closest shelter is. so if you ask somebody that survived it and got hit and they had a shelter, their neighbors were in there with them. >> i talked to a woman today in the hospital holding onto her 65-year-old husband, he got sucked out of her arms and died. she said i'm going ore build in the same place because i've got my neighbors, i'll never find neighbors anywhere else like this in the world. >> i know. last night i got here and went straight to my sister's house and we got her boarded in and got her roof covered and everything. and i was standing doing an interview and this lady goes he's standing in front of my

car. and you're like what? i said is this your house, she was like, yeah, i lived through it. she was happy and uplifting. she said what else are you going to do, rebuild it? i'm going to rebuild, this is my home. that's the part that makes you go, you know, that's my neighbor. >> toby, thank you. >> my pleasure. thanks for covering it. >> pleasure. to help those affected by the tornado, visit impact your world on cnn.com. the funeral for antoni antoniantonia antonia candelaria was held today. we'll tell you about others who lost their lives in this natural disaster.

well, the oldest person killed in this storm was 70 years old, the youngest victims were just infants. in all 24 people lost their lives. before we leave you this hour, i want to tell you something about them, what we've learned about them because we're just starting to know more and more about those who lost their lives.

i want to show you tawuana robinson, the storm was bearing down she was inside a closet and called her daughter angeleta, she described her situation and said i love you and the phone went dead. terri long loved aviation and was 49 years old. megan futrell was riding out the storm in the cooler of a 7-eleven. that's her 4-month-old son case who was also with her. he was in his mom's arms when he died. they died together. kyle davis was a rock of a little boy, his friends nicknamed him the wall. he got good grades, loved monster trucks. he was just 8 years old, one of seven kids who died at plaza towers. antonia candelaria, she was 9 and leaves behind two sisters who loved her very much. her funeral was held today, it's

the first of all the funerals. nicholas mccabe is described as a vibrant 9-year-old full of life and smiles as he is in that photo. we met jenae hornsby's dad he called her a ball of energy and love. she was 9. the first thing people noticed about sydney was her smile and her eyes. she die surrounded by love. sydney was also 9 years old. also give you an update on one of our previous guests. if you saw our interview with jenae hornsby's father and aunt and hearing them talk about how sweet she was, it moved them a lot. so much so they got in touch with us and they wanted to pay for jenae's funeral. we thank them for their big heart. this weekend i'm going to take a look at the storm chasers who risked their lives to get that footage of the tornado. my special storm hunters in the

path of disaster airs this saturday at 7:00 p.m. right here on cnn. i'll be back of course tonight at 8:00 and 10:00 with "ac 360." our special coverage from moore, oklahoma, continues with wolf blitzer right after a quick break. this day calls you.

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hello. i'm wolf blitzer reporting here in moore, oklahoma. we want to welcome our viewers. the skies are clear right now, but weather today is taking another swipe at this battered town. heavy rain and flash floods hampered recovery efforts earlier in the day. plus, authorities warn strong winds could turn mountains of debris into projectiles. and lightning could put recovery crews at risk. officials today raised the number of injuries. they now say 353 people were hurt in monday's monstrous tornado. two children are still hospitalized, one in critical condition. eight adults are also in the hospital at oklahoma university medical center. the two elementary s