will be running some legislation in the final days of the legislature to allow the state, if it needs to, to be able to access our emergency fund to help various communities and certainly our schools that have suffered so much. if we do need some money we'll have in some legislation to do that. we will be receiving some federal disaster relief. we anticipate quite obviously that we need it and also i want to mention i have been in many conversations with state superintendent janet bourese and she has given us an update on school systems and keeping track with the various schools. i think there have been five that have had some sort of damage during this terrible storm. >> city manager of city of moore. thank you for coming down. first off. certainly our hearts and prayers go out to residents and folks

here in moore. as you know, we've been through this before unfortunately. i can tell you, though, that our citizens are resilient. i can promise our citizens and i know our mayor will back me on this, this community will recover and clean up as soon as we possibly can. we are looking forward to that job. although we rather not have it as here but we accept it and we will do our best we can to get our community back to functioning normal as soon as possible. let me introduce to you fire chief gary burton. >> my name is gary burton and fire chief of the city of moore. i want to thank all the fire departments and all the emergency services that came in to help us in this city. we are greatly appreciative of all your help. at this time we do not need any more to respond. we will contact if we do.

we do appreciate the help so far but we have plenty of help so far. i wanted to thank the red cross, salvation army and i wanted to thank the citizens for being so understanding with us. >> shep: pardon the interruption. this has been a news conference and received news from the stated medical examiner's office. death toll has risen to 51. 51 people now confirmed dead in the tornado in moore, oklahoma. >> i wanted to reiterate that our prayers are with us in moore and objected city and everywhere. as far as the police and firemen are concerned we had the perimeter set up around the affected areas. we would ask that people that take that area as quickly as possible before night fall if possible. there are a lot of safety issues gas lines, power lines. things of that nature that we

have to take into consideration. there is not much else that can be done. search and rescue efforts will continue throughout the night for as long as they need be. there is another communication site at 19th and eagle at church parents of children in plaza towers elementary. if you need to make contacted and church at 119th and main. other students and other schools that have been held over, if you have not been reunified, the parents need to go to the moore high school and contact officials there. that is where they are taking all the students from other schools. again, we want to thank everybody for their help and other agencies involved.

we really appreciate all the help. thank you. david greenwell, oakland city council, my prayers and thoughts and all of the representatives up here especially from the city of oklahoma and city of moore go out to the families and especially the children who have been impacted by this. i want to thank the various members of both cities, moore and oklahoma city on their quick response. i was down here around 4:00 and as soon as i got here we encountered so many just regular citizens jumping in and trying to clear debris and all the private contractors and emergency services, medical personnel just jumped in and did great from the get-go here. it speaks well about the citizens here in oklahoma city

and city of moore. again the entire resources of the city are certainly at the disposal of this effort. i'm going to bring in city manager. >> i'm jim couch, city manager for oklahoma city. i want to echo councilman's comments, thoughts and prayers go out to those that have been injured. those that have lost property and those that have lost loved ones in this tragic event. i do want to highlight about water. draper treatment plant was spared from the tornado but we did lose power to the facility. we're working to reestablish that power. it could be several hours before it happened. in the meantime, we have generators that will be coming in to power up the water treatment plant. we anticipate having in those later this evening and having power online about midnight. i do want to highlight a couple of things.

first of all the water is safe. it's okay to drink the water, but also use it sparingly over the next day or so as we are recovering from the outage. we should have the power back up, but there be areas of low pressure. please wuis it wisely over the next day or so. i want to introduce our police chief. >> thank you, obviously, moore was hit harder than oklahoma city. we're dealing with an area about three square miles we're having to secure and 90% has received some type of damage if not a total loss. it's a lot less but it's a great deal of tragedy here. a lot less than what moore is dealing with. i have to echo what everybody said. i appreciate the state and all the efforts of the state, all the agencies, red cross and all the volunteers that have come together to do what they do in

situations like this. we've gone through this before sadly in 1999. we did appreciate it. we will work this day by day. i also, one of the most important, like the governor said is be patient. we're not going to to allow citizens back in those areas. there is a lot that has to be done in search and rescue. officers are working closely to go to the so get them searched. we receive text messages and phone calls that are trapped in their homes or shelters are inside their house. we are still trying to search those areas as well as people that can't make contact and may still be out there. so that going to take time. we want to make sure we don't miss anything. people have to have patience to get back those areas. we want to make sure we can do everything we can do to make sure that everybody is in there

will be found. again, i want to thank everybody in oklahoma city and state. i turn it over to the chief from the oklahoma city fire department. >> deputy chief from the oklahoma city fire department. our thoughts and prayers go out to this tragic event. we have completed a preliminary search of the areas in oklahoma city. we started at 944 and 149 and west easterly and westerly to the northeastern route through the oklahoma city area and through the westmore community and briarwood elementary school. we will be working throughout the night and doing third searches there. we do have fema teams working with our command staff and unified command. if they have storm cell

registered, we know the homosexuals and we are double checking that we so much those out and we have everybody safe and accounted for. i appreciate all the different agencies assisting us. again, we'll be out there throughout the night. thank you very much. next up is general manager is jim wynn. >> hello. i'm the general manager for the medical center. since operations begin we have transported roughly 100 patients. we don't have a total number right now because of everybody involved. we are tabulating those and continue to do so throughout the night. we have a dual mission to make sure the citizens and in moore and responders. it's a dangerous situation out there. debris, downed power lines, so we are here to take care of responders and patients if necessary. it has been a tremendous effort

for everybody involved. everybody else mentioned the both the fire department, police department and mutual aid agencies have worked very good together. it's been a total team effort. our hearts and prayers to everybody that were involved in this tragedy, thank you. i'm jamie shelton, we'll be back here tomorrow at noon for another press conference. we're going to have some questions. if there is anything you would like to ask and we'll get you taken care of. >> repeat your question. >> are they pulling survivors from the debris? >> we are still doing searches through the schools and houses and doing secondary searches at

this time. i haven't been back but i do not for sure if they have been to every structure in the city but we should be getting close. >> were there deaths at the elementary school? >> there have been confirmed casualties but i do not have a number at this time. [ inaudible ] >> we would like to ask everyone to stay-at-home.

if you want to make donations you can do it red cross.org or kind of the way to hear after a couple of days. what items are needed. right now the roads are open for first responders and medical and police personnel to get into the areas. everybody wants to help the oklahoma spirit but thoughts and prayers are the best thing we can do right now. as needs come up we will make sure you know with a needs you can address that to. >> the question is, is their there any confirmed deaths in other locations? >> i have been personally in the helicopter and been to the briarwood elementary school. i cannot confirm at this time.

there is too much damage. we do have five canine dogs that are working and activate. and state management has other things we can use and but at the time we don't have any other fatalities in the oklahoma city area we are doing a secondary search and flying over we did see people taking people out in the westmore, correct me, the 149th. >> i cannot confirm that. i can't tell you. >> i would just like to say as far as in moore, there have been couple confirmed fatalities on the east side of town which would be ease of eastern in that area. we can't say exactly how many because the process is still

ongoing. it wouldn't be responsible at this time for us to try and guess. we can just say there are some. we will get that information as soon as we can confirm it in a responsible manner. i would like to say also for the people that are moving out of the neighborhoods and being displaced there baptist church in moore is offering a place to shelter at northeast 27th and i-35 also for a place to stay. also, community center at moore off of i-35. >> it looks very similar. the question he asked, does the destruction look worse than it did in 1999. it's really hard to tell when it gets this bad. i can tell you that the type of properties that it hit makes it

worse for me. governor and lieutenant governor how does this compare to may 1999. >> the question is, how does it compare to 1999 tornado. it was devastating. i think the fact what we see so far today is going to be very similar if not exceed what we saw in 1999. keep in mind, any time there a loss of life its disaster. it's not a huge amount, but we did lose life. it's very similar, of course, to what we had then and what we had in 2003 which was less damaged area, but same area. >> we god worth word, that they

are opening up dorms at o.u. and they can call 325-2511 to stay at one of facilities on the campus. >> tell me more about the phone calls, what he said and any specifics as far as federal aid. >> the president did call along with the janet napolitano and they offered their prayers and condolences to the state. they offered to give any assistance we might need and be able to process paperwork quickly, if there were any snags we might run across, president left us a phone number to call us tonight. if we need help throughout the next several days. both of them offered to rescue teams and medical assistance if we need those things. we are in the space of doing search and rescue but determining what we really need. >> shep: governor mary fallin,

governor of the state of oklahoma do doing what they need to do. helping in times of great tragedy like nothing they have seen here. they talk about the may 3rd, 1999. they killed 42 people. they said it is a storm they would measure all others. worst they had ever seen and worst they considered. today it has been eclipsed as the state's medical examiner's office at least 51 people have been killed in this storm that has raked across that area. in a square mile been estimated between 30 and 60, devastated on this monday afternoon. we'll have continuing coverage throughout the night on those injured, on the rescue efforts and certainly on the scene at plaza towers elementary school where the worst fears have been realized tonight. many children have died. i'm shepard smith.

sean hannity to continue our coverage. good evening. >> sean: a sad day for objections indeed. authorities wrapped up the press conference about the deadly tornado. for the latest go live to casey stegall on the ground. >> let's reset for jurors that just joined us halfway through the press conference and give you some perspective. moore, oklahoma, where i'm standing right now. this is about ten miles just to the south of oklahoma city. this is not in a rural area. this isn't out in the middle of nowhere, this is densely populated area with schools, malls, homes, businesses that have been destroyed. blown apart into bits, into millions of pieces. we know that this hit at the height of the afternoon just about 3:00 on a monday afternoon when people were coming to the 7-eleven gas station to maybe fill up their tanks, grab a soda

buy a lottery ticket. people who were going over to medical procedure building just in the distance to have their doctor's appointments. kids that were going to school and learning not far at plaza tower elementary school where shepard smith said our worst fears were realized and local reports that 24 students at that elementary school lost their lives today, seven of their little bodies recovered by first responders according to the local nbc station on the ground. again the death toll stands at 51 right now according to the state medical examiner's office. a number that is higher than that may 3rd 1999 tornado that everyone in this community that i have talked to today sort of parallels this with in terms of the death toll and the tornado itself. this thing was two miles wide at

times. i was about 30 miles southeast of here in shaw knee doing live reports from a mobile home park that had been leveled yesterday. this state got bat rd by tornadoes, four according to the national weather service yesterday. there were people that started their day today, south of here, east of here, north of here picking up the pieces and then this happened. we saw the devastation. we watched this on live television as we were hunkered down in shawnee, oklahoma. we saw that little funnel start to spin out. sky. we watched it on live television. we watched it grow into the massive tornado that came down out of the sky and sat on the ground here for roughly 45 minutes. 45 minutes! that is almost unheard of. i want to show you this. i want to set the scene. this is the lenlen i'm talking about. sun is starting to go down.

shepard talked about this with the sun going down, this makes it more challenging for search and rescue and search and recovery that is under way all over the place. wuaptd to see what a two-mile wide tornado can do? it can twist metal like this like it's silly putty. this is what it remains of this gas station metal awning. i don't know how close you can get to it. that is eleven eleven gas pump back there. i didn't even know what that was at first. my crew made it here before me, satellite truck, we're at 7-eleven. sign was ripped away. you didn't even know where you were. then when i got here, back here in this corner, this is where the convenience store was. this is where i saw for about an hour and a half this afternoon, i saw people, not just firefighters, not paramedics, not first responders but average

citizens, people who lived in these neighborhoods around here sifting through the rubble back there trying to find a survivor. they had no luck. a man that i talked to earlier today, when he came up there was a man dead on the ground up here. he proceeded to watch a woman and what we can only assume was her infant son pulled dead from the seven len gas staying back there. since, four people just in this one little corner. back there, this neighborhood that borders the 7-eleven gas station, cars are kruy md like tin cans. homes are obliterated. trees are split in half. one of the guys that i talked to went door to door to door in that neighborhood and the moments after this thing and said he heard people screaming. he heard people banging on their

cellar doors. they had taken cover in storm cellars when the warnings came in and he pulled people alive. people pulled from the rubble back there. that was just a few hours ago. if we make our way around here, look at trees, trees that are entirely stripped of bark. there is no more bark on this tree here. this is what 200 mile-per-hour winds can do. you can see the metal that is twisted up in the tree back here. after all of the leaves and branches and everything have been stripped off. as we continued panning around all this way. you can see the same picture all the way around. sean, it's difficult to put into words when you do almost a 360 and you see the same thing all the way around. as journalist that has covered a lot of storms, covered a lot of tornadoes, i've sat through hurricanes, this is very

reminiscent of joplin, missouri where you looked for miles and all could you see is destruction. that is what we're seeing at moore, oklahoma today as people remain unaccounted for. we have seen the number of dead increasing quite a rapid pace. sean, one of the things that stuck out in that press conference is that people have to register their storm cellars with either the local municipality or the state. so they are going through and matching those records to see who had storm cellars so they can try and locate those people. let's face it, this is part ofre to storms. they know what they are doing when it comes to tornadoes here in oklahoma. they are going through the storm cellars that are registered and make sure that people haven't been missed. air traffic was suspended by the news helicopters for a brief

portion of the afternoon so that the first responders could go door to door and listen for signs of life. that is still something that is happening right now. sean, it's really sort of difficult to describe. i'm trying my best, but i don't know if it is fully translating through the camera. it's hard breaking and terrifying all at the same time. >> sean: sad day for oklahoma. shocking devastation. we talked about the loss of life. obviously sun is going down, tell us, because i'm looking behind you and everybody is working. in terms of search and rescue and recovery, are their plans to go through the night? i know they were warning people to stay away from the affected areas but i'm sure people want to help. >> plans are definitely to go through throughout the night. there are people that are coming here and they are trying to help. the local authorities that i've

seen in this parking lot, they are trying to keep people back as far as lot of folks trying to come up here and take pictures and sort of rubber neck and come and see the damage. they are trying to clear the area of only first responders. we had a heck of time getting in here from shawnee this afternoon as we made our way west toward this damage. there has been pretty bad storms tracking our way, i might add. it was clogged. the traffic absolutely incredible with everyone tried to flood in into the area. police quickly tried to seal things off. they can't get ambulances in here fast enough to take out the injured. at this point they are trying to limit to volunteers, people who are here that are already at work. they say they don't need additional help, but then you have a number of firefighters, paramedics military personnel from all around the state of oklahoma that got in their cars

and trucks and converged on this spotted once news of this devastation hit. those people have a very, very long night ahead of them because no doubt there are a lot still missing. it's probably safe to say sadly that number of dead from 51 confirmed by the state medical examiner's office is going to climb. >> sean: casey, we're going to get back to you throughout the night. our thoughts and prayers with the people and families that have lost loved ones. confirmed at least 51 people have been killed by this monstrous tornado near oklahoma city. death toll sadly expected to rise. we'll have much more coming up right here on the fox news channel. she knows you like no one else. and you wouldn't have it any other way. but your erectile dysfunction - you know, that could be a question of blood flow. cialis tadalafil for daily use helps you be ready anytime the moment's right. you can be more confident in your ability to be ready. and the same cialis is the only daily ed tablet

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oklahoma city. terry watkins from the department of management. what the latest on the search, rescue and recovery efforts? >> what i can tell you the search and recovery and rescue operation will continue throughout the night. we have teams of law enforcement officers and medical personnel, firefighters that have volunteered to come in from other communities. they are going to keep going through that rubble piece by piece and bit by bit until they are sure they have found absolutely everyone there. >> sean: the governor in press conference we have search recovery teams going out there but warned people to stay away from the affected areas? >> always stay away from the affected areas when you are talking about citizens that want to come in, see their homes or people who want to come in and look or things of that nature, you need them out so the emergency personnel can go in and determine exactly where

people might be. >> sean: we've had reports, 51 confirmed dead, 24 of those kids from the plaza tower elementary school. what can you tell about that and search efforts going on now? >> i can tell you the medical examiner has confirmed 51 deaths. i cannot tell you what percentage, what number of those are the children. i can also tell you that we do expect that number to rise in the evening. >> sean: can you tell us a little bit more what is going on in terms of recovery, 80 national guard members have been sent. governor signed an emergency declaration for 21 counties. what does that mean in the immediate term right now? >> in the immediate term, the national guard is trying to cordon off the area to ensure that no one gets in that shouldn't be in there. understand, you have seen these pictures. the area is absolutely devastated. with that, it's extremely

dangerous for someone who is not trained to be in that type of area to be able to work. and do the work they are doing. so what the national guard will do is try to make sure we keep the area controlled in there and make sure that search and rescue operation continues along with the firefighters and all the other wonderful volunteers that are down in that area. >> sean: our thoughts and players are with oklahoma. we really appreciate it. we check in with fox meteorologist janice dean, one of the great dangers we expect that at least the threat of more tornadoes for the next couple of days. what can you tell us? >> this is going to be an ongoing situation but in to tomorrow where we could see the potential for large destruction of large tornadoes. we want to do a recap. several day event, 47 reported tornadoes.

national weather. they deemed it as ef-4 but they still have to do another assessment and those winds could come up. we'll keep you posted on that. it was on the ground for 40 minutes. they did have 16 minutes warning went out. when we talk about ef-1 and you go to ef-5 and joplin missouri that was over 200 miles an hour. originally the assessment for joplin was ef-4 and did a final assessment and agreed the winds were 225-250 miles per hour. with this one, the early reports say 166-200 miles per hour. but as they assess the damage those wind speeds could go up. if i could show you the tornado watch. it's my job to make sure that the people in line for more storms need to be taking

precautions especially across texas, where we have a tornado watch, eastern oklahoma in arkansas an missouri and illinois. the threat continues. yellows that you see there are severe thunderstorm warnings. we have a couple of tornado warnings here east of san angelo. hamilton county, into a tornado warning and up to fort smith, arkansas. that line we're starting to see a little bit of cooling in the atmosphere, so the storms aren't going to be as strong. that is one good news. but we still have the threat from north texas all the way up to great lakes with that concentrated area for severe weather including tornadoes. as the sun goes down, people aren't going to be seeing the storms coming. you want to make sure, if you have weather radio, you want to make sure it is on and batteries

are fresh. as we go through the overnight things will clear up but tomorrow, daytime heating again, more storms. so let's go through the evening into the overnight. we'll be watching eastern missouri up to illinois, chicago could be in line for nasty storms in the overnight. then into indianapolis. the storms will die down for several hours tomorrow morning, but watch what happens tuesday as we get into the midday and into the afternoon. they erupt again in the same areas where the folks are trying to clean up and still doing search and rescue. we'll keep you up to date on the very latest. >> sean: let me ask you a question. we know about tornado alley about but in terms those states a risk, texas, oklahoma, arkansas, tennessee, any others, missouri? >> just the map we have the same area the storms shifted more to the east. so deeper into texas, louisiana,

towards arkansas, eastern oklahoma up towards missouri and then we get into the mississippi river valley, ohio river valley where unfortunately we have more population. the storms hopefully won't be as strong, but we can't rule out more tornadoes for these regions as we head into tomorrow. >> sean: without a long explanation, could you give us, what are the conditions that cause these susceptibility for these devastating tornadoes, just a quick explanation for people that don't know. >> tornado alley, you mentioned, this is an area where they typically see bad weather in april, may and june. one of the main ingredients that you need is the gulf of mexico moisture, the winds, the moisture from the south at the surface. then we have rockies and the cold air that sinks in the clash of those two air masses. this is the most volatile area. central u.s. in the world for

tornadic activity because all those ingredients come together. we have strong jetstream that gives the upper level support for the rotating cells so the winds at the surface. we have the upper level support. we got the warm, moist air and cool air from the rockies. all those ingredients and textbook example for a tornado outbreak. >> sean: we have 51 people confirmed dead. that number is expected to rise including 24 children. when we come back, we'll continued on the ground our own alicia kuna as we continue on the fox news channel. we'll be y as he goes back to taking tylenol. that was okay, but after lunch my knee started to hurt again, and now i gotta take more pills. ♪ yup another pill stop.

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about two dozen children who are unaccounted for at plaza towers elementary school hit by a massive tornado today. alicia is standing outside the flatened school. what is the latest on the recovery efforts there? >> they are still underway here. it's incredibly busy. we have seen officials from the coroner's office here. there are rescue workers going into that flattened out school. can you believe it? there believe there are 24 children there and teachers, as well. they are going in with search dogs. we have seen piles of children's clothing and jackets and that sort of thing. all along, this is neighborhood. this is right smack dab in the middle of a neighborhood. we have been watching people with everything they have. a lot of what they have fits

into a few bag oregon a suitcase and wandering through the streets that are filled with the mud. it's the same color. the color of mud. we did meet retire army sergeant troy gambel. we parked and we didn't realized we were parked in what was the driveway, first of all i will tell you how sorry we are. we did notice that american flag there. there is a story behind that flag which is hard to see for folks right now. we'll tell you about it. >> i was out of town when this happened, so i'm coming back to this. i've been overseas and in iraq and afghanistan. i've seen a lot of chaos and mayhem. that flag has been on several deloyments, afghanistan, iraq. every place i go i take it and i

would hang it on hummer or something. that flag has a lot of meaning to it. that and it was pat of who i was. >> reporter: and made it through a couple of hurricanes, as well. >> couple of hurricanes when i was stationed in fort lewis and down in san diego and made it through my -- it's been through a couple of hurricanes, afghanistan, iraq. now this. >>. >> reporter: tell me when you first came in. we were shocked. you live here. tell us about coming through this entire area? >> this neighborhood is extremely quiet. it's a good neighborhood. everybody watches out for each other. i had to park up on sante fe and fourth street. i walked in and i walked around the far corner i saw that part of the jungle gym and playground

and that school. i knew the rest of the neighborhood was gone. i was actually out of town when it happened. i was in mustang and i heard it on the stayed west of the storm. when i saw it on video i was watching video on my phone. when i say the helicopter fly over and take a pan of the school, that was my first glimpse of what i was going to walk in to. you know, you do a lot of combat and stuff. i've been in for a lot of years and seen a lot of chaos and destruction and stuff like this, but it really doesn't hit -- you know you are doing good for so many. it really doesn't hit you until it is your own home. when i walked up the street and i saw the school, i started helping people out of school and stuff and walked over here.

to come home to that, you know, you pick up what you can pick up. you salvage you what can salvage. you thank god he has another plan for you. i normally would have been at the house at that time. if i had been i wouldn't have been here right now. they rushed my roommate, he had come in just got in to the house. i was on the phone with hill. i see the tornado. i heard the garage door come down. the next-door neighbors got in the bathtub and put a blanketed and my dresser came through two walls and landed on tub to where it was on tub and pretty much saved him from the house demolished. >> reporter: your dresser protected him? >> yes. they came and pulled him out and took him off to a hospital. he is doing good from what i

understand. i heard he is doing good. got some broken ribs and bruises he a marine. i'm an army. we're resilient. this is what we do. >> reporter: our best to you and everyone here. thank you very much, sergeant. >> also one other story before i toss it back. i was talking to a woman who was wandering through here, she was looking for mother-in-law, because the mother-in-law had ran into the laundry room with a bunch of family members and tornado she said had picked them up and threw the entire people in ditch. they found everybody but still looking for that mother-in-law. that represents the story so many people are wandering through the place that were once neighborhoods. >> sean: we have reports that the 24 children were believed dead the plaza towers elementary

school. we mentioned that there is an ongoing search and rescue effort. we can see it going on behind you. are we talking about the same 24 kids, do you know? >> from what i understand, yes. you know how this happens. these numbers start coming in. from what i understand the same 24 kids are here. that is the latest. this kind of thing changes all the time and more delicate with we are talking about children. when you look at violent pile of rubble. from what we understand, teachers could be in there as well which would make sense. they have so many people here that are searching and dogs in there, as well. as darkness comes, they will continue to work and hopefully the skies will be kinder to this area tonight so they can continued their work and it won't get more dangerous. then in the morning hopefully we'll have clearer numbers but there are a lot of parents out there because they don't have their babies right now.

>> sean: we're losing light as we look behind you there. the search, rescue, recovery will continue through the evening, you can tell us all through the night? >> yes, that is what we understand. they will continue to do this and continue to bring crews in the governor did activate 80 national guard members. we understand there people from colorado and texas who have offered to come in and help. i don't know if those are different military agencies or where they are coming from but volunteers. they are having a difficult time juggling everything, the traffic here is absolutely terrible. we had quite a time getting back into here. you have residents trying to get in and out. some people were out of town like sergeant gamble. he had to get in. then there were other people collecting their belongings and try to get out. so you have a lot going on here. in the meantime, you have a lot cleanup that has to begin and all of that is going on. they are still trying to find

people underneath all of this. >> sean: unbelievable. in the midst of tragedy you have incredible heroism, a community coming together. alicia outside of plaza towers elementary school, literally we had a tornado rip through this area, winds over 200 miles per hour. buildings set on fire. that school just completely devastated. seven children's bodies have been recovered drowned in a pool that was there. rescuers pulled children out of debris, we now have on the ground the governor has deployed 80 national guard men's. this recovery is expected to go through the night. we'll continue with our coverage and check in with red cross and see what the needs are and efforts they are putting on the ground tonight in oklahoma as we continue our fox coverage. when i first felt the diabetic nerve pain,

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and this is a fox news alert. a deadly tornado tore through the suburbs of oklahoma city today. 51 people have been confirmed killed after winds of 200 miles an hour flattened nearly the entire neighborhood. joining us now is storm chaser jeff petrowski. welcome to the program. >> good evening from moore, oklahoma. >> you see the devastation and it makes me wonder -- and i watched storm chasers -- why you guys do this because is it so dangerous. >> may in 1999 when the same area was effected. having the warning just southwest of oklahoma city everyone was holding 20 or 30 miles west. i was to come to new castle

where this storm developed and we decided to go more southwest. and we saw the storm starting to rotate and we called it into the weather service and got one of the first tornado warnings of the day and get that out. >> you have seen a lot of tornados in your day. this is what you do. you chase them. but comparatively, was this one of the worst ones you've seen? is this an average tornado? >> it's above average. this is going to be more the national weather service have damage assessment teams this afternoon and tomorrow and surveying the damage and come out with the officialt,v word. it will be on the higher end. but we'll see what they will come up with. we'll see what they come up with. it is catastrophic damage at 3:30, 4:00 in the afternoon. you had school in session and

people in shopping malls. it is a catastrophic event. >> a lot of people may be -- by looking at the video you can't tell the speed at which this is coming. we know the winds are up to 200 miles an hour and tornado alley they have the sirens that go off to warn people. in some cases how little time do they have to get to their shelter? >> it wasn't a little time. everybody from all the local media and the weather service did a fantastic job. everybody was on a state of alert. everywhere you went everyone was watching the radar. everyone had the tvs on and they had a 15-minute warning by the national weather service. they did a phenomenal job. >> 51 people tonight confirmed dead. tornado, oklahoma. and just outside of oklahoma city. i have been there many times. my kids play tennis tournaments

there in norman, oklahoma. wonderful people there. our thoughts and prayers are with those who have lost loved ones. that's all the time we have left this evening. stay with the fox news channel. continuing coverage of this developing story. we'll see you back here tomorrow night. this is a fox news alert. children buried under rubble at a levelled elementary school and rescuers are searching for the children. frantic parents are racing to find out if their children survived. the death toll is now at a staggering 51 but the number is expected to climb. dozens of others are injured. that deadly tornado plowing through the oklahoma city area packing winds up to 200 miles an hour and reducing neighborhoods to rubble. alicia acuna is at an elementary school where children are confirmed dead. and janice dean is still tracking the tomorrow. we begin with