>> we will continue to bring you the latest developments as they happen on "fox & friends." >>gretchen: good morning everybody. it is tuesday, may 21, 2013. i'm gretchen carlson. thanks for sharing your time with us on a very busy news day. fox news alert. 40 minutes of terror as a monster tornado tears through oklahoma heugts a school, a hospital -- hitting a school, a hospital and wiping out neighborhoods. >> oh my god. this is not good. please, dear god, please keep these people safe. >>gretchen: this morning the heart wrenching reality is this so far. 51 people have died, including 20 children. that number expected to climb. >>steve: just to give you an idea of the destruction, take a look at the school before and after it was

hit. kids inside, of course. rescuers worked through the night in hopes of finding survivors. we'll tell you the very latest on that. >>brian: to make matters worse, nightmare not over. more violent storms are threatening the region again today. in fact, lightning was just seen. we're tracking the very latest. "fox & friends" starts now. >>gretchen: as many as 51 people have died including 20 children after that massive tornado tore apart an entire oklahoma city suburb. >> look at that cloud. >> listen to the roar. oh my god! this is not good. please, dear god, please keep these people safe. >>gretchen: this morning the death toll in the town of moore, oklahoma, is expected to rise as rescuers keep on digging

through the rubble near an elementary school. around 75 students and staff members were huddled inside that building when the monster storm hit. the roof collapsed. many of them never made it out. fox news chief meteorologist rick reichmuth is live. where were you when this happened? where were you yesterday at 3 p.m.? >> i was around probably 40 miles to the south. there were a few different cells that were popping up all at once and were tornadic and we were out chasing the storms. this one was about 40 miles to the north of us. we could not get up here that quickly because we had another tornado in between us, between our location and where this tornado was. that's where we updated at that time. it took a long time to get back into the city due to the weather that was going on and due to the traffic,

really a standstill all around the area. >>brian: rick, did they have a theory why this was so wide, so devastating when it's been a relatively quiet tornado season? >> it's been a quiet tornado season, kind of very cold winter and cold spring we had kept all the tornado at bay. you need to have a lot of moisture and warm air at the surface, surface level of the atmosphere. and that has changed. it was done late enough in the season, the busiest months may and june. everything has changed at this point and now i think we'll be in position for more tornadoes. this tornado, everything -- all of the elements coming w. we have a setup around the area. we have the strongest level, upper level wind hitting causing this tornado to fall in the oklahoma city suburbs. >> one of the things you've got going now is the

atmosphere continues to be unstable as they look through. this is some of the folks looking through plaza tower elementary which was leveled. right now there in moore, oklahoma, you've got a line of thunderstorms. that's why we had to move our trucks because of the lightning? >> we had to move our trucks right by that elementary school and everybody was set up, the national media, local media. about ten minutes before 5:00 eastern time they came through and said everybody had to get out. they were bringing in more response vehicles. and they still believe there are people trapped under the area and they need to remove those bodies and do that outside of the view of the media, respectfully so. we've all been moved to another area, and we're trying to get to a spot where we can show you some of this stuff and have a good shot for you and still be respectful.

>>gretchen: rick, what people are so concerned about this morning, i understand that some people are still trapped in storm shelters because debris is on top of the access to the shelters. and also there could still be survivors at the school; right? >> i would imagine that there are survivors. and i think all day long today and probably the next couple of days, that's what we're going to be hoping for. great point about the storm shelters, a lot of people have them because they get these tornadoes. when you are here and the pictures on the tv, you can see debris thrown everywhere. i've seen areas where cars are stacked three high and stacked up against buildings. there's so much weight on top of areas on the ground. because most of it is unrecognizable, you wouldn't even know where a storm shelter was. >>brian: i'm wondering about the heavy equipment that would be used probably extremely valuable now. are they able to use the

roads to get cranes in there to start moving some of the bigger pieces of rubble out? >> that's a great point. the first order of business is always to get the roads clear. and it looks like the roads have been cleared. you can see on the sides of the roads the trees that have been cut so that the roads, road ways become clear. that has been done. that is another reason why it's difficult just to get around. this is a monumental path and a ton needs to be done between the local law enforcement on the ground and neighboring community law enforcement that has been brought in. communication isn't always the easiest between them. then making a decision of who can get in and who can't get in and who shouldn't be in because they're in the way. >>steve: of course rick, the president of the united states did declare a number of counties in oklahoma disaster scenes. fema is going to be there later today. as soon as the images came up on the television, i know people throughout the oklahoma city area and across oklahoma and even

neighboring states started going toward moore because they wanted to help. they saw the devastation. they knew the people were trapped in the rubble. we've got some sound from some women who dug through the day and through the night as well in hopes of finding somebody alive. >> the children were in the main hallway which is were they were supposed to be during tornado drills. and the roof collapsed on top of them, and they suspect water lines broke and the children drowned because they couldn't get up from the debris. >> it's very solemn, and everyone is just doing their best to continue the recovery effort. a lot of it doesn't sink in until after the fact because we're in there and trying to keep your game face on, so to speak. but, you know, once it's said and done, it kind of hits you like a ton of bricks.

>>steve: absolutely. we just heard from a couple of responders there at the plaza tower elementary school where the medical examiner for oklahoma city says seven kids who were sheltering in the basement probably drowned. they were in a secure area but the water main broke, and because they were trapped down below, they simply couldn't make it out. >> yeah. such a sad story. so many of those stories obviously. but i can tell you, imagine being in this neighborhood and everything is destroyed, including your car and the roads are gone. you've got to get out of this. there are certainly thousands of people who are homeless at this point, and they might not have a vehicle to get anywhere, and you don't have any clothes except the clothes on your back to get out. there's a lot of people definitely in need, a lot of people who want to help. they are setting up all kinds of staging areas for shelters, meeting areas they're asking people to go to to be reunited and wait for their loved ones.

as you mentioned a minute ago, you did mention the weather that's coming, i can tell you, staoefr, there is a -- i can tell you, steve there is a big line of thunderstorms coming just to our south moving in this direction. i don't think we're talking about tornadoes but we could be talking about really strong wind and lightning. for people out here without homes and potentially kind of wandering a little bit -- and i'm sure there is some of that -- the next number of hours when this rainfall begins are going to be difficult. >>brian: we'll check in with you as you reset up as the sun comes up in oklahoma. >>gretchen: what is amazing about this town is this exact thing happened to moore, oklahoma, in 1999 on may 3. i happened to be working in dallas at the time and went to oklahoma for five days to cover that particular storm which was then an ef-5. the winds then were up to 300 miles per hour. i think from looking at this and having been on the ground in 1999, this storm to me looks worse now

because i think the swath it covered appears to be two miles wide and it was on the ground for 40 minutes barreling through as if it stopped in oklahoma. there were i believe over 40 deaths in 1999. this has been eclipsed. you can see the pats. the green was 1999. the red happened yesterday. i believe what can be proved is the storm in 1999 went through at a much quicker pace. there was obliteration, entire neighborhoods wiped out during that time and people died. but i don't believe it hit a school back then. >>brian: we have pictures now of what the school looked like that everyone is focused on as the -- the tower school. >>steve: the tower plaza. >>brian: the tower plaza school. that is what it looked like before. this is what it looked like from the satellite overhead shot right after. that is where these kids went to be protected when that storm hit. another neighboring school,

briarwood, also destroyed. but preponderance of the children and their teacher and faculty were in the other school. >>steve: five schools were hit and the schools were full of kids because it was school time. generally what happens, having grown up out in the midwest, during school time, if a tornado watch or warning is issued, you just -- you get ready to duck in cover. there was another school that was hit -- and i'm talking about briarwood elementary -- everybody accounted for. out at the high school apparently one of the coaches got a whole bunch of the kids into the field house and had them put on football helmets, which was brilliant. he had them get down real low, and they were able to ride out the storm that way. >>gretchen: you've got to wonder. remember yesterday all the meteorologists were saying there's going to be a huge storm later on today. you've got to wonder -- we're going to be speaking to some parents coming up as well -- whether or not they contemplated whether

to get their kids from school and bring them home or if that was not an option. i don't know. it was 3 p.m. they knew these huge storms were going to be on the way. >>brian: in a matter of moments we'll talk to a man who did both of what you talked about. he was across the street and went in to grab his foster son, aden. he's going to be talking to us about what he went through, what he saw as the school was hit. now you're about to hear from a woman who actually survived what you covered, the 1999 tornado, and lost everything in this one. >> said it was coming. it was like what do we do? do we have time to get in the vehicles to run it? we have pets. or do we just hunker down? we grabbed our motorcycle helmets and hid in the closet and prayed like hell. and luckily the only rooms that were saved was the room we were in. everything else is gone. our kitchen is gone. our pantry is gone.

everything's gone. and we've been there for 21 years, and we lived through may 1999. we didn't make it this time. we weren't lucky. we lost everything. you know, we had to leave some of our dogs at the house. now we've got to walk. i'm just, you know, scared. i don't know what the future is going to hold. >>steve: i don't blame you. it's now 13 minutes after the top of the hour. live from new york city, our coverage of the devastation in oklahoma continues. if you wonder how you can help, we're going to show you. stay with us. you're watching the fox news channel.

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>>brian: fox news alert. in moore, oklahoma, more violent storms are threatening the region again today. maria molina in the fox weather center. maria, we heard from rick on the ground in moore. there is a line of thunderstorms in moore. >> the national weather service believes that line of storms will be moving eastward and slightly to the south. it is a very close line of storms. first i want to show you the threat for severe storms today because this large storm system is still headed eastward, still has a lot of moisture with it,

a lot of heat and instability. we're expecting more severe storms anywhere from texas all the way up into the great lakes. yesterday there was something called a moderate risk. this was issued by the storm prediction center as far as the threat for severe storms. we have that out again today in parts of texas, parts of arkansas, hrafpl l.a. and again -- louisiana and again southeastern sections of the state of oklahoma. we still have the ingredients in place to be seeing mortar in a dick act -- more more tornadic activities and significance for large cities in cities like dallas and shreveport. it is such a slow-moving storm system that heavy rain has fallen over the same areas, the ground already saturated. flooding a concern. i quickly want to show you storms across oklahoma.

here you go, steve, gretchen and brian. you can see that line just to the south of oklahoma city. moore about ten miles or so to the south of that. that line of storms in place, very close but again expected to stay to the south. a very close call. any slight movement to the north and we could be looking at lightning and heavy rain in that area. >>steve: any thunder which would scare the living daylights out of those people after they went through all of that yesterday. there are great ways to help with the recovery effort for the horrific storms in the moore, oklahoma area. go to foxnews.com and click on the how you can help tab. >>brian: you can make a donation, volunteer, or assist in the recovery efforts. there is important information about shelters. the salvation army is also helping victims of the tornado. >>gretchen: now to other headlines for your tuesday. a couple of news items. in a few hours the tea party will be out in full force across the country. members are staging rallies

at i.r.s. offices nationwide to protest the agency's targeting of conservative groups. meantime the white house is shifting its story about what it knew and when. >> the counsel's office was notified about this investigation, this activity, potential activity very broadly just a few weeks ago. >> on april 24, as i said, the white house counsel was informed that the inspector general for tax administrator was completing a report about i.r.s. employees improperly scrutinizing 501-c-4 organizations by using words such as tea party and patriot. >>gretchen: carney maintains president obama did not know about the scandal until he read about it in the news, heard about it when everybody else did which was last week. >>brian: straight ahead, coverage of the devastating storm continues. as soon as he heard about the approaching tornado, he rushed to the school where his five-year-old foster son attended.

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>>brian: as many as 51 people including 20 children confirmed dead after a massive twister ripped through moore, oklahoma, nearly flattening the plaza towers elementary school entirely. >>gretchen: we're joined on the phone by jane rushing. his -- james rushen. his five-year-old foster son was inside the school when it was hit. james, when you heard this storm was coming, you decided to go to the school to try and get your son? you were inside the school. >> yes. i live across the street

from the school. >>gretchen: you ran into the school. that was right when the roof started peeling back? >> the roof just peeled off the school just instantly. >>brian: what did you do? >> all i could do was dug down in one of the bathrooms with other children. >>steve: and it was over in how many seconds? >> it actually took about two minutes before it started to calm down a little bit. >>steve: all right. it started to calm down. you knew that your foster son was somewhere in the building. how would you start the search for him? >> all i could do was come outside of the building and start hollering out his name, as many of the other parents that actually got trapped in the school with me was doing as well. >>brian: can you describe the scene for us inside and then outside? >> inside you had to call

call -- you had to crawl over ungodly apls -- amounts of debris to get to the outside. when you got outside it looked like a war zone. there were no houses left. mine was totally demolished. then you turn around and look at the school and the school was totally demolished. >>gretchen: how did you eventually get reconnected with your son? >> i came out screaming his name, and after a couple of minutes, i could hear him hollering daddy and come running to me. >>gretchen: oh my gosh. >>brian: how describe what he saw? >> he was really scared. all he kept telling me was "it was really loud." >>brian: the kids he was with were okay? was he fortunate enough to be in a place that was semi protected? >> he was in another part of the school in another

bathroom that was less damaged than the bathroom i was in. >>steve: james, have you heard -- have you heard about what happened in the rest of the school? is there are stories out that apparently seven children died when they were trapped this an area where a water main exploded and they drowned. there are also a number of children who are still missing. what have you heard from the school authorities how many kids are still missing from that school? >> from what i've heard from the school authorities, they are still trying to locate about 30 children. >>brian: james, was it an option for you -- for the kids to stay? were they told they had to stay? could they go with you? what was the preparations like? >> i got phone calls roughly about 30 minutes before the tornado had hit that if -- that children were on lockdown in the school and the only way they were allowed to leave was if parents picked them

up. no day cares could pick them up or school buses. >>gretchen: we were wondering how that would have worked. you knew more storms were coming yesterday, and i was interested in knowing how the school decided to handle that with the parents. you said you were with other parents. do you think a large number of parents tried to come and pick up their kids and ended up getting stuck in the storm? >> i did see a large number of parents actually pick their children up and leave. and as the storm was getting closer, it got to the point to where the school was asking the parents not to leave. >>steve: james, had you gotten your foster son out, would you have gone to your house, which was destroyed? >> i actually would have gone next door to a storm shelter, my neighbor's storm shelter. i'm kind of glad i didn't because his house was caved in on to his storm shelter.

>>steve: we're looking at images from your neighborhood. you must be in shock. >> disbelief. i've lived in that home across the street from that school for 15 years, and nothing has ever come that close. >>gretchen: james, do you know if they were able to rescue any children alive last night when they were there? >> i do know that they had rescued about six children that they had found that were alive, yes. >>gretchen: there's hope that these 30 other children who are missing may be found alive this morning at daybreak? >> i pray for them, yes. >>steve: as we all do. james rushing, who lived across the street from plaza towers elementary there in moore, oklahoma. james, thank you very much. >>brian: thank you, james. like james was telling us, it was a normal school day until a tornado tore through and the roof caved in on that school. we hear from a boy inside

that school at the time when the twister hit, his incredible survival story is next.

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>> what was it like? >> it was scary. >> how did you guys get out of there? >> my friend's dad helped

us. >> he was there pretty quick? was everything on top of you guys? >> the feeling was gone. >> the feeling was all gone -- the ceiling was all gone. >> what was on top of you guys? >> ceilings and bricks. >> your kids were trapped? >> yeah. i'm just thankful. >> that's terrifying. >> it's probably more terrifying to not know. >> what went through your head as soon as you saw him walk out of that rubble? >> tears of relief and joy. thankful. >>steve: an emotional reunion between a mom and her son. this morning we know that at least 51 people are dead in the moore, oklahoma, area including 20 children inside that school. the death toll is expected to rise as the sun comes up and first responders search

through the rubble there. >>brian: our fox news chief meteorologist has been in oklahoma for the last two days; is now live on the phone from moore, oklahoma. you had to change your positions. where are you now? >> [inaudible] certainly difficult and understandable. still in moore and moving on to the next location [inaudible] >>steve: speaking of communication problems, you're a little hard for us to understand right now with your cell phone. i know cell service is spotty now. i know that interstate 35, which is a main north-south corridor, goes through moore. it's closed in both directions. for the most part the highway patrol is tell people stay out of moore. most of the people in the town stayed in shelters last night; right? >> yeah, they did. obviously they do a very

good job in shegt up shell -- in setting up shelters, different schools, in communities shelters have been set up. a lot of people with this happening later in the afternoon and by the time people could get dug out, a lot of people worked through the night continuing to search for their loved ones. it's been a very tough time. take a listen to what this one gentleman had to say. >> got up here, parked my truck here at the 7-eleven parking lot. there were people crawling out from everywhere and anywhere, basically a war zone. there were a couple of individuals with lacerations and contusions on their back and head. we had an individual with a spinal injury. as far as i'm concerned, the last time i heard that tow truck, they were towing an individual out of his car and getting wreckage off of him. a lot of people messed up, screwed up, slashes, contusions and stuff like that. >>gretchen: rick, talk to

us if you can about the warnings, because you were on the ground there in oklahoma throughout the day. and it was being predicted by yourself and other meteorologists pay attention this afternoon because more huge storms are coming. what kind of warning did these people get? >> it couldn't have been better. to be honest with you, oklahoma city in the meteorological world has some of the best around. because they knew this was a multi-day event everybody was glued to the television. when you have the visual of that tornado happening, people certainly had warning and knew that they needed to be in their storm shelters and stuff. when you get that kind of a tornado, if you don't have a safe place, you don't stand much of a chance against it. we say get into your interior room, get into your bathroom, the lowest level, there are certain tornadoes that bend those rules a little bit and this

is one of those tornado. >>brian: i know people were predicting it, but yet they're saying the people there got 16 minutes notice. 16 minutes that it was coming in 16 minutes? >> the one thing about this is this cell developed just to the west of town and became very strong very quickly. the tornado got a warning on that cell and then within 16 minutes that was -- [inaudible] >>gretchen: that's probably going to continue to happen because the communication towers have been destroyed. the cell towers. also there's lightning in the area now. that's why we're having trouble getting a live picture coming out of this particular area of oklahoma. >>steve: as rick detailed, about 20 minutes ago, there is a line of thunderstorms to the south of moore, oklahoma, right now. maria molina is in the fox weather center with a look at the day ahead and the threat is moving, isn't it? >> that's right. the storm system, a very slow mover, but i want to

expand on those storms to the south of the city of moore, oklahoma. while overall those storms are moving towards the east and towards the south away from that region, they're very, very close and any slight movement toward the north we could be looking at heavy rain, lightning and wind gusts. to the south of moore, one storm produced a wind gust in excess of 70 miles per hour. powerful storms out here. we're expecting that threat for severe weather anywhere from parts of texas all the way up into parts of the great lakes. damaging winds, large hail and tornadoes. a moderate risk across parts of texas into arkansas, meaning longer track and also damaging tornadoes possible. i also want to point out, cleborn, texas, last week had a confirmed es-3 move through that area. granbury, confirmed ef-4, under risk today for

possible tornadic activity. >>gretchen: this morning "the oklahoman" newspaper declared the storm worse than the storm that hit the town 14 years ago. >> that certainly says it all, that headline there: worse than that. preliminary reports are putting it in the same league as some of the country's worst storms. the national weather service is classifying yesterday's tornado as an ef-4, but that could be upgraded as rick has been telling us about, after they get on the ground and are able to fully assess the damage done this. the winds yesterday reaching up to 200 miles per hour. take a look at the path of destruction. at points the twister was more than two miles wide and it traveled more than 20 miles. but what experts say made this storm so devastating was how long it was on the ground. it was on the ground for 40 minutes. this isn't the first deadly tornado to hit moore. an ef-5 hit on may 3, 1999.

so many folks in that area remember that one all too well. as you can see right here, both tornadoes cutting almost exactly the same path. that 1999 tornado packing wind in excess of 300 miles per hour, and it left 44 people dead, causing more than $1 billion in financial damages. the damage from yesterday's storm is estimated to be two to three times that. monday's storm was the deadlyist since that massive tornado tore through joplin, missouri, two years ago. many of our viewers will remember that one well. that was an ef-5 and killed more than 158 people. but the worst tornado in u.s. history was in 1925. look at this right here. nearly 700 people died when that tornado ripped through parts of missouri, illinois, indiana. of course at the time there were no early warning systems that we have in effect today. the national weather system implemented its new warning system that's now being tested in the midwest and

that gives a more urgent and severe alert than those provided in the past. the good news here is that alert may have actually saved lives yesterday. we'll look into that one more for you. >>gretchen: thank you. coming up on the show, other stories making headlines today, because there's other huge news coming out of washington. the department of justice not just targeting the associated press. fox news also in the cross hairs. judge andrew napolitano on why james rosen was also targeted. >>brian: we are live on the ground with brand-new details from every angle in the search for survivors. vo: traveling you definitely end up meeting a lot more people but a friend under water is something completely different. i met a turtle friend today so,

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she will speak directly to the jury. the big question is whether she will tell the panel she wants to be put to death like she told the fox reporter right after her conviction a few weeks ago. brian. >>brian: 14 minutes before the top of the hour. a new twist on the government's probe of adjournment. the d.o.j. not just targeting the associated press. also fox news in the cross hairs, specifically james rosen. fox news andrew napolitano is here. junell, james rosen in the cross hairs about his relationship and interaction in 2009 with a state department source. >> james rosen, aside from being our colleague and friend, is a first-rate reporter whose job it is to cover the state department for fox news. as part of that job, he cultivates, like we all do, relationships with people. in this case the state department. and he talks to them. the justice department told

a federal judge that by james' talking and flattering -- >>brian: preying on his vanity. >> -- a particular person in the state department. james committed a crime. the allegation was he asked this guy to give him national security secrets. a, the guy didn't give him national security secrets. b, it is not a crime for a reporter to ask for this. it is not a crime for a reporter to receive it. not a crime for a reporter to possess it, not a crime for reporter to publish it. the f.b.i. knows that. the affidavit given to a federal magistrate judge and which was sufficient to persuade the manual straight judge to sign a search warrant -- the magistrate judge to sign a search warrant which enabled the f.b.i. to get copies of his e-mails and texting -- >>brian: without him knowing about it. >> that affidavit was so inaccurate, it said that james committed a crime by doing something that it is only a crime for government

employees to do. and james is not a government employee. >>brian: the f.b.i. says he engaged in criminal activity. at the very least, he aided and abetted this guy jin wo kim in a story about north korea and what we would do in response to their missile launch. >> mr. kim was indited. there is a picture of him. mr. kim was indicted for talking to james. it is part of kim's job to talk to james and james' job to talk to kim. this is the first time thate fes moved to this level of taking ordinary, reasonable, traditional, lawful reporter skills and claiming they constitute criminal behavior. >>brian: jay carney was blistered yesterday by the rest of the press. i guess they thought you attack fox news it will be okay. i don't know lou how james -- i don't know how james carney sleeps at

night because he came from the reporting world. >>brian: brian, i like that tie. i'm flattering you. rosen is a terrific guy. i don't think he's losing sleep over this. >> i guess he shouldn't. judge napolitano, thank you. ahead, the sun is coming up and we'll get a brand-new and we'll get a brand-new look at the devastation. what do you think? and we'll get a brand-new look at the devastation. that's great. it won't take long, will it? nah. okay. this, won't take long will it? no, not at all. how many of these can we do on our budget? more than you think. didn't take very long, did it? summer's here, so are the savings. that's nice. post it.

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oklahoma. at least 50 dead inlewding 20 children after a tornado in moore. >> andy banker is there live and joins us with the latest. andy? >> reporter: good morning, steve, gretchen, brian. we are in moore, oklahoma standing in a driveway right in front of what would have been the garage of the house that used to stand behind me. to give you an idea of just what happened here, the truck was parked in the garage. it was lifted, twisted, thrown into the house. if you can see the orange x on top of the hood, that means authorities have been through here. they have checked to see if there were survivors or bodies and moved on. so is the story as we work our way down the block, house after house after house after house. it's the same story. i've got to watch where i'm walking here. there are boards and nails all

over the place. i say house after house after house, but there aren't any houses there. just what used to be houses. you see the x's all over town. a car, a shopping center thrown about. they are on tree stumps because there is no house to mark. it's as bad as we have ever seen. joplinesque, i guess you could say. i'm about a block away from the moore medical center which ha s been pretty much completely wiped out. when we pulled into town i was making a phone call. i looked up, saw it out the window and it absolutely took my breath away. this neighborhood where we are, there is an entire patch of houses or what used to be houses that are now all gone between where i'm standing and the school. the plaza towers school where the search is ongoing right now for any children who may have

survived or unfortunately died in that building. we know at least seven have died. they fear maybe 24 or more are still in there. whether they are dead or alive is what searchers are trying to find out now. back to you. >> andy banker live in moore, oklahoma. andy, thank you. >> one of the reasons he can't be up close next to the school is they are doing that kind of search and recovery now. they don't want reporters to be there for such a sensitive mission of trying to find the kids. you can see the before and after picture of the school he was talking about. completely obliterated. >> all right. four minutes before the top of the hour. when we come back, the governor of oklahoma joins us live. she's toured the damage, spoke to the president. she can give us the latest and what help could be on the way for oklahoma. with the new staples rewards program

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good morning, everybody. today is tuesday, may 21st, 2013. i'm gretchen carlson. thanks for shaying your time with us on a busy news day. 40 minutes of terror. a monster two-mile-wide tornado hits a school, a hospital, completely wiping out neighborhoods. >> we had the roof gone. everything is gone. our kitchen, our pantry. everything is gone. we've been here for 21 years. >> this morning the heart wrenching reality. 51 people confirmed dead. could be more. 20 of them children. that number expected to climb. >> all right. that school took a direct hit. here is the building before. here is the building after. rescuers are working b frantically now looking for survivors. we are hopeful today. >> governor mary fallin toured

the damage and spoke to the president of the united states. she'll give us the latest in a few minutes. "fox & friends" hour two starts right now. vi . let's get to our fox news alert. you are looking at live pictures of moore, oklahoma. crews working through the night lifting bricks and parts of collapsed walls where a monster tornado barrelled through, the storm demolishing an elementary school. reducing homes to piles of wood. 51 people have been killed including 20 children. the numbers are expected to climb today. minutes ago pope francis tweeted his support for the victims saying, quote, i am close to the families of all who died in the oklahoma tornado, especially those who lost young children. join me in praying for them. in about three hours president

obama is set to make a televised statement. >> there were five schools hit in moore, oklahoma. they were all filled with children at the time. the one that was levelled was plaza towers elementar apparently the protocol there is when there is a tornado warning, the children are split into two different places. the kindergarten through 3rd grade would shelter in the school. meanwhile the 4th, 5th and 6th graders were taken to a nearby church. no information about injuries at the church. however, as we have said, the school was demolished. >> i was fascinated to see a one-mile-wide tornado devastated. now we hear two miles wide with winds as high as 200 miles per hour. some say higher than that. it's an ef-4 that could be a 5. the damage is extensive. i'm intrigued that this has not

been a big year for tornadoes. on average they have 714. this year there are 304 including this one. man, when it came it packed an impact. >> it sure did. >> fox news chief meteorologist rick rymuth is with us near the moore medical center in moore, oklahoma. rick, as i understand, the medical center had, what, the second roof ripped right off? >> yeah. it appears there was a second story over part of the hospital and that second floor has been ripped off and basically every window across the building appears to have been blown out. all the cars in the parking lot are still in the parking lot. none of them have windows any longer. what i did hear from the medical center was that everybody had been put into a safe place in the medical center. but a number of the patients then had to be transported to other locations. think about transporting those people to other locations and then you have the hospital right in the area that's out of

commission. you can't bring people to that hospital which adds more problems. >> where do you take them? >> to the neighboring hospitals and clinics that they have around here. i don't know exactly. i'm certain they had to be spread out over a few different places to accommodate them. >> rick, talk about how many people could be down in storm shelters still. they are relatively frequent for people to build these types of storm shelters because the homes in this part of the nation don't really have basements. now there could be debris on top of these shelters and how long it might take to get to these people. >> yesterday morning on the show we interviewed a woman in the taun of shawnee who survived. her trailer was destroyed. she survived with her family in the storm shelter. they are common. with this storm, the path was about 20 miles long. as brian was saying, at that

point up to two miles wide. think of the debris being tossed around. the storm shelter doors are close to the ground. now debris on top of them. certainly there is a chance that people are trapped inside them. safe, you would assume, because they are in a storm shelter but they have a lot of tdigging to do. >> wise to get into the bathrooms, rick? it seems bathrooms are reinforced even within the schools. >> the basic rule of thumb is put as many walls as you can between you and the outside. that's why you generally say a bathroom. often you have extra walls, it's a small room and you have a bathtub you can get in and maybe throw a mattress over you. a lot of people don't have basements. it takes a lot to dig a basement. you have to dynamite the earth here. that's too much for many houses. >> right. rick, we are looking at a live image from kdkh.

looks like it's raining. we saw a big bolt of lightning rip across the sky. a local meteorologist yesterday described it as the worst tornado in the history of the world. >> well, i would imagine in my mind it's probably a little bit early to say that. there's going to be a lot of assessing that has to be done to make that kind of a judgment. >> sure. >> but certainly it's one of the big ones. one thing that's interesting. if you go back to the deadliest tornadoes in history, 24 of the 25 of those happened before the 1960s. before we had doppler radar and all those things to get people warning. the one exception to that was joplin. that one was 155 people died in that tornado. that was the 7th or 8th deadliest tornado of all time. it's yet to be seen what the

number is. 51 is what we heard last night. my guess is that number will go up this morning once we get more information coming from the public information officers. >> unfortunately, you are probably correct on that. rick, stay with us. we'll be back to you throughout the show. thanks so much. >> we just saw lightning in the live picture from kokh. maria molina is live in our weather center with a preview of where the severe weather will be today. >> good morning. good to see you. we have storms just to the south of moore, oklahoma. they have been rolling through the area producing strong winds in excess of 70 miles an hour. pretty significant stuff. very dangerous lightning and also very heavy rain. they have been staying to the south. we hope i way. we'll continue to monitor that situation. there has been severe weather again possible with storms across oklahoma. otherwise overall the weather pattern remains pretty

slow-moving. we expect more severe weather from texas into the great lakes. a similar set-up as yesterday. the storm prediction center which is associated with the national weather service has yet again issued a moderate risk. this was issued yesterday as well across sections of oklahoma. this means we could be looking at a threat for long track, violent tornadoes. ef-3, ef-4, possibly ef-5 strength. we have to watch this through the afternoon into the nighttime hours. some of the cities in the area including dallas, waco, tyler, cleburne, texas. last week it was impacted by an ef-3 tornado. yet again under a risk for more activity like that. in shreveport, louisiana, and southwestern parts of arkansas. because we have seen storm after storm producing heavy rain we have a risk of flash flooding from texas through parts of

illinois. otherwise another look at storms across parts of oklahoma. moore, oklahoma, about ten miles or so to the south of oklahoma city. take a look at the storms. just outside of that area. it does look like drier air is trying to move in. that could provide quieter weather conditions. more storms into the afternoon and evening. >> another day of it. maria, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> hard to imagine this same town, moore, oklahoma, was the exact town hit with an f-5 tornado back in 1989, may 3. i worked for nbc in dallas at the time. i covered the storm for five days after. a lot of similarities. the path of the tornadoes, very similar. the green line is from 1999. the red line from yesterday. i think my perspective on the difference in the storms would be that in 1999 complete obliteration of neighborhoods but i don't remember tragic

stories of kids trapped in schools and so many children dying, number one. number two, i think this tornado will be proven to have been on the ground a lot longer time. they are saying now 40 minutes. it's wider, it appears. two miles wide. that's quite a swath to take out everything in its path. it stayed on the ground so long. >> death tolls above what we saw in 1999 and half the number is children. we hope the number doesn't grow. as we try to go through the school it probably is. >> someone who grew up in moore, oklahoma is our friend toby keith. he said, the storm has devastated the community i grew up in. i rode my bike through those neighborhoods. i have family and friends in moore. my heart goeses out to those who lost so much. moore is strong and we will persevere. god be with all of you. >> you've got to wonder if the families who lost their homes in 1999 and rebuilt are now

affected again. >> if you're home wondering how to help head over to foxnews.com and click on how to help tab. we'll take you to the red cross website. make a donation there or volunteer in the recovery efforts. >> there is information about shelters and important phone numbers plus reunification centers at churches throughout moore so they can get kids. >> everybody else is on the way. >> oklahoma's governor touring damage after speaking to president obama. governor mary fallin. >> and the photographer who took this picture and many others will join us. ♪

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towers elementary school. for those holding out hope we have a guest to tell us how one can survive in the rubble. good morning, doctor. >> good morning. we have seen it after 9/11. a couple of firefighters were trapped for two days. in haiti a person survived 27 days. how do you survive? you need access to oxygen. if you have a good preinjury status. if your liver is strong, your kidney is strong. you need your liver for sugar over the first day. then your body breaks down fat. you can go up to seven days without food. most important is water. once you are out of there we have oklahoma city medical center which is the top hospital in the state and the only level one trauma center. >> let's talk about kids at the

school. a lot of people are focused on that this morning, not knowing what happened to maybe as many as 30 other children who could be inside. you are giving us hope today they could have survived this. >> absolutely, gretchen. of course another factor is are they injured. have they broken bones, had puncture wounds, lost blood. if that happened it makes it harder for them. i have hope they will get survivors out. >> what about a kid's chance of survival as opposed to an adult? >> great question. to some extent i would say more for kids. their organs are in better condition but they don't have as much body fat to use. if you get them out earlier the ability to rebound and come back to full health would be greater. >> i have heard a number of people who survived told stories about how they heard it was coming, it was nearby and they put on helmets. that's one of the things they are suggesting.

put on a helmet. a bike helmet, football helmet. it can help. >> absolutely. there is a disaster personality, believe it or not. going into a mode where something happens and you're in crisis. you go into fight or flight and you have the drive. it varies from one person to the next. survivors tend to have that hope, that drive, that faith. >> to do whatever it takes. >> right. >> to live through it. >> you have to wonder if there will be a call for building storm shelters in schools in this part of the country where tornadoes tend to happen a lot. these kids, i mean, b the teachers did everything they possibly could. they were not in storm shelters. they were in bathrooms and other locations in the school. >> how tragic is that? terrible. i agree with you. storm shelters would be wise and prudent in this part of the country as we see more storms like this. >> for a city like this, don't you think you need -- it seems to me -- other medical professionals and ambulances on the outside? this city cannot possibly tend to as many people as could be

hurt. >> especially when the hospital is destroyed. even if you are prepared you may not have the ability. they tend to operate with a lot of volunteer core. the more emergency response you have. in boston we saw some of the best in the country. >> in oklahoma city, 20 miles to the north, a city of 400,000. >> a great medical center. >> dr. siegel, great to see you. >> thank you. >> governor mary fallin spoke to the president and will give us the latest from her state in a few minutes. we'll be right back. years ago, my doctor told me to take a centrum silver multivitamin every day. i told him, sure. can't hurt, right? and now today, i see this in the news.

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we don't have an exact number just because the area is so large that we are searching and finding people. just coordinating that all together with all the different rescue teams to get an exact number. hopefully we can get that today. i would say it's probably going to change today. >> so you are saying as far as an official number, none is being given at this point and i guess it would come prosecufrom moore police department. >> correct. >> that was sergeant jeremy lewis with the latest from the search and rescue at the school. 21 counties across oklahoma are in a state of emergency, just declared. >> unfortunately more severe weather on the way today. oklahoma governor mary fallin, i know you have had little rest and this is a huge undertaking for you now, governor. tell us where your community is

right now in moore. >> well, right now we are certainly in the rescue and recovery stages. we want to make sure we have looked in every crevice possible under the debris to make sure we have recovered people. hopefully we'll be able to find more people. we are not real sure yet who all may be missing because the debris field was so wide. it was almost two miles wide, 20 miles long and has been a massive area of destruction. of course our hearts were broken yesterday. first thing i told my cabinet secretaries and all of the emergency personnel is find the people. do everything we can to get as many rescue squads out there. let's bring in search and rescue dogs, whatever we need. we've got to find people. that's been our biggest goal through the last hours since the storm has struck. >> a lot of people have focused on the elementary school where children, a lot of people feel are trapped and may be alive

today. how many floors was that school. is there a need for heavy equipment to aid people with the process of getting people out? >> we had a lot of equipment in yesterday. i don't know how many volunteers. i would guess maybe close to a thousand throughout the whole different community itself. it's been a remarkable recovery process itself. when i was down there last night there were hundreds of people just at the school site alone. we have lots of lights and we worked all night long. there are a lot of ambulances, stretcher, emergency personnel. we had the red cross, salvation army on site. a lot of law enforcement. we secured the perimeters last night with the national guard in our high patrol and various law enforcement personnel to make sure we kept out people that shouldn't be in the area. it was a dangerous situation. there were a tremendous amount of power lines down, structural damage and the debris heaps wer

blown down on a house. it would be demolished for a mile solid throughout the area. >> governor, you mentioned the national guard. i know you activated 80 members of the oklahoma national guard yesterday to assist in things. also, you have spoken to the president of the united states a couple of times via the telephone. he will have a statement at 10:00 eastern time. we'll carry it live on fox. what are you asking the federal government for? how can they help you? >> well, you can help our charities. this is going to be a long recovery process. it is a huge storm. biggest destruction i have ever seen. certainly much bigger than the may tornado we went through in 1999. if you look at the debris area it will take a long time. a lot of infrastructure was damaged, a lot of homes lost. major structural businesses from hospitals to five schools that have some type of damage and, of

course, as you have seen on tv, several of the schools were totally gone. we have a lot of rebuilding to be done. there are families that lost homes. some families don't have insurance. not only did we have the storm yesterday that struck moore, but earlier in the morning yesterday i was at bethel acres where the trailer park was totally destroyed, lost around 50 homes there, lost a couple of lives there. and carney, oklahoma, up north. many other communities were struck sunday. we have a lot going on in our state. i have been blessed to receive a tremendous amount of phone calls from other governors. certainly the president called and said whatever you need, we'll help with red tape. they approved our emergency declaration quickly. we need resources as far as being able to activate and purchase things here in the state and help our communities and local departments get the resources they need, too. >> governor, i heard you on the

telephone yesterday, i believe it was, with neil cavudo right before the storm was going to be hitting the moore area. how significant was it that there was enough warning because you had the tornadoes the day before and the meteorologists were saying, hey, there is more to come today. how significant was the warning, do you feel, to keep more people from being affected? >> well, it was absolutely significant in the outcome. we knew the big storm was going to be coming in friday and saturday of this past weekend. we were already telling people to expect severe weather, that the conditions were right for severe weather for at least three days. we have had thunderstorms this morning. it's been lightning around us, little bit of rain and storms close to this area. we gave oklahomans a head up. we did lose lives and it's

tragic and we are sad, but it could have been a lot worse if we hadn't had the heads-up by media warning people. we had our emergency center activated early on sunday. >> everybody watched the images as the tornadoes dropped out of the sky. two in two days. >> governor mary fallin, thank you very much for joining us live from moore. just know the prayers of the nation are with you. >> we need the prayers. thank you. >> my goodness. >> we all do. >> unspeakable tragedy. for her to be in charge of the state is a huge undertaking. our thoughts are with her. >> it's 7:30 in new york city. 6:30 in moore, oklahoma. the cover of the local newspaper and the photographer who took that picture and so many others joins us live next. ♪ roundup

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i could hear the roof going. then i could start seeing small holes and insulation falling on me. i could see the swirl of the tornado as it goes by. i was asking god to spare me. he did. he saw fit to see me through to another day. >> 40 minutes of terror as the monster tornado ripped through the town of moore, oklahom

yesterday afternoon. at this hour, 51 people including 20 children are confirmed dead. dozens are unaccounted for as crews search through the rubble. they will not put a number on it now. they just don't know. rescuers have been searching for kids, especially at the school all through the night. >> what about the surviving kids? they will be traumatized as well. we have seen a lot of them interviewed today. >> apparently the school split up the children according to the grades. k-3 at the school and 4-6 nearby at the church. meanwhile another place hit hard was the moore medical center where our chief meteorologist rick reichmuth is now. you were talking about the second floor missing. now that the sun is coming up you have a better view. >> reporter: you said it. i will back away so you can take a look. the moore medical center, this is a hospital with about 45 rooms.

there were 13 people who were transported out of here to another place. you get an idea why. take a look at the roof. it's completely gone. the second floor basically destroyed. take a look at the cars piled up against the building. you see a car back there with the tire upside down. this cupcake van -- delivery van and you see the x. a lot of people say they haven't been able to find enough structures intact to put x's on. we have seen some of those in the buildings we have been going by. all of the windows blown out of every vehicle you see. all of the windows in the moore medical center blown out. you go to visit your loved ones, see them and everything gets stuck there. you have to have another way out. take a look at that. interestingly a fedex truck is

backed up against the building and the lights are still on. >> is oh, man. >> 12 hours later the lights on on that one vehicle which is eerie. >> is it open so you can move around a little bit? i see cars moving in the background? >> there are cars. it's emergency vehicles, tow trucks, people working with electricity. a lot of concern there are gas leaks out here and live power lines in spots. that's why the public certainly -- the roads aren't open by any means. we have to go through extensive checking of our credentials to get anywhere. it's law enforcement and medical personnel on the streets. >> you showed us the devastation at the moore medical center. where did today put people as the storm approached? >> reporter: apparently they have a safe spot inside where they put everybody during the tornado. that's what saved lives before

they transported them. they had the tornado. >> it looks more intact, for example, the school where the children died which was decimated along with the phohom. i don't know if it has to do with the structure but it's much more standing than other structures. >> reporter: i will tell you one piece to that. we are right on the edge of where the most damage was. i would say the stronger winds were off to the sides from here. winds at the medical center were slightly less than the bulk of the strength which has gone right over the school which is half a mile, i would say off to the west. >> one other component, too. there were five schools that were hit there in moore, oklahoma. the plaza towers elementary school was apparently the oldest of the structures. as we look at some of the neighborhood nearby and, rick,

the houses nearby look just as bad as the hospital. >> yeah. they certainly do. that neighborhood, there is not a single structure intact by any means. they all have certain degrees of damage. for the most part you get in there and they are destroyed. >> rick, good to see you live on a picture now rather than just on the phone. we'll continue to check in. thank you very much. >> they scrambled to push back from the school. meanwhile the nightmare isn't over. more violent storms threatening the region again. maria, you have more. >> that's right. we are talking about a significant threat again today for more severe weather. these develop quickly. we want to show you images from yesterday from satellites from space showing the thunderstorms exploding over moore, oklahoma while the tornado was on the ground. you can just see how the thunderstorms pop up and they are like popcorn. you can see bumps right on top of some of the clouds. that shows how strong the

thunderstorms are. they suck up all over warm, humid air and explode upwards and eventually produce tornadoes with wind shear producing the rotation for some of the thunderstorms to produce tornadoes. we could be looking at more activity today. the storm prediction center issued a moderate risk for parts of texas, arkansas and louisiana. also extreme southeastern portions of oklahoma. this is a threat, steve, gretchen, and brian, in place yesterday across oklahoma including moore. we could have more long track, violent tornadoeses here. dallas, texas, included in the area. >> keep an eye out. >> thank you. >> all right. look at the cover of the oklahoma newspaper. it says this is worse than the storm that hit moore 13 years ago. this one came with an unusual warning. eth heather? >> good morning. an unusually blunt national service warning issued yesterday.

it told people in the area they could be killed if they didn't get under ground or to a shelter immediately. that's a harsh new warning. part of a new message system coming from the national weather service. it is intended to get people's attention and yesterday it likely saved lives. still, as we know, the storm has been so devastating for folks in the area. it is considered among the country's worst tornadoes. the national weather service is classifying yesterday's tornado as an ef4 but it could be upgraded. the winds yesterday reaching up to 200 miles per hour. take a look at the path of destruction. at points the twister was more than two miles wide. it traveled more than 20 miles. what made the storm so devastating was just how long it was on the ground. it was apparently on the ground for about 40 minutes. all that devastation there as a result. folks in moore remember way too well the deadly 1999 ef5

tornado. you can see the one yesterday and the one in 1999 cut almost the same path. in 1999 it packed winds in excess of 300 miles per hour. it left 44 people dead. it caused more than a billion dollars in damages. economic damage from yesterday's storm estimated to be two to three times that. monday's storm was the deadliest since the massive tornado tore through joplin, missouri, two years ago. that was an ef5. it killed more than 158 people. there were a lot of critics after that joplin, missouri, tornado saying the national weather service didn't issue harsh enough warnings before that storm. so now the national weather service is experimenting with the new blunt messaging system. that may have saved lives yesterday. it's now expanded from two states to 12 states. it's in effect in oklahoma. >> interesting.

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our coverage of the tornado will continue in a few minutes. first, the justice department wasn't just targeting the associated press. it also went after a fox news reporter. our own chief washington correspondent james rosen. federal investigators tracked his comings and goings at the u.s. state department and secretly obtained copies of his personal e-mails to build a case against one of his sources. >> this is the first time that the federal government has moved to this level of taking ordinary, reasonable, traditional, lawful reporter skills and claiming they constitute criminal behavior. >> the white house says it is a strong defender of the first amendment but stands by the justice department investigating classified leaks and claiming james rosen was doing something criminal. raymond maxwell lost his job at the state department after the benghazi terror attacks though he had no role in security decisions. he says he's been scapegoated by

then secretary of state hillary clinton. maxwell said he hasn't been told what he did wrong. the state department would not comment on why maxwell was let go. maxwell says the department wants him to just go away, but he claims he's not going anywhere. >> fox news alert. the picture is on the cover of the oklahoman this morning. it perfectly captures what was happening outside that school yesterday as victims fled the wre wreckage. we are join bed by the photographer who took that image and many others, paul helstern. good morning. >> good morning. >> it looks like a teacher carrying one of the surviving children out of plaza tower elementary. >> that's correct. i believe those were both teachers. this was probably within five to ten minutes after the tornado destroyed the school.

they were trying to get the kids out to a staging area, i guess, where the parents -- frantic parents could come and find the kids and pick the them up. there was also some damage to gas lines within the school, of course. so i think another reason they wanted to get them as far from the building as possible. >> how did you happen to be so close to the school? this tornado had such a wide swath. how did you happen to be there? >> a lot of it pure luck. i followed the tornado. i was trying to basically parallel it to the south. i followed it for approximately a mile or so. then i just immediately backtracked and cut north then behind the tornado after it passed. cut my way through various neighborhoods and just happened to come right off the school at that point.

>> we understand this is children. you see a crying man hugging a small boy wearing a red shirt. the young boy is wearing a blue shirt. >> again, i believe that would be a teacher. i'm not positive on that. one of the students. they were both just crying with emotion. i don't know whether he was one of the teacher's students or what. very emotional situation. every child was crying. >> so happy to be alive. we have more images of kids walking in the wreckage. you talked about the parents outside the school screaming their childrens' names. tell me what that was like. >> that was one of the more emotional things i have ever seen. i could feel for them. of course you had parents that

had seen the devastation, heard about it, and were trying to get to it. of course getting through the debris and so forth, you had kids crying for their parents. i noticed one lady for probably 30 minutes was just walking around, just stunned. she couldn't find her child. at the very end i did see her and she had her little girl with her. i was glad to see that. >> at least a happy ending there. i want to get to one more photo before we run out of time. this is an amazing shot where the teenagers are helping -- older kids carrying the younger kids out of the school. if you can see that image and describe it, paul? >> okay. again, i believe toes were probably teachers or may have been parents. i'm not positive. they had been apparently trapped in an area that had fallen down. the other kids had gotten out. they discovered more debris in there and were tearing those down. >> amazing pictures today in the

oklahoman. paul hellstern, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> straight ahead, the sun is coming up in oklahoma. we are getting a firsthand look at the devastation. we'll have the latest on what we hope will be a rescue effort. look what mommy is having. mommy's having a french fry. yes she is, yes she is. [ bop ] [ male announcer ] could've had a v8. 100% vegetable juice, with three of your daily vegetable servings in every little bottle.

now we are starting to get a better look as daylight comes up in moore, oklahoma of the devastation after a mile-wide tornado tore through that part of the state. ktvi reporter andy banker is with us live with the latest from moore. i guess you will show us a bit of a tour. right, andy? >> reporter: good morning again. you're right. when the sun comes up, it's that much harder to look at.

where i'm standing there used to be about a half mile of houses between me and the plaza tower elementary school where the children died. the first seven believed to have drowned when they couldn't get out of the rubble. maybe some water pipes burst. they have since moved the media away from the building. we believe that they are removing bodies at this point. as many as 24 children, maybe beyond that, feared to be dead inside that school. now for the tour. let's walk around here. that's one side of the street. on the other side, just the exact same thing. this is what really is hard to look at. i don't know if you can make this out. this is a mud-covered car and the garage would be, i don't know, maybe 20 yards from where the car is. it's not on the ground. it's about three feet off the ground, thrown right into the

living quarters of this home. watch my step here. that's all you see. house after house after house. gone, gone, gone. with the cars that should be in the garages in the living rooms. and the kitchens. you see the orange x's everywhere marking the spots where authorities have been through and checked to make sure there were no survivors, no bodies. they have cleared this neighborhood. we haven't seen residents come back. we have been here since 3:00 in the morning. it was total darkness. i don't know if they were told to get away or just wanted to get away and leave this alone until the sun came up. it doesn't look better now than last night. live in moore, oklahoma, andy banker, fox news. >> it's absolutely heartbreaking. you see the houses. the collection of a whole life in that house, all gone. >> well, the sun is coming up in oklahoma. we are getting a new look now,

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we're live on the ground where they are continuing the search this morning in moore. this is the moore medical center. the roof torn off. to make matters worse, more violent storms on the way. "fox & friends," the final hour starts now. fox news alert if you are just waking up this morning, the sun is also coming up in moore, oklahoma. we are getting a live look now at the incredible damage there. a massive tornado. at one point at least two miles wide. took 40 minutes to pass through leveling neighborhoods. at least 51 people have been killed including 20 children. they were stuck inside an elementary school. >> the children were in a main hallway which is where they are supposed to be during the

tornado drills. the roof collapsed on top of them. they suspect water lines broke and the children drowned because they couldn't get up from the debris. >> it's very solemn. everyone is doing their best to continue the recovery efforts. a lot of it doesn't sink in until after the fact. we're there, trying to keep your game face on, so to speak. but once it's said and done it hits you like a ton of bricks. >> officials now warn that the number of people killed is going to rise. at this hour, dozens are unaccounted for. in two hours president obama is set to make a televised statement. >> one place hard hit was the moore medical center where chief meteorologist rick reichmuth is standing by. people headed to the basements, the bathtubs and storm cellars trying to get out of the way.

unfortunately a lot of people were out in the open. >> reporter: yeah. with the tornado of this strength in some cases there is not much you can do except probably have a storm shelter. you do the best you can do and fortunately that does save a lot of lives. take a look behind me at the moore medical center. they have put up fences in the last half hour. they are confidence everything inside has been searched. now they are keeping everyone from going into the premises. you get a look at the second floor roof and the cars piled up against it. i walked to the other side and there is a pile of cars about three and four cars high. all of these cars mangled together. you go all the way down, see the windows blown out in the building. all of the mud. this was a rainy storm. after the tornado hit, it rained very hard and caused major flooding across the area. the ground is really damp.

things are uncomfortable from that. there's been a little bit more rain. i want to bring in mark ellerd. you rif helive in a corner houst there. you rode the tornado out in your house. tell me about the experience. >> i was just enjoying my day at home, working in my garage. i heard the radio saying the tornado was taking a path of the may 3rd one and it was headed toward the warren theater. that's when i stopped what i was doing and made preparations to get ready. as i heard the roar, i grabbed my dog, we went to a closet and laid down. everything collapsed all around me. >> reporter: when you look at your house there and you on the outside of it look inside, are you amazed that you were able to survive that? >> grace of god. it really is. >> reporter: you said your neighbors in the area were fine? >> yeah. they were gone. nobody was home.

all around me tahat i know of. >> reporter: there is a tent out front. i don't see it in many places, but you set up camp right outside your place. why? >> i just wanted to keep an eye on my things, my home, make sure that nobody took advantage of me. >> reporter: what kind of support have you seen coming around? what kind of support do you think you will need? >> really looking forward to talking to my state farm agent and getting through the rest of my stuff, getting it in a secure location so it doesn't get rained on any more. >> reporter: you have lived here for a while. you were here in the 1999 tornado. do you see similarities to it? was it close by? if you were to compare the damage having seen them both close up, what could you say? >> reporter: well, before when i worked for cox communications and we were working around, taking care of other people, i can't really compare that one to

this one now. it's affected me in a completely different way. >> yes. that goes without saying. does it feel different 12 hours later after having a night to sleep on it than it did when you went to bed? >> i haven't slept much. i'm looking forward to getting my stuff secured. then i want to go somewhere and crash. >> reporter: yeah, get a good night's rest. you deserve it. we promised you a cup of coffee which we have coming to you. thanks for sharing your story. we'll send it back to studio. >> thank you very much. you have to wonder how many people will rebuild houses throughout moore and will put in a storm cellar this time. a lot of people who survived had one. >> joining us is sergeant jeremy lewis with the moore, oklahoma police department. sergeant, where were you yesterday and what's your focus today? >> yesterday i was actually right behind the tornado as it came through our city, followed

it through the city until we weren't able to follow it any more. we weren't able to pass through because of the damage. so we started the search effort at that time which is continuing today. we now have search and rescue teams in the areas affected just going area by area trying to find people trapped under debris in the storm shelters. >> mm-hmm. >> sergeant, we played an earlier interview where i believe you were saying you don't even want to put a number on the death toll right now. are you giving out a number? >> the numbers fluctuate so much. even at the police department we can't get an exact number. the area is so large. we have so many search teams. we are getting numbers and we can't get an exact number. it's frustrating but also changing rm minute by minute. the area is so large it's so

much stuff to go through just to get to some houses. >> let me ask you about plaza towers elementary. that's where we know at least seven children did die. apparently drowned when a water main burst. they were trapped under rubble. what is the situation? i know there are a number of parents whose children are missing. are they allowed near the school today? >> we have an area at a church that's just a couple of blocks away from the school that we are in contact with. trying everything we can to locate anyone in the school. there is still a search effort going on at plaza towers elementary school. it's a large school with lots of debris. the surrounding neighborhood is levelled. that's also on top of the school. we have all the equipment to go

through it now. piece by piece trying to go through the school. >> sergeant, can you give us insight as to what the preparations were? we know the meteorologists were talking about the round of storms coming today. what preparations for in place for students at the various schools and was a heads-up given to parents if they wanted to come pick up their children? >> as far as what the school did, i'm not sure exactly. i do have a child that's in the moore schools, that was in the junior high. literally hundreds of feet. the school was watching the weather. this happened so fast it formed five miles away from the city of moore, intensified and put the tornado down. you know, there was 15 minutes time and it formed to the time it was destroying tinges in the city. there was definitely not enough time for parents to run and get their kids.

the school did the best they could. try to ride out the storm. fortunately it was a much stronger tornado than was expected. >> sergeant. will there be a press conference later today to update everybody in the recovery effort? >> yes. we'll have a press conference at noon to try to give the most up to date information. we'll be out here all day trying to give minute by minute updates. >> for the other people who passed away, i know there was a report of a convenience store. can you give us a sense of the other people who passed away who were not at the school? were they in their homes? >> there are several fatalities in different neighborhoods. it's not like one area. we have fatalities basically across the city. in the convenience stores, you know, i was following this storm on the south side of the city.

there were people just caught in the storm, in the line of it. i assume took shelter in the convenience stores and anywhere they could. it came really quick. >> before you leave us, i would imagine your message to people looking in and they have friends and family there or they want to help would be to stay away. you have plenty of help now. you don't need a lot of people coming in. >> if we could ask anything it would be to please stay away for now. getting people in there to help out, if they want to help let us get guys in there. there will be a time to look. we are still finding people trapped in debris. >> sergeant lewis, thank you very much for your time. >> thank you. >> if people would like to help, go to foxandfriends.com and there is a link to the american red cross. >> let's go to maria molina as

day break is happening here. terrific pictures. there may be more bad weather ahead for different states today. hi. >> good morning, everyone. that's right. we are talking about severe weather farther east. there is a slight chance across oklahoma including the moore area throughout the morning hours today for more strong to severe storms out here. we are looking at the threat. the greatest risk is shaded in red. this is a moderate risk from the storm prediction center. it was issued across parts of oklahoma including moore. also on sunday, shawnee, oklahoma, was under moderate risk as well for severe weather. looking at the longer tracks and violent tornadoes in sections of arkansas, parts of northwestern louisiana into texas. look at the cities here. the city of dallas could be looking at this severe weather. cleburne, texas, hit by an ef3.

because it is a slow-moving storm system we have rain associated with the storms moving over similar areas. the ground is saturated from texas into arkansas up into the great lakes. so flab flosh flooding is a con. this is something else we'll keep an eye on. >> maria, thank you very much. >> he was governor of mississippi when hurricane katrina beared down on his state. many tornadoes have come his way. who better to talk to than governor haley barbour? he's coming to our studio in a moment. our landing time got moved back another hour. ( crowd chatters and groans ) hunger creeping up on you ? stash a ritz crackerfuls. made with real cheese and whole grain. don't get caught hungry. ritz crackerfuls.

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we are following the rescue efforts in moore, oklahoma. we have been doing it all mo morning long. our next guest's state has had plenty of natural disasters and emergencies. governor haley barbour. you are one of the best in times of crisis as you analyze what's happening in oklahoma what do they need now? >> of course right now search and rescue is critical. they have missing people. they have apparently a significant number of missing children. after hurricane katrina we had teams that came from 20, 25 states because it was an

enormous area to help us go through the rubble to find people, often survivors. >> that plays a big role. >> and i'll tell you something else. the volunteer that is show up 45 minutes after the disaster play a big role. this brings out the best in people. >> let's use some of your expertise in what's going on in washington. as we look at what's happening with the irs we find out not only did the president -- we find out the president so far didn't know about the investigation going on, didn't want to interfere, but we e found out the chief of staff a month before the irs came out with the report knew about their conclusions already. do you agree with senator hatch that the president had to have known? >> well, it's strange to think he did. that's hard to believe. i think orin hatch is right. very hard to believe. >> jay carney said the president found out when it leaked out on news reports on television. >> this is a story that keeps changing.

congress needs to get to the bottom of it. when we are talking about the irs persecuting people for being politically active, i'm old enough to remember the enemies list from nixon. at least you didn't get on the enemies list by describing yourself as a patriot. if you had the title tea party or patriot they persecuted you, clearly for political reasons. >> we are watching oklahoma scenes, what's happening now, but talking to the governor about what else is in the news. over the weekend, i want your take. we heard from dan pfeiffer that it was irrelevant where the president was on 9/11. >> this is a tragedy that the story keeps changing. for the president not to be willing to say, here's what i did. >> who ordered the stand down? >> you've got an ambassador

murdered, three other brave americans murdered. this concoction that it was because of a deal which was totally blown away now that this was a terrorist attack, i just can't imagine a president of the united states saying it's nobody's business where i was when there was a big tragedy. i'm flabbergasted. >> you have been around a lot of ceos and presidents. you have run the rnc and your state. do you think that's bad leadership? >> i think there is hardly any leader that would practice that, that would say, it doesn't matter wi matter where i was, what i was doing when something wentterrib. ultimately in the irs deal at least they will have an independent prosecutor. they are resisting it. the administration would do itself a favor to get an independent view so people believe they got to the bottom of it. >> if anyone wants help in times

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we have a fox news alert for you. pictures telling the story this morning. look at this one of dana ulepich standing at with a used to be her house, searching for her missing dog. she joins us on the phone. good morning, dana. >> good morning. >> so you and your us were at work when you heard your neighborhood had been hit. what did you do? >> i told my bosses that i needed to leave. they said, go do what you need to do. so usually work takes me 20

minutes to get there. it took me about an hour and a half to get there because of the roads that were closed and everything. >> what's left? >> a couple of closets. just things that are thrown around. we were lucky our closet that had our clothes in it survived. we got what we could out of it last night. we are planning to go back today to get what we can of the rest of it. >> we see a picture of you, i believe, when you went to the home. you're standing outside of the house. we can see the complete devastation there. unfortunately you're still looking for your dog, right? >> yes. >> are you assuming -- was the dog in a kennel or outside in the home? >> she was inside. she was in a kennel -- a wire crate kennel. whenever i got there the area

that she was in, the room that she was in, everything was there except forrer and the crate. >> are you going back this morning? have you been back? are the police letting you near? what are they telling you? >> as of last night they told us it was all barricaded off until the morning. we haven't actually made it back in there yet. but we are going to go back in to try and recover some of the things that we can still get to. >> dana, do you know if anyone died in your neighborhood? if everyone was able to survive even though it was completely destroyed? >> i heard several stories of a little girl that was missing. i don't know what all of it was true. we talked to several people that were around and a couple of our neighbors were all okay. but we just pray that they all got out okay.

>> absolutely. of course it's a total loss for you. i'm sure you are in shock. any idea what you are going to do? >> i have no clue. all i'm worried about now is hopefully finding my dog. >> well, good luck to you. >> thanks. >> dana ulepich who lost everything yesterday in the storm in moore joining us on the phone. thanks, dana. >> coming up on the show, we are waiting on a press conference from moore, oklahoma where we'll learn the latest on a situation there. we'll bring you the new details. >> and brand new video surfacing like this. a man emerging from his storm shelter and seeing everything around him gone. can you imagine? it was all there five minutes ago.

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fox news alert. we are getting a look at the damage in moore, oklahoma. a 40-minute, two-mile-wide tornado leveling neighborhoods. at least 50 are dead including 20 children. are numbers are going to go up. the kids were stuck inside an elementary school. there are many others missing in the school this morning. meantime this is brand new cell phone video of a man coming out of his storm shelter after the storm.

what used to be his home and neighborhood completely wiped out. emergency officials say there are a lot of storm shelters in the area. they hope to find more survivors today. >> we fully expect as the day progresses to find more survivors. we are positive that they're out there because the folks here in moore when today rebuilt their homes from the 1999 tornado, they built them with storm shelters, some of them inside the homes, inside, say, the garage or somewhere close to the home. so we know we've got a massive debris field out there. but we found 101 people overnight. we're confident that more people are out there alive and waiting for us to come and find them. >> that's good. we hadn't heard they found over a hundred people overnight. >> wow. >> that's fantastic. >> i wonder if you have to register a storm shelter with your local county so they know where to look for you? >> maybe. they would have to have a permit to build it, i would guess. i don't know if they would keep

the registration or not. >> we heard from sergeant jeremy lewis from the moore police department. they are reluctant at this point to put a number on the number of survivors, the number who were killed. there will be a press conference in a couple of hours. we did talk to the governor of the state. there is he is right there greeting some survivors. mary fallin. here is the latest from the governor of oklahoma. >> right now we are certainly in the rescue and recovery stages. we want to make sure we have looked in every single crevice possible under the debris to make sure we have recovered people. hopefully we'll be able to find some more people. we're not really sure yet who all may be missing because the debris field was so wide. it was almost two miles wide, 20 miles long. it's just been a massive area of destruction. of course our hearts were broken yesterday. personally i told my cab feinet secretaries and all my personnel to find the people.

do what we can to get rescue squads out there, bring in search and rescue dogs, whatever we need. we've got to find the people immediately. that's been our biggest goal through the last hours since the storm has struck. i don't know how many volunteers. i would guess maybe close to a thousand throughout the whole different community itself. it's been a remarkable recovery process itself. when i was there last night there were hundreds of people just at the school site alone. >> brian, earlier you asked about storm shelter registry. in oklahoma city which is just to the north of moore they have a process where just tell us your oklahoma city address, the type of shelter you have, where it's located and whether it is residential or commercial so in the e feint of something like moore the first responders on a grid could go house by house to storm shelters and figure out if anybody is there. >> hopefully people registered. >> fema does a good job. if you rebuild in a flood area

they tell you to jack up your house. i wonder if they will do it again. say, we'll help you rebuild but we are going to tell you to have a storm shelter. >> through time the standards certainly change. you're looking at live images of a neighborhood there in moore. one place hard hit was the medical center. rick is standing by, once again on his birthday. rick, good morning to you. >> reporter: hey, guys. want to show you one thing. we have been talking about the potential rain in the area and that we were concerned about the lightning. take a look at the cloud up there. it's moving away. i think the rain threat we have had here is over. that's a great piece of news for everybody right here, especially as people are out. you take a look at the big pile of debris down there. to be honest i don't know what it is or what it was or where it came from. it's completely unrecognizable. that's what you start to see. some places you can tell there

are bits of houses. obviously the medical center we have been talking about this morning. you can see what that is. but the pile down there is completely unrecognizable. i just met a man here named billy verge. we started talking. thanks for talking with us. you rode out the tornado in your home. you were fine. then you came out. tell me what you first saw. you started trying to help people. >> disaster. hell. i mean it was a disaster. things tore up, smoking. no one was out. went house to house, started banging on doors just to try to help somebody. >> reporter: and you did. you found people to help pull out of the rubble? >> oh, yeah. several of them. >> reporter: the first thing on your mind was your daughter. you have a daughter in 6th grade at the plaza towers school. >> oh, gosh, yes. mercedes verge, yes. i don't know how anybody made it through there. the teachers, they have done a

great job to get the kids where they needed to get to. the school is a disaster. you look at the place and wouldn't think anybody would be alive. >> how did you get to the school? >> drove. flat tires and all. >> reporter: when you get there, how long did it take you from the time you got there and you saw what you saw to the time you found your daughter? >> probably 15 minutes. i had run two blocks because of the traffic. of course everything in that area was just a disaster. ten minutes, they had moved her to a church. i had to go to the church off 19th street to pick her up. ten, maybe 15 minutes. well, 15, 20 minutes by the time that came around. >> reporter: i would imagine a long 10, 15 minutes. >> it may have been longer. fast reaction. >> reporter: yeah. when you look at the school, how is your daughter doing, knowing that happened to her school and there are kids in the school who didn't make it out? >> she's freaked out.

she knew some 3rd graders who died up there. she's freaked out. >> reporter: your house is gone. her school is gone. what do you do today? >> you pray. you pray like you did yesterday. you pray for god and not just for yourself but everybody around you. people you don't know, people you do know, you pray. >> reporter: where do you go? where do you stay now? >> we'll figure it out. we'll find out. somehow. >> reporter: do you have family in the area that you can go to? >> very, very, very little. i'm strong. we'll get through this somehow, some way. >> reporter: there are shelters in the area. there is the red cross providing a ton of shelter.ll make sure y information before you leave here. i can't tell you how much our

hearts go out to you and obviously the support from around the country is coming for you. thank you for telling your story. it gets everybody aware of what you need. >> thank you. everybody pray. >> reporter: we're happy your daughter is safe. back to you. >> if people want to help go to foxnews.com and click on certain buttons and images there -- >> how to help. >> how to help tab. american red cross and other charities that will be helping folks out there. >> 21 minutes before the top of the hour. >> the nightmare isn't over. maria will update us from the severe weather center. how does the picture look now? >> the same story. this is a large system impacting us across the midwest and the plains over the last several days. it's a slow mover. today, yet again, a threat for severe storms from texas, oklahoma, all the way into parts

of the great lakes. the area of greatest concern is the area shaded in red. this is where we are talking about where conditions are favorable for severe thunderstorms. large hail, damaging wind gusts in excess of 60 miles per hour and the longer track tornadoes. particularly violent. big cities here. we are talking dallas, texas, could be looking at severe storms. tyler, waco, cleburne which saw an ef3 last week. because the storm system is a slow mover we are seeing the ground saturated from the heavy rains from the storms. flash flooding is another concern here. of course we'll keep you updated throughout the day today. a little bit of good news to see the storms moving away from moore. we'll keep an eye on the storms. >> all right. thank you very much. >> more on the tornado in a couple of minutes. first the other headlines this morning. first it was the associated press. now the white house's latest target is fox news reporter james rosen. the department of justice admits

to spying on one of our own. the co-host of the 5, juan williams will weigh in next. >> we are live on the ground with the latest on the deadly twister that hit oklahoma last night. we'll be right back. look what mommy is having. mommy's having a french fry. yes she is, yes she is. [ bop ]

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a new twist in the federal government's probe of american journalists. the department of justice wasn't just targeting the associated press. apparently it also went after fox news reporter, our very own james rosen. they tracked rosen's comings and goings and secretly obtained copies of his personal e-mail to build a case against one of his sources. has the department of justice finally crossed a line? join us now, fox news contributor juan williams. good morning. >> good morning. >> it's one thing to go after the leaker. it's another to go after the reporter who gets the leaked information. >> it really is. i think what you've got here is a situation where somehow now journalism has been criminalized, especially in this rosen case. there is just no justification for somehow making out that the reporter who is trying to cultivate a source by doing so is a coconspirator in terms of a leak investigation. i have never heard that before,

never seen that before. it's never been done before. >> i have a couple of questions for you, juan. first of all, the judge had to sign off on this in seeing james rosen as a criminal. that's point one. who's the judge? number two is how many other reporters are currently being followed with their comings and goings and their personal e-mail and their phone conversations? >> i don't know the answer to who is the judge. clearly what the prosecutor and justice department did in signing off on the request for the subpoena was to support the idea that because rosen had encouraged stephen kim, the state department official, to confess or reveal information about the north korean nuclear program, he was in a sense a coconspirator. then they went after james rosen's correspondence, e-mails, his comings and goings. they tracked his badge as he went in and out of the state

department. also phone records. you know, cell phone records. that kind of treatment of a reporter who is certainly doing journalism. that's the craft we practice. it makes it difficult for journalists to do business. how do you do journalism if you are treated as a criminal for asking for information? >> how many other "criminals" are out there being followed now? he wasn't the only one working stories about north korea. >> no. the thing is there's been an effort to crack down on reporters. there is bipartisan on the hill. there's been criticism of too many leaks. >> nothing like this from this president. >> nobody has prosecuted as many as president obama. even obama has been criticized for too many leaks coming out in his administration. the point is that what you get here is an atmosphere that makes it difficult for reporters, especially those pursuing national security stories, to get information to the american people. >> are you going to be

intimidated, juan? >> i have been around too long. i get beat up from all sides. i will tell you, this is different. this stands out in a bright way to me as what i call criminalizing journalism. i don't see how you can do this. in a sense, i think people are picking on journalists, sometimes with political intent. i don't like it. i think this is when you start to make it difficult to get information in a democracy to an informed citizen. >> is the attorney general, eric holder, able to say he rekuzed himself from the case as well? that's what he said about the ap story. >> i don't know what the situation is with regard to holder's participation. i do think it's clear that the justice department signed off on having james rosen lifted as a co-conspirator when they went to the judge. in the a.p. case, for example, there is no such listing as a.p. as a co-conspirator but there was a broad subpoena and they wanted the phone records from a.p. reporters. in the fox case they have

specifically gone after rosen and fox as co-conspirators in the case. >> you could be looking at ten years. >> the thing is the fact that this administration, this president hates leaks. now given what's happening, a lot of people are going to clam up and they are not going to tell the story that needs to get out. >> that's the thing. you know, it's one thing to go after legitimate leaks that endanger national security. it's another thing to say somebody reporting a story -- and i don't think the story had grave national security impri indicati -- implications is a criminal. the second thing is to specifically target the reporter and the organization, even though he wasn't charged with any crime, the idea of him as a co-conspirator is chilling to people who would leak and to reporters who pursue stories washington. >> president obama may be doing the impossible -- turning the press against him. juan williams, thank you very much. >> you're welcome.

have a good day. >> take a look at the first aerial pictures of the devastation in moore, oklahoma. you can see the path of destruction. we are waiting on a press conference from the national guard. new details next. there will be coverage throughout the day. bill is next. >> it's been a long night. certainly a long day, guys. good morning. it's a difficult morning. we'll have more live from oklahoma. we'll see the president deliver a statement live from the white house. sometimes the stories are unbearab unbearable. sometimes they can be uplifting. we are looking for that today. that's really the e potimotionae we are about to go on today. prayers for oklahoma. how can you get back pain relief that lasts up to 16 hours? with thermacare heatwraps. the only wrap with patented heat cells that penetrate deep to relax, soothe, and unlock tight muscles. and now, introducing reusable thermacare cold wraps. pain relief without the shock of ice. pain relief ♪

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back to our top story this morning. we are getting a live look at

the damage in moore, oklahoma. a 40-minute, two-mile-wide tornado leveling entire neighborhoods. at least 51 people are dead, including 20 kids. they were stuck inside an elementary school. >> the children were in the main hallway which is where they were supposed to be during the tornado drill. and the roof collapsed on top of the testimony and they suspect water lines broke and the children drowned because they couldn't get up from the debris. >> it's very solemn. everyone is just doing their best to continue the recovery efforts, you know. a lot of it doesn't sink in until after the fact, you know, because we are in there, trying to keep your game face on, so to speak. but, you know, once it's said and done it hits you like a ton of bricks. >> the death toll will be tragic. we don't have an exact number

just because the area is so large that we are searching and finding people. just coordinating that all together with all the different rescue teams to get an exact number, hopefully we can get that today. i would say it's probably going to change today. >> so you're saying the official -- as far as an official number, none is being given at this point and i guess it would come from the moore police department. >> correct. we do not have an exact number at this time. >> but as the sun comes up, rescue crews have been working throughout the night and are giving the community hope. we heard from lieutenant governor todd lamb. >> the oklahoma highway patrol and other first responders, national guard and others found just over 100 survivors throughout the evening. i talked to a guardsman who said he found an elderly couple clinging to each other in the shelter, scared to death. the silver lining is that over 100 survivors were found in the midnight hours. >> that's great news.

best news we have heard in the last three hours. now to justin joseph at a bowling alley. is that what's left of it? >> reporter: this is what's left of it. we are standing in what was the entrance. there are bowling balls throughout. this is the carpeted entrance here. let me give you an example of the devastation. you can see the building destroyed behind me. this was once the entrance. you can see the door here. if you look you can see this is a six-inch cement wall, absolutely decimated. if you look throughout the community you see scenes like this for several square miles. we have talked to a lot of residents. it will be a difficult day for them as they wake up to this scene in their community. back to you. >> justin, thank you very much. a live look at what's left of that bowling alley. we'll be right back. [ lisa ] my name's lisa, and chantix helped me quit. i honestly loved smoking,

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bill: continuing coverage here on the fox news channel. there is absolute devastation in the heartland this morning. the city of moore, oklahoma, wiped out. after this monster tornado tore through that town unspeakable tragedy. as rescue teams and volunteers dig through the rubble, a task that has moved from rescue in some cases to recovery in others. dozens are dead dead and many of them are young children. good morning, everybody. this will be the bulk of our coverage this morning as we welcome you here to "america's newsroom." good morning, martha. martha: i'm martha maccallum. we're hearing unbelievable stories in this tragedy. as you know two schools were in the path of this tornado. that is a look at