. >> reporter: moores dent adam baker is big a hand to a close friend whose home was flattened by monday's catastrophic tornado. it's helping him cope after he found himself helpless in the face of tragedy at plaza towers elementary school. >> it's just -- utter devastation. i mean, i don't know if there's really a way to describe it. >> reporter: right after the storm hit, he was one of many who rushed to plaza towers to find loved ones. he desperately searched for his nephew and any other survivors. and you went there in hopes of rescuing people? >> yeah. and i -- didn't really get to, i guess. i -- i tried, though. that's all i can do. >> reporter: instead, he encountered unspeakable horror. four children buried under the massive debris of the collapsed school. suffocated by its shear weight. >> they probably would have made fit they weren't pinned. >> reporter: how were they pinned? >> pinned by different debris. desks. two by fours. pieces of metal. >> reporter: the students were not found in a basement as officials initially believed. do you think had there been an underground shelte

. >> moore resident adam baker, giving the hand to a close friend flattened by monday's catastrophicound himself helpless in the face of tragedy at plaza to ymraplaza t elementary. >> utter devastation. don't known there is a way to describe it. >> reporter: he was one of many who rushed to plaza towers to find loved ones, and searched for his nephew and other survivors. you went there in hopes of rescuing people. >> yeah. and i didn't really get to i guess. i -- i tried, though. that's all i can do. >> reporter: instead, he encountered unspeakable horror. four children buried under massive debris of the collapsed school, suffocated by its sheer weight. >> they probably would have made it if they weren't pinned. >> reporter: how were they pinned? >> pinned by different debris. desks, 2 x 4s, pieces of metal. >> reporter: the students were not found in a basement as officials officially believed. do you think if there was an underground shelter, these lives could have been saved? >> oh, yeah, most definitely. underground shelters are some of the best things to have in a tornado. >> re

. >> moore resident adam baker is giving a hand to a close friend.s helping him cope after he found himself helpless in the face of tragedy at the plaza towers elementary school. >> reporter: right after the storm hit, he was one of many who rushed to plaza towers to find loved ones. he desperately searched for his nephew and any other survivors. and you went there to -- in hopes of rescuing people. >> yeah. i didn't really get to, i guess. i -- i tried, though. i mean, that's all i can do. >> reporter: instead, he encountered unspeakable horror. four children buried under the massive debris of the collapsed school, suffocated by its sheer weight. >> they probably would have made it if they weren't pinned. >> how were they pinned? >> pinned by different debris, desks, two by fours, pieces of metal. >> reporter: the students were not found in a basement as officials initially believed. do you think had there been an underground shelter these lives could have been saved? >> oh, yeah, most definitely. underground shelters are some of the best things to

adam baker is still in shock, after all that he has seen since monday's deadly tornado. >> taking it one day at a time. basically right now, just putting it off for later. concentrating on my work. >> reporter: efforts are now under way to clear the vast damage. the city of moore called for volunteers to help clean up the cemetery at a local church. community members showed up in droves, raking garbage, and cleaning up debris by hand. >> it just says that we're one community. we always come together as one. we did this before and we'll do it again. and every time that something like this comes up, we're always going to be there to support everyone. >> reporter: fema officials say they are also committed to making sure the neighborhoods devastated by monday's ferocious tornado have the resources they need to fully recover. >> we were here before the storm. we'll be here after the storm. and we're going to be here for as long as it takes. for oklahoma and moore and oklahoma city to rebuild. >> reporter: in moore, oklahoma, i'm paul vercamon reporting. >> reporter: officials now say 13,

i interviewed a man earlier today his name is adam baker, he's a resident here.er the tornado he wanted to help, so he rushed over to plaza towers elementary school hoping to get there and pull out survivors. instead, anderson, when he got there he saw four deceased kids. he said there was debris on top of them, metal, wood, concrete, you name it. instead he pulled them out. he said he laid them on the ground one-by-one and it's something that still haunts him today. he says he just can't get over it. let's take a listen to what he had to say. >> the ones that were deceased had bumps and scrapes and they probably would have made it if they weren't pinned. >> how were they pinned? >> pinned by different debris. desks, 2 x 4s, pieces of metal. >> i mean, you can never get over something like that. those images. >> no. and he said that what's interesting here as we talked about, anderson, they weren't found in a basement. he said it was a structure that was a little bit lower to the ground like a shallow structure. he said it could have been a classroom. i asked had

neighborhoods-- looking to the next phase of adam baker is still in shock since monday's deadly >> reporteruld have had a much more death toll. but you rust of a great point which is being discussed. why schools in this area so vulnerable now have all not have underground shelters. do we have something in place that mandate schools in other places have the sources these underground shelters that saves a lot of lives. >> reporter: thank you paul. work." efforts are now underway to church. graffiti artist the f-b-i needs your help in >> reporter: as a precaution while others watch for flying embers. >> i tried to put water on roundhouse that is how bad it was kidding. >> reporter: no word on what caused the fire rob fladeboe kron 4 news >> reporter: in the commercial vehicle dropping people off or getting the ones over inspection. >> this is a good way to get a look at brand of drivers to city violations that you should go on. >> reporter: this one pulled off the road for low tire pressure. kron 4 news solo home run his 12th of the season 1-0 nationals >> reporter: there is a huge difference

. >> reporter: that resident adam baker said he found the kids in a shallow area.here was so much debris it was hard to tell. had the kids been in a basement or underground shelter of some sort if they would have survived, he was very adamant in his response. >> most definitely. i mean underground shelters are some of the best things to have in a tornado, especially if they're concrete. because, i mean, two by fours can go straight through houses, solid concrete, cinder blocks. >> reporter: we learned today that those kids died from mechanical asphyxiation. that means you're unable to breathe deep due to some force or blockage likely because of all the debris piled on top of them. wolf? >> pamela brown here in oklahoma with us. the newspapers here in oklahoma have some powerful, powerful photos on their front pages today. we'll share some of them with you. the oklahoma shows obliterated neighborhood saying everyone in the state feels the loss. the norman, oklahoma paper has a photo of the devastated plaza towers elementary school with the headline force of nature.

they were enormously divided between the adam smith waivers and the pragmatic wing, the so- called baker -- some of those guys. but everyone had pretty good respect for him. >> i want to go back to this business of your controversy. bob novak had a few things that he said about you. let's watch this and get your reaction. video clip >> on the phone, and we have breakfast every other saturday at the hay adams, and he did not talk to me. he talked to bill, a left-wing was quotingand he david stockton. just talking to the reagan the administration. book was like in the ,iddle of a russian revolution and it was an incredible shot over the bout. reagan could not believe it. he believes stockton did not intend to do it. he was a destructive force for the rest of his time in the white house. >> disruptive. novakl, you know, bob with a microphone or a megaphone for the hard core of supply-siders, of which there were about four. jack kemp, who was a great guy but unbelievable there on tax- cutting, and formerly the wall street journalist, a fanatic, who is aaffer, charlatan. he claims to be an ec

adam when he got pulled in. >> reporter: but in a second with the crushing waves baker and griffith were gone forever. >> i knewi couldn't do anything. if they dispatched the helicopter right now it would be too late. >> reporter: several weeks later another bay area man died swimming in the waters. he had only been on the island for a few hours. >> we all had the illusion of safety. >> reporter: he witnessed another drowning. >> if i'm at sea level i'm not safe. >> reporter: he watched as his friend drowned and another came close to dying. >> i ducked. when the white out cleared both of my friends were gone. >> reporter: since january 11 people had drowned on the island. last year only four. >> a huge wall comes in. >> reporter: an emergency room doctor. >> the most common victim is a man in his 30s or 40s or 50s with children and all of a sudden the wife is a widdy and the children are without a father. >> reporter: the investigative unit discovered since 2003, 74% of those who drowned here were visiti visiti visiting. >> almost like a dirty secret. >> reporter: more than 100 have drowned on the island in the