. >> reporter: andrew wheeler credits a briarwood teacher with keeping his son safe. >> the teacher helds were falling on the kids. she got her arm injured. one of the other boys on her other side got a big gash on his head but he's okay. he was the last one to be reunited. so we got him. gabriel wheater is safe. >> reporter: abc news contributing correspondent mike boettcher, who lives in oklahoma, was at the scene nearby briarwood elementary. >> the good news now is that students in the school and adults associated with the school tell us that no children died. that tornado passed right over that school. we were less than a mile from it when it hit the school. and you can see the explosion and the debris once it hit that large stone structure. >> reporter: outside briarwood elementary school i ran across this woman still trying to find her niece. >> i'm glad that everybody's okay. looking at that it's hard to believe. >> reporter: when the tornado came through and you found out it hit the school. >> when i saw it, a picture of it on the news, i was at work. i was in tears. and my house

. >> reporter: andrew wheeler also credits the briarwood teacher with keeping his son safe.lementary school, i ran across sade, still trying to find her niece. >> somebody told me they saw her. i'm glad everybody's okay. >> reporter: still such a raw situation. you can see behind me we have search and rescue dogs, plenty of firefighters and complete and utter devastation. helping with the search and rescue, 80 national guard members deployed by oklahoma governor mary fallin. >> it's like a battle zone. nothing standing, no trees, no houses, no landmarks. you don't even know where you are, where you're standing over there. >> reporter: ginger zee, abc news, moore, oklahoma. >> top officials in oklahoma are asking for the nation's prayers this morning. >>> the state's lieutenant governor spoke to abc news a short while ago. >> we never give up hope of finding -- still finding those that may be alive, buried in the rubble. generators have been brought in. we will continue the search and rescue, search and recovery, both, throughout the evening. the lights with the generators wi

andrew spencer has the story. >> state patrol says right now they are investigating and focusing on an 18 wheeler. for reasons unknown at this point in time the semi truck struck the overhead of the bridge causing the collapse. >> a team from the national transportation safety board is being sent to the scene to help a partuthorities determine what happened. >> survivor says they're grateful to be alive. >> i am grateful to be here and glad. >> i am andrew spencer reported. >> meanwhile back in the bay area we're focused on the eastern span. but their work is underway to fix the broken bay bridge bolts . the bridge collapsed in washington as a reminder of how important the bridge safety is. while cruising working to insure the safety of the news that of the bay bridge, the same question remains. kron fours rules or on the newsstand yesterday and got a firsthand look how the repair is going. drilling under the new spanish just begun in an effort to repair the dozens of broken bolts . caltran says the bolts are no longer useful so they're building a steel saddle to hold the bridge down the same lady

andrew, thank you very much. thank you for being on the show today. >> thank you. dennis: in today's "media minute," the next trillion dollar man, president obama in two hours expected to nominate tom wheelerefore it's official, the pick is generating a mixed response. wheeler's been a chief lobbyist for the two biggest, most powerful industries, the fcc rides herd over, cable and cell, having consumer groups in a tizzy, but other executives are worried he has a big obama fundraiser, executing the president's regulation, meaning more regulation, not less. a swing and a miss, all three, time warner, comcast, and viacom missed revenue, and beat forecast on the profit front. time warner down 1% as revenue was shy of 7 billion. comcast up 2%, 51 cents, beating the estimate by a penny, and up 4% despite an 18% decline in earnings, 6% drop in revenue, and cable sales stemmed a decline in ad growth. time for stocks now, big day for earnings where john is standing by. >> yeah, you know, we're in the middle of earnings season. two keynotes today, one was merck and one humana. when you look at merck, they had to cut their forecast for the year moving forward citing the generic drug competition out t