many more structures hit compared to may 3rd from what you and i are e seeing right now live from bob moorehopper 4. may 3rd took some areas that weren't developed back in 1999 through moore. i think the total was 6,000-some-odd structures that were damaged or destroyed. i believe the amount may be more. with this particular tornado today. >> you look at that scene of destruction there and the small figures of those rescuers working frantically looking here. where do you begin? i mean, that's the question. where do you begin on something like this? >> mike, how long was that tornado on the ground? >> well, it was on the ground for just under one hour, linda. it set down just southwest of -- west of new castle then went to that large wedge. i think the peak width on it was about a mile and a half wide. that's one thing i'm noticing looking at these pictures is the debris path appears to be significantly wider through moore than may 3rd,1999. most of this path is on the southern sides of the may 3rd path. >> we just saw somebody there obviously in distress. as any of us would be. walking up o

let's go back to john welsh and bob moore, chopper 4. >> right now let me tell you where we're at.'m just over basically frontier city, we're shooting back to the west. the feeder band we've been talking about just continuing to get lower and lower. that's it. we'll pan back to the right, then sucking all that energy up and it is dropping it out right there. right -- look right on the left of your screen. that is definitely where there is a lot of rotation. we have -- it is right behind that rain. we got some rain right in front of it. as you see right there on your screen that is definitely some rotation, some clouds and they're probably 400, 500 feet lower than we are so they're probably now 700 feet above the ground. that's the area we are looking at. it is going to be about 122nd and let's just call it broadway extension -- just within that general area. so this is the next area of concern right here. as you can just see, the clouds are coming together. they're starting to rotate slightly and it's definitely forming. right before your eyes you can see -- we can't see the daylig

moore. let's go back to john and bob. tornado continues.kay, let's go back to the -- troy, let's take the storm scanner and start with that storm. here's the norman storm again. so you see it has a hook. kind of hanging back here on the back side. it stale has the little fingers here trying to come around. emily noticed that it ramped up. that's the fingers you can see on the radar coming around. due south of new sassal on the northern side of highway 9. let's look at eastern oklahoma county. that storm is not very intense, this one right here may have small hail, and still this tornado warning storm that has had the large long-track storm. and you folks in cushing, don't take it lightly because it's still a tornado on the ground. our velocity indicates it's very much on the ground, moving northeast. moving to the northeast. it hit east and southeast carney. you saw the power flashes when carney was physically hit, and then it's lifted more to the southeast. you take a straight line path, it's heading into cushing. heading directly into cus

this was taken by bob moore chopper 4 earlier. >> this was earlier video. as, when the clouds cleared and john welsh could see what was happening, and john lives in this area. he lives just a little bit north of there. his home was not affected by this, but his wife and kids, of course, took shelter. they're okay. they texted him. but just a little bit to the south of him, you saw what the damage was. a lot of his friends and neighbors there. and we are just hoping for the best on these casualty reports that should be coming in soon. >> we feel your frustration as well. cell phones aren't working in that area. it's impossible to get information from individual families right now. and we know how -- >> we've been listening to the brilliant coverage of kfor in oklahoma to the events today in that area. the city of moore flattened. buildings on fire. devastati devastation wrought across the region by this incredible tornado. i want to bring in dr. irwin director of disaster preparedness at columbia university. good afternoon, sir. >> hi, martin. >> how does an

. >> back to bob moore, chopper 4. go john. >> there it is, mike. fixing to cross sooner road right now, coming into that annexed part of the lake. luckily for the time being there's not -- there are very few houses in here, if any. ity the city has bought most of them out. but it's continuing to track straight east. as you can see, this thing hasn't decreased in size any. i'm actually kind of getting a little closer than i want to be to it, but this thing is sucking us in at about -- >> if you're just tuning in, you're watching live coverage of a one to two-mile wide tornado that touched down south of oklahoma city. population 170,000 those in the warning area. we have on the phone right now oklahoma governor mary fallin. governor, obvious alily we're warning all of those in the path of this tornado to go to the cell cellar, the basement, get away from the windows. what is your advice for those watching who are in the storm's path? >> absolutely. be weather aware and take these storms very seriously. the tornado that's on the ground right now, as y

bob barnard spoke tonight with a man from moore who calls washington home bob. >> brian. like many joshua wishes he could be back in the disaster home -- zone helping with the massive cleanup. instead he's here living, working and thinking about his family and friends who survived that killer attorney 2345id dough. >> when it first touched down the projection schenn was literally directly over my parents' house -- killer tornado. >> for joshua gibson this hit too close to home. >> utter devastation. complete devastation. >> the 31-year-old federal government employees lives and works in the district but he grew up in moore, oklahoma. his family list there. this is their home. >> they were virtually untouched and i think it shows the difference between what half-mile can make when you're talking about a storm of this magnitude. >> this is what's left -- less of the moore medical center. >> you think a bomb went off. >> gibson was watching television reports in this nearby conference room as the tornado smashed through his hometown. >> you can't imagine that that is natural

first, i want to bring in bob frichie, he is a storm chaser talking to me southwest of moore, oklahomang at these clouds, tell me what do the clouds look like to you in person? >> yeah. i'm just sitting actually just to the west of chickasha looking north at a pretty organized wall cloud, basically, just a decent super cell thunderstorm with sustained rotation after a little bit and a pretty nicely organized wall cloud. >> so -- i don't know if you're cutting out, but again, if you're saying a nicely organized wall cloud, that basically -- the wall cloud is what you watch and that is where a tornado can spawn. so if you're telling me it's nice, that means -- what does that mean exactly? >> yeah, it basically just means that the storm has kind of established itself. it's organized its low-level features, and it's continuing to rotate. there's no tornado on the ground at this moment, but if it continues to organize and continues to persist as it moves into a little bit better of an air mass for storms off to the east, it could pose some problems for the chickasha over to the i-35 corrido

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immediately our thoughts and prayers were with the residents in moore because we knew what they were going through. >> mayor bob dixon and others are member the deadly twister that leveled greensburg years ago, raking up 90% of this midwestern town, telling 11 it -- 11 of its residents. -- killing 11 of its residents. >> we are reliving that mentally with the people of oklahoma. we lost five properties the evening of our tornado. you wake up in the morning, and you realize that you have nothing. you just start over. >> greensburg transformed itself after the twister. a model studied and celebrated by planners from other tornado ravaged towns, like joplin, missouri, still rebuilding two years later, and now moore, oklahoma. >> if they stick together, they can rebuild. they are strong. >> if these stores look brand- new, there is a reason. every one of them was built after the tornado. all of this -- but this 1, 1 of two buildings left standing after the twister passed. >> rebuilding was sustainable and used salvaged materials. wind turbines power the town. >> this is what our ancestors taught us, to be good stew

moore tornado. >>> held captain in -- captive in the cleveland house. what they're saying to the community today. >>> it's a hot, humid afternoon. am we see thunderstorms this evening? bob is updating your first warning forecast coming up. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> when the tornado ripped through an elementary school in moore, oklahoma teachers scrambled to keep their children safe. a pregnant third grade teacher used her body as a shield. vinita nair reports from her hospital bed. >> reporter: jennifer dome still struggles to speak. but the love she has for her students extends beyond words. seven were ripped from her, seven in a class of just 20 upon. >> we were trying so hard to just keep them all calm. >> do you remember what you were saying to them? >> that it was okay. and it was going to be okay. >> reporter: within minutes, the tornado tore the school apart. >> so you remember using your body to cover some of the kids? >> i had my arms around two of them. i just kept saying, someone will come for us. >> how did you get out of there? >> i don't know how long we were stuck. and somebody -- finally came and they knew we were there. they knew we were there. so they k

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moore's colon. what does the democratic party do? they blame the victim. turn off your phone, bob.d wood house tweets that the media refusing to meet with holder forfeits your right to gripe. brad the refusing to meet off the record not refusing to meet, does that change your opinion? >> goodie! >> goodie! >> greg: i guess not. holder meeting the it is is taking a husband taking his wife out to dinner and hoping she will take him back. he is goner and dull man walking and his fervent allies won't make eye contact anymore. holder will be more of the same. progressives are like dorritos, you eat one and they turn out a whole new bag and they still make you sick. >> meet james ro seven the bureau chief for a day. [ laughter ] >> that about the search warrant that you signed and shopped around. >> why did you sign on me? >> greg: you raised the question, eric. where do reporters go and report on it anyone. if you go off the record. >> eric: that is the this thing. do away and the to go but it has to be off the record. it's amazing that what was chronic and to be the most transparent ad

is on the way. >> brown: bob henley, thank you so much. >> you're welcome. >> ifill: online, you can watch our report from 1999, when another tornado devastated the town of mooreill to come on the newshour: who knew what and when at the i.r.s. and the white house; the department of justice tracks reporters to prosecute leaks; apple defends offshore tax havens; and promoting women in the sciences. but first, with the other news of the day. here's hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: a federal appeals court today refused to order the release of photos and video of osama bin laden from the u.s. raid that killed him in 2011. the obama administration argued the images could reveal intelligence methods and trigger violence against americans. today, a three-judge panel in washington agreed. it rejected a bid by the conservative watchdog group judicial defense to make the pictures public. in syria, the battle raged for a third day in a key town near the border with lebanon. government forces and hezbollah fighters from lebanon have been fighting to retake qusair, which rebels have controlled for more than a year. rebel video today captured the aftermath of a government a

bob schieffer. >> schieffer: good morning again. we're going to start in oklahoma. the tornado that hit moore, oklahoma, last week, we now know damaged as many as 13,000 homes, took two dozen lives, among them ten children. president obama will tour the area today and governor mary fallin is joining us this morning from moore. governor, thank you so much for finding time to talk to us this morning. how's it going down there this morning? >> it's going good. i can already see people out here early this morning working and what's been remarkable is i heard so many incredible stories of people helping people. i've heard stories of people who have come to help from either across the state or out of state and they come into these areas and they pick out a family at one of their homes and they actually have pitched some tents in their yard areas so they can be ready 24 hours a day to help the people be able to go through whatever precious belongings might still be there. there were so many volunteers out here yesterday, the streets were packed. there were a lot of people that had trailers that were

sooners head coach bob stoops spent some time with the displaced victims from the oklahoma tornado. the campus in norman is ten miles from nearby mooreg housing for some of the victims of the tragedy. that will do it for the bleacher report. wolf, back to you. >> andy, thanks very much. >>> that's it for me. i'll be back later today, 5:00 p.m. eastern, in "the situation room." jake tapper and brooke baldwin. they continue cnn's special coverage of the oklahoma tornadoes right after this. the day my doctor told me i had diabetes, i remember thinking there's a lot i have to do... check my blood sugar, eat better. start insulin. today i learned there's something i don't have to do anymore. my doctor said with levemir® flexpen... i don't have to use a syringe and a vial. levemir® flexpen comes prefilled with long-acting insulin taken once daily for type 2 diabetes to help control high blood sugar. dial the exact dose. inject by pushing a button. no drawing from a vial. no refrigeration for up to 42 days. levemir® (insulin detemir [rdna origin] injection) is not recommended to treat diabetic ketoacidosis. do not use levemir® if you are al

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bob sands reports on the resilience of the community. >> reporter: nearly every home in fallis suffered some sort of damage from the sunday tornado. while attention is focused on the relief effort in moore, those who live in the rural lincoln county community are finding help from family, friends and in many cases total strangers. david and cheryl warrick's home suffered damage and their property is a mess. they've have had lots of help cleaning up. >> this is a real close knit area and there's been tons of people up and down the road offering help and bringing water, offering food. >> reporter: just down the road, the tornado destroyed allen and becky buchanan's home of 13 years, along with all the other buildings on their property. like it did for the warricks, help came quickly. >> oh, a bunch of help. oh, my god, our phones, we just ringing off the hook. i mean, voice mails, emails, i mean it's almost impossible to even answer the phone. >> there's actually some guys out there now cleaning out the shop. >> yeah, we don't even know who they are. who is that? >> reporter: that guy is jason shaffer, who lives a couple of miles from the buchanans. >> they needed help, just what us count

bob. angela, more than 400 fema workers on the scene right now in moore, oklahoma.tance. both oklahoma senators voted against that proposed sandy relief bill earlier this year. could this create a problem for long-term aid in oklahoma or not so much? >> well, i think, first and foremost, this year, despite efforts with sequestration and broader cuts, there is still a significant amount of funding, i think around $11 billion, in federal disaster aid relief funding, that exists. i think the larger problem and the bigger thing that we're going to have to look at long-term is how we put partisan politics aside to ensure that the nation's citizenry is taken care of, regardless of disaster. the other thing is, we know that disaster is going to strike every year. we've been talking about it all week. you know, the number of tornados that hit. so we have to do better at proactively funding these things before they take place and happen. >> and right now you've got, you know, noaa's looking at cuts and you've also -- of course, you've got the hurricane center. i mean, a lot

bob scales with us out of washington. good to see you. >> thanks, bill. you too. martha: messages of hope and of thanks in moore, oklahoma today.a short trip around the tornado devastated community and you will see messages spray-painted on damaged homes and the sides of buildings. some are trying to warn off the looters who have come by or to thank the first responders who have helped so much. other victims are trying to remain positive offering some fun year messages instead out there. listen. >> the house is for rent, if anybody is interested. [laughter] >> is just made a really sad situation just really light and funny. martha: you've got to keep your sense of humor, right? as much as you possibly can in this situation. many more residents will need that as they move forward. they are also going to need lots of patience in this situation, the tornado did an estimated $5 billion in damage and the recovery will take years. bill: last week we were talking about $2 billion. martha: now it's 5. bill: it's more than doubled there. our best to the folks in oklahoma. martha: i know. bill: a tough road ahead. martha: i think of of t