julie simon, can you hear me? >> yes, i can. >> what an extraordinary experience for all of you. it sounds like so many teachers, you put your own safety to one side and just were desperate to protect these children. tell me about what was going through your mind as this all happened. >> i just wanted my babies beside me. i had seven kids left with me that were in my classroom and we were all sticking together, and i just grabbed them and held them close and gabe was just wonderful. gabe, i'm sorry i couldn't make it up there. i wanted to be there but i only had 30 minutes to get there and i didn't think that i would get there to come and stand beside you. but you were so brave and i'm so proud of you. you did everything that you were taught to do and you guys didn't look up, you kept your heads down and when all that stuff was flying down, you know, you kept yourself safe and i just -- i'm so connected. i'll forever be connected with my students of this year, you know, going through this with me. >> i mean, julie, i, like so many people, have just seen this horrifying tornado on

with us on the phone is gabriel's teacher, julie simon, who protected him during the twister. welcome to you all. david, let me ask you first of all, where were you when you heard there was going to be this huge tornado? what did you do? >> well, i'm an educator in the putnam city school district and i had to stay at my school to make sure our students were safe, and i was watching the tv as the tornado was heading down towards gabriel's school, and as soon as it hit the school, i was able to just rush home and just go 100 miles an hour on the highway and went through neighborhoods and had to run about a mile, and got on a couple trucks and took about three and a half hours to find him. >> that moment when you found him, describe that to me. >> happiest day of my life. it was just wonderful. it was the worst day built into one of the happiest moments of my life. i already knew my daughter and my wife were safe and all i cared about at that time was my son, and other family members, and when i saw him run down the street with miss simon, everything was okay for us at that momen

wheeler that says his son is alive today, alive thanks to the actions of his third grade teacher julie simonhe is a member of our family for the rest of our lives. she will be a part of it forever. there is nothing that we can give to her that will repay her. we just thank you, julie. we love you. >> the largest profession in america and none more important. our sentiments exactly. thanks for joining the conversation this week. we're here every saturday and sunday at 3 p.m. until then you can find me on facebook and twitter. my handle is@christineromans. >>> hello, everyone, i am meteorologist karen maginnis. what you are looking at are live pictures coming out of san antonio. there have been numerous reports of water rescues taking place here and as you can see very swollen rivers and this is inundated it looks like that may be a shopping mall, but we had reports of as much as ten inches of rainfall. that is a one day total reported. that is rivaling the flooding we saw back in 1998 that killed dozens of people. already one fatality reported and we are looking at most of that rainfall in th

says his son day breel is alive today, alive, thanks to the actions of his third grade teacher, julie simonmily for the rest of our lives and she'll be a part of it forever. there's nothing that we can give to her that will repay her. we jt thank you, julie, and we love you. >> the largest profession in america and none more important. >>> our sentiment exactly. thanks for joining the conversation this week on "your money." find me on facebook and on twitter. my handle is @christineromans. >>> hello, everyone. i'm fredricka whitfield. welcome to the "cnn newsroom." a look at our stories topping this hour. president obama toured the damage from that ef-5 tornado. he told people in moore, oklahoma that the nation has their backs. we'll have live team coverage next. >>> and texas is having better weather today after torrential rain and flooding in the area for two days now. two people died in the high waters. >>> the search is on today for suspects in the killing of a kentucky police officer. his body was found yesterday at an exit ramp of the blue grass

since july of '09 and this number is performing better and prices dropped from 50.5 to right on the nose and everybody wondering why that is need look no farther than dropping commodity prices. simonng to you, rick. that's exactly what a lot of people wanted to hear today. the manufacturing is still expanding in the united states and we're cutting our losses, as you can see. there was concern that the world was slowing down after we got data from china overnight. certainly, rick mentions the commodities and we were down over 3% on oil and over 3% on copper. we are off those lows as you can see, but still, there is a huge concern, carl, about the growth outlook moving forward and not least with the move with the bond markets. >> commodities responding more to the adp than to the ism and we'll see if that changes throughout the day. let's bring in cnbc senior economics correspondent steve liesman talking about some of those numbers. steve, let's do ism and walk us back to what adp said this morning. >> yeah. i'm just looking at these ism numbers, and i didn't like what i saw in terms of the employment number, the components there. let me give you the details, it is down 52 from 54,