mary fallon. >> and being able to help in our search and rescue. we appreciate you.t's been a very trying couple of days for the state of oklahoma. it's a sad time for us, because we've experienced one of our most horrific storms and disasters that the state has ever faced. but yet, in the midst of tragedy and loss of life, we've also seen the resilience and the courage and the strength of our people. and we will get through this. we will overcome and we will rebuild and we will regain our strength. our hearts and prayers are certainly with those that have lost their loved ones, it has been a very, very hard experience, a heart-breaking experience, especially the loss of children in the schools themselves and those who haven't been able to find their loved ones and are still waiting to hear. we frankly don't even know yet if there are still missing people. but there still may be. so our first and foremost emergency and goal is to have rescue and recovery. to make sure that we have uncovered every piece of debris and gone through every building, piece of land itself t

but mary fallon, governor fallon, a friend of mine, who is a red state conservative down in oklahoma, also embraced president obama, just the way chris christie did after the horrible tornados they had. you run a state, you got people in trouble, you've got to help them out. that is -- i agree with you on this, that that is what presidents do. to criticize christie for that or maybe you're going to criticize mary fallon is absolutely nuts. >> no. >> all due respect, jennifer. >> listen, christie -- americans, when there is a tragedy, we always come to him. that's when it's great. do you have to have a bro manns on the beach with him? that was a little odd. christy has had some great policy achievements. first of all, when the democrats tried to push through project labor, driven up the price of paying for all the reconstruction, $30 billion, would have driven up the price by 30%, he vetoed. he vetoed when the democrats tried to rail through obamacare. he pulled the state out of reggie. those are good policies. >> and if he has a big -- i want to come back to this. i don't know what th

we are led to believe that the governor of the state of oklahoma, mary fallon, the oklahoma city mayoryor of moore, and the director of the department of emergency management for the state of oklahoma will all be giving us an update on the rescue and recovery efforts as they know them. the sun will set shortly in moore, oklahoma. it will be much more difficult to get through the night. rescue and recovery is an operation best undertaken in the daylight in 1999 when the very similar in path and hopefully in devastation storm came through, 42 people died. i said earlier 36. it was 36 in this exact area but it was 42 in all. died md call -- 37. 65 of those children, 20 are adults. and the call for volunteers has ended in moore they now say they have all the volunteers they need i have been following this on twitter as i'm sure you have. from across the nation and around the world prayers for these folks and the wish that they could do more. but at this moment it's a local matter for the locals to handle along with great help from the state including the national guard. some of whom have r

we expect to hear from her and the oklahoma governor mary fallon at a news conference due to start any minute. we will bring it to you live. that will be happening over at city hall. the homeland security secretary and the director of fema are also heading up the federal government's response to the tragedy. president obama has pledged that oklahoma will get whatever assistance it needs. while we wait for the secretary's news conference and the governor, let's go to nick valencia outside moore city hall where the briefing will take place. first of all, nick, what do we know about janet napolitano's visit here so far? >> hey, wolf. we've been out here all morning waiting for the secretary to show up. she just showed up here escorted by a motorcade. if you walk in city hall it's flooded with press, cameras, foreign press, local press, network, national and international press, we know that the secretary is here to make sure that the first responders to the moore, oklahoma tornado have what they need. we know there's been hundreds of federal emergency workers here working with local respo

still, this morning, oklahoma governor mary fallon said nothing in the past could compare to yesterday's devastation. >> this is -- bigger than anything i've ever seen. it's absolutely huge. it's horrific. it looked like somebody just set off something that just destroyed structures. not blocks, but miles. >> that 1999 tornado, which accounted for $1.4 billion worth of damage looks likely to be eclipsed by yesterday's storm. according to rough surveillance estimates by local affiliate kfor, yesterday's impacted area is easily twice as large. >> if you guys can see this, i don't know how to explain it. how to describe it. this is, this is terrible. this is war zone terrible. this school is completely gone. >> a short time ago, president obama who signed a disaster declaration for five oklahoma counties last night addressed the nation. >> as a nation, our full focus right now is on the urgent work of rescue. and the hard work of recovery, and rebuilding that lies ahead. there are empty spaces where there used to be living rooms. and bedrooms and class rooms. and in time, we're going to nee

the president on the phone with governor mary fallon of oklahoma and the message, we understand, was, if you need anything else, call me directly. here's what the federal government is doing. they've already sent a team from fema, federal emergency management agency, to help coordinate the emergency operations center in oklahoma. they've got one here set up as well. homeland security is briefing the president. they've got urban search and rescue teams out for what now unfortunately in many areas is becoming a recovery mission. they've got a mobile response team helping in the backgrounds with communication and logistics. and the small business administration even gearing up. part of this declaration means that once the recovery effort is over, people will need to rebuild. they'll need low-cost loans, they'll need temporary housing assistance and repair assistance and all of that is part of that emergency declaration the president signed. and of course the national weather service continues to monitor the situation there as this recovery effort continues. >> all right, tracie potts liv

. >> reporter: oklahoma governor mary fallon declared a state of emergency in 16 counties.ugh to get underground were in utter disbelief when they surfaced. >> we were in the shelter and it was like a lot of pressure on our ears and the top came off. there are 13 people living in our house. and it ripped off the top of the storm shelter. sounded like a train and after and i will the noise, when he we came out, the house and everything and trees and electric, we thought we were going to be trapped there all night. >> reporter: tornadoes also ripped through three other states. illinois, kansas and iowa. in kansas, downed power lines and hail the size of golf balls covered the ground as this tornado blew through wichita. >> the sky got really dark. we went to the cellar and we were so thankful. we also had our brains and we knew to go. >> reporter: a sigh of relief as the two missing residents from shawnee trailer park have been found. but oklahoma isn't out of the woods yet as more storms are expected throughout the rest of the day. and behind me, you can see one of the homes

mary fallon was lieutenant governor last time moore was hit.nd she has been on the ground helping them and she joins us now. welcome, governor, great to have you here today. >> thank you, we appreciate your coverage of this. >> i can't imagine what it is like to walk in your shoes as you grapple with the complexity of the tornado survivors and also trying to offer comfort for those people grieving over lives lost which include the children. what is your biggest challenge so far? >> >> the biggest challenge is the magnitude of the disaster itself. there are so many things that you may not think of that have to be handle in a crisis like this. and our foremost goal when the storm was striking, getting the right type of personnel to find and rescue victims of the tornado itself. and those who survived and those who lost loved ones. and make sure things were secure and safe. there was so much debris. electrical lines and gas leaks and the roads and highways were closed and security was a big issue. and protecting people. personal belongings and the

oklahoma governor mary fallon joins us, good evening, governor. >> good evening, greta. >> greta: i watched the press conference, i could hear your voice. it seems these horrible times, you speak for the state. you can feel the pain for the governor. am i right? >> absolutely. our hearts are broken for people here in oklahoma and for loved ones, it's just devastating. and i just pulled up to the grade school where they're trying to find the children that have not been found yet. and your heart just breaks for parents that don't know answers to questions whether their child is safe. i've been through a lot of disasters in oklahoma but to see this size of, see how many areas are devastated just absolutely incredible, it's just beyond expressing words and we drove up tonight in this area, where the indicator was. the hospital took a major hit. there are five different schools. and looking down the highway at south major interstate i-35 there are emergency vehicles, miles down the highway itself. the cars on the side of the highway pulled off. looks like they're topped. just caved n we lost liv

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today, president obama called mary fallon of oklahoma and fema is already providing resources to support the response. let's go to nbc news national correspondent janet shanlian. what are you seeing there now? >> reporter: chris, what started hours ago, traffic as far as the eye can see is continuing at this hour just after 10:00 central time. 11:00 on the east coast. it's basically paralysis in this area as people try to navigate around moore which has been cut off by authorities. they don't want anyone going in there without any power. my colleague, charles hadlock, has just been in there talking to survivors about their stories. charlie, what do they tell you? >> incredible devastation. we want to highland elementary school, middle school, on the top of a hill. as far as you could see, total devastation. neighborhoods, houses, cars, trees, billboards, community centers, anything in this tornado's path has been wiped clean. >> and you've been covering this area and tornadoes for a number of years. have you ever seen anything like this? >> we were here for the moore tornado in 1999 and

the governor fallon has declared -- mary fall oven oklahoma has declared a state of emergency due tohe tornadoes. again, i'm reading it just now off the wires. straight line winds and flooding. governor mary fallon declared a state of emergency for 16 oklahoma counties. >> wow. >> due to tornadoes, severe storms, straight line winds and flooding that began on saturday. the counties included in the declaration are kato, cleveland, comanchy, creek, garfield, grant, greer, kiowa, lincoln, logan, mclain, owe fusky, you've worked there, oklahoma, pawnee, payne and pottawatomie. it says nothing about the missing people or about the one fatality that's been reported by the officials in pottawatomie, but, again, in 16 counties, that is -- that's major, chad. >> it gives emergency managers and it gives sheriffs deputies, it gives all law enforcement a slight upper edge on what they can tell you to do or not do. they can tell you don't go there. that's a state of emergency. you can't go there. you can say, well, i want to go help. no, thank you so much but you go that way because now we're sta

and joining me now is oklahoma governor, mary fallon and congressman tom cole who lives blocks from the hardest hit area. governor, if i may start with you, tell me exactly where we are at the moment with the state of the recovery operation. >> we are beginning the recovery operations. there's a lot of debris removal going on throughout the public areas of the street. i was just visiting with the fire chief. he told me they're about to get to the point where they can go to some of their other duties and let fema take control and some other emergency personnel take control of some of the operations here as far as a disaster clean-up. you see a lot of utility crews out here. there was a lot of construction trucks, you're seeing people walking down the street pulling some wagons, going back into their homes to get their prized possessions. and there's a lot of people coming in and out of the shelters, signing up for fema relief. i hear we have about 1,500 people that have registered now with fema. and you're seeing people just coming for necessary services to figure out where they're going

. >> shepard: janice, the oklahoma government, a mary fallon has deployed 80 oklahoma national guard members to assist with the search and rescue operations. the troops will also help establish this perimeter arrangeds devastated areas, including moore. she spoke with the president today who offered the nation's help and gave a direct line to his office. in addition, the mayor of oklahoma city nearby, this is a suburb of sorts sending its emergency response resources to this area to help. of the okin which is the newspaper of record for the area. the headline sums it up this way. oklahoma sucker punched by second round of twisters still staggering from yesterday's tornadoes. oklahoma pick themselves up from the kansas on monday only to be hit by a second is round of fierce twisters today. this massive one record through moore and south oklahoma city this afternoon. grinding up neighborhoods and ravaging at least one elementary school in its path. of course, another struck as well. again i'm reading from the oklahoman. rushed glances to briar wood elementary cool one of two we mention

the obama organization reached out to the governor, janet napolitano calling mary fallon telling her president obama has directed fema to leave no needs unmet. the same area as i mentioned having seen a devastating tornado, one of the biggest and worst every, larry, beyond that jop lynn, missouri -- joplin, missouri in 1919. back to you. >> bertha, it looks like from the pictures, first responders are getting into the school. but i can't be sure. do we have any reports on that? are they there on the ground in enough numbers to rescue these school kids? >> they are, indeed. we have been hearing reports, monitoring the coverage of kfor the affiliate in kansas city for a time. they were actually knocked off the air because of the storms ongoing into this evening. they have gotten in there. the weather service says much of the weather has moved away from oklahoma city. it's gone west and to the east and to the south. so the area is a little more calm now. so that search now at least not likely to be interrupted by more severe weather. >> all right. many thanks, ber that coombs. now, let'

governor mary fallon declared an emergency for 16 oklahoma counties. tornado also touching down in wichita, kansas near mid continent airport. that twister knocking out power to homes and businesses. a massive storm system, again a deadly storm system spawning several destructive tornadoes in oklahoma, kansas and iowa. one person confirmed dead. at least 21 others injured. joining us is oklahoma state representative randy grau who huddled with his family in a safe room. representative grau, what can you tell us about the search and rescue efforts right now? >> thank you. certainly emergency crews, first responders continue to work hard throughout the night. as you can imagine, it is a lot more difficult now because it is nighttime, because the power is out for tens of thousands of homes in the state. and so they are doing the best that they can. also dealing with debris that in the roadway and things like that and so certainly the search continues and expect it will continue throughout the night and we are also looking at the prospect of more severe we

oklahoma governor mary fallon joins us, good evening, governor. >> good evening, greta. >> greta: i watchedoice. it seems these horrible times, you speak for the state. you can feel the pain for the governor. am i right? >> absolutely.

oklahoma governor mary fallon toured the devastation. she joins us. good evening, governor. i can't imagine so many people in oklahoma don't have a place to sleep except the shelters. do you have any sense of how many. >> we do have a sense of how many are in the shelters and we're fortunate that we have 131 people in the shelters. as you just heard from your reporter there, that a lot of the people have gone to stay with friends and relatives. so people in oklahoma have been very generous to take care of their relatives and certainly take care of their friends. >> governor, one of the things we've seen with the tragedies, there's an incredible outpouring of help from everybody, the federal government, organizations, everything in the first few days. this is a huge catastrophe. you'll need help for quite a long time. what are you going to do to keep the momentum going? >> we are going to need help for a long time. basically, what we're planning on doing is keeping people informed about what we need. there are a lot of people that have called to offer help. heard all kinds of

we expect to hear from her and the oklahoma governor mary fallon at a news conference due to start anywe will bring

governor mary fallon says in her 23 years in office, this is the most unbelievable event she has witnessed, even worse than the vicious funnel cloud that hit her state more than 14 years ago. >> i have been through the may 3rd tornado. i was here when the april 19th bombing hit oklahoma city and destroyed the federal building. this is bigger than anything i've ever seen. it is absolutely huge. it is horrific. it looked like somebody just set off something that just destroyed structures, not blocks but miles. >> that tornado was wind-clocked at more than 200 miles per hour. it didn't just wipe out schools but also hospitals, the community hospital in moore is now leveled among the debris. the oklahoma medical examiner's office says more than 120 people, including 50 children are being treated at other local hospitals. >>> in about 90 minutes from now at 7:00 our time, president obama is scheduled to make i astatement from the white house overnight. he did approve a major disaster organization from oklahoma which opens up federal funding for recovery efforts. >> for more on the oklahoma torn

we just got word that president obama has been in touch with the governor mary fallon.e're going to bring u.s. congressman that represents oklahoma's fourth district that has been in touch with those on the ground. we have an official number of ten killed and the terrible report from our affiliate kfor a minute or two ago about the -- it looks like they have given up on those two dozen third grade kids in the school there. do you have any more on that? >> chris, this is my hometown. i live less than a mile from that school. i have for 53 years. i still remember picking up my mom's voting precinct. i've been in touch with the governor's office and people on the ground. i don't want to get ahead of the official numbers but obviously it's very, very bad. you know, this is our fourth one of these things in 15 years. '98, '99, 2003, and now this. this one much worse than '99 in terms of the loss of life itself and we have to wait to give the men and women and first responders and sadly we are pretty good at this. our police and firefighters are first rate at this. you saw th

people thought it was very appropriate even if you're chris christie or mary fallon, i'm being crass, talking about the politics, it doesn't necessarily hurt you. >> it doesn't hurt you at all. we're talking about republican governors. they are more than theap to see washington represented by the president of the united states come to their communities. >> ifill: alexis and michael, thank you both so much. >> thank you, gwen ifill: on the can see more video of mr. obama and other presidents reaching out to communities in times of trouble. >> brown: finally tonight we spend a lot of time chronicling the hits and misses on capitol hill. author and journalist robert kaiser writes about a littleoths reshaped wall street regulations after the 2008 financial crisis. judy wood rough spoke to kaiser about his new book: act of congress, how america's essential institution works and how it doesn't. >> woodruff: bob kaiser, welcome to the newshour. the book, as we say, is act of congress. and you are very critical of congress in this book. you write about the principal preoccupation is politics

on the phone right now is janice -- governor mary fallon, the governor of the fine state of oklahoma. here we go again, governor. you warned residents this could and probably would happen. what is the latest you're hearing? >> well, neil, it is happening right knew. in fact this tornado sirens have gone off twice. i'm in the center of oklahoma city, at the state capitol, and we have had two sirens in the last 15 minutes. we have what could potentially be an f-4 tornado on the ground right outside of oklahoma city. it's a massive storm, and you still have people in the areas close to oklahoma city who have been searching through the debris for clothing and household items, those that lost their homes. and i went out to a couple cities already this morning, and just warned everybody, pay attention to the weather because within the time i drove up from the capitol and came in, 30 minutes, the storm has popped up. and the clouds were clear before i came and the capitol. so these are fact-acting, fast-moving storms and we have to pay attention to the weather today. >> indeed, governor. as

i'm joined on the phone by oklahoma governor mary fallon. unfortunately we seem to be checking in with you a lot lately because of the severe weather in your state. tell us where you are and what's going on. >> well, i'm in oklahoma city right now. i've been at the capitol. we have our emergency operations center already up and running. we like to prepare ahead of time. we have all of our first responders, all of our state agencies, state, local, fema people on stand by. usually in our operations center we may have 40 or 50 people who are coordinating, who are talking, who are ready to pounce if something should happen. as you said, the atmosphere is extremely unstable. there's a possibility of hail, strong winds, and possibly some tornadoes. conditions are right. and of course we still have people that are on the ground cleaning up debris but from what i've been told by my staff right now we have fema and our office of emergency operations cleanup on the moore side cease because of what's going on around the state. >> the oklahoma city area

governor mary fallon who's live for us on the phone.ood afternoon, ma'am. >> good afternoon. >> as i understand it, this is an area that covers 55 million people, is that right? >> yes, it is. it's a major city that's right out of oklahoma city, and this is an area that has been hit before. the may 3rd tornado many years ago that devastated total neighborhoods and businesses and also has a major highway. i-35 that runs through that area. and from watching our news accounts right now, i'm at the capitol about 20 minutes away. it appears it's heading toward major shopping area and also major movie theater, and there's some schools are in this area. so we're praying that everyone will be safe. right now our media is doing a great job at getting information out, telling people to get underground immediately. it could possibly be an f-4 tornado which is a really big one. one account says it could even be over a mile wide. and so this is a massive storm. it's built up really quickly. and, of course, after all the things we went through yester

. >> okay okay governor mary fallon declared a state of emergency in 14 counties.lief when they surfaced. >> we were in the storm shelter and it was like a lot of pressure in our ears and the top came off. there's 13 people living in our house and it ripped off the top of the storm shelter. >> it sound like a train. after all the noise, when we came out, the house and everything, the trees and the electric, we said we were going to be there all night. >> reporter: tornadoes ripped through three other states, illinois, kansas and iowa. in kansas, downed power lines and hail the size of golfballs cover the ground as this tornado blew through wichita. >> it was very eerie. it was very dark. the sky got really dark. we went to the cellar, we were so thankful. we also had our brains and we knew to go. >> reporter: a sigh of relief as the two missing residents from the shawnee trailer park have been found. but oklahoma isn't out of the woods yet as more storms are expected throughout the day. carol, a short time ago, i spoke to a resident, kimberly graham who said she ha

. >> bill: governor of oklahoma, mary fallon who toured the scene of one of the elementary schools yesterdaye said right away, they were getting -- they were on top of it. they were getting the help that they needed. >> the president has called me. he has offered to do anything he can to help with red tape, help with the federal entities. we actually have someone from fema that had arrived yesterday. >> bill: fema is already on the scene. president obama has signed the emergency declaration providing federal help. has already signed it last night providing help to the residents of oklahoma. and the governor says we know how to do this. we are strong. we've been through these before. and we will recover. >> volunteering our time, getting our resources out. we know how to handle massive disasters like this. >> bill: so our hearts certainly go out to those poor people struck by the tornado. just watching the interviews with the families who had lost everything. this one woman she had her two kids with her, that was the most important and she -- her husband on the phone told her get in the batht

oklahoma governor mary fallon offered her help to this moore neighborhood. >> for those overwhelmed,ongings out. we'll come in, we'll take care of it as a state. >> reporter: a bittersweet yet phammior sound of pomp and circumstances, provided a needed respite as seniors from three high schools graduated. >> it's kind of sad we are ending our senior year like this then again it brings us closer and more together. that's a good thing, too. >> reporter: it's a closeness that will bring renewal to the community ravaged by the storm and encouragement to rebuild. >> nick, i know people are already there getting rid of that debris t. question, where do you put it? >> reporter: well, we got a spot for it, carol, landfill designated in the city of moore. the city will come and pick up water left behind. you can see behind me, residents are still going through the pieces of what's left of their xhuvenl community. neighbors have helped neighbors. we find the most fascinating out here, cramer, how the resolve and the resilience of these people. they don't want help. they often turn it down. the

there you see governor mary fallon awaiting the president's arrival.l the live pictures and the president's remarks a bit later on. >>> meantime, in strategy talk today, are natural disaster relief use d to be one of the last sacred nonpoliticized votes in congress. in the wake of hurricane sandy when the vote for aid was stalled on the hill, new questions about that are on the table. today oklahoma's republican senator talk about the need to get the right request to the hill without added pork. >> we ought to make sure the money is actually for the emergency at hand, not for four or five years later. and not allow bills to be actually loaded up with things that have nothing to do with the emergency at hand. >> joining me now white house correspondent, jill duckman and republican strategist noelle. and, ladies, thank you to both of you. jill, so far no indication the democrats, the white house, or any of the northeast lawmakers plan to play this game of an eye for an eye. do you expect they're going to put politics aside and get money flowing to oklaho

and the governor, mary fallon saying we will rebuild and we will regain our strength.far as the news headlines go an untold number still missing. they can't put a number on that now. the governor had no update on the number of deaths. thankfully the number went down from the numbers that were being thrown around last night between auto and 80 as high as 90. the latest numbers before this presser and she did not update them were that 24 people had died. nine of whom are children. although everyone expects that number is going to rise. the governor explaining that some of the bodies may have gone right to funeral homes. may have been right to funeral homes as opposed to into the medical examiner's office. and so it's going to take a while to get the full measure of the toll. and you heard the mayor there of moore, oklahoma, who was the mayor back on may 3rd of '99 when the last huge huge twister went through there. another one in 2003. a huge one just referred to as the may 3rd twister. he was mayor then. is he mayor now. he said, quote: it doesn't get any easier. one pe

oklahoma governor mary fallon offered her help to the residents of this moore neighborhood. >> for thoseat are just overwhelmed and it's just too much to do, get their personal belongings out, and then we'll come in and then we'll take care of it as a state. >> reporter: a bittersweet yet familiar sound of pomp and circumstance provided a needed respite from the devastation as seniors from three area high schools graduated. >> i mean, it kind of seems we're ending our senior year like this but then again it brings us all a lot closer and more together. so that's always a good thing, too. >> reporter: it's a closeness that will bring renewal to a communi community ravaged by the storm and provide them the courage to rebuild. last night i ran into a group from joplin, missouri. if you remember just two years ago they suffered their own tragedy when a tornado ripped through that town. this group came and they're an important part of the recovery process and they have a very important message for the people of moore that with every day that passes, things will get better. christine? >> all r

does not matter where mary fallon is a republican or a democrat.hown such foot-first approach, saying that he supports the recovery efforts. also, the president in that speech from the other day, he made a point of noting where these federal funds go. i want to remind people what he meant by that. take a listen. >> i know everybody in congress cares deeply about what is happening and i'm confident that resources will be forthcoming when it comes to rebuilding but remember it's the ongoing training and equipment that we're making sure that those things are placed. we can't short change that kind of ongoing disaster response. we can't just wait until the disaster happens. >> what do you make out about that? especially how fema has pitted how it operates under the obama administration in comparison to what we saw in the katrina administration, being prepared? >> i think it's great that an agency is prepared and it's great to hear that the agency is doing better than it has. i don't think there's anything bad to say about the president. unlike efr unli

i'm with governor mary fallon. what's the latest that you can tell us?stage right now. i have instructed everyone make sure first and foremost we are looking under every single piece of debris we find, all the homes and building, the rescue effort in the school itself and the various properties around to find anyone that might still be alive that may be injured. >> 51 is the death toll still, or is that rising? >> that's what i've heard so far. we have had so much going on. it's two miles wide, 20 miles long. tremendous amount of buildings, structures, homes. we're trying to get a head count right now with the health department. right now we're desperately trying to go through everything we can to look for anyone that might have survived this storm. >> what does it mean in terms of resources and money? >> we filed our disaster declaration early because we had tornados on sunday that cuffed a lot of destruction. we lost two lives that day. we had 16 counties that were affected that we filed a disaster declaration. we had another one county yesterday. so i