brian shactman is standing by with melissa rayberger with fairly good insight into this area being aeporter here. >> be safe, guys, i see that lightning right behind you. we'll get back to you in a minute. melissa, you were an anchor in oklahoma city back in 1999. >> that's right. >> when you see these images, give us a sense of how they compare. by the way, these are images not of yesterday, you're looking at 1999 right there. >> honestly, i'm just so amazed by it. it's so surreal. when you live through may 3rd, 1999, it was just impossible to believe that mother nature could be this powerful and this furious. i went to report on it right where everybody's standing right now and i just would look around in awe. you would expect to see a roof torn off and lopped over, you don't expect to see things that don't resemble whatsoever what they were before. you have no idea if the debris on one foundation came from the house that once stood on that foundation. everything is broken up into tiny little pieces and it's very, very dangerous for the people who are making these rescue efforts, b