. >> and pastor poag, you're a retired police chaplain. you've been through the big toorn tornado in 199. and were there for oklahoma city in 1995. >> i was. >> you've been through a lot of this tragedy and despair before. what do you say to people who are facing such unimaginable horror, losing a child in a tornado like this? >> really, there is -- just your presence with them. you know, you can't really -- you can't say a lot. you just -- you just know that we're all struggling together with their loss. the most difficult part for me was i checked in with incident command. >> and he sent me over to the church where we were bringing the families in. and we set with those families for about nine or ten hours. waiting for some report from the me's office on the condition of their children. and just to see the pain in their eyes and feel their heartbreak, just waiting and waiting and waiting to get some kind of confirmation on whether their children were alive or deceased. so just being there with them to give them a hug, to assure them that