nbc's ron mott was there. ron? >> reporter: lester, good evening. those two dozen people who were killed here on monday are being honored tomorrow night at a memorial service behind me. earlier president obama urged all americans to do their part to help moore gate back on its feet. ♪ there's power power wonder-working power ♪ in the blood of the lamb ♪ >> reporter: today's church services in moore were filled with songs of praise, as usual. but unlike other sundays, they worshipped outside at south gate baptist church. the building is still without power. across town at suburban baptist the sermon was focused on a pointed question. >> what does this mean? if there is a god, why does he allow all this stuff to happen? >> reporter: a half-dozen families who worship here lost their homes yet the pastor's 17-year-old son colton says their faith survived the tornado's 200-mile-per-hour winds intact. >> god's going to take care of us, wherever we're at. we trust in him and he's got a plan for everything and we know that. >> reporter: a steady stream of r

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ron mott nbc news, moore, oklahoma. >>> and that is our broadcast for this thursday evening. i'm ann curry in tonight for brian. and for all of us here at nbc news, thank you and goodnight. >>> nbc bay area news, starts now. >>> good evening, i'm jessica aguirre, we begin with the deadly shooting in santa cruz of two police officers, shot at point blank range. they were ambushed. the gunman who killed them went on to go on a rampage through the streets, until he was killed. more on the details. >> reporter: well, the dea said today not only was the shooting justified, it was heroic. today, we learned how close goulet came to shooting people in the community. nearly three months after butch baker and his co-worker were laid to rest, on february 26th, the two officers went to talk to sexual assault suspect, jeremy goulet and tried to coax him out of his home. it showed he agreed to come out. >> both officers were there at the door step when goulet exited the home. and within three seconds, he fired five rounds at the two officers from his personally owned .45 caliber automatic

ron mott, nbc news, washington. >> how about that? incredible story to end on for a thursday night. thank you for being here with us. i'm brian williams. of course, we hope to see you right back here tomorrow evening. goodnight. williamspo >>> nbc bay area news begins with breaking news. >>> the breaking news is happening in san jose, a pp÷bta train and a car collide, good evening. >> i'm raj mathai, taking you to live pictures from our helicopter, once again a train has hit a car in san jose on first and metro drive, first avenue and metro drive near the san jose airport. just a short while ago a woman was trapped inside that red prius after the car was hit by the train. she was able to be gotten loose, but no word on the condition or the train service for vta if there are any delays in the san jose area. we'll continue to follow this story throughout the news cast as warranted. >>> also, new details tonight about the two homicide investigations in the south bay. it has been a violent 24 hours and now the hunt is on. san jose police are needing the public's help to find a man who t

joining me now for more is nbc's ron mott. ron, it is graduation day. so what's the mood like there. >> big day today, alex. obviously it's a bittersweet weekend. we've got some funerals continuing today, of course. but it is graduation day for the three high schools in town. they'll be holding those commencement exercises up in oklahoma city, and back to back to back ceremonies, so it gives their parents and their friends and families something to cheer here at the end of a very trying week. but we're also hearing this morning some of those chilling 911 calls that flooded in to emergency centers monday afternoon. one of those calls came from a day-care center not very far from here, very chilling call. listen. >> we've got a day care full of babies. >> okay. >> we need help bad. >> okay. >> we need help bad. we got a day care that just got cremated. >> okay, sir, where you at? >> we got -- huh? >> where you at? >> what's the name of the day -- what's the address? [ inaudible ] >> five four south telephone. we've got tons of babies in here. >> okay, we'

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ron mott is in moore, oklahoma, to tell us more about it. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. it's day five now of this recovery and cleanup effort. a long week for a lot of folks here in moore. it's also memorial holiday weekend. bittersweet here because funerals will continue for 24 people lost on monday. it's also graduation day. three high schools in moore will hold back to back commencement exercises and give the community a chance to rally together for a few hours. we're now hearing the 911 calls that poured into emergency centers on monday afternoon. one from a day care center not far from here. take a listen. >> we got a day care full of babies. we need help bad. we need help bad. we got a day care that just got cremated. >> where are you at? >> what's the address? we got tons of babies in here. >> we'll get somebody out there. >> all right. we need help bad. >> reporter: you can hear the terror in that phone call. 15 children made it out unharmed. there are a lot of frayed nerves on this saturday morning as people contin

nbc's ron mott is live for us today in moore, oklahoma. ber weekend in a community that just witnessed one of its worst weeks in years. >> yes, memorial day weekend and sadly remembering a lot of folks who lsu their lives on monday. as you mentioned, 24 is the official death toll here in this moore tornado on monday. while it's only day four, the clean up probably feels like day 44 for a lot of these folks. a lot of this debris you see behind me has not been touched in a lot of places across town. it just takes a while for that type of stuff to start getting moved out and people start to develop a sense of confidence that we are actually recovering. as you mentioned, there's funerals planned today and throughout the weekend. we had a cleanup crew over at the cemetery, town cemetery cleaning up on wednesday trying to get that facility ready for those burials. on sunday you mentioned memorial service. expecting a huge crowd to come in and remember those 24 victims and also to remember the two people who died on sunday in a separate tornado th

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