one of those is second grade teacher tammy glasgow, her quick thinking no doubt saved lives.got kids into the bathrooms. let's listen to what she says. >> they were all singing the national anthem. we were about to have a program in two days. we were about to perform the national anthem. they were practicing, they were just trying to forget what was actually happening. >> we will hear more of her truly amazing story a little later this hour. we'll have more from moore, oklahoma. also more news from around the world when we come back. i'm so glad you called. thank you. we're not in london, are we? no. why? apparently my debit card is. what? i know. don't worry, we have cancelled your old card. great. thank you. in addition to us monitoring your accounts for unusual activity, you could also set up free account alerts. okay. [ female announcer ] at wells fargo we're working around the clock to help protect your money and financial information. here's your temporary card. welcome back. how was london? [ female announcer ] when people talk, great things happen. see, i knew testost

i want to bring in tammy glasgow on the phone. e survived the massive tornado last week in moore, oklahoma at briarwood elementary where she bravely protected her students. she is at her house in moore right now. tammy, i assume you're taking cover. how are you taking cover? do you have a shelter, tornado shelter in your home? >> yes. we have a shelt inner ter in th yard, an in-ground shelter. >> how alert was moore and the surrounding area for this tornado as opposed to the one that struck a week and a half ago? >> well, that's hard to say. i'm home today of course on summer break so i am able to watch it and it's been on tv for about two hours now as opposed to that day when we were in school. we could just take the word of our principal and didn't know what was going on. >> i want to talk about what you're seeing outside your house but before i do, how is the school recovering? how is the community recovering from last week's tragedy? >> it's recovering nicely. we've gotten a lot of donations and every family has been taken care

tammy glasgow won't allow them to take it away. >> what do you see right now? >> at home.s him. i know we just have three days left. i want to make sure they're all right. >> a lot of people we spoke with today are wondering whether or not more money should be invested in building storm shelters. what's interesting is a lot can be huddled into when tornadoes approach. >> thanks very much to you. a big question going on about those shelters. images of relief and gratitude, including this one. you may have seen it. the man hugging that little boy and that moment of reunion. the school no longer exists, but that little boy does. here's what that little boy first saw in that familiar face. >>> earlier, i spoke to the two people in that photo. and i asked them about that woman. >> i'm just sitting there. i was just relieved to fiengd hezika. i knew he was there after school. just to see him and know that he was okay. and didn't have any cuts or bruises or anything. it was an emotional connection that we had. it was very real and very rewarding, very satisfying. >> what went thr

second grade teacher tammy glasgow kept praying with her students and reminding them how much she loved them as she and her students took cover in the school closet. we had susanna haley. she was a first grade special education teacher at briarwood elementary school, suffered a severe injury when part of school desk was impaled in the back of her leg while protecting the students in her classroom. the most heart-wrenching testimony i've heard was from the person who was responsible for matching the missing kids with the missing parents. the individuals who lived through these storms are volunteering in the recovery and assisting efforts right now, and they're america's real heroes. i have seen people from all corners of the state continuing to flock to the devastating areas to give their time, their money, and their energy to help meet the dire needs of those injured or displaced. the "oklahoma standard" has survived an act of terror in 1995 and devastating natural disasters in the past. this most recent storm will only embolden the standard and encourage the rest of the country to foll

tammy glasgow, a second grade teacher who has taught at briarwood elementary for 16 years and she told me as we talked just outside of her classroom that has been destroyed and demolished and left in pieces that as she saw the tornado coming toward her classroom she simply felt numb. >> before i shut the doors because the bathrooms had doors i said i'm shutting these doors and i love you and the boys looked at me a little strange. walked in the girls and said, i love you. they all said, i love you back. and you just don't, you know, i told them to pray and that's what we did the whole time in the closet. just prayed. my own son was in the bathroom with the boys so i just said, watch over them. take care of them. you know. and it was so loud you can't -- you couldn't hear anything. just hear and it was forever and ever. i would just as soon they would be quick but it just stayed and stayed and stuff was falling on us. we had books over our heads. i looked, glanced up once and you could just see it. it was just like brown, huge, never ending. all the way up to the heavens. and then i got

tammy glasgow raced inside and crammed about 20 students into a closet and bathroom. >> reporter: whatader little kids at that moment. >> before i shut the doors. bathrooms have doors. i said i'm going to shut the doors i said i love you. the boys looked at me strange, walked into the girls, i said, i love you, they said, i love you back. i told them to pray. that's what we did in the closet, is pray. >> reporter: do you think they grasped what was going to happen? >> i'm not sure, they were all singing the national anthem. we were about to have a program in two days. we were going to perform the national anthem, so they were practicing. i mean, they were just trying to forget what was actually happening. >> reporter: for tammy, the horror seemed to never end. i just assumed that they would be quick, but it just stayed and stayed. and stuff was falling on us. we had books over our heads. and i looked -- glanced up once and you could just see it, it was just like brown, huge, never ending. just all the way up to the heavens. and then i got back down, a cinder block fell on the back of m