. >> in april 2011, a tornado that leveled much of tuscaloosa, alabama, was one of the worst in history with several ef-5 twisters. more than 320 people dead there from the college town of tuscaloosa all the way to kentucky and virginia. and just a few weeks later then joplin, missouri, was devastated by a tornado. city officials in joplin have sent a team of police and firefighters because they remember all the help that joplin received in 2011. one would think it wouldn't beat that recent story line we can all remember so well. unfortunately it claimed 158 lives, 200-plus-mile-an-hour winds and $1 billion to $3 billion. >> could be close. >> the joplin tornado, fifth deadliest since 1900, deadliest in the last 60 years. and bill, so much of that hype of that comparison, it really was a very, very severe storm we've seen overnight. >>> coming up on "today," matt, savannah, al and natalie are all in moore with more on the devastation. i'm richard liu. thanks for watching "early . . >>> i had to hold on to the wall to keep myself safe, because i don't want to fly away in the tornado. >>

we recently in the joplin tornados and also tuscaloosa tornados we brought in dod equipment to replace what was destroyed. from the fire side i know there's a lot of things you are doing to work around the interoperatability issues with regard to communications between fire and dod and maybe if ray or anybody else wants to speak to that. >> our communications challenges still exist. we have excellent telecom communications, we have a layered effect of our radio systems. we have mobile command posts that we can exercise. so we're prepared for power outages, reduction of telecoms, we have a layered effect for our communications. but as everybody here said, we need help. if somebody here can help me get a navy or marine corps aircraft to talk to my guys on the ground tactically, i need that and i don't have that today. i use a command control helicopter, a civilian helicopter, to handle that and transfer that to an air to air victor frequency. but from a command control perspective, we're fairly robust. are we perfect, no, but we do have layered defenses against that. >> miss yeager, i do

for those that survived tuscaloosa, actually rode through tuscaloosa and are here with us now, they say that storm that was just a few years ago called the worst in recent american history doesn't even compare to what we see here. the scenery, you see the overheads, the aerials, it is hard to explain this morning as we're about an hour or so away from the sun rising, just how devastated this community is. the scene behind us is like -- it's like from a post apocalypse movie. with entire buildings wiped out. trees stripped, but across the street, chris jansing, and you've been through it, the medical center. absolutely devastated. this is a major medical center, a rehab center, breast cancer treatment center, renowned and next to it a nursery school. >> it's almost hard to exaggerate the horror and the breadth of what we're seeing here. they have not had a chance to go into the medical center yet. they have gone next door. there was a day care center and they did find survivors who apparently were huddled under mattresses. this entire neighborhood and we drove back there, blocks and bloc

outbreak that leveled much of tuscaloosa alabama in you 2011, one of the worst in history, several f-5 twisters, more than 320 people dead. just a massive event. and it was followed just a few weeks later in 2011 by the leveling of much of joplin, missouri by another f-5 and another 178 people killed. most of them in missouri, but also in kansas and arkansas and oklahoma. last week tornados broke out in granbury, texas killing six people and destroying a neighborhood that had been built by habitat for humanity. they're still digging out in north texas. and now in oklahoma where the storms took life even yesterday and where the death toll tonight so far stands at 51 with the state medical examiner saying we should expect that 51 number to rise. they are searching through rubble in moore, oklahoma. searching and praying and preparing for what could be a very long night and a lot of very long days ahead. i want to bring into the conversation dr. brooks, he leads the modeling observation and analysis team at the national severe storms lab located in norman, oklahoma. good to have you with

i was down in tuscaloosa, as were you, and after the 27, april 2011 outbreak, we saw them build back homes for $75,000 with safe rooms. >> with shelters. >> with safe rooms in them. so this is not an undoable thing. >> now, bring us up to date. we mentioned seven different states have watches and warnings. tonight as we stand here talking -- >> a week and a half ago the atmosphere decided we're going to pull a switch, and all of a sudden the tornado drought is over and you've seen the results of that. what we're looking at tonight is thunderstorms all the way really from new york and connecticut on down through tennessee. shreveport is certainly going to face some of these thunderstorms tonight, austin, texas, memphis tennessee, as well. tornado watches. >> jim cantore, thank you for being part of the coverage. >> always, always. >> we'll take a break in our coverage. when we come back, we're going to talk more about this building code and shelter issue here in this devastated town of moore, oklahoma. >>> welcome back. here in the state of oklahoma, the expression "this hard land" co

we've seen that spirit in joplin and tuscaloosa. we saw that spirit in boston and breezy point. and that's what the people of oklahoma are going to need from us right now. >> pelley: we have a team of cbs news correspondents all over the disaster area. we're going to turn first to anna werner who was here yesterday when the storm hit. >> scott, today we got a tour of the neighborhood. you think you're seeing the worst damage you can see. then you go to the next. >> these are the pillows that we covered our heads with. ll reporter: terry ellard relived her survival story atop d tole of rubble that used to be her home. th was hiding in a closet with her 19-year-old son and their pets when the tornado roared through. nd i just felt like my son and i was going to die. that's how i felt. when my son and i first got in the closet we were sitting side ing ide. when it ended, our legs were out and we were literally chest to chest with our arms around each other. >> reporter: as battered survivors dug out today, last night's frantic search-and- -ascue operations became a more grim search

john: and destroyed much of tuscaloosa and within seconds this business express will change was turnednto this. the owner bill his business over 25 years it would have been easy to quit after it was destroyed j.p. rebuilt the company it said it would not cover all the cost and worse, a city bureaucrats told him he would not be allowed to rebuild on his property there. but he did. here it is. john carney has gripped. >> as far as grit seven day per week never-ending challenge to achieve your goal. its is never give up when he mini possible to achieve the final goal. john: most jobs are not seven-- per week. >> i look at it you have an agreement with your employees i had employees tested by me and i ought it was best for me to stick byhem. so i should exhaust every possibility you get back in business as soon as possible john: the tornado destroyed is your property and you want to rebuild and the local government says no because your place is the eyesore? to make a site could not but i was not a desirable business they were looking for something more aesthetically appealing appealing, so

john: and destroyed much of tuscaloosa and within seconds this business express will change was turnednto this. the owner bill his business over 25 years it would have been easy quit after it was destroyed j.p. rebuilt the company it said it would not cover all the cost and worse, a city bureaucrats told him he would not be allowed to rebuild on his property there. but he did. here it is. john carney has gripped. >> as far a grit seven day per week never-ending challenge to achieve your goal. its is never give up when he mini possible to achieve the final goal. john: most jobs are not seve- per week. i look it you have an agreement with your employees i had employees tested by me and i thght it was be for me to stick by them. so i should exhaust every possibilit you get back in business as soon as possible john: the tornado destroyed is your property and you want to rebuild and the local government ss no because your place is the eyesore? to make a site could not but i was not a desirable business they were loong for something more aesthetically appealingg pealin something. john: the w

. >> the only one that makes me think kind of a similar thing, two years ago in tuscaloosa, we had the that you had that live picture of the tornado cutting right through town there. that was the only other time that i'd seen something like that. but you're right, these images we have been seeing this last week and a half have been outstanding. >> shepard: i remember@1-%9 to the people in moore, rick, about the historic tornado that hitç 1999 and their biggest problem it hit when it was dark outside, and makes things more difficult and more frightening. >> at night, you're sleeping, maybe you're not tuned in to everything if it's later, after dark you don't have that kind of visual warning. but right now these things happening in the afternoon, in the sense that is certainly good news. generally you do see these tornadoes forming in the late afternoon, still in daylight. once the daylight goes down very often you lose the heating at the surface, and that's one of the primary things that fuels tornadoes. so afternoon is ae for it. >> shepard: the heat on the surface and then the colder

we have learned this from tuscaloosa and joplin, this is a best practice.e have been able to institute it. so good consumer protection up front. but there's many different types of scams and contractors that will be coming in and we know that our partnership with the oklahoma attorney generals office and statewide law enforcement is going to be very effective. >> it's bound to happen. there is the lots of precedence to refer to whether it be after hurricane andrew or even katrina. i mean there are people who will tell the tail of really being on their last dime. they have got nothing. someone comes along and entices them just as we saw in that piece prior to talking to you. have you seen any evidence of that? have you noticed or heard any stories from people who have already been approached by people who are trying to take advantage of others? >> yeah, there are always opportunists in circumstances like this. our hearts go out to those who have lost loved ones. exploitation of the elderly or insurance fraud, any type of scheme will really not be tolerated.

and he mentioned joplin and tuscaloosa, you remember a big storm came through there. right now, we're rrp talking about moore, oklahoma, and don't forget shawnee, oklahoma, just a few miles down the road where an ef-4 tornado came through just a day before the destruction there. when you talk to people on the ground, that is the concern. take a listen. >> now, we're just kind of getting real and starting to clean up. starting to take the next steps. >> are these volunteers helping you out? >> yes, a lot of volunteers. faith in humanity restored. >> the attention needs to be focused on monetary and helping. the volunteers have been great everywhere, and what is oklahoma is about, we get after it, and go on. everybody needs help. hopefully they'll get it in time. >> so where are we now? we know that many of the funerals have happened. we know later tonight there will be a memorial service, a prayer service, really, for people to come together who have been affected, hard-hit in this area, and obviously the cleanup will continue. it could take weeks, could take months ju

it lasted longer, but to see piles of rubble like we have seen, you and i were in tuscaloosa and joplinnd we have the same visual. the grinding that goes on with the tornados and nothing is safe. >>. >> i said one of the emergency room doctors i spoke to tonight said that the injuries he has seen are consistent blasting. it looks like the earth was wiped in some places. >> that's what happens. you have trees debarked and the cars where the paint is scraped off. i didn't know what they were. a truck or a car and i have no idea. >> those of us who have been following what you do for a living, the warm moist air, where does our front and our weather system stand and how far does it extend? >> tonight is a quieter night. no tornados thus far. wind and hail and a lot of action from tennessee into texas. we are in the calm down for a couple of days. a cold front through here which will help with the recovery efforts, but things are calming down. that's what's left of the weather heading into the mississippi valley. always a pleasure. we want to take just a moment to take some stock visually o

he mentioned tuscaloosa. he mentioned joplin. he mentioned this storm and don't forget what happened in shawnee, oklahoma, just a few miles down the road from where we are, that ef-4 tornado that ripped through the community and killed two people. that's what they're dealing with now. i want to bring you sort of a good story out here. it will start sort of bad, let me explain. kayla, your hope was destroyed. just lived right down the road. talk to us about what you're dealing with now. >> well, right now we're just trying to deal with all the insurance and all the kind of red tape that's going through to try to get our home repaired and it's kind of frustrating and confusing at times and then we had all this debris that's sitting around in our yard, inside our home, glass shattered everywhere and it's -- who's going to come get it? who's going to come pick it up? even our insurance company said, you could pay someone to do it but it might take days before they can come out here. >> caleb, you teach spanish? >> yes, i'm a spanish

he mentioned tuscaloosa as examples of where the government stepped in and continued, sustained its help. he said that will be the same for moore, oklahoma and don't forget what happened in shawnee, oklahoma, a few miles to the east of us where the ef4 tornado ripped through that community the day before the ef5 tornado hit moore. the president making the point that everyone affected will get the help of the federal government. >> that is so true, george, when all the cameras go away and people are dealing with the trouble here day-to-day, that's when it really gets hard. thanks so much for that report. >>> some good news now, where they need it, in san antonio, texas area. the rain has stopped and officials expect river levels to quickly return to something close to normal, at least two people died yesterday when flash floods swept through, cutting off road travel and knocking out power to about 12,000 homes. rescuers are still searching for a 17-year-old boy who was swept away by the rushing floodwater. >>> while people in san antonio wait anxiously for floodwaters to recede, storm sur

from where we were in 2011 to where we are today. 2011, the april event of 2011, we talked in tuscaloosa, 758 tornadoes touched down in april 2011. this year, only 83. yes, that is certainly a drought and over the average, we should be well over 500 by this time of year and we only have about 150 to 200 confirmed tornadoes. there's the one that touched down in athens, that was athens, just to the west of huntsville, alabama. literally, those people did not have any warning because the warning said, anderson, police confirm a tornado on the ground. when you read that warning, that means the warning didn't get it in time. the warning is in time if it says radar indicated could be to you in ten minutes or so. >> so folks this weekend in that area should expect what? >> hail the size of baseballs. probably at least a dozen tornadoes a day, maybe more. and winds probably at least 80 to 90 miles per hour. it is a normal spring event. we just haven't had them, so now this is a wake-up call for those people. >> chad, good information. thank you. >>> now to the tornado recovery effort in north te

from where we were in 2011 to where we are today. 2011, the april event of 2011, we talked in tuscaloosa, 758 tornadoes touched down in april 2011. this year, only 83. yes, that is certainly a drought and over the average, we should be well over 500 by this time of year and we only have about 150 to 200 confirmed tornadoes. there's the one that touched down in athens, that was athens, just to the west of huntsville, alabama. literally, those people did not have any warning because the warning said, anderson, police confirm a tornado on the ground. when you read that warning, that means the warning didn't get it in time. the warning is in time if it says radar indicated could be to you in ten minutes or so. >> so folks this weekend in that area should expect what? >> hail the size of baseballs. probably at least a dozen tornadoes a day, maybe more. and winds probably at least 80 to 90 miles per hour. it is a normal spring event. we just haven't had them, so now this is a wake-up call for those people. >> chad, good information. thank you. >>> now to the tornado recovery effort in north te

i was in tuscaloosa two years ago, i was in katrina, so you never are prepared for it, the breadth ofut it is an individual disaster for every person that's concerned. and we deal with that specifically as individuals. >> you mentioned katrina. i was in katrina covering that story. this eerily reminds me of katrina. the stillness this morning, and coming in and it was just so eerie. and now today, it's this frenetic energy we're dealing with with the storm system overhead and people trying to come out. do you feel that way? is it reminiscent for you of katrina? >> it is. we were in shawnee, serving not too far from here when we got the word about this moore disaster, so we came this direction. >> shawnee is the area just 40 miles to the north where there were two deaths because of the storm system that passed through there on sunday. an epic amount of superstorms that have been charging through tornado alley right now. major steve morris, thanks so much for what you do at the salvation army and the hard work and helping hand you're lending to this community and so many others. as we t

we have seen that spirit in joplin, in tuscaloosa, we saw that spirit in boston, in breezy point. and that's what the people of oklahoma are going to need from us right now. for those of you who want to help, you can go online right now to the american red cross which is already on the ground in moore. already, we have seen the university of oklahoma announce it will provide housing for displaced families. we've seen local churches and companies open their doors and their wallets, and last night, the people of joplin dispatched a team to help the people of moore. so for all those who have been affected, we recognize that you face a long road ahead. in some cases, there will be enormous grief that has to be absorbed, but you will not travel that path alone. your country will travel it with you. fueled by our faith in the all mighty and our faith in one another. so our prayers are with the people of oklahoma today, and we will back up those prayers with deeds for as long as it takes. thank you very much. >> the president who is already sending national help here to oklahoma and are

this is a tuscaloosa, potentially a joplin situation. not certainly saying we're going to see as many losses of life but in terms of the devastation. we're way up there on the e-f scale, winds up towards 200 miles an hour. almost identical path that happened on may 3rd in 1999. of course, the unfortunate part is there's so much more population. >> the weather channel jim cantore. we're going to let you get back to work. thank you. if you're just joining us, we're continuing to follow the breaking news in moore, oklahoma. rescue crews are on the scene there searching for the missing. k through third grade classes, a.p. reporting that kids have been pulled from the rubble. you've been hearing lots of references to the may 3rd, 1999, storms, a very similar tornado went through the same area at that time it killed 41 people, injured hundreds, and caused about $1 billion in damages. there are four dead. this was in a tweet from our affiliate, kfor, in an area of fourth street and telephone road. the mayor was saying that might be near the hos

we have seen that spirit in joplin, us the ka -- tuscaloosa boston, and those what the people of oklahoman the ground in moore. the university will provide housing for displaced families. and last night the people of joplin dispatched a team to help the people of moore. so for all of those who have been affected we recognize you face a long road ahead. in some cases there will be enormous grief that has to be absorbed, but you will not travel that path alone, your country will travel it with you fuelled by our faith in the all mighty and our faith in one another. so our prayers are with the people of oklahoma today, and we will back up those prayers with deeds for as long as it takes. thank you very much. >> stephanie: okay. and i'm sure the first question will be about benghazi from -- oh no, he's not taking any questions. that's probably why. >> yeah, it's not a press conference really. just a statement. >> stephanie: yeah. 1-800-steph-1-2 the phone number toll free from anywhere. as chris was saying text the word redross to 90999 to donate $10. jill in ithaca. hi, jill. >> caller: good

f n joplin, in tuscaloosa, we saw this spirit in boston and breezy point and that's what the people of oklahoma are going to need from us right now. >> rose: we continue our conversation with andrew revkin and brian walsh. revkin is a senior fellow at pace university and writes a blog for the "new york times." brian walsh is a senior writer for "time" magazine where he covers energy and the environment. i'm pleased to have both of them here. we'll begin with the obvious. exmine from me tornados. >> the atmosphere is turbulent and then sometimes when you have more heat and more cold air coming together in certain ways it gets really turbulent and it just -- >> rose: the swirling wind. >> the closest i've been to that effect was on a boat in the ocean when a waterspout was about 300 yards away and that's -- but that's tiny, microcosmic compared to this kind of thing and it's awe inspiring just to see that. i covered an ef-5 in maryland. >> rose: an ef-5? >> the strongest. >> rose: over 300 miles an hour. >> i covered one in maryland and it's just like the pictures you see. there's nothin

we're talking about damage that we were seeing out towards joplin and of course, we compare it to tuscaloosa. you talk about these homes being completely wiped off their foundations. that's where we start saying this could potentially be stronger than an ef-4. we're also looking for multiple level buildings and when we're seeing those completely leveled, that also indicates there is the chance here that that could be as high as ef-5. >> weather service already saying at least ef-4. just give you an idea, 166 to 200 miles per hour. that's at least, that's what they're saying. they haven't even gone out to look at it yet because they don't need to go out and look at it. they need to let the rescue workers rescue people. they don't need to be in the way. there's your scale. ef-5, total devastation, nothing left of the home. i did see some slabs, concrete slabs, with not a house on it. >> amazing. >> this is something everyone has been talking about. they did have lead time into this storm. how come everyone didn't get out. there's a lot of reasons for that. chad was also talking about shelters,

we have seen that spirit in joplin, tuscaloosa, boston and breezy point, and that's what the people ofahoma are going to need from us right now. for those of you who want to help, you can go online to the american red cross which is already on the ground in moore. already we have seen the university of oklahoma announce that it will provide housing for displaced families. we have seen local churches and companies open their doors and their wallets. and last night the people of joplin dispatched a team on help the people of moore. so for all of those who have been affected we recognize that you face a long road ahead. in some cases there will be enormous grief that has to be absorbed. but you will not travel that path alone. your country will travel with you fueled by our faith in the almighty and our faith in one another. so our prayers are with the people of oklahoma today. and we will back up those prayers with deeds for as long as it takes. thank you very much. >> the president of the united states at the white house telling the people of oklahoma and the country that the country st

and we've seen that in joslyn, 1 in tuscaloosa, the spirit in boston and breezy point and that's whata are going to need from us right now. and for those of you who want to help, you can go on-line right now to the american red cross which is already on the ground in moore, and already we've seen the university of oklahoma announce that it will provide housing for displaced families, we've seen local churches and companies open their doors and their wallets and last night, the people dispatched a team to help the people of moore. so, for all of those who have been affected, we recognize that you face a long road ahead and in some cases there will be enormous grief that has to be absorbed, but you will not travel that path alone. your country will travel with you fueled by our faith in the almighty and our faith in one another. so, our prayers are with the people of oklahoma today and we will back up those prayers with deeds for as long as it takes. thank you very much. stuart: all right, there's the president of the united states. perhaps the key expression there was the president sai

i was in tuscaloosa and we've done hurricane work in florida and i've done some other things, but this is a first, this wide-spread tornado is really unmatched in my experience and even believable to see. jon: our john roberts is live in moore, oklahoma with the latest. john. >> reporter: ro jon, good morning to you. you know, not only was this a very, very large storm but it moved so slowly through the oklahoma city area and that's why the damage that we see is even greater than you would expect from a storm that was as big as this one. take a look behind me, i'll step out of the way here, this is the moore medical center, it's a fairly large regional hospital in the area. the entire third floor of this building has been sheared off, and all throughout the parking lot you see cars piled on top of each other, like a child took them and put them there. earlier today and late last night there were cranes here that were actually plucking cars out from inside the hospital where the tornado had thrown them. there were a small number of people in this facility last night. we understand that

we've seen that spirit in joplin, in tuscaloosa, we saw that spirit in boston and breezy point, and that's what the people of oklahoma are gonna need from us right now. for those of you who want to help, you can go online right now to the american red cross, which is already on the ground in moore, already we've seen the university of oklahoma announce it will provide housing for displaced families. we've seen local churches and companies open their doors and their wallets and last night, the people of joplin dispatched the team to help the people of moore. so for all of those who have been affected, we recognize that you face a long road ahead, in some cases, there will be enormous grief that has to be absorbed but you will not travel that path alone. your country will travel it with you fueled by our faith in the almighty and our faith in one another. so our prayers are with the people of oklahoma today and we'll back up those prayers are deeds for as long as it takes. thank you very much. >> as you just heard, president obama saying the people of oklahoma face a long road ahead but they

we've seen that spirit in joplin in tuscaloosa, we saw that spirit in boston and breezy point, and that'she people of oklahoma are going to need from us right now. for those of you who want to help you can go online right now to the american red cross, which is already on the ground in moore. already we've seen the university of oklahoma announce that it will provide housing for displaced families. we've seen local churches and companies open their doors and their wallets. and last night the people of joplin dispatched a team to help the people of moore. so, for all those who have been affected, we recognize you face a long road ahead. in some cases, there will be enormous grief that has to be absorbed. but you will not travel that path alone. your country will travel with you, fueled by our faith in the almighty and our faith in one another. so our prayers are with the people of oklahoma today and we will back up those prayers with deeds for as long as it takes. thank you very much. bill: the president a moment ago, there, one of the best lines you heard it from him, when he talked about

we've seen that spirit in joplin and tuscaloosa, in breezy point. that's what the people of oklahoma are going to need from us right now. for those of you who want to help, you can go online right now to the american red cross, which is already on the ground in moore. already, we've seen the university of oklahoma announce that it will provide housing for displaced families. we've seen local churches and companies open their doors and their wallets. and last night, the people of joplin dispatched a team to help the people of moore. so, for all those who have been affected, we recognize that you face a long road ahead. in some cases, there will be enormous grief that has to be absorbed. but you will not travel that path alone. your country will travel with you, fueled by our faith in the almighty and our faith in one another. our prayers are with the people of oklahoma today. and we'll back up those prayers with deeds for as long as it takes. thank you very much. >> condolences and a promise from president obama right there, promising that the people

joplin, tuscaloosa, again here in oklahoma, similar. very devastating.. schools destroyed, hospital destroyed. cars just -- no way you would think people could survive this. >> so what are you doing now? what is fema, the federal government doing to help? >> well, first thing we did is we sent additional urban rescue teams to support the state. they had a lot of area to cover. the other thing is, the president last night did declare these areas disaster areas. so we can start registering people for assistance, and getting them some financial assistance if they didn't have insurance, getting them a place to stay. that process started last night. and we're encouraging people to register, call 1-800-fema to register to start that assistance. 1-800-600-fema. >> a lot of us have been really shaken by what we saw at plaza towers elementary school. pre-k through 6th grade. literally leveled. what can be done to avoid this down the road? because kids were killed in that school. >> well, there's a lot of things that we'll do in the assessment part of it, from the

we saw that happen in tuscaloosa. we're here on the grounds where the school once stood.ver here at this fencing that surrounds where the school was. a memorial that's been set up here by people, you know, who have friends, who have family members, who have people who were at this school. it's still unclear whether the school will or will not be rebuilt. that's a question we're still trying to look into. but again, change is slow. change is incremental. change, brooke, is definitely happening. >> if it is rebuilt, whether or not it will have a storm shelter this time. george howell in moore, thank you. >>> a booming blast at a west, texas plant kills more than a dozen people. next we are talking to a first responder who was injured in that massive explosion. his boots were blown 50 feet away, but he only knows that because someone else told him. >> i don't remember any of that at all. i don't really remember anything until the next morning. and it comes inside this beautifully crafted carrying case. introducing the all-new 2014 chevrolet impala with the available mylink s

we have seen that spirit in joplin, in tuscaloosa, we saw that spirit in boston and breezy point and the people of oklahoma are going to need from us right now. for those of you who want to help, you can go online right now to the american red cross which is already on the ground in moore. already we've seen the university of oklahoma announce it will provide housing for displaced families. we've seen local churches and companies open their doors and their wallets and last night the people of joplin dispatched a team to help the people of moore. for all those who have been affected, we recognize that you face a long road ahead. in some cases there will be enormous grief that has to be absorbed, but you will not travel that path alone. your country will travel it with you fueled by our faith in the almighty and our faith in one another. so our prayers are with the people of oklahoma today and we will back up those prayers with deeds for as long as it takes. thank you very much. >> all right. that's the president of the united states giving his words of consolation, his promise of reso

we have seen that spirit in joplin, tuscaloosa, we saw it in boston, and breezy point, and that's what people of oklahoma are going to need from us right now. for those of you who want to help, you can go online right now to the american red cross, which is already on the ground in moore, already we have seen the yiewmpt -- university of oklahoma athousands it will provide housing for displaced families. we have seen local churches and companies open their doors and wallets. last night the people of joplin dispatched a team to help people . for those affected we recognize that you face a long road ahead. in some cases, there will be enormous grief that has to be absorbed, but you will not travel that path alone. your country will travel with you fueled by our faith and the almighty and our faith in one another. so our prayers are with the people of oklahoma today. we will back up those prayers with deeds for as long as it takes. thank you very much. on washington journal tomorrow morning. that will be at 7:15 a.m. on c-span. a reminder that the flags are flying at half-staff at the cap

ve been a prosecutors in tuscaloosa. and i understand the importance of passing the laws that we passed. if the laws are bad, change the laws. if we need to have a different metrics, but whatever that matrix is, whatever the standards are, you have to enforce it or else you become an open border society and you promote something different than the rule of law, i.e., criminal conduct, and we cannot afford anarchy if we're going to have a democracy. >> one more thing to that. , i we talk about hispanics know the democrats have spent a lot of money trying to villeify us, but the hispanics i know generally speaking have a faith in god. they love their families and they have a strong work ethic. those are three things i think made america great, that i think have been waning in recent years. so i think the hispanic culture has so much to bring and can help rejuvenate america. and i have confidence that once people have done the research and see which party stands for what and see which party is more pro-life and more pro-fami

democratic line, tuscaloosa, alabama.aller: give me a chance to make a statement, you do not let us make statements on c-span. host: star you feel that way. caller: people talking about the government against this, against that, black farmers, white america, they would not allow the black people have it. my grandmother used to tell me to leap from third to fourth generation, now to get those claims the government has kept our people in slavery and helped the white people in the south. now they are going against one another? this had happened. that guy from georgia, he always calls in with something and whenever something happens to black people he says it will be all right and he has never been for civil-rights. this is happening, now they are fighting the white people. the government has always been on their side. when george wallace kicked the kids out of school the president " had to urge him to come down. come and gone to a felon -- the president had to urge him to come down. they are reaping what they so. they cannot

we saw that spirit in joplin, in tuscaloosa and in boston in breezy point and that's when the peopleose of you who want to help, you can go online right now to the american red cross which is already on the ground in moore. already we've seen the university of oklahoma announce that it will provide housing for displaced families. we've seen local churches and companies open their doors and their wallets and last night the people of joplin dispatched a team to help the people of moore. so for all those who have been affected, we recognize that you face a long road ahead. in some cases there will be enormous grief that has to be absorbed, but you will not travel that path alone. that downry will travel with you, fueled by our faith in theal meet sfe our faith with one another. so our prayers are with the people of be onning oak today ask we'll replace that with deeds for as long as it it takes. thank you very much. >> so the president tells the people that oklahoma needs to get everything it needs straight away and that the countrymen are side by side with them as they work their way t

we have seen that spirit in joplin and tuscaloosa, we saw that spirit in boston, and that is what the people of oklahoma are going to need from us right now. for those of you who want to help, you can go online to the american red cross, which is already on the ground there. we have seen the university of oklahoma announced they will provide housing for displaced families. we have seen local churches and companies open their doors and wallets, and last night the people of joplin dispatched a team to help their people of moore, oklahoma. for those who have been affected, we recognize you face a long road ahead, in some cases there will be enormous ,rief that has to be absorbed but you will not travel that path alone. our country will travel with you, fueled by our faith in the oneghty and our faith in another. our prayers are with the people of oklahoma today, and we will back up our those prayers with deeds for as long as it takes. thank you very much. from withint obama the hour on capitol hill. reaction on the floor of the house and senate, also the leaders of the senate and house,

through research, especially after the tuscaloosa tornado, 27, april, 2011 we learned people need to be reassured. prove it to me. if you are asking me to uproot my life and change what i am doing we want you to prove it to us. when you see monsters like these you will take cover. luckily, as al mentioned only one person lost their life yesterday. that is sad but it could have been a lot worse. >> lmplt jim cantore in oklahoma, as well. jim, thank you very much. >>> now to washington with new developments this morning on the irs scandal. when the white house became aware of the targeting of conservative groups. chuck todd is nbc's chief white house correspondent. chuck, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, savannah. the issue of when did the white house get informed that the irs had been audited by the treasury department and that the report about the targeting of conservative groups was completed and was out there. last week, jay carney, the press secretary, admitted that the white house counsel's office had been informed in late april. this morning, we are learning that