when the tornado hit. it was a direct hit. they had a 16-minute warning beforehand. the oklahoma city medical examiner'sm office says we can expect the number of casualties to keep rising as the search for more victims continues. president obama has now declared parts of oklahoma disaster sites meaning that people there will be eligible for federal assistance. >> this is the same tornado that ripped through moore on monday afternoon about 3:00 p.m. when the kids were still in school packing winds up to 200 miles per hour. it stayed on the ground witnesses say for almostss 40 minutes cutting an enormous deadly path of destruction. >> we were putting the walls up for people. there were people crawling out from anywhere. it isry basically a war zone. >> joining us live from moore, oklahoma fox news correspondent and they say it looks like a war zone like the man we just saw.