we all live in oklahoma and it s amazing when something that happens a lot here happens to you, correct? right. our coverage from our affiliate kfor, and you see in the background there people helping people. chad myers and i will be back with more after the break on this breaking news story. welco. where new york state is investing one billion dollars to attract and grow business. where companies like geico are investing in technology & finance. welcome to the state where cutting taxes for business. is our business. welcome to the new buffalo. welcome to the new buffalo. welcome to the new buffalo. new york state is throwing out the old rule book to give your business a new edge, the edge you can only get in new york state. to grow our start your business, visit thenewny.com just seem to fade away.? now start vibrant, stay vibrant! new vidal sassoon pro series has an exclusive hydrablock system that helps fight fade out for up to 8 weeks. vidal sassoon pro series. salon genius.
okay. the number has just been upgraded. 75 kids were in that hallway when this tornado hit. firefighters are standing on what essentially is a large pile of debris trying to find these kids that are hopefully still alive. there s a triage center set up on what looks like it may have been a basketball court at one point. they are using doors and pieces of plywood as stretchers to try to get the victims out. i see one little boy who looks to be probably in third grade, also a woman next to him who is laying flat but she s breathing and moving. i would suspect she may be a school teacher. they are just a host of volunteers, folks doing everything they can. but this is about the worst damage i ve ever seen and you can only pray for the families as they search for these kids. that was our reporter talking about the plaza elementary school where 75 kids were in the hallway. we want to go back to our affiliate kfor.
people checking on neighbors is impossible right now. the movie centers, schools, theaters, malls, loek ka casino in the area, they are concentrating on those now and again they are going to have to go door to door. we re going to take you back to kfor s chopper coverage from moore, oklahoma. what happened is everything has been blown and put right there. stuff heavy. we have some big i-beams and this thing has a ton of a ton of weight on there. the problem is that they could put an excavator and actually pick and start moving that rubble up and then you re going to start disrupting how everything is laying and you could possibly hurt more people that might even be in there. this is going to be a slow going process and thoughts and prayers go to these people affected by
they are doing a head count to find out how many may be trapped. of course, there are relatives around the nation watching live coverage wondering about loved ones. listening to the coverage there of our affiliate at kfor, parents are worried about the two elementary schools in the area. again, the plaza towers elementary school they are trying to find the k through third graders, fourth through sixth, all of those kids have been accounted for. we re going to take an eye on that. we are taking a break to talk with congressman james langford. you are in the area in. i am actually in washington, d.c., i was in the area shawnee 20 miles to the east of that and got on the plane midday today and came up to washington, d.c. i m looking at your facebook page and seeing the images of you in the area so i thought
like i said, i haven t seen any reports. but it wouldn t surprise me. mayor lewis, we re going to let you get back to work. thank you, sir, for joining us. thank you for your call and thank you for your concern. i appreciate it. absolutely. we re going to go back to kfor who continues to focus on plaza towe towe towers elementary school. the search and rescue crews continuing to treat the kids that were in this school that search search for kids that may still have kids inside and honestly it s not just the school that got hit as we pan around a little further, you re able to see all around, 360 degrees and people are just trying to have loved ones, friends and if their family