unfolding situation. dozens of survivors have been hospitalized and more than 200 others have been treated. what types of injuries are we talking about? reporter: when you think about this and we have talked about it in the context of other natural disasters. the primary injury from the force of the tornado itself. shrapnel is going through the air. i ll show you just around me here probably around you as well there is debris everywhere. this is something that came off of probably a house. something like these. these all become potential sources of injury, impalements, broken bones. at least two significant spinal cord injuries. bowling ball for example. we find bowling balls, again, thrown around. all of this part of the second wave of injuries and the third wave when bodies themselves,
at the weather ahead of us right now. i want to go to pamela brown, outside the moore medical center here. a hospital that s been damaged so badly. it gives you a sense of the struggle here. because the hospital is the place you with ant to take people who have been injured in a storm like this. but this hospital nearly flattened. so let s go to pamela, hey, pamela. hey, john, that s right. the scene really tells the story of just the depth of the damage from the massive tornado yesterday. in fact right now i m right next to the hospital, john. this is a bowling ball, hard to believe, this was once a bowling alley. take a look here, bowling balls scattered throughout here. there s carpet right here and then you look over here and anyone that s been bowling recognizes the chairs, the computers and the hard to tell where the steel beams are, those are the bowling alleys, that shows the scope of how powerful that tornado was.
the place. bowling balls all over the place and you can see the bowling alleys, right there where you see the steel beams and the infrastructure, how the tornadoes ripped apart the infrastructure. emergency exit door, ripped apart and over here, i want to have my photographer pan over to show the medical center here. one of a couple medical centers in the city. amazingly, all patients and staff were evacuated from here yesterday after the tornado swept through, but the cars, just look at the cars, flattened like pancakes, some of the cars are on top of where the hospital is right here, you can see it s obliterated, across town earlier, this morning, we were at plaza towers elementary school. only a couple walls standing there with no place to go, with no underground shelter, the children had to practice their drills. they had to kneel down, put
of chemicals downed power lines, natural gas in a lot of these sites and right behind me here is a bowling alley and there are bowling balls throughout this area right behind me here. you can see the whole structure of the bowling alley just thrown apart from the tornado here yesterday. emergency exit door over there. the base, the entire infrastructure is completely obliterated from the tornado and over here to my left this is where my bowling alley used to be. this is just one example of so many throughout here in moore, oklahoma, of what we re seeing. another are in that we spent a lot of time focusing on is the other elementary school that is in the direct path in the tornado. that is plaza towers elementary school and that s where we learned that several children were killed there and search and rescue teams have been there sifting through the rubble nonstop looking for anymore survivors. we ve been speaking to parents who had kids in school yesterday at two elementary schools in
it looks like and how powerful that tornado was, yesterday afternoon. really just chilling to see this. i actually it remind me i covered the earthquake in haiti a couple years ago, and the scene i m seeing with mountains of rubble remind me of what i saw there. absolutely horrific. a ghost town, desolate. people are just shell shocked. that bowling alley, simply nothing left looking at that. really, really eerie, pamela, especially the carpet. the rug there and the bowling balls scattered around, and to see the hospital. i should tell people one thing about the medical center no, injuries, all the doctors and medical personnel evacuated safely, and the patients as well moved to a safer location, pamela, can you show us some more of the moore medical center behind you right now. unbelievable, john. you point out, no injuries. we learned this morning, the