yep. supposed to be given in a couple of days. reporter: a beautiful handwriting award a little boy named jackson was supposed to receive this week. tammy won t let the tornado take away what jackson earned. reporter: what do you want to tell your students if you could see them right now? i love them. i miss them. we have three days left but i just i want to make sure they re all right. ed, it s just amazing to watch that when you realize what people are capable of. briarwood, it s gone. you showed the bathroom only thing standing but do any of the schools have shelters or not? reporter: you know, it s interesting. tammy has an older son in high school. not too far away from there. it s a school built in the last ten to 15 years and that school has a shelter, a safe place where all of the students can be rushed in to and huddled in to one safe place enolder schools don t have them necessarily. we spoke with a lot of people
or not? how do you feel now, do you want to go back to that school or not? i don t really want to go back to the school unless there s another one. if there s another one, i just want to, like, stay away from it and go to a different school so that i don t have to go through it again. and jim, does this you were already close to him. he s very special to you. what does this do for your relationship? well, he s a special little man and i think this will just this will enrich our relationship as far as that goes. he ll just continue to be the same little dog. my little dog. he calls me big dog and i call him little dog and when we re playing basketball or whatever so he was just he just said i m so glad to see you big dog
also i believe ezekial with you, too, that story and picture is incredible. what happened in your mind when you re sitting there with all that fear and you saw him? well, i m just sitting there. i was just relieved to find him. he was just to see something familiar and to know that he was okay, i knew he was there at the school and just to see him and know that he was okay and didn t have any cuts or bruises or anything and it was very it was an emotional connection that we had but it was very real and it was very rewarding, very satisfying. and i don t know if he can hear me but, hezekiah what went through your mind when you saw your neighbor and realized it was someone you knew? what went through your mind