so, first of all, how are you doing, charles? i m doing all right and a little bit shaken up. myself and fi family and all of my friends made it out all right. what was going through your mind? it was so intense. i couldn t begin to describe the feeling that i was feeling myself. i was more worried about where it was really hitting. it was basically just waiting for it to get by so that we could try and help as much as we could. right after we got out of the shelter, we raised over to the briarwood elementary. immediately, there were just kids screaming. there were some people that were trapped.
briarwood elementary. immediately, there were just kids screaming. there were some people that were trapped. it s just crazy. how much warning did you have that the storm was about to hit? i d say we had about 20 minutes. there were rumors all day that we were going to have a tornado. the house made it pretty well. there s a lot of damage to the roof. further down on the left side of the street. everything was just completely flat. once the tornado passed, you came out of the shelter, what was that moment like? what do you see all around you? it s like a war zone.
there are stories like there s almost too many stories to hear. it s too much pain these people are going through getting there to try to help as many kids as they could pulling them out. it s not just this school. there s also briarwood elementary, which also was devastated by this. somehow when you take a look at the pictures where a car crushed up against a wall that on the other side stood the children and tho one there died. it s miraculous that in some places people were able to walk away and in other places they weren t. one teacher at briarwood actually getting impaled by the desk leg as she sat there protecting her children. teachers going all out to do the best they could to make sure these little kids were safe. and sometimes they were successful and other times the tornado was just too much, wolf. category ef-5 more than 200 miles an hour in part. stephanie, thanks very much. by the way, if you want to help those affected by this tornado, go to our website. you can vi
of trial by fire. i m very blessed with well trained men that step up to the challenge and we have lots of help from all the surrounding cities and all the communities in the city of oklahoma and in moore and in the nation. they come from everywhere to help us and we have been very blessed with all the help and with the police officials, the fire officials, all the emergency management teams, and we can t say thank you enough to these people. i think you guys have all done an amazing job. that s the general consensus of everybody. i think it s miraculous that the death toll at the moment seems to be at 24, given the pictures we ve seen and the devastation that was wrought. i thank you both, mr. mayor and to you, fire chief, on all the work you and your people have done. thank you very much indeed. thanks for reporting our story. thank you very much. it s an important story to report. now i want to turn to a teacher with an extraordinary story. suzanne haley was impaled by the l
level view from the tornado at the vantage point of the shelleder. i spoke with him earlier. so, first of all, how are you doing, charles? i m doing all right and a little bit shakesen up after everything, of course. myself and fi family and all of my friends made it out all right. we re watching the video now. you re seeing all of this debris passing right over the storm shelter. what was going through your mind? what was it like? it was so intense. i couldn t begin to describe the feeling that i was feeling myself. i was more worried about where it was really hitting. it was the school that was right in front of us. it was basically just waiting for it to get by so that we could try and help as much as we could. right after we got out of the shelter, we raised over to the briarwood elementary. we tried to help some kids. we got there and immediately there were kids screaming and crying, not knowing what to do,