well, andrea, know that many prayers are coming to not only your family but to this entire community from all across america and thank you very much for sharing your story with us. thank you. this is just a little dot. this is a little dot. 7/11 here on a street corner, shepard, you look around, 360 degrees and this stuff is happening all the place. and it s hard to put into words. shepard: i m sure it is. casey stegall on scene for us. we are watching live pictures coming in through our facilitates wkotv and kotv. it s spot after spot and as he they pull out, you will see what this tornado has done, it is widespread and goes on for miles. according to one estimate, and they can only have an estimate in the early going, something they would have gotten from the ariels and tried to figure out exactly how much land is impacted here.
towns the rescue they can accomplish. they have enough people to do so. at this moment they are just working to try to find who may be alive out there. it s our understanding that they have enough people to get to all of the areas affected now. whether they are able to get into all of them is another matter. and if you look at our local station there, they are showing where the storm system is now. kokh with the weather map. so anybody who thinks this is over is sadly mistaken. again, we have correspondents on the ground, including our own casey stegall and if he is available we will get to him. he has been able to bring us first-hand reporting of the death of four more people and the live pictures show a rescue and/or recovery effort which is underway right now. this is breaking news on fox news channel. we will go live to the scene after this. why are twice as many people choosing verizon
school. a scene of unthinkable devastation. we earlier reported that the children who had huddled in place and gone to their safe zone in that school plaza towers elementary had gone to a hallway their safe spot 3rd graders. 24 of them now missing. and believed to be dead beneath the rubble. in 1999, 36 people were killed when the worst tornado strike this heart land of america had ever known for ever changed their lives. changed emergency evacuation orders. they vastly increased the number of shelters, tornado shelters, storm shelters
shepard: casey stegall on scene. casey, we are still watching from above as they work frankly much more slowly than before in the wreckage of this elementary school i don t have to tell you has been devastated. very little left here except for what the authorities have told the nbc station is a search and recovery mission. there are scenes like this playing out all over this town it s our belief. of course, the choppers hover. house after house after house stories unbelievable day and more. our coverage continues after this.
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