after the 1999 tornado was so intense, so great. this tornado was about the only time i ve seen destruction that could compare. this was just a monster storm and so was the 19 # 9 storm. but the city of moore recovered after 1999 and they will recover again. gretchen: that is a fantastic way to leave it there. they recovered once. they ll do it again. you have to keep that spirit of human optimism alive. chris mcbee, thanks for joining us. he screamed allah akbar as he shot american soldiers at fort hood and he s still getting a paycheck, big one from the u.s. taxpayer. the woman at the center of the i.r.s. scandal says she she is going to stay silent when she s put in the hot
through american soldiers at fort hood is still getting a paycheck from you. yes, the taxpayer. we ll examine who is it and who s waiting as he gets it. fox & friends starts now. gretchen: good morning everybody. thanks for sharing your time today. we re going to tell you about startling statistics coming out of that tornado in oklahoma. 600 times more powerful than the atomic bomb that leveled hiroshima. the monster storm mother nature whipped up being call an f-5 with wind speeds of 210 miles per hour. this morning new video of panicked and reliefved parents searching for their children at the plaza tower elementary school. so many people wondering why did the schools, including plaza towers, not have a safe room. we now know it s because the school simply did not have the funds. steve: also this morning, we re getting a fresh new look at what an ef-5 tornado can do. look at that. for more we turn to anna kooiman who is live on the scene in moore this morning. goo
0 now with fox & friends. sun coming up soon. gretchen: good morning everybody. it is wednesday, may 22, 2013. i m gretchen carlson. thank you for sharing part of your day with us today. the oklahoma tornado 600 times the impact of an atomic bomb. now we know why many of those kids did not survive. the schools in tornado alley didn t have a shelter. we re live on the ground with the very latest. steve: the department of justice versus fox news. new details this morning on the administration s seizure of personal e-mail and phone records from fox news employees. where will the long arm of the government reach next? we re with going to talk about that. brian: we ve got three hours to go over it. the ex-army officer who screams allah akbar as he fires bullets that rips through american soldiers at fort hood is still getting a paycheck from you. yes, the taxpayer. we ll examine who is it and who s waiting as he gets it. fox & friends starts now. gretchen: good morning everybo
of the local models were not forecasting for the area. it was a big sign that something huge was about to happen in the oklahoma city area. and also, all the people that were able to get underground and be protected underground. i m hoping that more and more people will be able to get storm shelters to get underground for situations just like this. we appreciate the work you guys do to bring us these images. they are amazing. chris mcbee, simon brewer, thank you so much. simon will have a show this evening on the weather channel at 9:00. watch that. we ll check in with our mike bettes from the weather channel. we re trying to talk to mike before. he s at the staging area in the target parking lot not too far from here. what s the update there? we await more firm numbers about the fatality and what the injury toll is? yeah, and i think what happens when these situations
chris mcbee from central oklahoma storm chasers. simon brewer is on the television. as i said, he s the weather series storm riders. you were able to document and capture some incredible footage we have been able to utilize and show everybody the power of the storm. at what point did you realize this is something you have never seen before in all the time you have been doing this? when we were watching it when it was a couple miles west of moore, the amount of debris in the air, the structural debris everywhere, the storm was a mile wide, we knew this was going to be something very large, destructive, and historic. when you were out there, what was going through your mind? because part of you, you know, you re trying to chase the storm, trying to document all this, but there s got to be a part of you that recognizes and an instinct to want to go the other way. absolutely. absolutely. we were very close to the tornado. not close enough where we were affected by it ourselves, but i