building and if it s all right with you, i d like to die later. felt like an earthquake. something actually shook our television station, that s five miles away. in the first frantic minutes, no one was quite sure what had caused the explosion. initially, we thought it might have been a gas explosion because we had to evacuate the office two or three weeks earlier because there was a gas leak downtown. i thought that a war had started. i thought that oklahoma city had been bombed, that we had been attacked by another country. i thought that the explosion was an atomic blast from tinker air force base. i was trying to make sense out of it. i did not think it was a bomb. dog teams here searching for survivors and for bodies.
building and if it s all right with you, i d like to die later. felt like an earthquake. something actually shook our television station, that s five miles away. in the first frantic minutes, no one was quite sure what had caused the explosion. initially, we thought it might have been a gas explosion because we had to evacuate the office two or three weeks earlier because there was a gas leak downtown. i thought that a war had started. i thought that oklahoma city had been bombed, that we had been attacked by another country. i thought that the explosion was an atomic blast from tinker air force base. i was trying to make sense out of it. i did not think it was a bomb. dog teams here searching for survivors and for bodies. scores of people have been
dogs are a crucial part of the rescue effort. the governor was saying as they swap the crews out they are committed to every effort in the search here. we have dog teams, boats, amphibious people, 400 to 500 people working in the vicinity. there will be long-term needs. we are asking the federal government for a disasterç declaration to help individual families for housing and other infrastructure needs. some of the survivors with absolutely incredible stories, particularly the story of a baby who was 23 weeks old when the mudslide hit him and his mother. he was brought out of the mud with seconds to live from the disaster. it is quite miraculous he managed to survive. his mom, who is 25 years old, is with him at the harbor view medical center
effort, we will turn to getting the answers to the questions you ve asked, which are good ones and important ones and we will get all the answers. understandably, there were a lot of people home because it was a saturday, but there were also a lot of people on that highway. the highway has been obliterated. is there any way of trying to narrow down the large number, 176 of missing and unaccounted for and figuring out how many could have been on the road. i think we re doing the most important thing, which is to get every single human resource involved in this rescue effort. i can tell you that we do. we have a forward looking infrared system to find people. we have dog teams, we have hovercraft. we have many aircraft involved in the search. now hundreds of people, including rescue extraction professional teams. so that s the most important thing we can do. it will be sometime until the missing lists are fully coordinated because frankly,
don t want to die in this building and if it s all right with you, i d like to die later. felt like an earthquake. something actually shook our television station, that s five miles away. in the first frantic minutes, no one was quite sure what had caused the explosion. initially, we thought it might have been a gas explosion because we had to evacuate the office two or three weeks earlier because there was a gas leak downtown. i thought that a war had started. i thought that oklahoma city had been bombed, that we had been attacked by another country. i thought that the explosion was an atomic blast from tinker air force base. i was trying to make sense out of it. i did not think it was a bomb. dog teams here searching for survivors and for bodies. scores of people have been