with thousands of homes damaged, everyone knows it will be a very long road to recovery. there are a host of amazing stories of bravery coming out of oklahoma, from that tornado disaster, like the one about a seventh-grader who became a hero when the circumstances demanded it. our nick valencia caught up with him. reporter: as he walked through the rubble of his now-leveled school, 13-year-old dylan ellis was bewildered. look at that. that s destroyed. reporter: it was the first time he had been back since the tornado struck. i don t know how we survived this. reporter: he remembers taking shelter in the middle school locker room. right here. reporter: he remembers being surrounded by the cries and screams of 50 children. lights went off. you could hear it hit the building. like loud. then it takes off our roof. reporter: no one was killed
san antonio but chances of a thunderstorm cannot be ruled out just yet. now on to kentucky where a manhunt is under way for an alleged cop killer. bards town police say an officer was gunned down this morning. his chief now has strong words for the suspect, words that may come back to haunt the chief. here s you a fill yacht wkyt. reporter: police say the call came in as a crash on the ramp but the first state trooper on the scene discovered that ellis had been shot and killed. his vehicle was parked on the exit ramp with his blue lights on in a manner to prevent traffic indicating that something was ahead. reporter: but police don t know why officer ellis stopped. we have no radio communication from him to our dispatch center. so why that is we don t know at this point. reporter: ellis had been with the department for seven years. he was their canine officer. he leaves behind a wife and two
sons. we lost an officer and a family lost a son, a husband. a dad. we lost a member of our community, one of the thin, blue line that protects them. reporter: this is video of ellis from earlier this year when he was interviewed by a louisville television station. ellis chief made no effort to hide his feelings about the person responsible. i can assure you, we won t give up on this person until we have them either in custody or in the front sight of one of our weapons and i personally hope the latter is the choice. reporter: ellis was pretty heavily involved with nelson county s little league program. one of the officials from that program told me, we are devastated at the loss of our friend and coach. we re all taking it pretty hard. we don t think it would be appropriate at this time to make more of a comment out of respect for his wife amy, his children around the law enforcement community. in nelson county, victor pew pu.
0 america and none more important. our sentiment exactly. thanks for joining the conversation this week on your money. find me on facebook and on twitter. my handle is @christineromans. hello, everyone. i m fredricka whitfield. welcome to the cnn newsroom. a look at our stories topping this hour. president obama toured the damage from that ef-5 tornado. he told people in moore, oklahoma that the nation has their backs. we ll have live team coverage next. and texas is having better weather today after torrential rain and flooding in the area for two days now. two people died in the high waters. the search is on today for suspects in the killing of a kentucky police officer. his body was found yesterday at an exit ramp of the blue grass parkway. the police chief has strong words for the suspect. we ll have the latest on the manhunt. we begin in moore, oklahoma where president obama is touring the damage from an ef-5 tornado. he spoke at the plaza towers elementary school ea