0 what emergency responders need most is to try to stop the clock. as everybody worries everyone may not find anymore victims of yesterday s disaster. joining us now is the mayor of oklahoma city. thank you for your time tonight, sir, i know this is an incredibly busy not for you. thank you. thank you, rachel. the end of a long day. what can you tell us about the latest in terms of search and rescue efforts in moore. we re hearing overall that the worry is that rescue efforts will have to wind down shortly if not now because of passage of time. do you expect they ll still find any survivors? no. no. i don t have any reason to expect that they ll find any survivors. i went into ground zero today and had to look at the most devastating parts myself and i can tell you it s unimaginable that anybody walked out of that debris alive. debris four foot high as far as you can see and inside the debris school books and children s toys and cars standing on end. restored and water levels are
0 when the huge tornado with the fastest speeds ever recorded on earth, when it hit moore, oklahoma, that up until that point had been the most expensive tornado in american history. that was the first tornado, moore oklahoma, may 3rd, 1999, to cause more than a billion dollars damage on the ground. that was eclipsed when joplin was hit a couple years ago. before now, joplin actually was the reigning record holder for the most expensive tornado in history. today there are sad new estimates that moore, oklahoma may once again end up being the record holder in that sad category. the fire chief says it is his goal to search everything three times before the window on finding more survivors closes. the mayor of oklahoma city told us live he doesn t expect to find any more victims alive in moore. the latest death toll by the medical examiner s office, at least 24 people were killed, 9 of them kids. lawrence o donnell picks up live coverage. thank you for being with us. the sun has just
0 speculative about that, because it will cost. we could do mahler mitigation projects than building one large seawall. i guess in oklahoma, and i m obviously not an expert at çal but hearing that story you could make the argument that for probably a small amount of money you could build a saferoom or cellar. we re thinking about similar things. here in new york we didn t get it right, either. there were some things we can t have done to make new york better prepared and better safe for the hurricane we had, but certainly going forward, we look at what is the best way we can expect the money for the best return. you know, ron, after hurricanes sandy a lot of analysts said this brings to fore the question of the role of government. a lot of folks thought that hurricane sandy in many ways frustrated the president s argument about the role of government and the need for go government to protect its citizens. you have in oklahoma where it begs that question, what is the role in governm
0 they didn t shut it down. and their argument is, you don t mess with the irs. i talked to a top obama person today who said, look, i m not so stupid that i m going to mess around with the irs. maybe that s true then. but the moment that lois lerner said on may 10th that we done wrong, the president shouldn t have waited another instant. he should have fired everybody. he could have gotten his hands on. he should have been the i think he should have been the chief prosecutor in this case. steve schmitt, would you advise the president if you were chief of staff, mr. president, you ve got little time. you better get out in front, or else mr. issa is going to get out in front. how about this, mr. president? you be the good guy. you blow the story. it s inexplicable why they didn t do it. there s has to be an awareness that barack obama was elect eedn the presidency on the premise that he was going to restore faith in politics. transparency. the themes of hope and change. this i
white house. someone through mind control perhaps somehow got a line into that cincinnati office. i m inclined to buy the first perspective. i see why millions of people might think it s all the work of bm obam obama. why? that tired old government game of ducking and covering. first denying. then a bit of information. then some more until finally the press pummels you into telling the straight story. why did the obama white house not get on the top of this story in the beginning? why didn t the chief of staff tell the president what the report was going to say. get the president in front of a lek turn and tell us what happened before anyone else did. why didn t the president himself lead the public demand for cleaning up that office in cincinnati? why didn t the president s team react the way a smart political operation should? seizing the reins of this galloping story. the first rule to follow in these cases, when in doubt, get it out. why didn t the president answer immedi