But first heres van have a williamsson on the american system. Welcome, good afternoon an thank you so much all of you for being here today. And im really my name is e. J. A fellow senior here atbookings and im really happy to be here for two basic reasons. One, this is a great book. And two, vanessa is an awesome person. And im just so happy that vanessa what about a year ago joined us here at the brookings institution, and then prompghtly produced this great book. You know, been here for a short time and through the short intro of vanessa but something that says a lot about her which is vanessa has coauthored the first, the first one is called the tea party an and the renation of conservatism and vanessa shows this book is a strong conviction. But in her Tea Party Book and her convictions are quite different from those of tearkt tea Party Activist she shows capacity of understanding of poonl she profoundly disagrees with and we need that gift of empathy at this moment in our politics
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nbc s erica gonzalez joins us now with the details. good evening, erica. reporter: good evening. we are live outside the moore medical center. and this is the grand scale of things. you have cars flipped over, slammed up against walls, wheels up and then the smaller picture, which are things like this. trees uprooted, makes it look like a lumberyard exploded all across the area. now we have recently learned that the destruction, the casualties, are all a direct result of a confirmed ef-5 tornado. upgraded since yesterday. there are neighborhoods that have been leveled, the casualties, 24 people confirmed dead, 9 of those children. going forward with comparisons to joplin, to the tornado of 1999 right here in oklahoma. there is one thing that remains certain, and that is, this is going to be very, very costly. it will be billions. billions of dollars. i believe. because of all the tremendous amount structures and certainly the interruption of business in this area. and it