you re not going to be able to get in because they have shut off the traffic. let s go back to lance west. reporter: i m outside the yellow tape. i can tell you that they brought a dog in, getting ready to do some search and rescue operations. it does look like they have taken some back boards up to the mountain of metal and cinder blocks and it looks, from my perspective, like they may be communicating with someone. if there is a victim undhear rubble, they haven t been able to reach them yet but it looks like they may be talking to someone trapped under the debris. it s an encouraging sign. it s right under that wall that jesse wells reported that the kids took refuge from the storm. this may be some encouraging news. i can also mention that right across the street there s a home where about 15 minutes ago some
attempting to get kids. the last information i heard, just about five minutes ago, there may have been kids trapped towards the back of the school in the basement area. again, right now i don t know how many kids were still in that school, how many got out of the school. we know some of the kids got out of that school because we talked to a couple of them, said that some of those kids were safe, escaped injuries, some of the teachers doing their very best to protect the kids may have been severely injured, maybe even killed. you do a 360 degrees everywhere you look, we ll try to have more. jesse, tough talk to us about those kids that got out. where were they that they possibly could have gotten out of that debris? reporter: kids said that they were actually told to go into the hallways, outside of their classrooms and they were
bearings straight when you are from that area and you know where most things were. john, can you hear us? what i was saying is that it s hard for you, as you have seen other choppers go by, it s hard for you to get your bearings right in an area that you know like the back of your hand because you live not far from there. i think he s having trouble talking to us. the chopper that moved through there was a police chopper. let s go to jesse back on the ground. tell us what you are seeing. kevin, the words do not do this scene justice. it s hard to describe what we are seeing out here. absolute and total devastation. right now i m standing basically right next to the moore cemetery, corner of ridgeway and southwest eighth. this is just to the north of where the plaza towers
members are still alive, it s really indescribable and there s nowhere that you don t see damage and destruction. again right now we re in the front of the corner of plaza towers elementary. we ve been talking about that school. total devastation out here. absolutely there s no other way to say it that i can think of, total devastation out here and, of course, we ll try to find out the information again, very sparse as far as kids that were rescued, kids that may still be trapped. we really don t know. we ll try to find out that information. plaza towers elementary right here behind me. absolutely took a direct hit from this tornado and there just is not a lot left standing on that school. we ll try to get you more information here as soon as possible. back to you guys. jesse and linda, teachers are special people, as you know we ve been listening to local