this is what micha moody saw coming toward her and her three children monday afternoon. get out of the street! 20 minutes later, this was all that was left behind. it s gone! it s all gone! still she dropped everything, ran across the street, and helped pull children out of the devastated plaza towers elementary school. the scene, she said, was heart-wrenching. kids are screaming, i don t know, i don t have my parents, what do i do? i m having to tell kids i didn t know what to do. in all, 10 children died in the tornado, seven at the school. the official cause of death released today, they suffocated when the walls collapsed on them. there was no shelter, no safe room at plaza towers. all new schools require one. and moore mayor glen lewis will insist every new home in his town will have one as well. we ll get consensus from the builders. i don t think that s a problem. i have to get the vote from my
city council, which are six other votes besides myself. i think we can do that. across this ruined city people are picking up what s left of their lives. i found my motorcycle. thought it might have been in kansas. rick brown escaped the damage of the 99 tornado here. in fact, in the aftermath he started up a safe room company, but this time at his there was no shelter from the storm. i had a good talk with life, all my difficulties and problems. that s what life is about. it s about meeting it and overcoming, starting over. for a few years now the city of moore has tried to implement a storm shelter rebate program, but could never get the money from family do do it. in fact, on its website the city complains that fema requirements are a constantly shifting target. in a tragic irony of this storm the city of moore may now get all the money it needed before the storm. bret? bret: john roberts live in
maria molina is live at the fox extreme weather center, but we re going to go to casey steegal who s live in moore. tough to see behind you, you re crouched down. tell us where you are. reporter: jenna, this is incredible. you want to know what possibly saved hundreds of lives in moore, oklahoma yesterday? this thing right here. this is a storm shelter, the storm cellars that you re hearing so many people talk about. and these aren t in most parts of the country, but in oklahoma these are common in the homes. they re just a little space, and you have luggage in here, some bottled water, maybe your weather radio, a flash light. and then look at this. this is the garage. you can see that s what s left of the home. the storm shelter like this. it s an underground with structure, and it has one of these sliding metal doors. so you get in there with your family. it usually pins closed, and this is what you ride one of these
casey. back to to casey steigel on the ground there in moore in about half an hour. in the meantime, he mentions the weather, jon, and you can see that on our camera, another factor in the rescue recovery. jon: lightning flashing in the skies around moore, and that rain starting to come down. the risk level for tornadoes the same as right before the killer twister blew through. meteorologist maria molina with where the next storms could hit. reporter: hi, jon, heartbreaking images out of moore, oklahoma. we ve had on and off rain throughout the morning hours, not good news, not what we need for clean-up efforts and, of course, search and recovery or rescue across oklahoma. but we do want to mention between noon and 1 p.m. local time, so that s central time, we re talking about between 1 and 2 p.m. eastern time we could actually be seeing another round of storms rolling through that area. as far as a tornado threat, we re not thinking we really could be seeing tornadoes with
today digging through mound of rubble in hopes of finding any survivors still out there. two schools and one hospital among the structures almost completely destroyed. you can see block after block of devastation in this aerial photo of the storm s path. homes reduced to piles of wood. you ve seen those images and here are some more of them. you also have vehicles talked around and crumpled in heaps . roads closed after the tornado have reopened but officials are urging people not to travel to the disaster zone. extra highway patrol officers have been called in to watch the traffic. you don t want any more dangerous situations. we will continue to follow this developing story, bring you the very latest from the ground as we get it. jon: we are also seeing how social media plays a growing role in dealing with this kind of disaster. the city of moore deploying its own twitter feed to give folks very specific alerts about the storm yesterday. patti ann brown has more of that. reporter: