my bike through all of these streets. i have watched it form like it was nothing when i got here know everything is just gone. these are my friends houses. i used to take the bus route around here and now, i don t know, it is just really sad and scary and take so long to rebuild. but we know that these communities can rebuild. i was in joplin missouri. this city rebuilt after 1999 devastating tornado. we know it s possible. it s hard to see it now. and it s hard to understand it now, megyn. but we know it s possible. it s just going to take some time. megyn: we saw the same thing after new orleans and katrina. some, including our own shepard smith who is going to join us shortly wondered allowed how they could ever rebuild after such devastation and yet, they do. that s the spirit of the people. right. megyn: who live in this country in these american towns. casey, i want to ask you some times when she see these twisters hit and they are not as wide and as vast
estimated tornado was at one point 2 miles wide. 40 miles up. 40 minutes rather on the ground with a 17-mile pass. they had 16 minute warning when the tornado warning went but for the moore residence, they had a 30 to 40 minute time span to get into their shelters. and now the preliminary survey says 190 mile-per-hour winds. that is a strong ef 4 but they are still doing is you i have a damage and those speeds could go up. if you look at job minute palestinian, missouri, preliminary reports when they went out there was ef 4 and they bumped it to ef 5. that s a possibility the damage is just incredible. when we talk about the enhanced fujita scale high end of ef-4 here and ef-5 and that s above 200 miles per hour. so in comparison the joplin missouri was 225 miles per hour. and then looking at the damage, we re talking about devastating to incredible damage on that enhance the fujita scale what they look for when they go out and
retrievers to help shooting survivors. the therapy dogshave done it before. andine though it is affected by the tornados in joplin missouri. 10 are in newton. we talk about how do dogs go to nursing home and eldarely people who can t and talk about peace and something good out of the story. if you were in the school that day, sandy hook, you heard the whole thing you were in the classrooms. the pa systems stayed on and said look at the horror coming your way the nurse knew something was going o. she hid
for over their entire lifetime who is now looked to us for rescue, and we would have accepted that responsibility, because that s what school people do. [ applause ] now, obviously, the superintendent is an exceptional educator and an exceptional citizen, but as i traveled around the country, what i ve discovered is, that s not just what school people do that s what americans do. that s what americans at their best do. when i traveled to joplin missouri, that s what folks in joplin do. when i go to aurora that s what people in colorado do. in urban communities all across america, that s what you do. for more than two centuries, our journey has never been easy and our victories have never come quickly. and we have faced our share of
missouri, that s what folks in joplin do. when i go to aurora that s what people in colorado do. in urban communities all across america, that s what you do. for more than two centuries, our journey has never been easy and our victories have never come quickly. and we have faced our share of struggles and setbacks and climbs that have seemed too steep, just like we do today. but we know what we re fighting for. we can see the america we believe in. a country where everybody gets a fair shot and everybody is doing their fair share. where everybody is playing by the same set of rules, and if we don t keep fighting as hard as we know how for that america, if we don t keep fighting for better jobs and better schools and a better future, who will? that was the president