highway patrol troopers out here all over the place trying to make sure that everyone is okay. it is a mess, my friend. this will be a huge clean-up project. we just hope and pray there are no fatalities because there are cars all over the place. lance, appreciate that. let s go back to the storm tracker. we will check with mark dillard here next coming up here. this is strong circulation. dangerous storm by minco. you see bridge creek towards newcastle. yes, over toward washington and noble lloyd, noble center there. this is local coverage from kfor, oklahoma affiliate. i want to go now to janet shamly who is in an underground shelter at the oklahoma city our port. what can you tell us how things are there at the airport? and how are people doing.
go back to meagan with any updates you might have? major problem here. flash flooding causing big problems for everybody. it has. people can t get anywhere. emergency crews are having trouble getting to victims they need to tend to. power outages all over. we have reports of 40,000 plus. we re following that closely. crews having a tough time getting out to deal with that as well. . we just went to natasha and we saw people breaking down a door to take cover. let s go to lance west. there is the shot with the rain coming down. lance, you said one of the major highways, maybe i-40, looks like a demolition derby out there. it sure does. there are cars everywhere. there a confirmed double fatality. white pontiac suv was upside
may have been a basketball court. she s breathing and moving. i would suspect she s maybe a schoolteacher. there are just a host of volunteers. about the worst damage i ve ever seen. and you can only pray for the families as they search for these kids. absolutely, and those parents waiting to hear word, my goodness. that s plaza towers, correct? that is correct. and everything within a square mile of this school has been decimated by this storm. lance, are parents being kept back or allowed to look for their children? reporter: they are not allowing the parents to get onto the debris pile. there are downed power lines, debris everywhere with nails, gas leaks, things like that. but there are parents who are trying to make it in here. we were able to follow some
heard lance west as he approached plaza towers elementary school. let s join him again on the phone. lance, i know this is a very emotional devastating scene you re looking at. reporter: yeah, it certainly is. we are here five feet away from the school. what was apparently the gymnasium. there are emergency personnel doing their best to save those are classrooms right there? okay, those are classrooms. i stand corrected. it is our understanding there are at least 15 children trapped under this debris. there were 75 kids in the classroom? okay, i m told the number has just been upgraded to 75 kids were in that hallway when this tornado hit. firefighters are standing on what is essentially a large pile of debris trying find these kids. there s a triage center set up,
workers. the oklahoma city police department was asking people to keep back, he was tearing up after a father was upset they weren t doing more. obviously, it s traumatic for everybody and they are doing everything in their power to get these kids, these faculty members, out of this debris. lance, we hate to deal with numbers, but parents watching need to hear these numbers so they can understand what s transpiring, because the numbers tell the story. when we talked about an hour ago, 30 minutes ago, you said 75 students were believed to be in the school at the time the twister hit. is that still the case? reporter: that is the last count that we have. in this particular part of the school, and this is the only area of the school that they are searching in right now, the south portion of the school, they were i was told there were 75 kids who took refuge in the hallway, cinder block walls, typically the safest place to go if you can t go underground. obviously, a tornado of this