towers elementary school. let s join him again on the phone. lance, i know this is a very emotional, devastating scene that you re looking at. yeah, certainly is. we are here just five feet away from the school right now. what was apparently the gymnasium, there are firefighters and other emergency personnel doing their best to save those are classrooms right there? okay. those are classrooms and hallways i m told. i stand corrected from some of the parents out here waiting to get word. it is our understanding right now there are at least 15 children trapped under this debris. oh my gosh. there were 75 kids in the classroom? okay. i m told the number has just been upgraded. 75 kids were in that hallway and classroom when this tornado hit. firefighters are standing on what is essentially a large pile of debris trying to find these kids that are hopefully still alive. there s a triage center that s set up on what looks like it may have been a basketball court at one point and the
that are in effect right now. they are southern lincoln county. pauls valley. pauls valley. pauls valley. all of garvin county. and southern jefferson county. right now the most immediate threat to life is in pauls valley. kevin and linda, we ll check in with reid timmer and with back with you. we re doing our best to get information from moore and parents down there. we received reliable information at this point that many of the students were sheltered at the school at moore high. we are told they have not yet been released. the kids are scared but we re told the teachers are doing their best to keep them safe and calm. so that s good news. at least for some parents in moore. that, and moore high school. there are several high schools in moore. west moore and noble public schools are releasing schools right now, but moore is not. and, begagain, to tell you, again, plaza tower elementary, apparently some of the kids are being sheltered there. there are injuries. we hope that s w
as i can. all right. got a lot of people trying to help. all right. lance, they re pulling third graders out. we hope that of course, they were in their tornado positions. hopefully some of them are going to be okay. lance is on his way over there right now. you have to understand when you go down to these scenes and see this firsthand, not just through the prism of the television, but when you re there living it, it is extremely emotional event for reporters as well as all those involved. and lance is one of our best reporters, emmy award winning reporter, and he s going to get that information for us. but he s human just like the rest of us and it s a devastating sight to see these kind of things. mike morgan, we re looking at earlier video of the storm that moved into moore. it is not finished yet. it is not. it s over by meeker. our storm tracker marc dillard has a tornado on the ground. with this tornado warning now
this information and seek cover. obviously he did but many others did not. 75 to 100 horses killed out there on that form. we need to update the plaza towers elementary as well. a focus on the two elementary schools in moore, oklahoma, sheltering children when the tornado hit. lance west is at plaza towers elementary. he has confirmed that 75 souls, children and teachers, were being sheltered there when the twister hit. there is nothing left of that school it is just devastated. lance did say, one child came out of the debris, was being hugged by someone lance presumed was a relative. one teacher was being transported. we know of at least two survivors. we are desperately awaiting word on the rest of them. absolutely. let s go to betsy randolph.
they are clearing the debris. you could hear a violent hissing sound. they had a major gas leak. i think they have gotten the gas turned off in this area. total devastation. i came to work here just after may 3rd. so i missed all of that. i personally have never seen anything like this and i ve worked in oklahoma for a long time. we re walking through the neighborhood and hearing people s stories as they rode out this storm. we re going to check back with lance west to see what the situation is at plaza towers elementary. 75 children were sheltered during the storm. we hope some of the information can be good. let s go to lance. what s the latest there from the elementary school? reporter: okay. they have just put some yellow tape around the school as they