do you know how hafrd it is to hit a wild turkey with a bow and arrow. andrew, let s talk about thanksgiving. i want to hear about what your families are doing. andrea, i know it s a special time to be with your mother and family. yes. we re all getting together at my mom s house and we ll have a couple of extra friends. my younger brother s teacher is coming over. who else? who else? other friends you re bringing? other friends. i don t know, my brother, my sister, my nieces, my nephews, my boyfriend, we re all around the table eating. if we include more people it s more fun. my dad passed away, my brother passed away, we have more people around, it helps. ms. perrino? well, like a lot of americans i don t live near my family to be able to travel there so we end up establishes our own
everyone here has a story. i was in the tornado shelter when it came. i was home hearing the news. it was time to duck and cover and i got my dogs and got in there behind the house. reporter: first an ef-4 tornado tore through the town of shawnee, killing two. oh, my god. reporter: the next day an ef-5 tornado hit moore, mangling communities, destroying an elementary school full of students. we were there during the desperate search for survivors. they re saying that we had kids in this school to go look for them. i would imagine as parents you are incredibly thankful to have your children right here right now. yes, i thank god that i got there in time to pick up my nieces, my nephews, my son. i don t know what i would have done. reporter: 24 people died that day. ten were children, among them kyle davis, whose funeral was this weekend. there should be a place that if this ever happened again
part of oklahoma and nearly everyone here has a story. i was in that tornado shelter when it it came. i was home hearing the news. i got my dogs and got in there. reporter: first an ef-4 tornado tore through the town prior killing two. the next day an ef-5 tornado hit moore mangling communities, destroying an elementary school full of students. we were there during the desperate search for survivors. they are saying that if you have kids in the school to go look for them. i would imagine as parents you are thankful to have your children here right now. yes. i thank god that i got there in time to pick up my nieces, my nephews, my son. i don t know what i would have done. reporter: 24 people died that day. ten were children. among them kyle davis, whose
sure, go ahead. reporter: julio, what was it like to be in that building at the time? it was scary. and a lot of my friends were still there when i left. reporter: what did your teachers tell you to do? you showed me a moment ago. go ahead and show him what you did. you duck and you cover your head with your hands, and all of my friends were hot and sweaty because we were all bunched up. reporter: you did that through the whole storm? yeah. until i picked him up, they were all, all the children were down and as soon as i walked through the building, i was a little hysterical, i was running through the building barefoot and just screaming their names. each one of my kids stood up and they came with me. reporter: maria, what s going through your mind? you know, i heard that the storm was coming towards us, i heard that it was coming towards the school. i just thought about my daughter, i thought i have nieces and nephews in there, i had to get them out, and i saw it
this area. but i do want to go ahead and bring in some people who have another side of the story, a good story. rosa, norma and maria rodriguez. their children were in the school when this happened. i would imagine as parents, you are incredibly thankful to have your children right here, right now. yes. i thank god that i got there in time to pick up my nieces, my nephews, my son, because i don t know what i would have done if he would have been one of i mean, i can t i m speechless. how did this happen? why did this happen? my son, how do we explain this to the kids? how are we going to wake up tomorrow and everything s missing, the school, these houses, their friends. nobody knows where anybody is. we can t contact anybody. hopefully if anybody s listening, you know, we re okay, i m from wisconsin and again, if anybody s listening, my son and i are okay.