ifill: the numbers piled up today in moore, oklahoma, two days after the town was ravaged by a tornado. as authorities totaled the financial costs, residents coped with devastating loss, tallying the damages close to home. the first official estimates came this morning: 12,000 to 13,000 homes damaged or destroyed across a disaster zone that stretches for more than 17 miles. and an insurance bill that could top $2 billion. the secretary of homeland security janet napolitano flew in from washington to pledge full support from fema, the agency that oversees disaster aid. we will be here to stay. at some point the cameras will leave, the national ones will leave first, then the local ones, but on behalf of president obama and on behalf of fema we will be here to stay until this recovery is complete. ifill: by this morning, more than a thousand storm victims had registered with fema. local officials are estimating that as many as 33,000 residents were affected, in one way
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