who took cover inside of a mobile home as the tornado was going overhead. she prayed for the safety of her family. she was fine. her family was fine. their home was totaled. but at a nearby mobile home, 11-year-old matthew ramirez was not. he is very funny. he was very funny. we would always joke around and he would always be playing with his friends, playing soccer. he loved soccer. yeah. and i just remember, like, him like we d be in class, like, sometimes he would come in class and he would just be laughing for no reason and he would make his friends laugh. it was funny. reporter: ramirez here is the youngest victim of this tornado. the death toll standing at three. we know from the general hospital that they treated 160 people for tornado-related injuries and a hospital that only had 25 beds. so really a remarkable effort here by medical staff. victor, amara. isabel rosales, thank you.
ramirez did not. he s very funny. he was very funny. we would always joke around and he would always playing with his friends, playing soccer. he loves soccer. and i just remember, like, him like, we would be in class, sometimes he would come in class, and he would just be laughing for no reason. and he would make his friends laugh. and it was funny. and ramirez at 11-year-old ois the youngest victim. we heard from the hospital who said they treated 160 people related to this tornado. injuries related to this tornado. in a hospital that only has 25 beds. really a remarkable effort by the medical staff. isabel rosales, cnn, pairington, texas. at least 11 people are dead and 20 others are missing after a cyclone swamped southern brazil on friday with torrential rains. helicopters searching for victims flew over wrecked residential areas and floods.
their way. let me show you what is happening here an owe ground and it is clean-up mode. everywhere you look in downtown perryton, you see bulldozers knocked over homes and businesses, 200 of them, 200 homes have been damaged. they need to clear this out before they could begin to rebuild this community. the tornado was on the ground 11 minutes going across a length of over six miles. i spoke with 11-year-old alexa who took cover inside of a mobile home as the tornado was going overhead. she prayed for the safety of her fa family. she was fine and their home was totaled, but at a nearby home, an 11-year-old was not. he was very funny. we would joke around and he would always be playing with his friends. playing soccer. he loved soccer. yeah, and i just remember, like,
miles per hour and going across the length of six miles. now, i spoke with alexa lugo, an 11-year-old girl who rode out the storm in her mobile home in this neighborhood. she remembers the windows shattering, she made it out okay and her family made it out okay. but in a nearby mobile home, matthew ramirez did not. he was her classmate. he s now the tornado s youngest victim. he was very funny. he was very funny. we would always joke around. he would always be playing with his friends, playing soccer. he loved soccer. yeah. i just remember, like, him we d be in class, sometimes he would come in class, and he would just be laughing for no reason. he would make his friends laugh. it was funny. right. and this is a small town of 8,500 people.
rebuilding process. the press conference hasn t started quite yet, but we did hear from the mayor of perryton, who was emotional and just so thankful for the help coming into the community. saying that the financial need here is great, saying that this had some of the most vulnerable neighborhoods in his community, that those who had the least lost the most here. and many of those homes that have been flattened, 200 of them, that s the number they re going by, have, again, been flattened. the need is so great and many of those homes are uninsured. now, i did speak with a survivor who went through this whole ordeal, who said that it happened so quickly, there was not even a siren that went off. here is what they had to say. he s very funny, he was very funny. we would always joke around. he would always be playing with his friends, playing soccer. he loved soccer. yeah, and i just remember, like,