we had to, at times, crawl over casualties to get to live victims, to get them out. and mark those casualties as we work our way through the rubble. at least 40 workers have been rescued. including jemaryon hart, who was rushed to the hospital. my main focus was just try to make sure i can, you know, savor every breath i was able to take in and watch my breathing. i kept hearing people around me yell, this person has died. this person is not responding. first responders remain at the scene. carefully combing through what is left. the desperate search for survivors. using search dogs to help find those who might still be trapped. the governor acknowledging it will be a miracle to find anybody else. we ve seen the devastation firsthand here. neighborhood after neighborhood, nearly every home destroyed. you can really see the destruction just about everywhere you look here.
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jennifer ray, is in wimberly texas. it is gut wrenching talking to the people. reporter: it is. when you hear the stories on top of it, it s one thing to see it. then you add the emotion when you talk to the families. it is unreal. pure devastation. we are standing on a bluff just up from the blanco river. and this rose above my head. as we zoom pan over this way, you can see how high we re talking. the gauge broke at 43 feet. we really don t know how high it rose. this is normally a calm river. you can see it has gone down dramatically. still raging across parts of it looks more like white water rapids. you are seeing trees, and you see the water line where the trees are bent over. you see how high it was. and you can only imagine the fear in people as this water rose so quickly and it was going at such a high rate of speed. in fact this house behind me is
was at the emergency operations center all evening the night before. seeing it first hand as you can attest to, pure devastation, absolutely horrific. you see amongst the rubble and devastation, families huddled together pulling things out of the rubble. smiling, the best they can. we lost life here, but families are picking themselves up, strong, resilient. a very, very strong faith and we ll move on, we have hope. frustrating to see destruction around you? you can make the difference you want to make as quickly as you want to make it. very frustrating. you run for office, want to serve and give back. that s why i m in public life. so little you can do. visiting with you about relief efforts, rebuilding schools and things that need to happen, but it can be frustrating. but at the same time, everybody who can be helpful is being
it is destroyed by this storm. the walls are still standing but most of the windows are gone. every car in the parking lot is heavily damaged. and as far as it goes, we know that right now there is a crew possibly trying to rescue someone in some of the debris. we re trying to confirm if that is happening, if the person is alive. we re hoping for some good news out here this morning. we re waiting, getting every word that we can. pure devastation. i ve covered a lot of tornadoes. i ve lived in oklahoma all my life. this is fear. i didn t cover the may 3rd tornado that hit close to this area, but from what i m hearing it is much worse than may 3rd. oklahoma ans want to help one another, they will be able to rebuild and move forward but it s going to take a long time. how hard is it to get around just to go from one place to the other and does it seem like