tornado passed and with all of those who as darkness fell searched for survivors through the night. as a nation our full focus right now is on the urgent work of rescue and the hard work of recovery and rebuilding that lies ahead. yesterday i spoke with governor fallin to make it clear to oklahomans they would have all the resources they need at their disposal. last night i issued a disaster declaration to expedite those resources, to support the governor s team in the immediate response and to offer direct assistance to folks who have suffered loss. i also just spoke with mayor lewis of moore, oklahoma, to insure he is getting everything that he needs. i have met with secretary napolitano this morning and my homeland security and counterterrorism advisor lisa monaco, to underscore that point.
them and we re getting new reaction today as the sun breaks in moore, oklahoma. there is rubble upon rubble. it is pancaked. it is also crammed. it is slid across. there are cars on top of a wall. there are cars are on top of each other. the sheer force of vehicles dragging across the concrete and made grains into the concrete. you could literally see the wind path cars were subjected to as they ripped across the parking lot. oh, my god!. [inaudible] that s a big, big tornado.
we heard from the lieutenant r governor s office that they pulled 101 people out of the rubble last night. we hope they will find other survivors in here. martha: we have all those people in our prayers. thank you very much, justin. bill: some day real soon you ll have to take bulldozers through there. everywhere you look, it s 360 degrees of damage in every single direction. martha: where do you begin. bill: jenna lee is going to continue our coverage in a couple of minutes. i m going to check in with her now. you have a press conference coming up a than a lot more. jenna: we ll have continuing coverage all day here on the fox news channel about the horrific tornado in moore, oklahoma. we ll talk to a local lawmaker personally affected by the storm, also a trauma doctor and some of the injuries being treated at local hospitals. plus we ll be watching yo catching you up on the various scandals circling the white house. in dv a hearing on the i.r.s.
video and post it online, with people sifting through the rubble. hoping to find survivors. you see a dog in the back of a pickup truck. smoke visible from the wreckage. some homes were burned down as a result. i want to get back to the senior national correspondent john roberts live in moore, oklahoma, with a guest now. and the latest from there. john, hello, again. reporter: hello again, bill, just to set the scene here, we re in front of the moore medical center which is just to the west of i-35, the main north-south corridor that runs through the heart of oklahoma. they believe they got everybody out of here with no serious injuries the search-and-rescue efforts though still continue. when you talk about tornado damage and damage of this scale, you get houses that are blown apart. so they re fairly easy to look through. but you also get almost an earthquake effect where the buildings collapse and pancake down on top of them and the way the buildings come down can sometimes create
this is it why it is so important to take every advisory very seriously. the storm prediction center again today issued a light risk for severe storms anywhere from texas all the way up into the great lakes. a pretty widespread area is expecting severe weather. yesterday we had something called a moderate risk that was issued for moore, oklahoma, and surrounding areas in that state, that again today has been issued by the very same storm prediction center for parts of texas, arkansas, louisiana, and extreme southeastern portions of oklahoma. basically what that means, that we have the conditions in place, very warm, very humid area. we have a storm system headed eastward and wind shear in the atmosphere. that provides rotation for the thunderstorms to produce tornado touchdowns. that is in place again today. look at some cities that could see potentially long track tornadoes, violent tornados and damaging wind and large hail. dallas, texas, you are in this area.