yelling you ve got to come see what s headed towards erin s class. and i came around the corner and saw the tornado coming right to her class. and we knocked on the door, and ran in, and he and i and the teacher just jumped on top of the kids, and rode it out there. and jordan, let me talk to you. because we all were very worried about you. you re in your dad s arms, and we didn t know what had happened to you. what was it like for you, jordan, to actually experience a tornado that big? it was just yeah, go ahead, jordan. it was just crazy. it was just crazy. like, i was in my classroom, and when our school alarm went off, that s when i knew that the there was a tornado coming. it was coming. and i saw the portables, like, just the metal just come off, and i was fine until the roof came off. and i started freaking out. and it was just crazy. unbelievable.
tell your health care provider about all medicines you take and all of your medical conditions. get medical help right away if you experience serious allergic reactions such as body rash, trouble with breathing, fast heartbeat, or sweating. flexpen® is insulin delivery my way. covered by most insurance plans, including medicare. ask your health care provider about levemir® flexpen today. we had to pull a car out of the front hallway off a teacher. i don t know what that lady s name is but she had three little kids underneath her. good job, teach. good job, teach. there s a lot of people saying that today here in moore, oklahoma. we ve seen it so many times in so many places, teachers saving young lives. for days, janice had been telling her sixth graders to finish strong this year. that was the motto for the end of their year. yesterday, they and she certainly did just that. with the tornado coming, she found them shelter inside the school. she knew from her husband who
by mid afternoon, early evening we hope to release lots of people, pretty well through with search and rescue efforts. something difficult to talk about and important in understanding the situation. we know kids were lost in the school. yes, sir. we hear information that there was a basement, that s where the kids were, there was flooding. are there circumstances that you can explain to help make sense. everything i ve been told, they were in a classroom. not in the basement. i cannot confirm that but from everything i ve been told, i m pretty safe in saying that. not morbid interest. it s concern. they were in a classroom and nothing to do with flooding as to what i understand. an important distinction. the missing, communication based. people can t get cell phone or lost their cell phones. do you know anything about missing? last might when i left, we only had two people that we hadn t been able to confirm for sure where they were at. and then again, i think it s peop
hasn t been able to make phone communications or a lot of people get scared, leave, think they are safe. contact your family, let them know you are safe. have you everybody else worried to death about where you are, did you leave? we don t know where you are. please contact your family if you haven t and let them know. we ve been talking about lives lost 24 certainly too many. but when you walk through the damage, it s shocking it wasn t more lives lost. the injuries not as bad as you might expect. why is that do you think? moore is pretty resilient, and as you know, we ve had several tornadoes through the area. our citizens pay a lot of the attention to the weather. they are used to this. pay a lot of attention to the weather and they heed the warnings, and, you know, you have the damage, you have the things still happening and you can prepare a lot. but if you can t get in a
to some time with them. she was there with her three children. her husband was at work. she took some video. she says in oklahoma you go out in the street when you see a tornado coming. that s when she realized the twister was coming at them. the children were already in the storm shelter. take a look at this video she took immediately after the tornado. the whole town is gone. it s gone. it s all gone! reporter: what had been a lovely neighborhood 20 years before turned into something out of the apocalypse. right across the street was the plaza towers elementary school. she immediately dropped everything and didn t have a