and if you come back over here, over the satellite, you can see the back end of this storm, and soon hopefully they ll have a sunset to work with here. look at the we believe this is an office at this bowling alley, the moore amc bowling alley, desk, bowling pin still standing in what clearly was an office to look at what was absolutely life as normal with cash drawers down here, which are empty, and life just left and just shattered by the storm. we re going to get to our colleague, john roberts, who has been in moore for much of the day and has been out surveying the damage as well. he ll talk to residents about how in the world they re going to clean this upment we re waiting for updates from authorities as well. our crews are spanned out across the great state of oklahoma, and if one of my colleagues from the northeast said this afternoon, boomer sooner. followed by, you ll never hear me say that again.
here and there s always some right in this general vicinity. she may be leaving moore but is not going to leave oklahoma, and i don t think the spirit of oklahoma is going to leave her, either. we were both here in the aftermath of the oklahoma city bombing. we saw the spirit of the people then and i think we ll see the same spirit here. they ll rebuild. shepard: it is impressive that literally 24 hours after the storm hit there are cleanup crews and tear-down people and they re working on every corner. it s astounding. they got in here quickly, and so quickly last night, they saved lives by getting here so quebecly last night. the first responders, and ordinary people are getting in there, pulling the bricks and mortar off of body, finding people who were still alive, dragging them out. and neighbor after neighbor helping each other to clean up. shepard: they re inspiring. they don t love the yankees. i know that. shepard: no one does.
home, my oldest child survived the collapse of her school, our pet is okay. man, we re blessed people. we are. we re very lucky, because i know there s quite a few families that aren t so lucky, that lost children in school or at their own house. shepard: justin steven, lucky to have someone to stay with. i ll get you some clothes. they re going to need some money around here, and a that is fema s job to provide it. let get to wendell, our white house correspondent and is there. is help on the way? well, it s on the way, and it s there. in part. fema administrator craig fugate on the ground in oklahoma, as are search and rescue teams from tennessee, nebraska, and texas. the president was briefed just before he spoke to reporters this home by homeland security secretary janet napolitano. she will be in the area tomorrow. the president spoke on the fun with the governor, the mayor,
when the tornado first standard it out it was ef0, and then a four mile stretch of ef4 damage with winds of 190 miles-per-hour. now they re saying, windness excess of 200 miles-per-hour for a small stretch. so, we ll continue to bring you up to date. the damage is catastrophic here. but this will go down as the historic tornado in moore, oklahoma. want to show you, talking about the cool temperatures. a cold front moved through so this time yesterday, 84 teagues in oklahoma city. watch what happens in 4,000, happens in 24 hours put the worst of the weather is over. are. shepard: wet and cold especially for people without jackets anymore like we are. we are going to be joined in a minute by james rushing james and chrisy rushing. you have had a rough one. yes, we have. shepard: we ll take you through their story and that of
it s been a rough few hours out here. shepard: you feel about tornado like i do about football. i m with you. shepard: i recommend xanax. the question is we got to get the word out. this is a wakeup call. we hat a white winter. back in full spring. m it s here. we have a 48-hour break and we start this whole thing over again in west oklahoma, starting thursday, for the next couple of weeks it s going to be severe weather almost every day. shepard: i if there s one thing this repines us of, if you live in this area, get a plan together because this season is just beginning. and sadly, there are new tornado warnings now. if you are in the path of these things go to local weather noaa weather radio. we ll get to janice in the fox extremity weather center. you can see on the weather map north and east of dallas, east