them about this? well, the moore police department and the highway patrol both, we wanted to put out a silver alert on them since they are both very elderly and in bad health, and we are told they are not doing that at this time because of the catastrophe, and all we can do is file missing persons reports with the red cross and put them on registration lists here and there. they really have been of no help at all. and we ve kind of been left to our own devices to try to find them. obviously it could be that they heard about a warning and they went off to another town and you just haven t been able to get hold of them. they don t have cell phones or it could be they went back to moore and they are still trapped somewhere, we can t rule that out. anything could have happened. but i can quite understand why you would be so desperate to have any kind of news. we re showing their picture again now on the screen. i urge anyone who is watching this, any of the viewers who have any knowled
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the oklahoma photographer who caught this incredible moment on camera. plus, what promises to be an emotional interview with country superstar toby keith devastated over what s happened to his hometown. s he s just landed in oklahoma tonight and is rushing to the scene of the disaster where he will talk exclusively to me. cnn s chris cuomo and gary tuchman are in moore. chris, you took to the air for a helicopter tour of this devastation. let s take a quick look at what you saw. we re going to take you through the tornado s path beginning to end. if you look down, you see the debris field, there s a brown line going across that field. that is the tornado s path. you ll see what happens when that path starts to get into a populated area. look at the difference between having your home intact and having it just be a pile of splinters. at its widest point the tornado was 1.3 miles wide. but its area of concentration
you re amazing people. no one more amazing than you, julie. julie simon, david wheeler and gabriel wheeler, thank you all very much. i love you, gabe. thank you. you hear that? she said she loves you. i love you, too. thanks again, everybody. what an amazing story. coming next, hometown heartbreak. i talk to country music superstar toby keith, who grew up in moore, oklahoma and rushed back tonight for a first-hand look at the destruction. i was having trouble getting out of bed in the
of trial by fire. i m very blessed with well trained men that step up to the challenge and we have lots of help from all the surrounding cities and all the communities in the city of oklahoma and in moore and in the nation. they come from everywhere to help us and we have been very blessed with all the help and with the police officials, the fire officials, all the emergency management teams, and we can t say thank you enough to these people. i think you guys have all done an amazing job. that s the general consensus of everybody. i think it s miraculous that the death toll at the moment seems to be at 24, given the pictures we ve seen and the devastation that was wrought. i thank you both, mr. mayor and to you, fire chief, on all the work you and your people have done. thank you very much indeed. thanks for reporting our story. thank you very much. it s an important story to report. now i want to turn to a teacher with an extraordinary story. suzanne haley was impaled by the l