as i saw this week, moore, oklahoma has lost so much. 24 lives, thousands of homes, entire schools. here's one more measure of the devastation. moore sits in horse country and tonight, many breeders and trainers and others who love these majestic animals are grieving over their losses. here's gary tuchman. >> reporter: painful lacerations cover duke's body as he gets treated by the veterinarian at a horse hospital only a couple of miles away from where the tornado came through. hundreds of horses were killed and hundreds of others injured in the moore, oklahoma twister, according to the doctors and staff at this hospital. >> it's horrific but you have to go to a different place. you can't be in an emotional state. you have to just be in that place where there's no emotion there at all. you know what has to be done. you have to do what has to be done and you can't be thinking about the what-ifs. you make a decision and you live with it. you triage and go on.