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He told us today it was on my mind last night when they were huddled in the hallways. it s a tough situation. joining us now is larry. a research associate at the national wind institute at texas tech university which tests the ability of these safe rooms to withstand the kind of abuse they are dealt in a tornado. mr. tanner, thank you very much for being with us tonight. you re very welcome, rachel. you are an expert on these things and you work in this field and i do not. let me first ask you if in terms of explaining safe rooms and how they have functioned in the past and how towns rely on them, is that basically your understanding? safe rooms certainly will if they re tested, safe rooms will certainly protect you from these kinds of storms no doubt. what kind of wind speeds can structures withstand? how do you test them and what kind of failures are you looking for when you put them through ....
In february of this year, officials in moore announced on their website that they were trying to get more funding for shelters but fema requirements in their words were a constantly moving target. that was in february that they said that. then yesterday of course 14 years after the big may 3rd tornado, ten years after the other big one that hit moore in 2003, it happened again. and we cannot know for sure what difference more safe rooms would have made in moore, oklahoma, when that tornado struck. we cannot know. we do know two schools leveled by that twister did not have safe rooms and we do know that teachers and kids describe trying to hide in closets and hallways and hide in bathrooms as that twister approached. they knew to get safe. they just had to make do trying to get safe as best they could in a normal building. we know that at one of the schools all of the children survived. one of the other schools some kids were lost. how many yet we do not know. at a press conference this ....
Power but power has now been restored and water levels are back to their normal pressure. as far as infrastructure goes, electricity is going to be out in many areas for quite some time. and so you re going to have a lot of situations where crews are coming in from around the region to try to help our power company try to restore order in that respect. there s going to be a tremendous amount of cleanup and debris as far as the infrastructure goes and sometimes that s where the federal government s help can come in and aid from a long-term budgetary perspective. the insurance commissioner is also walking around. talking damage here in the billions of dollars. that s going to have an economic impact in a lot of different ways. this obviously is an area of the country that has dealt with tornado devastation before. sometimes on large scale like this. when you as the mayor of oklahoma city think about rebuilding, is there anything that you want to try to prioritize in terms of ....
Waging war in an ongoing way. we do not know yet if the president is going to discuss that exact policy change in his speech on thursday. i m guessing he will. we ll learn more when the speech happens and tomorrow night on the show we ll have the pentagon s former general counsel during president obama s first term, jay johnson, will be our guest tomorrow to discuss that big news and talk about the president s big speech on these matters might mean. right now these stories all of the other stories in the country are understandably all on the back burner in favor of continued focus on what s still under way right now in oklahoma and continuing response at this hour and to just the unimaginably large tornado that hit oklahoma city yesterday afternoon. we re going to have the latest from the rescue efforts coming up right after this. every food . so i can t afford to have germy surfaces. but after one day s use, dishcloths can redeposit millions of germs. so ditch your dishcloth and swi ....
Obviously all eyes today and tonight continue to be on oklahoma city even as the oklahoma city mayor told us that he does not expect anymore surriefsu survivors to be found in moore, oklahoma, after that tornado yesterday. the rescue and recovery efforts do still continue there. tonight we ll get back to that coverage in just a moment. we also want to give you an update on what s happening today in washington and in other news outside of the storm. first and foremost, a major development in d.c. within the last couple of hours on one of the biggest legislative items on president obama s second term agenda. tonight in the united states senate the judiciary committee passed an overhaul of the country s immigration laws. the law was 13-5 meaning three republicans voted with the democratic majority to move the immigration bill forward. ....