there. would you be prepared to take a look at it for them, because they seem pretty desperate for some kind of information. sure. we actually have a red cross station set up to relocate people and to for relatives to check in on them, and a lot of those have happened and maybe she should look at the red cross situation, it would be the first place i would check. and they have an online registry as well. we can maybe put you in touch and i ll be glad to take a look at it. we will reveal the details of the car they were driving also before the end of the show, if anybody sees it, we can hopefully try and find out what happened to them. fire chief, this has clearly been an awful thing to have to deal with for you and your men. tell me about what it is like in reality having to literally pick up the pieces of the wreckage after this kind of tornado. well, we ve been through several tornadoes and it s kind
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
and louder and we just continued to pray that, you know, it would pass, it would pass, and it didn t. and the roof went and it just the wall came in and landed right on top of us, on the desks. initially i thought something, you know, large and heavy was just on my leg and i couldn t move, none of us could move. we finally got to roll around and kind of get out of the way and i asked my daughter if she could see if that was something that was just on my leg, that could be lifted, that i could pull out, and she realized and screamed that it was in my leg. and amazingly by the grace of god, i kept it together. i couldn t go into hysterics in front of my children, in front of the other students. i had to be calm for them and
kind of confirmation on whether their children were alive or deceased. so just being there with them to give them a hug, to assure them that our responders, our first responders were doing everything that they could do. that that school had if you say you had priority, our first responders hit that school real quick. and had spent hours and hours all day long into the night searching that rubble to reach those children. yeah. an absolutely amazing operation by so many people. pastor fields and pastor poag, thank you both so much for joining me late tonight. you ve been through an awful lot in the last 24 hours. i m sure you ve brought great comfort and sympathy to the poor families. i m very grateful to you for that. thank you for joining me. thank you.
area that i know so well? yes, exactly. well, i had also covered the practically the same area 14 years earlier with the may 3rd tornado of 99. so i was practically in the same area. but, still, every time you see any kind of tornado damage, it is shocking. and especially to be on it that quickly and when it s in the very height of its emotion, it s very emotional. and, paul, you said that the other one in 99, we ve lost many people in this. but would you say this is a bigger devastation than the one from 1999? i know one of the local papers, it may have been yours that said that, but do you believe that to be the case? it s really difficult to tell. from myself, having seen them both from the air and from the ground, this one is close, but i don t know, myself, if it is as