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Days ago. how is your family doing and where were you when the storm came through yesterday? thank you first of all. we are fine, and everyone in our neighborhood is accounted for, and we have property damage, and of course you can replace property, we can t replace people and that s why our thoughts and prayers are with the people in moore right now. i m a state representative as you mentioned. we were actually in session here at the state capitol yesterday when the storm started to come through. weee evacuate waited to thwe evacuated to the basement of this building that is nearing 100 years old. we had to watch as the storms moved through and everyone in the state of course wants to help and wants to do what they can. the local representatives, the city officials, county, state, we know that federal officials are coming in, and everybody is going to do what they can to help. jenna: that must have been a helpless feeling. there you are serving your local ....
Flattened that school, jon. jon: john roberts live in moore, thank you. jenna: just one of many amazing stories we are hearing out of moore today. joining us on the phone now is state representative randy graw. his district is outside where the tornado hit. he has family a fact he egd in the citis affected in the city of moore. we understand your brother-in-law lives in moore and you were just able to get this contact with him. how is he doing. he seems to be doing well. as you can imagine there is a lot of shock and sadness throughout the state. also a lot of resolve. and a lot of people stepping forward, closing ranks and helping out. so he is on his way into the area, has not been able to confirm whether his house is still standing or not. just based on the reports we expect that it will be completely destroyed, but, again, it s kind of a slow process even getting into this ....
Tornadoes ripped through the midwest an entire communities were destroyed in the middle of the night. you can see the debris shooting off of that tornado. unbelievable pictures we ve got today. our next guest toured the destruction from a twister that he himself survived after spending a harrowing night in a safe room with his wife and his children. joining me now by phone oklahoma state representative randy graw. tell me about where you were and what your family did to take action during all of this? certainly. i live in edmund, which is a community north of oklahoma city, and i d say that the local media did a great job keeping everyone informed about the track of this tornado. we knew it was coming to our area. we couldn t really see it, though because it had rain wrapped around it. we started to get into the safe room, i looked out the window this in front of my house and could actually see it coming down my street, you could see the debris swirling and of ....