>>> there's the school. i am not sure the exact name of it, but that's going to be south of 4th, east of santa fe . whatever school that is, it is going to be -- it is like you see, completely destroyed as kids run up to hopefully their loved ones.
>> and here is more video of briarwood elementary school just moments after the tornado hit.
>> she's out?
>> joining me now, the man that recorded that video and took many of the defining photographs from the past 24 hours , a photographer for the oklahoman. paul , when did you first head to the school? about 30 minutes before i sat down listening to weather reports on the radio.
>> were you anticipating catching it hit and you wanted to catch it with cameras?
>> i was hoping so. what i tried to do is get south of the line from what they were talking that it might pass to get a better shot at it looking north.
>> take us into the emotion of that parking lot . i've never seen anything like what you just showed us on your recorded video. there's a kind of hysteria there, people are tense about what they might or might not find there.
>> right. the situation, there's something happening every direction. as a photographer, don't know which direction you can point the camera. all of the children crying, teachers doing their best to calm them down. but they have been through the most horrendous event of their life obviously. most of them missing their parents, wanting to know that everything is okay and just takes a long time to get them calmed down after what they have been through.
>> this was the school where everything was okay. you watched parents arrive there in a panic and at some point find that child that they were looking for and you saw those hugs.
>> yeah, i sure did, yes, quite a number of different cases saw where the parents ran up to the children and made that reunion. saw one woman almost 20 minutes frantically looking for her child, at the end she had her little girl with her, so everything worked out well.
>> were there any moments there where it felt like this was going to end very badly for some of the people? did you have that feeling in your gut?
>> i really did, once they started -- i thought they had all the children out, then saw they opened up another area of the school, started pulling more out. and a few minutes later, rescue workers arrived, started digging through a wall and ceiling. hoping there weren't children underneath there. fortunately, there weren't.
>> thank you for sharing your work with us and thanks for being with us tonight.
>> thank you. i appreciate it.
>> i am joined for final thoughts with kris jansing, thomas roberts . kris , you have seen more of this than i certainly have, you have been in many of these disaster areas. how does this experience compare to other things you witnessed?
>> i was thinking looking at the amazing video of the hugs and reunions and some of the iconic still pictures that something that binds tragedies together is distillation of what's important. there's a perspective, even in tragedy, in death, the meaning of life , how important, how we value it, what our family means to us, what our friends mean to us, how much stuff doesn't mean when you know that there are little children who are crushed under the weight of their school. so i think resiliency is a word you used a lot in this hour, and we see that part of the american spirit and that coming together of communities is what gives us hope, keeps us moving forward, makes what might be an unbearable tragedy somehow able to be born.
>> how are your thoughts on the second day of what's happened?
>> you talked to paul to close out the show. we began with paul 's images this morning. this was the cover of the oklahoman. it is small. says worse than may 3rd . shows that image of the woman carrying a little girl , man carrying the other student out with bloodied faces and it is amazing to think they lived through that. again, this is briarwood, where the national weather service went to evaluate the damage so they can now categorize it as an ef-5. it is full circle on what it means, i will be interested to see the images for tomorrow's paper.
>> kris jansing, where does the community go from here?
>> there was a memorial service tonight, certainly others. they will be moving forward. there will be small children that will be buried, including that baby you mentioned at the beginning. there will be a rebuilding and commitment to the community. as we have seen so many times before, there will be a sense of a new start for people that want to stay here and remain neighbors. there's always that push and pull when we come to scenes like this about how horrible it is what happened, but the possibilities of what lie ahead. sounds like a hallmark card in some cases, but i have found over the years it is true.
>> and that is the last word from moore, oklahoma tonight. kris , thomas, thanks for joining
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