Estimates suggest that the massive tornado to hit Moore, Oklahoma on Monday, says at least 236 people were hurt, with that number expect to rise, CBS News reported. The storm laid waste to scores of buildings in Moore, a community of 41,000 people about 10 miles south of Oklahoma City. Rescuers launched a desperate rescue effort at the elementary school, pulling children from heaps of debris and carrying them to a triage center, CBS News reported.
News reports indicated that entire blocks appeared as though "they had been razed, and cars were mangled beyond recognition. Piled up where houses once stood were scraps of wood, clothes, glass and metal," NBC News described.
President Obama is due to speak Tuesday about what he described as In an instant, neighborhoods were destroyed, dozens of people lost their lives, many more were injured, and among the victims were young children trying to take shelter in the safest place they knew, their school," Obama said. "So our prayers are with the people of Oklahoma today."
