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"Oh My God"

Oklahoma TV news crews are used to covering tornados.

No one was used to covering what happened Yesterday in Moore, OK.​

A twister cut a mile and half wide path of destruction through ​town ripping through homes, businesses churches and schools.

KFOR Reporter Larry West was on the phone talking to anchors back out the station. He was standing at the what used to be the elementary school in Moore. While he was describing the scene he started to cry. A reporter that has been covering tornados and the damage they leave behind for the past 18 years, was doing a phoner and it all became too much, he broke down.

In just a matter of seconds, everyone watching and all those back at the station knew how bad it was.

Almost 100 people dead, at least 20 of them children, it was a nightmare in Moore.​

TV News Choppers ​became invaluable in showing the damage. 

KFOR Pilot Jon Welsh was one of the first over the scene, his words again told everyone  that covering this storm was going to be different. 

“Oh, my God,” he said, grasping for words as he spotted one of the schools obliterated by the tornado.   

Welsh talked to police in choppers flying near him, he asked them if they needed him to help in anyway.

Welsh told viewers that he "could care less about getting the pictures" it was about trying to do whatever he could to help. ​

For all those news people in Oklahoma that have covered hundreds of storms, it took them a matter of minutes to know that this one was different than all the rest. ​