Local authorities in Moore, Oklahoma, have lowered their estimate of the death toll from Monday’s devastating tornado. The total dead now stands at 24, down from the original number of 91. At least nine children were killed. Emergency workers say they have pulled more than 100 survivors from the rubble of collapsed homes, buildings and schools.

Betsy Randolph: “We had to be careful, as we stood on debris, that we weren’t standing on people that were buried underneath. And as you can imagine, just absolutely gut-wrenching trying to deal with the families and communicate with them and tell them. We moved them to a location and tried to feed them information as we were getting it in. Unfortunately, there was people that lost their lives, little children that lost their lives.”

The National Weather Service has confirmed the two-mile-wide tornado hit the category of EF5, the highest possible.