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Theres damage, damage is eminent with this storm. >> absolutely. im not surprised one bit that we are depicting debris out of this. as we mentioned, tree, farm equipment, its a very hilly area. so we are likely going to pick up all sorts of things. i can sooner see that right now within the radar. also want to just touch base on, not only this storm, also anymore storms that develop, which we are beginning to see. more storms develop just -- >> back with our affiliate coverage in a moment. live ...

Proceed throughout the evening here. we saw a tornado touching down. hitting several homes. a helicopter pilot saying, to his estimation, that this tornado that he saw, the one youre looking at right now, look at that, about a half mile long and he said tearing up everything in its path. in wellston, oklahoma. also tornadoes in other parts of oklahoma, and this system is a humongous system from minnesota to texas, and anyone in any of those areas should be on the lookout right knew. look at this...

Welcome back. how was london? [ female announcer ] when people talk, great things happen. welcome back to the "cnn newsroom." im fredricka whitfield. were watching a severe whether situation right now. we have heard that an emergency situation has been declared, emergency tornado warning declared for wichita, kansas, which means at least one tornado is on the ground. it means that everyone is being urged to take cover. stay in a safe place. our jennifer delgado is in the weather center. shes b...

It was tough to get her in the she shelter. whats going on with that? >> she had surgery last week. she had a hip replacement. shes good at getting around but needed help. luckily for us, she called us and made us come over. we got in the shelter with her. >> that is the great news, everybody out here is okay. the other great news, guys, is karen was telling me they have people from all over coming to help them. you were telling us, church, boy scouts. who do we have helping you guys? >> a lot o...

Definitely toward possibly the shawnee or the bethel acres area. take cover if you lie in that area from lake stanley draper right over toward bethel acres. well keep you advised. >> yeah. chad said that quickly, chad speaks quickly because he has so much information to get out. take shelter. be safe. we cannot emphasize that enough. correct, chad myers? >> absolutely put. put as many walls between you and the outside of your home as possible. >> as possible. >> the closet wall. get inside that ...

Know youve been seeing from the local affiliate coverage over the last half hour or so this is really a full-scale operation as we see them coming through. that gives you a sense of what the massachusetts state police is sending in. >> the state police have put out an official statement. its not helpful but its preliminary. what were watching right now and the police action here is related to the days events, which i guess is another way of saying this is the suspect involved here. erica? >> rep...

High school all suffered damages. >> the geological survey tells us the explosion at this west, texas, fertilizer plant measured 2.1 on the richter scale. even though the blast occurred above ground, it still registered at several nearby testing stations that normally mur underground seismic activity. that nearest station is 25 miles away in lake whitney, texas. a very powerful blast and a very chaotic scene in the moments after the blast. listen to the -- wait, we dont have that audio just yet....

Door up and the hood from the other side of the nursing home. >> reporter: prayers with you. >> thank you. >> as you can see one of the witnesses, first responder helping people. he was injured himself. >> youve been listening to live coverage of kcen, our affiliate coverage there. im not 100% sure because we went in the middle of the coverage but there are reports that in that area it is a local volunteer fire department that actually shows up. and when they did show up to the scene they realiz...

And join our affiliate coverage but terence waclawik, stay safe and thank you for joining us tonight. >> you bet. thank you very much. >> we want to listen in to our local affiliate, hawaii news now. we have gerard fryar who is a pacific tsunami warning center adviser. were going to listen to what he has to say. from the tsunami pretty much the same. the first wave from the japan tsunami was small. it typically waves, tsunami waves in hawaii, usually the fist are not the biggest. its wave numb...

He did say he was going to be back 0 out in ten minutes or less with some sort of interpretation of the recent data that hes getting. we hope to hear from him very soon. all right. we have been listening in on our local affiliate coverage where we just heard from gerard fryar, a pacific tsunami warning official. talking about how the first wave wasnt necessarily the biggest one, but to watch out for waves number three and four because they could be bigger. again, that advisory stays in effect ...