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The noaa storm prediction center in norman. >> greg, where is this tornado headed? >> what weve been watching the last fwo hours is a massive thunderstorm complex really that moved very little. these tornadoes are forming on the southern edge right along the i-40 corridor leading into oklahoma city area. they continue to form and move gradually east and south. question are seeing extreme rain fall and extreme winds with the occasional tarpds developing. still very tarn to see because of the rain...

This is quite flower. has the condition to spawn powerful tornado. sitting there west of oklahoma city. casting a dark paul over the entire area. jay gray just talked to us from downtown oklahoma city. he describes the scenes as dark, empty scene. and seeking shelter in some iras as well. a tornado warning is declared for all of oklahoma city. folks are directed to get out of the area. local news is telling them to the street level where tornadoes may be brewing and where they may be headed. we ...

I had to close the door. couldnt peek outside without the wind pulling. so we decided to get inside. >> do most people have a shelter to get into. >> i dont know what numbers would be. most oklahomians do know where to go where they live. that is the safest place. the safety of the storm depends on how safe you are. if you are hit by 200 plus mile-an-hour winds, you need to be in a safer space. a sturdy structure will with stand most tornadoes as long as you are away from tornadoes, in a central...

Threatening the oklahoma city area? >> like i said, weve been watching it complex on radar for the last two hours. incredibly well organized. probably we have at least another hour of extreme weather in the oklahoma city area. and hopefully after that things will begin to decay. as you good through night time hours, will limit the potential of tornadoes threats as we go into the night time. still a big flaet from flooding rain condition and even into missouri as we go into tomorrow. >> 20 thousa...

>> jay, we should note, since its fresh in everyones mind, the horrible disaster in moore right by oklahoma city, it is a different time of day than that tornado hit. it was anomalous that that tornado hit during the day. much earlier than when tornadoes form, which is much more around this time. so that means there is more lead time for folks to get out of the way. and b, schools are out of session right now. >> you make great points there. a lot of people have said at the time of the moore tor...

Been sitting under for a while. what is the end game here? at one point dot foengs in that battered battered region who are still rebuilding from the trauma and horror of two weeks ago. at what point do they pick their head back up and breath a sigh of relief. >> they are under a pds watching with meaning potentially dangerous situation. not just a regular tornado watch. then you watch the warnings. oklahoma city was under the warning that skpoird at 7:45. then the next one at 8 will okay. the w...

Lots. in the wake of katrina and ir e irene, there was a lost talk about getting people out of way of a disaster and the ways were snust jn sufficient to deal with the traffic of level getting out p we heard from kfor, cars sitting bumper to bumter. are we good at getting people out of areas, are we get at helping folks. >> the idea to transport people and that may be in harms way. when we lock at disaster plans for nuclear power plant, tornadoes, hurricanes and so forth. we dont have the system...

Watching the devastation, is this a particularly very veer tornado season? is this what this time of year actually usually feels like? >> well, up until the moore tornado we add quiet tornado season. you learn living here that tornadoes can happen 12 months out of the year. certainly this time of year in may is when we have the most intense storms and we see periods like this, where last year we had several days in a row with severe storms possible. and same thing here. forecasters at national w...

With you are actually hundreds, if not more than a thousand. there were several sporting events downtown. hockey and baseball teams both had games. and sirens going off again now. so there were a lot of people that had plans to start the week mend downtown area. hopefully a lot of them saw against coming down as they saw happening with the forecast. >> we just talked to greg earlier. his word that has that theyve been monitoring this storm system for about two hours. its been relatively fixed, s...

Moore. we had a man named paul douglas, meteorologist, weather guy, and he made the the point that all of us kept thinking about. he said, its not that were getting more tornado. it is not a climate change effect the way that hurricanes probably are, but what it is, is ve we are spreading out toward farm land, empty land and disappear and no one would be the wiser, are now places where people have houses. how much -- how smart are we right now about where were developing in regards to things lik...