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That those children are all safe. this was taken by bob moore chopper 4 earlier. >> this was earlier video. as, when the clouds cleared and john welsh could see what was happening, and john lives in this area. he lives just a little bit north of there. his home was not affected by this, but his wife and kids, of course, took shelter. theyre okay. they texted him. but just a little bit to the south of him, you saw what the damage was. a lot of his friends and neighbors there. and we are just hopi...

Mall. even up toward dell city and midwest city. lets go back to bob moore, chopper 4, with john welsh. go, john. >> yeah, mike, were -- thats really the best picture that we can give you is because this thing is completely wrapped in rain and debris. winds are just absolutely killer up here. im at indian hills road and just about i guess, what, 48 southeast. im behind the, like, the alligators, the heyday if youre familiar with that area. this thing is tracking, as you said, continuing to go to...

Oklahoma, heading directly for pauls valley. heading directly for pauls valley is where that tornado is heading. moving east-northeasterly at 40 miles an hour. confirmed stove pipe on the ground. you saw it from reid timmer. it shedding for pauls valley. the tornado is located in the northeastern corner of stevens county right there heading directly to pauls valley. that is reid timmer and the dominator there down in garvin county. lets go back up here to the lake draper area with bob moore chop...

With emily. we are getting more concern toward norman, south oklahoma city. bob moore, chopper 4. >> pretty threatening situation there in northern oklahoma county there where they are under a tornado warning. but right now under an imagine, a tornado situation. they call it a tornado emergency specifically where there is at least a report of one tornado on the ground. we are talking about wichita, kansas where people are being urged to go underground, get to those shelters or basements because ...

>> reid, we tresh that. reid is highlighting this rapid circulation here. weather service has just reissued the tornado warning. has just reissued the tornado warning for northern oklahoma county and in particular edmond. low rapidly rotating wall cloud to his south. hes just west of downtown edmond looking down to his south. lets go back to john welsh and bob moore, chopper 4. >> right now let me tell you where were at. im just over basically frontier city, were shooting back to the west. the f...

Chopper shot kfor. weve seen tornadoes, at least one tornado touch down in each of the cities of edmond in arcadia, in luther and now in wellston, oklahoma, and an extraordinary sight, not only were we seeing the flashing from power lines that were being hit, but, according to this chopper reporter, he counted about two to three houses that were simply decimated by this tornado, and, again, now youre seeing a more defined view of this funnel cloud, and you see the sparks there, power line, and i...

>> okay, john. appreciate that. john is backtracking. hes north of the turner turnpike, north of wellston. unfortunately, folks, we see the damage now from the tornado that we suspected was an f-4 tornado. it looks like its of that category. lets just hope everybody here is okay. theres going to be a lot of heavy damage here, and this is such a bad deal. a lot of this damage is quite severe. john, how many structures -- were looking alt this live from john welsh and bob moore chopper 4. how many...

When we looked up, there it was. we saw the helicopter. i said the helicopter is in distress. >> another news helicopter responding to the same story starts filming the chopper 4s wild fall from the sky. >> it suddenly started coming right down. but guess where it was coming? right down at us. we started running. it came right down coming down, i said, no, no, no, no, no. >> the helicopter with two pilots and a reporter on board twirls and twists around like a corkscrew. the pilot, fighting for ...

These eyes in the sky are supposed to help cover the news. so what happens when they are the news? brooklyn, new york, may 4th, 2004. a tv news helicopter is dispatched to the citys flatbush neighborhood to cover a shooting. it arrives about 6:15 p.m. and begins hovering over the police cars at the scene. its business as usual until suddenly the helicopters camera goes haywire and then the shot dies. bystanders look up and see the helicopter spiraling out of control. >> suddenly we heard a loud ...

These eyes in the sky are supposed to help cover the news. so what happens when they are the news? brooklyn, new york, may 4th, 2004. a tv news helicopter is dispatched to the citys flatbush neighborhood to cover a shooting. it arrives about 6:15 p.m. and begins hovering over the police cars at the scene. its business as usual until suddenly the helicopters camera goes haywire and then the shot dies. bystanders look up and see the helicopter spiraling out of control. >> suddenly we heard a loud ...