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You want to go to an interior room. if you do not have a basement, go to an interior room and put as many walls between you and the outside. this storm is extremely dangerous, wrapped up in rain. its been producing fairly large tornado thats been a destructive one at this point. we are concerned of those areas on the citys near north side near meridian hills up along u.s. 31. storm tracking northeast. bob? >> we are getting some damage reports in. we want to check in right now with steven jones,...

We do know that the worst of this weather may not be over yet. indra petersons tracking that for us this morning. good morning, indra. >> good morning. >> good morning, that is the concern, still dark outside. even now we have a tornado warning in effect heading towards shreveport, so definitely time to take cover. if you know anyone in the region, call them, tell them to take cover right now. were looking at a huge line of storms that made its way across yesterday, 31 reports of damage from tor...

Scope of how bad it is. obviously keep our fingers crossed and say prayers for people in the philippines. >> and the problem for experts because it never happened before they have a hard time saying what it may look like when it is done. all they can say is catastrophic and devastating which are not the good words. >> not good words. >> we will monitor the damage reports as we track this all morning long, and will have updates on "america this morning" as well as "good morning america." back h...

Right now. our mobile incident command post is going to be open at 8:00 a.m. to do damage assessment from last nights storm. overnight the dispatchers in the area reported a quiet overnight. weve seen power outages go down from about 15,000 to 9,500, and were expecting with daylight and our mobile incident command post opens that there will be more damage reports. >> some of this is incredible to look at. your town was one of the hardest hit. >> yes, st. charles county, the executives declared a...

Airfield down tonight because there was a lot of damage to the outbuildings. the airport itself was not shut down. but they are hoping to have the airfield up and running at midnight central time. but st. charles county, maybe 20 minutes west of st. louis, there was a tornado in that area and the governor of missouri just declared a state of emergency for st. charles county. a lot of heavy damage. i have a very good friend who finally, they ground hogged and they were hit by a tornado. it tore a...

And at one point moving about 20 miles an hour. later at about 35 miles an hour. the latest word on casualties comes to us at fox news from the oklahoma highu(v patrol. that of a mother and daughter blown off a highway and killed in the path of this storm. with that said, i can tell you that the cbs television affiliate kwtv in oklahoma city our network news service affiliate there is reporting on its phone five fatalities in the oklahoma tornadoes today though fox news does not have the informa...

We would call rain wrapped tornadoes. you wont see them. might hear them coming but not going see them. the only way you might see them as they are hitting power lines in the night time sky.xploding these things are rain wrapped and getting a lot of damage reports, high wind reports right along the squall line of vandallia, ramsey, brownstown, saint elmo, right corner. farina. fill more. pittsburgh. beginning ham. bailey city. st. paul. st. peter. st. james and including the ramsey lake state pa...

Meg, what do you have here? >> we are following power outages. 22,000 people in the metro without power. most of them are in yukon. but thats a lot of people without power. we are looking a tht viet now. we believe there will be more as those reports do come in. >> getting reports from downtown oklahoma city. the historic district without power. not getting any damage reports from south oklahoma city. as you heard earlier, there are damage reports west of the metro when the storm came through. i...

Situation, especially in urban areas around oklahoma city, so they were hit with the tornadoes earlier and theyve had up to six inches, seven inches of rainfall. whenever you do that in an urban area, you have problems because traffic can get stranded, you can have flooding. we may see transition of tornado threat to flooding threat overnight. the wind threat will continue east into tulsa, missouri, northwest arkansas overnight tonight. we are not out of the woods yet. >> greg carbon from noaa i...

Ground, and you can see that there is farmland here, and some of the damage reports that we have gotten in some of these populated areas. so, unfortunately, we knew this was coming. this is tornado alley. it is the middle of may. and this type of thing happens. but in this age of cell phone video, and storm chasers, we are bringing this video to you live as it happens. and fortunately enough, yesterday people saw these images on their television screens and i think it helped people react and tak...