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All you find is the concrete slab. remember in oklahoma 0 city, this is built on rock. theres not many people with basements in this town. i lived up in norman and edmond as well. no basements in my house, not even a storm shelter. you have to shelter inside your home if you can. or if you have a neighbor with a storm shelter, get over there as quickly as possible. this is a tornado going right into downtown moore, almost an identical place where a very large tornado went many, many years ago. m...

To the extreme southwest of moore. if you are anywhere near moore, you also need to take cover. the next town, if you keep going, would be like toward mccloud, but theres a lot of territory to cover here. were still seeing those power flashes. we absolutely know that this tornado is on the ground in a populated area. you ask how many people are affected. right now the latest number for the tornado warning proper, jake, 170,000 people inside this warning. getting a little hard to find where this ...

Oklahoma city from our affiliate koco. an intense tornado has touched down in the oklahoma city area. on the phone right now, we have jaime shelton the emergency official for the city of moore, oklahoma, which is south of oklahoma city. mr. shelton, thanks for joining us. what is your recommendation for anybody in the area who is listening right now? >> people have to take emergency precautions. we see debris in the air over city hall in moore. we are at 301 north broadway. we have debris in the...

Just south of oklahoma city in the area of moore. this is an area that has drawn some of the deadliest tornadoes in recent memory, in 1999, 36 were killed a eed in an oklahom tornado. oklahoma city, the general area, has been struck, but more than two dozen times by two or more tornados. it is an area prone to this sort of activity. we are right now looking at live footage from our affiliate kfor of this tornado touching down. we were talking earlier to spencer basoco, storm track he. he was tal...

Tornadoes just like yesterday was. were seeing living proof of that right now. >> spencer, when you talk about this is a highly populated area, describe it. this is an area south of oklahoma city. is this a highly populated suburb? >> yes, highly populated suburb. its where a lot of the oklahoma city workers. they litch theve there and they commute to the city monday through friday, which most of them are still at work right now so thats one good thing. kids are locked down in schools. weve got ...

Oklahoma city. >> well, thank you very much. i appreciate it. lo looks like weve got another tornado getting ready to develop possibly in that same vicinity so they have the sirens going off again. thank you very much. we appreciate your help. >> all right, god bless, governor. thank you. well go to chad myers in atlanta. chad chad, tell us what happened, how large this tornado was, how long it was on the ground in the oklahoma city area. now you hear governor fallin telling us she hears sirens ...

Possible. were going to be safe about it, but we want to help anybodiley . im telling you well need emergency personnel on the south part of oklahoma city central. there wasnt much of a warning. a storm warning just a few minutes ago, then just a tornado warning 10 or 15 minutes ago. you say this is a highly populated area, oklahoma city with a population of 600,000. youre talking about a tornado touching down in moore, which is south. how much of a population are we talking about in the path of...

Windows is what youre saying. how much -- >> do not be looking outside. do not be near the windows looking outside. be in the center of your home in a storm shelter. theres debris falling on to the hall on 301 north broadway. people just need to take that seriously. it is happening. >> take shelter immediately. go to your storm cellars, go to the basement. if you dont have a basement, go to your bathroom, go into the bathtub, cough yourself with a mattress. take shelter. have you, sir, heard of ...