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Move, whether the local government alarmed people to the degree that given the may 20th storm that was the worst type of tornado you could get, ef-5, is anyones guess and it did lead to a lot of folks scrambling to get in their cars and get out of town. thats when many of the victims ended up dying -- on the road, on the highway, struck in traffic. well go to el reno, oklahoma with the very latest from there. michael? >> reporter: the very latest, neil, from the medical examiners of those who pe...

Area as we think it is going to happen in but it can be very random in that it can be a corn field or a heavily populated area as we saw in moore, oklahoma. something that doesnt happen very often, ef-5 with winds of over 200 miles per hour. again, just fortunate we didnt see a storm of that magnitude moving over oklahoma city yesterday. >> yeah. like you said, a much more populous region. thank you very much as always. youre going to hear a lot back and forth about whether people should have ...

Up to 60 injured. well go to the fox news weather center on just how sweeping this was. every time you look at these images, janice and gosh knows how many times we have, you always wonder why the count wasnt higher. everyone counts their lucky stars that the count wasnt higher but the fact is it could have been much higher. >> it really could have. had we seen an ef-5 like we saw in moore move over oklahoma city it would have been devastating. we were possibly seeing an ef-3, ef-4 that moved th...

Things a bad, not as bad as it could have been or has been. this tornado season even with the known deaths thus far around 34 or 35 area, we had twice as many deaths just last year. we had 533 deaths in 2011. of course that was the year of some horrific storms, one of the worst years on record i2010. so 45 deaths. the average for the last three years. this is how they sort of judge a rolling trend of tornadoes. its been about 222 deaths. any death is bad but in the scheme of things, if you were ...

Yikes when i look at, you know, any kind of storm chasers. like this, right? and by the way, nice to see you. it has been like two months and happy belated birthday if i may. but you used to be a meteorologist in oklahoma city. you know all about tornadoes. tell me about this vehicle. >> this is crazy. this came to cnn a couple of years ago. they were out there trying to film an imax film and already did that. but theyre still driving around because it is so cool to -- yesterday, they were in an...

Services. at this time what id like to do is go ahead and turn the mike over to the county commissioners. jebster and phil carson are both available. >> im the district three county commissioner. right after the storm ended last night, we got ahold of all of our workers and brought them all in, organized them into 12-hour shifts and, basically, what were doing is to install and repair traffic control signs to block traffic into washed out areas or areas where theres high line wires, electric wir...

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Low places in the mile roads sections are washed out. crews are out now repairing these washed out places. its all due to the severe flooding from the rainfall. weve got chain saw crews out. were removing debris from the roads and trees that have been blown down. we kind of have to do that just to get it ready for the first responders. so they have to be able to get there. its very important that they can get to the damaged areas. one concern is the safety of the workers. we try to make it as sa...