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He says that he called his parents, told them you need to get out of the way. he said he saw circulation watching one of the affiliates coverage, saw circulation in a storm near this house. they left and went to a nearby fire station. alison, they came back to this house and when they came back to see what happened here, they looked up in the sky and they saw yet another tornado so they had to get out of the way again. people really had a matter of minutes to move and take shelter, whether you s...

Killed in these storms, a little higher. seven people were killed. the sheriff came out and said that as far as the intensity of these storms, he said it ranked as an f-3 or f-4 on the fujita scale. it goes up to f-5. these were severe and devastating storms that tore through oklahoma. he went on to talk about how had officials are trying to get the water system, power back on, traffic up and running again. well keep listening to the news conference off line. in the meantime, i want to go to nic...

Strength of nor nay does. has it been more intense when you look at more and you see what happened there and the two schools that were levelled? has this been worse than youve seen it in the past? >> susan, typically, in a year, we get a thousand tornadoes. 999 of them are not ef-5s. one, sometimes, would be. and theyre out in farmland. no one hears of them. we get pictures on tv and we show them. but what happens this time, with this ef-4 and eventually through the ef-5 damage and more, was tha...

Tornadoes, has it been more intense when you look at moore and the two schools that were leveled. has this been worse than you have seen in the past, chad? >> reporter: typically in a year we get 1,000 tornadoes. 999 of them are not f-5, ef-5. one sometimes can be. most of the time we get one or two per year out in ef-5, out in farmland, range land, we get pictures on tv and sthom, but what happened this time was the ef-4 and eventually to the ef-5 damage in moore, but it moved through a populat...

Strength of nor nay does. has it been more intense when you look at more and you see what happened there and the two schools that were levelled? has this been worse than youve seen it in the past? >> susan, typically, in a year, we get a thousand tornadoes. 999 of them are not ef-5s. o one, sometimes, would be. and theyre out in farmland. no one hears of them. we get pictures on tv and we show them. but what happens this time, with this ef-4 and eventually through the ef-5 damage and more, was t...

Dangerous situation. occasionally, conditions are so dangerous for tornados that they elevate the watch to a pds watch, that is what we have here tonight. that is when you see not just kind of run of the mill or maybe smaller tornadoes, but you have the likelihood of very large maybe ef-3, ef-4, 5 tornados and some of them that can stay on the line for a very long time. ten, 20, 50, 100 miles. the photo is coming from a storm chaser vehicle. i cannot see what is happening when there are boxes al...

Its lengthy and it is under ground. they said the tornado was heading this way. thats where we are at this point. >> the tornado warning has just been extended and right over the oklahoma city area. thats where the storm is expected to head right now and we are getting just advice from the local meteorologists in oklahoma city saying that under ground is the only safe place to be right now. what is the mood of the people youre with? they are used to this sort of thing but another possible ef-3, ...

Tonight. packed crowd, 15,000 or so people honoring those in this city, who have survived what happened here six weeks ago. were going to talk about that in just a moment. but i want to get back to our breaking news here, severe weather in the plains, specifically oklahoma. we, of course, remember what happened in moore, oklahoma, and several communities around oklahoma city last week. ef-4, ef-5 tornado, neighborhood after neighborhood absolutely leveled. and youre looking at live pictures. l...

Anyone living in this area really knows now of course to heed the warnings or make the precautions now, but some of these, we could reach in the range of ef-3, ef-4 so again, its a moderate risk which is fairly high on the scale of our threat. >> everybodys got to be really, really careful out there and take all of the precautions. tom, thanks very much. well check back with you if anything new breaks in this hour. were continuing the breaking news, though, with a storm chaser who got very, ve...

We did called "tornado alley." yeah, this tornado is still right there. sorry about that. >> well, i dont want to do anything thats going to endanger you. if you feel this is too dangerous, we can continue this later. >> no, no, no, its not that. its just wanting to get closer. this thing is much wider now. look how wide it is. thats a half mile, mile wide now. its really gotten big now. anyway, were in our tiv and we are about to film this thing. >> and you get a comparison with -- i was in moo...