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Developed by a meteorologist named fujita. ef-4 is the second strongest level on the scale that meteorologists use. >> weve lost animals. weve lost everything. we dont have anything left. and my parents, i cant get ahold of them. we have no cell. we, you know, so if theyre out there and theyre watching, please let them know that i and my family is okay. and well make it. well be okay. but everything is gone. >> lets now turn to a storm chaser who has been tracking the massive tornadoes and the d...

Medical center. what can you tell us, nick? >> good morning. were outside moore medical center, the only hospital that services moore, oklahoma, which makes this all the more tragic for the patients that had to be transferred other places. you can see behind me, the parking lot. it looks like a junk yard. the entire second floor, reduced to rubble. this hospital took a direct hit from that ef-4 tornado. theres reports from a local newspaper that 30 patients inside at the time of the ef-4 tornado...

States and around the world for live breaking news coverage of the devastating tornado in oklahoma. >> coming up this hour, we have right now it is midnight in oklahoma. you are now looking at pictures. the search, the rescue, and it is the somber recovery that is going on all night long in moore, oklahoma. it has now been nine hours since disaster struck. a bulls eye of utter destruction right in the heart of tornado alley. so many people in oklahoma have lost so much, specifically, oklahoma ci...

The school we were sitting at, which was south moore high school. it was as close to a half to a quarter-mile away from us and the tornado itself was just massive and you could hear the roar was deafening, we could basically feel the ground shaking and reverb rations off of the power of the tornado. >> yeah. ive never seen anything like this. >> we now know were being told it was an ef-4. which means there are wind speeds up to 200 miles per hour, maybe greater than that. what does that feel lik...

Right now its not over. >> you hear us talk about the threat of violent long-lived tornadoes. this is a 22 mile path of this devastating tornado that ripped through the area and unfortunately, as we will show you, as we take you, chad will walk you through this path, we will show you that where this tornado formed or was weakest and where it dissipated is where we did not have densely populated areas. unfortunately, as it strengthened, in between newcastle and moore is where it started to intens...

There are 31 confirmed fatalities so far, including 20 children. that number will rise, with reports of more bodies found overnight. of those 40, about 20 are children. at least 145 victims are in the hospital right now. the tornado, said to be an ef-4, which is the second-highest strength. it packed winds of 166-mile-per-hour to 200-mile-per-hour. up to 200-mile-per-hour in some places. president obama issuing emergency disaster overnight. we have this covered from every angle, with reporters f...

Killed by mondays massive tornado, dozens more have been hospitalize zbld this latest tornado to strike the oklahoma city metropolitan area has been rated an ef-4. its the second strongest level on the scale that meteorologist use. numbers like that can only tell you so much. victims themselves have much more to convey. >> we have lost animals. weve lost everything. we dont have anything left. and my parents, i cant get ahold of them. we have no cell. you know, so if theyre out there and watchin...

>> thats the latest information from local officials and the governor speaking tonight from moore, oklahoma. across the area, the death toll at this moment stands at 51. well be back one hour from now, another edition of "360" at 10:00 p.m. eastern. "piers morgan live" starts now. this is "piers morgan live." want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world to cnns team coverage of what i can only describe as an unfurling nightmare in oklahoma. a massive tornado two miles ...

Supposed to do. in a situation like this, you get hit by an f-4 or f-5 and youre above ground, even if you do everything right, theres not a lot you can do if youre directly in the path. that appears to be what happened there and a great many other people as well. >> from past experience, how long do you think it will be before there is -- before everybody is accounted for one way or another, before families are able to find out information about their loved ones? >> it will happen pretty quickl...

Already know, children. 145 people injured, again, that number will go up, maybe by a lot. and were asking about a count for the number of homes and structures destroyed. they do not have that count yet. i can tell you how weve driven through it over the last several hours, i dont know how they would begin to count. there were so many homes, structures destroyed. flattened in some cases by the power of the storm. it was an ef-4, there were wind speeds in excess of 200 miles per hour. at one poin...