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80 members of the oklahoma national guard have been called up to join local emergency crews, looking for survivors overnight. 101 people were pull ed alive from wreckage of their homes. >> a lot of those were in storm shelters. were very hopeful as we continue our search today, well find more people in same or similar situations, where they may be under debris in storm shelters. >> all right. i want to bring in nbc meteorologist bill karins who has the latest on what happened in moore. bill, so,...

Possible tornadic activity. >>gretchen: this morning "the oklahoman" newspaper declared the storm worse than the storm that hit the town 14 years ago. >> that certainly says it all, that headline there: worse than that. preliminary reports are putting it in the same league as some of the countrys worst storms. the national weather service is classifying yesterdays tornado as an ef-4, but that could be upgraded as rick has been telling us about, after they get on the ground and are able to fully ...

When you see that you can get a tornado to spin up as winds tilt. as far as what we are expecting afternoon hours, tuesday. the atmosphere sort of refires, reloads and refires. still the same -- all of the same ingredients in place. drier air moving out of the deserts. cool air mass in the upper midwest, the northern plains, moving south. deep moisture drawn in. those three come together, we see storms. and energy overhead, we can get the storms to rotate and that can bring the tornado. we are w...

On some folks. but many cases of impalements and crush injuries, as well. >> without getting too graphic, can you explain the impalement? >> a tornado, f-4 or f-5, i am not sure. but tornadoes at that force, have you debris whipping around everywhere. its easy for small objects to go through the human body. obviously, thats what happened. >> wow. that is pretty graphic. the word itself is pretty graphic. >> right. >> tell me, what else would you like the individuals, the viewers who are watching...

They all came together and brought us the devastation, really. i mean, this is day three of this tornado outbreak. we saw ef-4 -- we saw an ef-4 in north texas from a different system but the same setup. and an ef-4 last night in parent parts of oklahoma. and now an ef-4 or ef-5 this evening. >> coming up the latest on the search for the children in the rubble of that school. our live breaking news coverage continues next. and chantix helped me quit. i honestly loved smoking, and i honestly didn...

When the tornado warning went out. it touched down at 3:01 p.m. central time. the preliminary survey saying ef-4 with winds up to 200 miles per hour and the national weather service will go out and do another assessment tomorrow and we will learn more in the days ahead. i want to go over the ef-1 and ef-2. ef-4 from 166 to 200 miles per hour. ef-5, 200 miles plus that. would be the joplin, missouri tornado, almost 2 years ago to the date. the joplin, missouri, tornado was preliminarily given an ...

People dealing with when it hit, touched ground? >> you both made a good point there. the winds arent going to matter once this is all done for the people that lost loved ones here. but, we are going to get a category here. either an ef-4 or ef-5. difference will be is it over 200 miles per hour when it touched ground or is it not? we have an issue right now. what i want to do is barack this down as far as what we have, the current threat. right over the area that was affected here in, norman, i...

From oklahoma. in moore, oklahoma, theyre clinging to the hope that rescuers might, just might find more survivors. well, this hour what we know is that dozens of people have been killed by mondays massive tornadoes, dozens more have now been hospitalized as well. >> this latest tornado to strike the oklahoma city metropolitan area has been rated an ef-4. thats the second strongest level on the enhanced fujita scale that meteorologists use. but numbers like that obvious i will only tell you so m...

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Elevate that to ef-5 after storm surveys are completed. at this point in time. yes, the reports are ef-4 preliminarily. >> meteorologist jim dickey, live in accuweather. thank you for that. the tornado sirens started wailing 16 minutes before the storm actually hit. that gave residents like melissa newton time to hunker down in a safe place. she describes the few harrowing moments. >> i looked to the west. and i see it. hail about the size of golf balls was pounding my car at the time. i got h...