Ef 5 Damage News Today

Reno friday night. samaras son paul was also with them. this is from the discovery channel. they were on the show "storm chasers." chad meyers was in oklahoma after a monster storm hit two weeks ago. he shows us how dangerous it is to be in a car. >> reporter: just piles and piles of debris here in moore. ef-4, ef-5 damage. somewhere around 200 miles an hour. it is unimaginable what could cause a house to turn into that. if you think about a fender-bender at highway speeds of 30, 40, 50, 60 mi...

This is a serious rotating storm. brooke, the tops of the storms are up to about 50,000 feet tall. thats ten miles high. so, the severe hail that can come out, the wind that can come out, and, of course, the tornado damage, as well. sometimes hail and wind can do as much damage to a house, not ef-5 damage, but certainly significant damage to a home and, obviously, to your health, as well. you need to take cover. these storms mean business today. wouldnt be here if i didnt think that this could b...

More time. you have the two-story building. then the second after, that is not completely demolished. thats the reason its an ef-3. i want you to look around. we had it as an ef-5 damage, but the winds are only 160 to 200 miles per hour. the winds are way stronger than that. the damage you are seeing, if you spin around, that is not ef-5. >> no, we do see walls standing here. some parts of the neighborhood where theres nothing left. there are walls where we are now. you are right. ef-5 is very, ...

Hasnt been able to make phone communications or -- a lot of people get scared, leave, think they are safe. contact your family, let them know you are safe. have you everybody else worried to death about where you are, did you leave? we dont know where you are. please contact your family if you havent and let them know. >> weve been talking about lives lost 24 certainly too many. but when you walk through the damage, its shocking it wasnt more lives lost. the injuries not as bad as you might expe...

>> craig fugate, fema administrator, thank you for being with us. we know you are on the ground serving the damage here. the need is great. we are grateful you are helping provide those in need here. thank you so much. >> thank you. as we told you, the national weather service revised the strength of this twister. its now an ef-5. winds topping 200 miles per hour making one of the strongest storms ever to hit the u.s. we are joined by meteorologist peterson. edra, spell it out for us, again. h...

200-mile-an-hour winds brought them to their knees. this is one of the most powerful in this countrys record. as the search and rescue transitions into recovery operation. >> national weather service confirms the tornado that blew threw they are monday afternoon killing 24 people, they have confirmed it was an ef-5 tornado. the scale does not go higher than five. 2400 homes damaged. 10,000 people affected. damage is expected to top $1 billion. show you video of the storm. you can see the funnel ...

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Just one street, just one neighborhood. but countless reminders of the enormity of what happened here. the living room set with no living room. a muni van in a space that defies the laws of physics. >> we give you a sense of the power of this storm, this is a guard rail this heavy piece of twisted metal. part of a highway which is a few blocks that way. somehow this tornado moved this guard rail from the highway right to here, this shows you how powerful it is. but there is another sight i want ...

Discoveries. >> 24 people lost their lives here in moore, oklahoma, including 9 children. you remember, yesterday the government came out with numbers much higher than that, a little bit of solace. those numbers are not expected to change. part of the story of this epic tornado here. >> search and rescue mission here is now really transitioning into a recovery operation. the national weather service confirming that the tornado that carved up this town was an ef-5, winds topping out at 210 miles ...

Probably took 200-mile-an-hour wind for this damage to occur. they have preliminary gone out and can see we have seeing ef-5 damage around briarwood elementary school. you saw it clearly on the path, not every location on the path had that kind of intensity. the moore medical center, around it, we are seeing ef-3 damage close to where you are standing. i want to show you one of the ways we look at that. here is the before picture of the moore medical center. let me show you what it looks like af...