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Service says at its peak it was an ef4 tornado and 9 tornadoes have been confirmed to hit north texas saturday. and the governor declared a state of imagine in four counties. reporter: garland, texas was hit. what happened there. reporter: that ef4 tornado, those 8, many of shop were on takenover pass were in their cars. their cars were tossed off that overpass just like toys. one of the victims was a mother of four. she was face timing with her husband when the tornado hit. >> a wonderful mom. ...

>> reporter: we are in harrisburg right now. i can be quiet for a second so you can hear them. [siren blaring ] >> reporter: those are the tornado warning sirens blaring right now. the good news about that we were told earlier in the day. i can show you the siren that is wailing right now. we were told that was knocked out by the last tornado. im hearing it at the moment, its working. we do see people outside, we still see cars driving around. people are very concerned about this for all of the ...

Of where harrisburg is. see that line of developing thunderstorms? those could contain rotation as well, could contain tornadoes. even though the science remembers -- even though the sirens have dimmed, in the next couple minutes we could see them go off again. thats why law enforcement i think has told mike tobin to please get out of the area. if hes inside a tornado as the tornado moves in towards the area, you will see a pressure drop. i know hes a geek with it comes to these kinds of things....

See people on the road driving around. there are still people who are not heeding the warnings. the restaurants are still open. we have the ominous part of the tornado where you hit the dead calm and the hair on your neck goes up. warning is in effect. i dont hear the sirens going at the moment. but i did see the deputy sheriff run out to get to these neighborhoods to make sure people get inside. megyn: how many people are at the shelter? >> reporter: the one im at, about 20 people hanging aroun...

Head northeast ward. i hope people are listening to their local weather authorities as well. megyn: you know our own gregg jarrett. he has found tim self in the middle of one of these tornadoes. you want to talk about how quickly your car can move versus the storm, talk to gregg jarrett. let me take back to april 26, 1991. several tornadoes touched down in the plains. gregg jarrett was out on a story in kansas. necessity noticed a tornado in the distance it started to bear down on them literally...

Warning for this area. there is harrisburg. this supercell that they just issued a tornado on very good radar returns here. its looking really healthy. you can start to seat formation of a hook echo. they put a tornado warning on that cell, and look at this cell on robb. it looks like a shale core in the white here. really inference precipitation. its one of the best super cells i have seen on radar so far. portions of illinois, indiana, we need people to be taking shelter in that region immedia...