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>> these are live pictures of a funnel cloud that has just developed. it appears to be on the ground in oklahoma city. this all just minutes after the national weather service issued a tornado warning for metropolitan oklahoma city. an entire population of 171,000 people. >> this type of tornado will just level towns. honestly, this is getting very scary. right now this -- oh my goodness, its three-quarters of a mile wide, and its moving into eastern -- or western sides of moore. and it is comin...

Out of the clouds and touched the ground. that was in a relatively rural area from here. as it it got on the ground and stayed on the ground it got wider and wider and stronger. we saw the debris balls referred to at the bottom of that funnel cloud. thats when the meteorologists started saying oh dear god, oh my when that was -- when we saw the debris balls because we knew that the debris balls was this. it was neighborhoods, it was peoples lives, megyn. >> megyn: how is it that anyone is still ...

Very close to that school, where so many children were missing and presumed dead. >> as we count the casualties we know that some children, perhaps many children are among at least 51 people are known to be dead. after that massive tornado tore through central oklahoma. were told that number is going to rise because more bodies are on the way to many medical examiners office. >> the news will get worse. the day began with an urgent warning, the devastation that followed it was fast, it was wides...

Its okay when your time comes to ride it out in the coat closet and close the door, not so with an ef-4 or an ef-5 when everything is ripped to pieces and strewn for miles. >> you know, bill karins talks about a lot of these homes dont have basements. we saw that one shelter, how many of these homes are equipped with that kind of safety dynamic where they can find that kind of shelter if they have to? >> well, heres an interesting fact about 1999, it struck down the road before it hit moore. tha...

This case, whats left of a home, one wall, they spray-painted an m. so the reality is a lot of people are still missing, a lot are unaccounted for and we know that that death toll has been revised. i have to be honest with you, while we are holding out hope, the likelihood of that number continuing to go up is increasing, especially as the day wears on and especially as more storms threaten the area. because if people are trapped under the rubble and it starts raining, we could see drowning situ...

Roaring, whiring sound, it was so loud and our dogs were just down on the ground shaking. bless their hearts. it was a frightening experience. thank god we had a shelter. >> the dogs were shaking. you know, they dont know whats going on, but they know whats going on. >> yeah. you hear reports about how devastating this funnel cloud was. you take a look at it. its massive and huge. it looks like its destroying just a huge swath. really its not so much the funnel cloud the problem, the debris insi...

Oklahomans. we had some in-state -- out of state folks help, and theres been good news in this very, very dark cloud. >> oklahoma lieutenant governor tom lamb, thanks for joining me. were going to let you get back to work. i do want to show everybody the enormity of the situation as its been covered in the headlines. the front page of the oklahoman reads "worse than may 3rd" referring to the storm that happened in 1999 as we have been talking about. the other headlines also talk about exactly --...

>> cells, supercells, and when the supercells we can have different tornadoes. looks like right now the tornado dissipated do be rain in the distance and we talked about the rain wrap obscuring our view, but hopefully this funnel cloud has dissipated and were done with it. some of the reports im getting, neil, are just awful in this area of moe, oklahoma, as the storm went through. you were mentioning may, 1999. if you tell anybody in the oklahoma city area about may 1999, they nod their heads a...

Be -- maybe this is 100 yards wide that shot just the cross of a front of a building, i can see cars where they dont belong and debris from elsewhere, a roof ripped off. and as the chopper camera widens out i can see people wandering about and debris from somewhere and as you continue to pan eventually i see another neighborhood where home after home after home after home is reduced to rubble. how do you begin to coordinate a rescue? many are tweeting how can i help in moore, oklahoma? what can ...

We have not got any word of damage or injuries or deaths. we do know that what had been a number of tornado watches turned into warnings, when funnel clouds were sight it. casey is in me middle of this. >> i can tell you its a frightening situation unfolding here in oklahoma. were watching serious seasoned newscasters on television in the oklahoma city area reporting and giving us information on this massive funnel cloud that has just been sort of hugging the ground now for quite some time, near...