greg carbon we appreciate that. the powerful storm was going to stay in florida in the coming days so i want to check in with admiral peter brown in miami. he joins us by phone as well. admiral thank so much for joining us. what is the coast guard doing right now to prepare for this hurricane? thank you, don for the opportunity to explain what the united states coast guard is doing. i d add that being responsible for florida i m also responsible for the operations in puerto rico and the u.s. virgin islands dealing with the storm. we have hundreds of people in puerto rico right now who are hunkered down as others are. we are ready to be able to respond as soon as the sun comes up tomorrow. we have health continues that will remain in puerto rico to be able to provide rescue as
reporter. thank you, we ll check back with you later. you re welcome. i m here in new york city, as we are monitoring a system headed toward oklahoma city. many businesses evacuated. folks have sought shelter under ground. many have fled the area as they were directed to do. we just checked in from greg carbon. they have been tracking the storm system for two hours as it sat just west of oklahoma city and spawned a number of individual twisteders, multiple vortices, heading towards oklahoma city. near the area of moore which was just so hard hit, bigger than ever recorded in human history.
okay, he was standing up, talking to emily a few hours ago. greg carbon at the noaa storm prediction center in norman, oklahoma, thank you for joining us. appreciate your time and expertise. good evening, rachel. can you tell us about conditions where you are in norman and how norman faired in this storm tonight? we ve lost power in parts of norman. seems some high winds or perhaps lightning may have taken out the power awhile ago. we are still experiencing pretty gusty winds and occasionally torrential rain. it appears the tornado threat diminished quite a bit. the storm complex that brought tornadoes to oklahoma city has gusted out and cold air associated with massive amounts of rain is cutting off the inflow to the storm, likely producing an environment less favorable for tornadoes. cutting off inflow, less favorable environment over the course of the night. when will that become more
situation, especially in urban areas around oklahoma city, so they were hit with the tornadoes earlier and they ve had up to six inches, seven inches of rainfall. whenever you do that in an urban area, you have problems because traffic can get stranded, you can have flooding. we may see transition of tornado threat to flooding threat overnight. the wind threat will continue east into tulsa, missouri, northwest arkansas overnight tonight. we are not out of the woods yet. greg carbon from noaa in norman, oklahoma, thank you for joining us. i am glad you have the job you have. please stay safe. thank you. thank you. in terms of what happened tonight in oklahoma city in terms of the damage reports, it is unclear at this point the extent of the damage. we have two confirmed fatalities in the oklahoma city area, oklahoma highway patrol confirming two fatalities on interstate 40. eyewitness reports of a lot of cars overturned and a lot of