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Through texas to the back going to my photographers back that is south toward dallas. this is heading in the direction of north. oklahoma city. back out there way is east where the bowling alley is and out that way is west. and this thing came in across this way and actually crossed interstate 35 and we saw a number of crumpled cars along i-35, people caught up in this at the wrong time. greta, it goes without saying its going to be an extremely long and pain staking night. i heard you talk to t...

Thats what we do best. >> reporter: in an area that needs warning, the chasers are doing what they can to save lives. ginger zee, abc news, moore, oklahoma. >> so at this point when you say they need a warning, the warnings didnt come fast enough. there are sirens and people tried to head to the right places. >> 16 minutes. >> 16 minutes is not enough to get anywhere when you look at the devastation. the question now is what happens next? next a lot of resources headed into moore, oklahoma. we h...

To stream video and keep people warned of the path of the storms. thats what we do best. >> reporter: in an area that needs warning, the chasers are doing what they can to save lives. ginger zee, abc news, moore, oklahoma. >> so at this point when you say they need a warning, the warnings didnt come fast enough. sirens, people tried to head to the right places. >> 16 minutes. >> 16 minutes is not enough to get anywhere when you look at the devastation. question now is what happens next? next a l...

People digging and crawling through rubble. >> started heading in. we were pulling walls off of people. there were people crawling out from everywhere and anywhere. basically just a war zone. >> reporter: buildings crushed by the destructive tornado that wreaked havoc for almost an hour. >> and, sadly, they found a man and then a woman and a small baby. >> reporter: and here, school buses still lined up outside this school, but the gym, torn apart. >> it just tore through it like a truck run rig...

Tornado warning does continue south of harrah right now and to the southwest of mccloud. its recycling. this is the same storm. still has a tornado warning on it. the hook now is right on i-40 and it is heading for the area near the fire lake casino. again, mccloud, harrah and up toward meeker and prage and dale and north shawnee. hook with a tornado warning in effect. that storm is still very dangerous and may put down an additional large tornado as it comes through southeast oklahoma county, t...

Doesnt mean it wont again. keeping a close eye on that. were about to enter hail. moving further north and then were going to go east. >> okay. emily that second tornado has lifted; is that correct. >> the one that was on the secondary tornado, yes. yes. it is lifted. >> okay. very good. thats the middle tornado. recall if youve been watching us, emily was on the lead tornado which caused extensive damage down i 40. not to mention all the way doub into cleveland county and then there was a secon...

>> we do. the bottom line is theres one tornado on the ground and its likely an ef-4 tornado and its coming in right now northwest of paden. just missed prague on the north side but its heading for ixl. highway 48, southbound. this could be an f-4 tornado right here. still quite large. lets go to the north doppler and take a look at the velocities. you can see the bulls eye configuration. theres bristow. so this say large tornado on the ground. its really intensified in the last few minutes as i...

>> well, linda, were on the road. were on southwest 119th heading east from i-44. and the rain has finally stopped. we were getting pelted with hail right south of where i-40 meets 44. the hail was about, you know, nickel size, quarter size in diameter. but that has sub sisided. its now not raining. were on southwest 119th trying to head toward the area where the tornado went through moore. no traffic right now on southwest 119th, but it is backed up for miles on i-44 if youre heading southbound...

Now, we certainly hope. because you put yourself in this danger so we can get an idea of what happens with these storms and really for research as well. pts not just the thrill of being a storm chaser. this helps every single time at getting people out of these situations and responding to these situations. how far out of town are you? do you know? >> southeast of the town. radar says roughly 15 minutes. heading towards a community out about 15 miles west of tulsa. probably coming pretty close t...

Situation. >> were concerned with the storm to the west of nomrman, i should say the east of norman. we have tornado warnings in place until 6:45 local time. as we talk about this storm, this is the one were concerned about. we put this in, track it for you. give you an idea. residents that live near the area. heres one problem, though, were pretty close to the radar so that can make things harder to see. as we track this storm for you, hopefully our weather producer can track this storm for me ...