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As you mentioned. so, of course, a lot of that power had been restored but we are still not finished with all of the storm damage. the other big issue that we have, power lines that are down, which is always very dangerous and then we have had a tremendous amount, unusual amount of rain in this storm that came through and flooding. and we dont have that much flooding in oklahoma, but we do have now, and ive seen pictures already, various areas of the state, even around oklahoma city last night, ...

Has declared a state of emergency there. up next, president obama consoled oklahomians less than a week ago in moore but will mandated spending cuts affect the official response to natural disasters like these going forward? we will talk about that. this is msnbc. d it. see, i knew testosterone could affect sex drive, but not energy or even my mood. thats when i talked with my doctor. he gave me some blood tests... showed it was low t. thats it. it was a number. [ male announcer ] today, men w...

Youre seeing now compared to what you saw there just 11 days ago? >> thank you so much, craig. it really is an amazing time right now the moore tornado certainly is a more devastating and far-reaching tornado, but right now, i just came back from a press conference with the mayor of el reno and the county commissioners and i have to tell you, there is a tremendous heaviness in that region now, with the loss of life from last night. people are dealing with the impact of these storms and very emot...

They were both over a mile wide at times. luckily, this tornado, while it did do some damage did not cause the devastation, at least to my knowledge that moore did. but definitely comparable in size and intensity. >> i got to ask you, every time you saw the video from storm chasers, i under-the-same thing. what in the world would possess someone to go out and chase these thing s? >> you know, mother nature can be captivating, just the power of it just the enormity of seeing mother nature. once y...

Which want to bring you up to date on the developing story we continue to follow, the devastating weather that is punching the nations midsection in the cut gut. today, people in a suburb of oklahoma city returned to whats left of their homes. this is union city, oklahoma, you were looking at. nine people killed mork more than 100 hurt when tornadoes ripped through the area late friday. flash flooding throughout the oklahoma city area and officials are also reporting localized power outages, moo...

Presidents approach as needlessly partisan. president obama wants congress to extend the low 3.4% federally subsidized student loan rates f nothing happens on july 1st those rates would automatically double to 6.8%. the house has passed a plan but president obama insists that the plan does not go far enough. >> im glad they took action but unfortunately, their bill does not meet that test. it fails to lock in low rates for students next year. thats not smart. it eliminates safeguards for lower i...

Apart that barn and threw some -- through threw a lot of grass and even a hay bale and piece of the barn right at our car. >> did you chase the tornado that hit moore back on may 20th? >> actually, no, we were on a separate tornado in southern oklahoma but the day before we were on the -- you know, the tornado that hit shawnee. >> and we bleeped out your language there as well on the video. i would imagine thats probably not the only bleeping we would have had to do if we had showed the whole th...

Skies are is a storm chairs and did that last night. he joins me from oklahoma city. good see you okay, my friend. thank you. thanks for having me on the. >> what was it like last night and where were you? what did you see? >> we were very near el reno when the tornado was coming through near interstate 40. we were just south of the interstate. we werent nearly as close as some of the video youve seen. but we were definitely, you know, in pretty close range to the tornado. we had very strong win...

The weakest on the scale of 0 to 5, touched down in moore yesterday afternoon during all of this mayhem with the storms moving through the region. now, it was a weak tornado compared to ef5 that they just saw a little more than a week ago. this storm yesterday moved across moore, oklahoma, for a brief time, the path was half a mile and the width of the tornado only 500 yards compared to the ef5 tornado almost two miles wide. so it was a very small tornado, minimal damage from that one in moore. ...

Damaged. to get the power back up and running, we, of course, lost that on may 20th for several days, it was just about all back, now, its basically all gone again. trying to get the phone lines working, they are all down. theres these immediate problems. trying to help people and get the debris cleaned up and frankly, just picking up and moving forward again this is a major set back when you are already down and out. >> how worried are people in and around moore, around oklahoma city in general...