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Overturned vehicles, some tractor trailers, some cars, according to the highway patrol. there are reports of injuries. we dont know the extent of those. do you have any reports of any update on that? >> i have heard there are trucks overturned on our major interstate along i-40 which is a big area that people travel through, right through a major kind of shopping business district. and that was where -- its kind of a slow-ming storm which is always a problem. then its moving down towards i-35, o...

Out? >> you know, power gone and the phones and everything like that. literally torrential rain. keeping in touch with people by blackberry and cell phone. and then a third, evidently, east of here. not obviously as severe as we had on may 20 lt. certainly, lots of lightning. probably five or six inches of rain. were clearly going to have major flooding problems. emergency vehicles coming off i-35 proceeding west.

City doppler radar just showed that, and we keep seeing these hook formations on the back end so it keeps regenerating here. so here are two separate cells and we keep getting regeneration on the back end of this thing. thats why it stretches some 50 miles here right along interstate 40, if we measure from the west side all the way over to the east side, it stretches some 50 miles. so since it is moving to the east right now at around i think my last reading was 20 miles per hour, its going to t...

Identifying a tornado. authorities were calling the situation on parts of interstate 35 and 40 a nightmare. big rigs, cars tossed around on the road, and thousands of commuters stuck there. the officials there said they were sitting ducks. two of the five people killed were in union city inside oklahoma. >> and chad meyers, he was checking out all the damage. i want to show you some of what he saw. >> you are looking on your screen here, and its a semi trailer that has been tipped over and a cou...

Can to get off those highways, head east, head south. but they are saying it is bumper to bumper on i-35. >> it is. it is. we did put up warning signs early in the afternoon today, when the skies were perfectly clear. they were cloudy but there was no thunderstorms on the radar at all. so we have been telling all day that people need to be aware and we had the signs up. i think when the storms started moving in about 5:30 or 6:00, it was the time when people get off work, then you got people tha...

6-8 inches of rain already has fallen in much of central, oklahoma, causing a life-threatening situation there. right now, more than 190,000 customers across the midwest are without power. oklahoma citys will rogers airport is still without power, as well. all flights to and from the airport have been cancelled. also, in oklahoma, parts of interstate 35 are still shut down. interstate 40 has reopened. a spokesperson from the oklahoma highway patrol called conditions on the roads, though, a night...

Left side of the screen is a live image, im told, from kfor. the image on the right was from earlier, from el reno, where a tornado touched down around 6:37 local time. i want to check in with george howell, who is in moore, oklahoma. for a time it seemed almost as if moore might be in the track line for one of these storms. george, whats the situation there now? >> yeah. if you can hear me okay, we just went south of moore so we are out of that zone of concern with this tornado warning, and you...

Vehicle in union city. chad, the situation now again, we dont know the exact reason behind that fatality. there were reports of multiple injuries before. we dont have a clear picture right now of kind of the impact these storms have had thus far. clearly having some trouble reaching chad. well continue to try to check in with him. george howell was in moore, oklahoma. george, where did you move? you moved south of moore, is that correct? or west? >> were south of moore, well out of the way of mo...

What have you seen in terms of damage? how wide spread is the damage now? >> damage extends four, maybe five county as long interstate 80 and south along interstate 35 most of thewd?m>÷ damage is g to be from flooding situations right now. with a great deal of wind damage. tornado damage appears to be minute ma. we do have current flash flood warnings out. and were going get a tremendous amount of large hail. >> what about moore oklahoma where the ef 5 got hit last monday. >> they got hit again...

Now, for folks at tinker air force base, national weather service is reporting a developing tornado in the tinker air force base area. so obviously, people who are there need to take cover, need to shelter in place right now. again, just the headline at this hour is the situation on the highways is dire, according to the highway patrol. i-35, i-40, i-35 is bumper to bumper, people are not moving. they are urging people however you can to get off that highway, to get off i-35 and i-40 and go sout...