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Were definitely going to bounce back from this. red cross is here to help. >> well, best of luck with all your efforts, ken garcia. thank you for joining me. chad myers is at the cnn extreme weather center. he knows the oklahoma city area very well. also joining us, indra peterson who is tracking the tornados path. chad, let me start with you. you know this. how bad is this? it looks horrendous. >> its devastating to the people that live there and to all the communities around it as well, becaus...

Across moore and the areas that got hit in 99 were also hit in this event. the main thing that made this one so terrible is a lot of the schools, which im near an elementary school on the west side of moore which has had a number of injuries and some fatalities at this location, what im being told by people working the scene, that a lot of schools, shopping centers were full. we have a shopping center on the west side that collapsed. we have malls that collapsed with people trapped. you name it,...

Through the rubble there. >>brian: our fox news chief meteorologist has been in oklahoma for the last two days; is now live on the phone from moore, oklahoma. you had to change your positions. where are you now? >> [inaudible] certainly difficult and understandable. still in moore and moving on to the next location [inaudible] >>steve: speaking of communication problems, youre a little hard for us to understand right now with your cell phone. i know cell service is spotty now. i know that inters...

Of the medical office building north. that is all i can read from the bits and pieces of the sign that remain. we assume this was a medical office facility where people came for doctors appointments. and you can see in the parking lot there, vehicles and that one vehicle over there in the corner looks sort of like a pt cruiser, the hatchback is popped open and the window is busted out and all of the vehicles in this medical office building crumpled like tin cans. this is a little sliver. we were...

Some of the view of the tornado, that let us know how violent it was, baa the stuff it was destroying and wrapping around the intense tornado. >> simon, how long were you guys following this storm? like, when were you able to catch it and how long were you able to track it as it made its way across? >> we began just north of the storm. several minutes before the tornado developed. and we became stuck in traffic, in central oklahoma city, and had to take several different maneuvers in oklahoma ci...

When you live in the plains and i was a storm chaser for years in kansas city you see the monsters coming across the plains and at night you cant. this is the time of night where we have the responsibility to tell people in addition to the local authorities what is going on because the system is so broad. we will come back with more perspective in a moment. casey stegall we he have sent out into part of the path of this and interstate 35 cuts north from south to north through oklahoma and he is ...

More video of the tornado and debris flying everywhere looks like along interstate 35 there. we did hear that parts of i-44 were actually shut down is that correct on the turner turnpike which is a major thoroughfare between oklahoma city and tulsa. is that opened back up? there were any injuries anywhere near that area? >> i hadnt heard of any injuries on i-44. the stretch that we know that there were injuries was i-40 at highway 177 right outside of shawnee. it was my understanding that everyt...

Lets go to casey seigel. when the evening started he had just gotten in his car with our journalists there to hit interstate 35>> oo. >> we headed to dallas when we got word of all of this happening. this is what forecasters have been talking about for several days all of the conditions were becoming just right making a perfect storm if you will for these deadly storms. so we got in the car from dallas drove straight up i-35 into oklahoma city, and following these reports every step of the way i...

Tremendous tornado. quickly on the norman tornado, i have not seen that circulation tighten up, very tightly, but this is now crossing i-35. you see the stream on the right-hand side now, keep a close eye, downtown norman, including the university of oklahoma. >> absolutely, yeah. so you can see the damage on the right, and this is the damage that came in fro lincoln, county there, a tornado that went through carney. unbelievable. were focusing oun attention on whats going on right now no norman...

Ologists there, pinpointing all the damage there. keep in mind, were still not out of the threat. this is going to last until 5 who 457. n -- 5:45. the storm is moving east roughly 30 miles per hour. much slower than we saw near the oklahoma city area. 100,000 people are in danger of this storm and norman, as chad just said, familiar with the area. these are highly populated areas. right up and down interstate 35. were still looking at the threat of this storm as we go through. >> jennifer, uh-h...