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So if you are getting a flight today, are catching a flight, its best to check with the airline. if youre hitting the roads, in missouri, interstate 44 very slick out there. the whole midsection of the country feeling the brunt of the severe weather system from mexico up towards wisconsin. seeing places like oklahoma waking up with severe weather, ice, freezing rain, kansas hit hard, as well. a big concern as far as airport travel is chicago, ohare. so be mindful if youre traveling out of that a...

People expected to hit the highways over the next few days. where the ice and snow hasnt started, rain is coming down in buckets with flash flooding being reported in indiana. its all adding up to one big travel mess. cnns nick valencia has the latest from kansas city. >> reporter: all day in kansas city, temperatures hovering in the 20s. it feels more like its in the teens. snow flurries have been going on and off all day long. its created problems for those on the road. interstate 44 in missou...

Continuing to push to the east. so interstate 44 not easy going right now. we were talking about that severe threat. we have a slight risk across much of the mississippi river valley, on into the ohio valley. we also have a moderate risk, including places like shreveport, jackson, little rock, memphis, even nashville, as we go through the afternoon. these are the areas youll want to watch out and pay attention. we could see isolated tornadoes and damaging winds along with these. so tracking the ...

Ive been on the phone with most of the local leaders here. im getting ready to go down to wanesville, missouri. down near branson and the holster area. a very long night. >> you had to delay your trip to wainsville because the rins were so hard and the flooding so great. give us a sense now of what your state needs. youve been declared a state of emergency. what kind of assets would you like to see come in. >> were focused right now. we have plenty of assets. were kused on making sure people are...

Up next the top stories in the political play book including media matters. and nbc the hillary clinton projects on those networks. first, here is bill karens with a check on the forecast. >> 24 hours ago i told everyone about horrible flooding in missouri. we are doing it all over again in the exact same location. yesterday the wanesville area had the horfbl flooding. over in newburg the town is being evacuated about 200 to 300 people because of excessive rain. all of the bright reds and yellow...

Winds have been knocked down e little bit. i have zero concerns that chantal will do any damage as it approaches the u.s. this weekend. much worse is the morning commute from cleveland to pittsburgh. thunderstorm after thunderstorm. a lot of flash flooding in the region. were worried about that. interstate 44, a lot of thunderstorms through missouri and the west side of st. louis is getting a lot of heavy rain and lightening strikes. keep an eye on that. strong storms, more garden variety this...

Theres a wall eastbound. its coming into the heart of if city now. >> shepard: you talk very fast, as you know, jeff and i have a hard time understanding you. did you just say that this headed into the town of oklahala city? >> yes, people are fleeing the path of the tornado, i have state troopers and highway patrol, they are trying to get out of the path. its west of me, look at the radar. >> shepard: okay for our rur viewers, i-40 and i-44 cross paths, and its a completely populated area, abso...

Heading east yukon. >> shepard: do you get a sense of how big it is? >> its almost a mile wide. >> shepard: wow, the latest are radar and we are watching it live has it tracking along mustang, oklahoma, which is exactly as you said, south of interstate-240. right now, its west of interstate 44, right? >> reporter: yes, still west of interstate 44. >> shepard: and the weather its still a mile wide.

Populated. >> it absolutely is. and then one other, the interstate 44 at the i-44 corridor that cuts the state. the storm moving directly east, edmond, to the north, suspect on the north side of the tornado, chr is not good news. i think we are talking about a more populated area because it gets more populated the closer you get into the city and this is going directly into that area, and boy, take a look at that picture. you can see the tornado right there on the ground. yeah, very, very >> thi...

Yukon, and that is in its poth and oklahoma city itself, and you are in the middle of all of that, jeff? >> thats correct. look at the live extreme right now. theres literally, here comes another 5-7 highway patrol troopers. they are going west. blocking all ramps going into the suburbs, this is heavy populated. just north of will rodgers airport let me look at the map. im now tracking -- >> shepard: just a moment, i have gotten information from the national weather service, circulation is now s...