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This is the hook, the area were talking about for the tornado, very dangerous situation. were getting in touch right now with our affiliates out of raleigh and trying to get a tower cam. well continue to keep you up to date but get to the lowest level of your home away from doors and windows and stay under cover until this storm passes. >> jacqui, well check back with you. deadly storms have pounded the south for two days and two nights spawning at least 100 possible tornadoes, killing 17 peop...

Boy, we have a severe weather story for you today. this is oklahoma city, by the way. welcome back everyone to the cnn newsroom, tony harris and jacqui jeras. this is the situation in oklahoma county, and koco providing the pictures for us, and really the play by play with whats going on with the rescue effort here. we understand that emergency. workers are trying to get in there. we have two people in that vehicle at hefner road and sooner. i believe thats correct. >> yep. >> there is a creek t...

There, thats at least six inches of rainfall in the last 24 hours, not to mention, what, for almost a week, oklahoma city, at least yuvgs been seeing storm after storm. this isnt just a downtown issue. puff some going on in the rural areas. its the peak of the wheat harvest and farmers cant get into the fields to harvest this. to give you the perspective of the location, hefner road and sooner road. hes oklahoma city, and thats the locate of where we have that high water rescue continuing to go ...

Divers to help out as well. right now, that vehicle isnt moving, but we have to watch what happens and the condition of the road. >> jacqui, look at the trees. you can see the intensity of the rain with the trees framing it as a back drop here. that is really coming down. >> that is really coming down. the big question is when is the rain going to stop? we are hopeful it will stop in the next couple of hours, but the training and back billing of thunderstorms is going to continue for at least an...

Look at the current just making it that much more difficult for this boat to make its way back up here to where rescue crews are waiting to make sure these folks are okay. you seeing this >> yeah, we got it. backed up water in that boat, all over the place. >> yeah, right into the side there. and something was sitting on the side. so its a dangerous situation. im so glad, though, they got this person out of that car. i cant imagine being in there for upwards of two hours. >> yeah. >> and there y...

Is primarily creeks that have been going out of their banks and treat flooding. the drains havent been able to keep up with the rain thats been coming down since about 2:00 this morning. >> there is one area of real concern from christie yeager, the public information officer from oklahoma city, ski island. its a densely populated residential area. there is real concern. look at this. that was well done. there is real concern about flooding in that area right now. so they may have to order an ev...

The water is coming through. you can get caught. you dont know whats underneath the water. you could get caught or stuck or pulled under. the only option -- it looks like that water is rising, too, coming higher up on that door. >> you can see how quick its moving, the current in the front and behind the car, too. six inches will knock you off your feet. a foot will take a small car and two feet of water can wash away an surf. >> lets listen to our affiliate koco on the live pictures. >> the wat...

Your screen to try to help those people who are right now trached and cant do much of anything in that vehicle. weve seen them bailing some of the water out of the vehicle. firefighters in the distance there? >> there they are. as we heard from mr. myers, theyre going to try to get a boat in there to get them out. >> they have also put out a call for a dive team as well. you are making the point that you are getting calls of other people being trapped or in periods of difficulty in other parts o...

Out of the sky. the helicopter pilot turns it on to auto rotate, which means im crashing, i have to save this helicopter me did save the helicopter. and they got a little too close there. that was one of the channel 9s helicopter. mick, the mayor, was saying how great the media reacts in this town. the meteorologists in this town are second to absolutely none. heres a live shot from koco. they are going to be acessing how much damage actually occurred, how big the storms may be. we may not know ...

Being beaten up, does that not koco rob rate besides all the media coverage and all who speak out about it, doesnt that contradict the story? >> the sanford police made it clear that what george zimmerman told them was that he was actually get back into his suv when he said trayvon martin came around the left-hand side of him and he says that trayvon martin said do you have a problem? he said no, and then trayvon said something like well, you do now. then george zimmerman told the cops that he g...