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Screen i can show you where the warnings are. several warnings in and around oklahoma city. you see the red, shaded areas of polygons, those are warnings. this is a watch until 10:00 p.m. local time. you can see these storms lined up, these super cells. also a tornado warning just north of oklahoma city and one north of tulsa and then we have another storm moving into the kansas area. this is an on going event throughout the evening and the heartbreaking part is it is moving into areas that were...

Storms path have one built in their home. >> milissa, stay with us. youre an expert as i just said in terms of this area. well come back to you in a moment. were going to bring in the governor of oklahoma. governor mary fallon whos live for us on the phone. good afternoon, maam. >> good afternoon. >> as i understand it, this is an area that covers 55 million people, is that right? >> yes, it is. its a major city thats right out of oklahoma city, and this is an area that has been hit before. the ...

And trapped in all of this. lets listen in here. >> an identical path and an almost identical destruction. all you have to do is pan up from this fire and now just pan up and widen out as wide as you can. there is the path, kelly. thats from here to the irway at moore and up to i-35. you can see the theater there in your picture and you can see the path across i-35 and it gets more narrow when it gets on the eastside of i-35 and narrows down again. i can almost bet that if you had a map from may...

Make it to the scene walking carefully through that debris. you see others people now, theyre gathering. of course, were trying to find out if the kids were being sheltered there or someplace else. our thoughts and prayers are with everybody in the moore area. the devastation is complete. one of our cameramen called it atomi atomic-bomb-like devastation. >> its unbelievable. again, were trying to figure out right now, were the kids there? of course, theyre looking right now, looking for -- we ho...

Far way. thats it right there going through moore. huge, huge tornado there, mike. >> south 19th. okay. so what it has done is it looks like it went from a wedge to a barrel. now its back to a wedge again is what it did. it is on the southeast side of west moore high school right now. very -- excuse me, moore high school. its on the east side of moore high school. and that is is going to be in the east-central sections of moore right now. so it has hit the warren theater complex. now it is a mil...

Schools that have been hit as hard and the sad part is, this was at the time when school was -- just before school was going to be let out. i-35 was supposed to be closed. it was typical getting in here. obviously our hearts go out to these people because this is complete and utter devastation. this is a tuscaloosa, potentially a joplin situation. not certainly saying were going to see as many losses of life but in terms of the devastation. were way up there on the e-f scale, winds up towards 20...

Breaking news in moore, oklahoma. rescue crews are on the scene there searching for the missing. k through third grade classes, a.p. reporting that kids have been pulled from the rubble. youve been hearing lots of references to the may 3rd, 1999, storms, a very similar tornado went through the same area at that time it killed 41 people, injured hundreds, and caused about $1 billion in damages. there are four dead. this was in a tweet from our affiliate, kfor, in an area of fourth street and tele...

Editor and a reporter both having seen the video. our paula newton has been digging into this story as well. i dont even know where to begin on this one, paula. this has got to have that community absolutely shaking their heads and wondering if anyone is ever going to actually see the video. take me from the beginning. let me know where we stand in this. >> reporter: from the beginning, lets say that cnn, i have not seen the video, no one at cnn has seen the video, we cannot authenticate what th...

Chris hayes." >> michigan department of education has just approved a deficit elimination plan for the buena vista school district. >> the district is hopeful that everyone will be back in class as early as this week. >> you heard that right. the buena vista school district will reopen, maybe as soon as friday, and students will finish out the school year, which runs until june 13th. thats because michigan education superintendent mike flanagan finally approved the districts third deficit elimin...

Commissioner of the irs. he, we now know, was told about this targeting last year. and may 3rd of 2012. he did not tell congress about it. he had various kinds of communications and letters and meetings and so forth, and he didnt -- he neglected to tell congress, he didnt disclose it. never mind that, he didnt just voluntarily call and say, i found this out. thats why consider the fact that he is the current head. he was the person who was going to absolutely get raked over the coals. he was sup...