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The north of oklahoma city between oklahoma city and tulsa. right now in the short term that looks to be the area well probably see initial developments. >> how much warning will folks get? >> once the storms form about ten or 20 minutes before they begin to show character in terms of rotation. hopefully we wont see too much activity but there should be plenty of warning. people are in tune to what is going on out here. they know the atmosphere is going for this type of development through the e...

Early because i had some long hours. i left about 4:00 to go down and do my mama duties and helped my son clean out his apartment. he just got out of college last week. i got down there for about 30 minutes, and all of a sudden i got all these weather alerts so i was driving back to norman to get to a safe area myself. im sitting here driving through what looks to be bad weather and coming up -- its not raining in oklahoma city yet, but its a good 30, 40 minutes right outside looking at the rada...

Now. and its been going on for days. and as we heard from samantha moore, our meteorologist, at the cnn weather center, at the cnn center, as you heard, this is a dangerous situation. thats going to continue, presumably, through the weekend. the governor of oklahoma is joining us on the phone right now, governor mary fallin. governor, whats the information youre getting? >> im actually driving right through the area, just passed through the moore damage site by the theater, where the hospital is...

In moore, oklahoma, outside of oklahoma city, or closer to tulsa, or in between? wheres the biggest threat? >> here we go. these storms are west of oklahoma city, and then moving from west to east. maybe slightly north of due east from the west. but that is going to take this cell right into northwest oklahoma city first. then possibly over edmonds. we have more developments south of here that could still get to the moore, norman area. but for now, i dont see that cell going up as hard as the ce...

Storms. last year we didnt have that many storms. its been a little bit remarkable as far as having some storms this year. >> what i hear you saying, governor is, what, the next half hour, potentially, could be the most ominous? is that whats going on? >> absolutely. im looking at the sky. and its pretty dark in the area. and its moving -- mostly moving into the oklahoma city area, around i-40, which is a major interstate that runs east-to-west through oklahoma. which it will come right toward o...

>> theres no question that that could happen. without being an alarmist, and i dont do that, but theres certainly the potential that theres enough moisture potential, enough upward potential, a shear southwest of oklahoma city, to generate thunderstorms there that could roll right over the same areas that government hit just a couple weeks ago. without a doubt, thats the potential. now, we toured the area today, wolf. and about a five to eight-block wide area was hit. were talking a 60-mile long...

To a city or town. thats the next step up from tornado warning. i think this added verbage is going to help people understand what is out there. >> chad, thanks very much. well stay in close touch with you. chad is in norman, oklahoma. our meteorologist samantha mohr is standing by at the cnn severe weather center tracking the storms not just oklahoma. i understand in missouri there are some actual tornadoes warnings right now. what is going on? >> well, missouri weve had the most activity so fa...

Rene marsh reporting. were just getting this in. grim news from houston. weve just learned four firefighters have been killed battling this blaze. officials say five other firefighters have been injured. this is a five-alarm fire. 160 people called to the scene. it started at a hotel, the southwest inn, spread to a neighboring restaurant. you can see the flames shooting up from the building and the thick, black smoke could be seen over a very wide area. once again, four firefighters dead in th...

Storm cellar. that is the cell were watching right now. numerous thunderstorm warnings all around eastern kansas stretching up into missouri. well be monitoring oklahoma very closely. it is that area just southwest of oklahoma city we expect to see things rapidly develop as we head into the next 45 minutes to an hour and a half. thats what well be watching very, very closely here, wolf. >> one quick question. there are a lot of people watching. when i was in moore, oklahoma last week if you didn...