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Sense of authorities in the roadway. but you cant really get a sense of the swath that one of these things cuts. talking to micah, one of the residents there across from that elementary school just moments ago. she was saying that children were still being pulled out from underneath cars at one of the elementary schools hit by this tornado. authorities had reached that specific area and offering emergency help you are talking about an area no immediate reports of injuries you had james inhofe al...

Prayers going out to all those folks and we hope all those children are safe tonight. take a look at the watches because we are not over yet, unfortunately, bret. tornado watches in effect for parts of texas, including class up towards oklahoma into missouri as well as parts of illinois and kansas. some the same areas that were hard hit yesterday in shawnee, oklahoma where we saw or heard from casey stegall ef-4 went through that area winds of close to 200 miles per hour. and again some of these...

We have seen a lot of volunteer nurses and emergency medical personnel trying to get down through here the best they can. we are seeing some firefighters trying to come up through this truck right here. everybody just really searching, trying to find whatever means they can to get through here, get whatever they can out of their house and find a place to stay tonight again though, many many moims damaged in the briar wood neighborhood, the elementary school at the end of this neighborhood obviou...

Catastrophic tornado. >> bret: yeah. jeff, you have seen this before. can you characterize this on a scale how big, how damaging? looking at these pictures, its pretty amazing to look at. >> this tornado track from what i understand ground report. friends digging people out of rubble south of oklahoma city. people out at the school helping with kids and i have got other people that are up there right now that are literally pulling people out of rubble in houses. super catastrophe on the south si...

Enhanced fujita scale for this tornado which would mean winds of 156 to 200 miles per hour. and the reports i have are two miles wide and the winds of 190 miles per hour. but thats preliminary. were going to have to wait until the national weather service goes out and does their survey tomorrow. >> bret: okay. janice, thank you. its important to point out that we are trying to establish a number of phone interviews but the phone connections there in that region, as you can imagine, are spotty. s...

Elementary. i was just able to speak with a student though ho was there when the storm went overhead. she was walking down through here with her grandmother and the grandmother was wiping away tears from her eyes. tears that only a parent or a grandparent could actually recognize. they werent tears of sadness. they were tears of joy. she says she was okay, finally relieved to be able to get her daughter. she was able to pick them up from a site where the school had taken the kids off away from t...

>> bret: okay. janice head back on breaking news from the storms. national weather service is saying preliminary classification is an ef-4 massive tornado touching down in that particular region just around oklahoma city. storm chaser piotrowski is joining us on the phone. what did you see? did you see this particular storm? jeff, can you hear me? we will get jeff back in just a moment. lets go back to casey stegall. is he on the ground in moore, oklahoma city. take a look at pictures as we get ...

And we were on with neil cavuto at 4:00 watching it unfold on live television. the tornado was on the ground for 40 minutes. you when you look at tornadoes on the ground for minutes, up to an hour. this was one of those rare situations where we were dealing with a huge massive tornado doing so much damage to a populated area. 16 reports of tornadoes in and around oklahoma today, yesterday we had 2 the of 9 reports of oklahoma, missouri, parts of illinois threat continues tonight. they had 16 min...

Or rode out this storm. in some walking in to see whats left. i know we watched one young lady come in and say she knew based on the weather reports she had seen on tv that her home was not standing but she just wanted to get in and see what was left and was what was able to be salvaged from it. i spoke with another homeowner here who we are standing in front of their home right now and its relatively undamaged compared to many of them. she walked through the south end of this neighborhood to ge...

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