i want to switch gears because st. louis now to the north of the city and south of the city both under tornado warnings. another one of our major cities in the country under tornado warnings at this point. shepard: and we will have live pictures out of there in just a few moments. also just got this from kokc radio and police in moore, oklahoma are now reporting cars have been overturned and power lines are down. it was last monday that moore got a direct hit and you all know the pictures and you know the outcome there. tonight, moore, the police are reporting cars overturned and power lines down. that is not to say that they he are confident that a tornado has hit there but the straightline winds, rick, we have been hearing reports in fact the latest one i got from norman from the national weather service was to expect 80 to 95-mile an hour winds. that will overturn a car are. certainly will. obviously some of that damage i think you are seeing today are rot reports you are star
nd took out neighborhoods. thunderstormally hours into the storm we would have the reports from ambulances, from emergency medical responders. from fire departments, police departments, community centers, schools and churches and malls. and we don t have that. at least at this point that is encouraging. that is encouraging. and i just had a phone call a second ago from my emergency management director and he said i m monitoring all of the social media sites and emergency command center is all over different agencies and we are not the getting requests for emergency aid at this particular moment. now, the storms have hit i don t know how many communities, maybe seven or eight communities in the central part of the oklahoma area. it may be slow coming in other than we knew we had problems on the highways and we know we have power outages. there certainly were a lot of spinning and looking like the clouds could drop a tornado. we saw a tuna looked like they
the saint of st. louis there. that is the other tornado warned cell and about to cross over into illinois as well. south st. louis right now, would be the area getting hit the heaviest at this point potentially with a tornado right there. shepard: the office of emergency management in st. louis county says the most dangerous area now are near and east of flouriscont i believe you pronounce it south of i-55 and i-270 intersection. if you know the area alton on the north, st. louis on the south. everything to the the middle and to the east in illinois that is the danger zone in the st. louis area. what a night, rick. yeah, it is a really active night. taking a look at some of the reports that we have been seeing coming through, at this point let me he just refresh thq page here. nine reports well, that has got to be wrong. showing nine reports. it is it clearly far old because there have been more tornadoes if not more showing