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Some other guys in there. youll get along fine. we play cards, watch tv, watch movies. its all right in here. youll like it. the doctors work with you. >> due to overcrowding there are no available bunks in the dorm. so moore will sleep on the floor in a boat, a plastic shell used as a temporary bed. but moores still happy to be here. >> im glad to be out of the single cell. been in there for a while. [ banging ] now that aint me. it used to be me. >> ooh. >> thats how we playing? >> another inm...

You dont got nobody to do nothing with. its just you and four walls and the sunlight. so the only time you do -- youve only got time to think, think, think, think, think. >> how are you doing, man? welcome to the dorm. some other guys in there. youll get along fine. we play cards, watch tv, watch movies. its all right in here. youll like it. the doctors work with you. >> due to overcrowding there are no available bunks in the dorm. so moore will sleep on the floor in a boat, a plastic shell used...

Frustration i guess because not everybody has a storm shelter. i think us oklahomans, i have a basement here in downtown el reno above one of our historic buildings and we had people from the restaurant, people from the liquor store and people from a church right down the street come in so i think we all -- i think there needs to be more legislation and more emphasis on trying to get these shelters in different areas. >> for a lot of folks its a couple thousand dollars. its a lot of money and ev...

Inside of a basement itself, thats the best thing because we saw after the last storm people who had cars in parking lots or some that were on the highways, they get tossed around real easy in high winds. >> yeah. certainly i just talked to the mayor of moore who you know very well, who said its just unthinkable that his town could be hit yet again. >> i know. we are heartsick about it. we hope this storm passes through and its just some rain and hail but we do know the winds are whipped up pret...

Overturned vehicles, some tractor trailers, some cars, according to the highway patrol. there are reports of injuries. we dont know the extent of those. do you have any reports of any update on that? >> i have heard there are trucks overturned on our major interstate along i-40 which is a big area that people travel through, right through a major kind of shopping business district. and that was where -- its kind of a slow-ming storm which is always a problem. then its moving down towards i-35, o...

Working together just like they did last week. >> well, if anybody can get through this, its the people in oklahoma, because unfortunately, you are all too familiar with these kind of storms. we wish you the best. well continue to check in with you throughout this evening. governor fallin, i appreciate your time. thank you. candice looper is a resident in moore. she is now sheltering in her laundry room with her cat. she joins us now on the phone. how are you holding up? >> im fine. ive been pra...

Left side of the screen is a live image, im told, from kfor. the image on the right was from earlier, from el reno, where a tornado touched down around 6:37 local time. i want to check in with george howell, who is in moore, oklahoma. for a time it seemed almost as if moore might be in the track line for one of these storms. george, whats the situation there now? >> yeah. if you can hear me okay, we just went south of moore so we are out of that zone of concern with this tornado warning, and you...

Vehicle in union city. chad, the situation now again, we dont know the exact reason behind that fatality. there were reports of multiple injuries before. we dont have a clear picture right now of kind of the impact these storms have had thus far. clearly having some trouble reaching chad. well continue to try to check in with him. george howell was in moore, oklahoma. george, where did you move? you moved south of moore, is that correct? or west? >> were south of moore, well out of the way of mo...

East-southeasterly direction. so 90 mile per hour winds. >> let me just jump in here. national weather service now reporting a new tornado, where was that tornado? was it east, did you say, of the airport? control room? >> are you asking me? >> just east of will rogers airport, im being told, a new tornado according to the national weather service just east of will rogers airport. >> yes. >> that bulletin came out six minutes ago. >> yes. thats exactly where. yes. >> can you show it on the map? ...

What seems like at least an hour. we are all the way down to where the turnpike which is not that far south of new castle which is where the first part of the moore tornado touched down. all these people, i believe theyre in a panic and were going nowhere. the police are trying to help but theres four lanes going south literally on a three lane road, almost. people are driving on the shoulder, on the left shoulder. i see police screaming north with their lights on, just trying to make one lane. ...