along i-240, between i-35 as it moves through that area. george, in terms your location right now on i-40 east, what can you tell us about the condition on the roadwayroadway are around in that area? reporter: traffic is quite heavy east and westbound on i-40 from about shaufta east to shawnee. a lot of people trying to leave the oklahoma city area as the tornadic storms were moving through. it is starting to thin out, but traffic is heavy east and westbound. the only two confirmed fatalities that we have heard reported from kfor confirmed by oklahoma highway patrol happened on interstate 40, a woman and her infant child killed in a car that got caught up in the storm. are you seeing debris or have you seen overturned vehicles out
tennis ball to softball sized hail also reported along with torrential downpours. i watched this develop a couple hours ago. slowly watched it trek across interstate 40 and going from a rural area storm to a much much more urban area and hearing that oklahoma city itself was evacuated and hotels and airport with everyone going under ground, that is what local meteorologists are advising. they are just saying, you have to get under ground. it is not safe enough with storms this big to just be in an interior room or bathroom. underground is the safest place to be at there moment. dylan, in terms of people watching nationally and warnings under effect, we should say it is 9:04 p.m. on the east coast. 8:04 local time in oklahoma city. you will hear us give times on the air that are specific to anybody who might be in harms way in this central oklahoma storm system.
in your storm shelter. this storm is not through. we are still seeing flashes. hunker down. i will try and get out. if this thing continues to cross and goes and on the road there, mike, it ll be catastrophic for several people. we have four lanes, all looking southbound. so stay in your area there, mike. appreciate that. report there from norman with tornado still going through. there is another significant situation in twin lakes. fire lake grand casino on 40 near the county line. far southeastern oklahoma city. far northeastern cleveland county. that the lead storm that produced the storm in south oklahoma city. there is significant warnings. stay alert. there is a tornado warning in effect. for that storm. twin lakes, dale, shawnee, the
visibility. but no power flashes. that means not anything on the ground. right now, i don t see power flashes. that would be the only indicator. was that a power flash or lightning? mike bennett talking about circulation on the northern side of shawnee. mike, would you verifier center of rotation is near shawnee near i-40? hard for us to figure out, mike. one thing we had a hard time getting bearings on the storm since we been here because of that. it s, i don t know, mike. it is hard for us to identify any area of this rotation, we lose the visibility. that s mike bennett, who is fine. mike bettes car was crushed earlier by the tornado, he is
metro right now. let s go back to john well, and chopper 4 and right over norman really. directly over the ou campus. what are you seeing through there? we are seeing a lot of heavy lightning right now which pretty much allows us to we haven t seen funnels or anything drop out. lightning flash in the background but it helps us illuminate the back of the storm. it is set over norman and it has taken pretty much a straight south track. i will have to move all the way down to the airport. i m actually just south of the airport. this thing continues to push us down south. but we got a lot of rain up there. we haven t seen any flashes the last few minutes. i-35 and about the river casino back north. it lock is like a monster tornado. and a hurricane wrapped up in