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Committee -- so here we are sending $1.3 billion of taxpayer money, without congressional approval, may i add, from this as meteorologist to the people who see us as their enemies. >> neil: if you listened to the tape, hardly condemnation from the cloud. normally if you hear an outrageous comment, people say, what? none of that. so me thinks others in the room and around the table,, agree, ad were giving these guys money handover fist. >> that was spacial cab it in meeting meeting of president m...

Martha: we talked about privacy concerns. now there is a new set to worry about. these involve your medical records. 90% of healthcare facility say their systems have indeed been breached at one time or another and some fear the presidents healthcare mandate for making medical records electronic could open the door to that kind of thing. we have to worry about our google searches, our e-mails, and our medical records? >> reporter: the number 94% of healthcare institutions are breached, its more ...

From any windows, anywhere around the ou campus. lets go back to john well, and see what we have. >> this cloud, we had a huge cloud come over and just north of per sell just shooting back towards the north and ou campus and the whole area is black, extremely violent here. heavy winds. moderate turbulence here. we can barely see highway 9 on the south side of town. tons and tons of lightning. it appears that there is still a lot of heavy rain and what you are showing on radar, there still could ...

About 25 miles per hour. there a developing tornado. you can see north of st. louis. that box that pops up. that tornado warning is in effect until 8:45 central time. about another 15 minutes now. there reports of damage in a town called st. ann. looks like spotters have seen the funnel cloud and there is rotation in the radar. thats the latest area in missouri now. that is under the gun with there tornado warning. they have been popping up all across the midwest. >> dylan, let me ask you a requ...

Long ago, so this is pretty fresh. we are still trying to get out and assess the damage, it is raining out, obviously nighttime here. it is going to take awhile to figure everything out, get out there, make sure everybody is okay. >> stay with me a second, want to tell people what we are seeing. seeing pictures from oklahoma earlier, you can see multiple funnel clouds and eventually tornadoes, three at least in this picture alone. al, in oklahoma now -- im sorry, lets go to nbcs dylan dryer. thi...

Were watching this afternoon, there was so much rain wrapped around it, you couldnt see the tornado itself, but it was at least a half mile wide as we looked at it hours ago. in this tornado, i learned something new today. it had several vortexes involved. can you explain, is that rare? >> you need a very strong storm to produce a multi vortex system. basically what that is, you see the videos, you see the live shots of tornadoes that come down from the cloud, the funnel clouds reach the ground,...

Tornado on the ground. >> just super dark. i cant see, but it is so dark in there, and just north, thats not the rain any more. part of it is rain but as soon as the last power hit, it would be like indian hills is began as far as power. and completely blacked out. we can see a definite lowering of the cloud right now. it appears it is just a few miles, two or three miles from the coastal training center on highway nine. but we are seeing tons of power flashes in the same area. if it is tornado ...

Dylan, let me just ask you, talking about a storm system moving so slowly, 20 miles per hour which is slow for a storm sift el like this, does that tell us anything about the eventual damage it might cause or strength of the storm? were used to -- were used to connecting the speed of the storm with strength of the storm when it comes to hurricanes, for example. >> of course, and the faster it is moving and faster winds are in a hurricane situation, when i say the tornado itself is moving 20 to 3...

Ten miles high. im going to have my photographer go ahead on up into the sky. what were seeing up here -- [ inaudible ] -- its an anvil of the cloud. this is now a mature thunderstorm beginning to get into its stage where it can rotate and put down a tornado. we do know that there will be tornadoes in oklahoma today. were seeing a cauliflower kind of puffiness off to the west. ive seen clouds out to the west now beginning to have flat on the bottom. that tells us that theres a lot of air going s...

Tornado. you know what a tornado looks like just looking at pictures and it has are that classic wedge shape. its that funnel that drops from the cloud and hits the ground. when youre talking about multiple vortexes its not just one area of rotation, its multiple areas of rotation and as the storm chasers are out watching this storm, and keeping an eye on what is happening from the ground, they are noticing as they go around the different sides of the tornado that separate vortexes indicate the ...