for vacation fever to sweep in. but others? so are you going to take a vacation? i am going to take a few weeks off in july. others suggest rebuilding the economy might need to start with more folks recharging their batteries. tom foreman, cnn, washington. tom, thanks so much. stay with us, anderson is up next with the ridiculist.
cherokee county where it is a little less populated, that s a concern if they live in that area because it is moving eastward. the tornado warning in effect for just another ten minutes, but visual reports say multiple explosions of the transformers, typically yes, that could be in the creek turnpike, that dives down right through this area. and you ll be able to see that from tulsa that, of course, it is i-44. but again, we ve also had reports of a cone-shaped tornado, not a wedge, the larger, wider tornadoes like in moore, oklahoma, but it s a multiple vortex which means there could be more than one. again, we are watching as it moves east as a good 25, 30 miles an hour. and as chad mentioned, east from cherokee to wagner county. we ll watch this closely. any reports of damage or injuries, we ll give you the very latest when we hear from authorities there. tom, thank you so much. the last few weeks seem to be relentless with the number of strength in thunderstorms, and
360 bulletin. the tornado that touched down in the tulsa suburb of broken arrow, tom saider is joining me now with the latest. tom? so far, susan, we ve got very good news. here s tulsa, the suburb, just of the southeast, broken arrow. there were visual reports of power flashes and transformers blowing. now we can give you the information that we have multiple buildings with structural damage. the good news this was an industrial park. if this tornado, which was one of the larger ones of the day, would have just touched down one or two miles sooner, it could have been disastrous. broken arrow is home to 1,000 people. on a larger scale, two victims in burton county struck by lightning, that was in montgomery county, a home is destroyed by a tornado, but no one was there. they ve been cleaning up with
move into the area. this is a large tornado on the ground. probably the storm chasers had a good look at it right now. the national weather service knows where it is. if you are east of broken arrow, you need to be taking cover right now. this is extremely dangerous situation for you. in your home, away from the windows, the closet, something small. stay in your basement if you do. yo people in oklahoma near the tulsa area, certainly some of the older homes have the basements. that s where you want to be right now. tulsa, you re in the clear from the east of you and moving away, but this is for broken arrow and points east. all right, chad, standby here as i go to tom saider to tell us about the tornado near tulsa and where it is going now. tom? susan, just has chad mentioned tulsa is in the clear and it is moving to the east a good 25 miles per hour. it is mainly for eastern tulsa county and wagner county. however, those living in
the way to manassas on the press bus there. jim, what s the message romney and ryan are holding on to? well, we ve seen a lot of messages today from the romney/ryan ticket. we can now call it that starting this morning where mitt romney really threw down the gauntlet to the obama campaign and said this is not going to be about a personal attack in this campaign. it s going to be about the issues. and they started to get into some of those issues. paul ryan of course took the stage and talked about the need to cut the national debt in this country. and then fredricka some of that we saw at the second event in ashland, virginia which was very interesting, they started to sharpen their rhetoric on the obama campaign on the president. we saw paul ryan introduce mitt romney and say, talking about the economy, it doesn t have to be this way. we can do better. and then mitt romney got on stage and at one point basically warned the crowd, warned republicans that the attacks are goi