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Oil workers camp and injured nine people. in parts of texas, tornadic activity produced funnel clouds, damaged property and downed power lines. check out this time lapse. can you see the circulation over sterling city, texas, violent winds and also hail. in colorado, late season snow fell across portions of the rockies in full force. in just a few moments a look at the latest weather with nbc philadelphia meteorologist brittany shipp. firefighters in alaska are hoping for rain to gain a ham ...

Tornado touched down there. overall, the storm prediction center is actually reporting that 48 tornado reports have 98 damaging wind reports. six reports of winds in hurricane force in many of these locations. some of the greatest damage were seeing in illinois. so a great swath of the country being hit by tornadoic activity as well as just simply severe weather activity. hail has been brought to some places, damaging winds, of course. an ominous, dark clouds. youre seeing some of the images fro...

Alexandra steele, very busy in the cnn severe weather center. so some states hit by the tornadic activity, and then were also talking about snow in others. >> yes. you know, fred, its really the weather trifecta playing around the country. of course the snow weve been talking about. another 15 to 20 inches potentially. of course the tornados that we saw. again 18 potentially. six thus far have been confirmed in three states. and also a fire threat thats pretty dramatic in southern california. so...

Tornadic activity. keep in mind, talking about tornadoes a lot. especially in oklahoma. these tornadoes are not nearly as strong. but definitely tornadoes associated with the bands, another big band right now here in the tampa area, and it will stay like this for some time. for the next selseveral hours. a lot of rain, localized flooding. but a lot of rain today. >> okay. hope it continues to be nothing major. we know the folks down there know how to handle it. thank you so much. stay safe to yo...

Over like boxes. you know, again, as you mentioned, very, you know, precisely, when we get light of day, well see what happened out here. but tonight, the situation is this. you have a storm system that came over, parked itself over oklahoma city early on and caused a lot of tornadic activity. and now, its a rain event. this area really under a flood warning. we pulled off the road near el reno. and we saw many of the roads that are under water right now. the standing water is a problem for peop...

Opportunity to brag on the meteorologists in oklahoma. they were talking about possible tornadic activity yesterday and the day before. there were outbreak the last two to three days. as far as potential for tornadic activity, as i talk to you, sirens have gone off once, maybe twice. i think thats the eighth or ninth time in oklahoma city where i am right now that we had sirens go off. it is a warning system, where it is the warning themselves or meteorologists warning us of the potential for to...

Work. but i want to go to george mcginns he is out on i-40, which we keep being told is not a good place to be. george, what have you seen? >> right now it is getting dark. it is difficult to see anything. we are on i-40 east of shawnee, watching the tornadic storm as it approaches this area. they still have an active tornado warning on it. but visually we do not see anything. earlier when the storms were coming through oklahoma city within south side of oklahoma city, we did catch the area wher...

Evening hours. oklahoma you have been pretty much for about three days now under a moderate risk for severe storms. you can see the video, the storm system ripping through parts of oklahoma. so again that area shaded in red. thats where we have the greatest concern for tornadoes. that chance for the longer tracks and also more violent tornadoeses of ef 3 and 4 strength are possible again today and including oklahoma city. over the last three days we received over 800 reports of severe weather in...

Forecasters warn we could see more of this throughout the day today. listen to the way this woman describes the moment that it hit. >> we had the five kids in the basement in the shower. we stood there taking pictures for a little bit. my husband was taping and he said get down there now. we had a blanket over our head and it hit and it was as loud as they say the is. martha: you can see how it leveled part of a home leaving just a concrete slab. the one next door still standing. here we go agai...

Which is now a main media center is the former 7-eleven that was leveled in and of itself. if we can show everybody. this is the day care center if you go a little bit further left with all the blown out windows right on the side of the moore medical facility, inside there, kids and their day school teachers were under mattresses to shelter themselves from the storm. when you walk through there, its nothing but rubble and a mess. the ceiling completely caved in. and thats right next door to the ...