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School in the basement area. again, right now i dont know how many kids were still in the school, how many got out of the school, but we know some of the kids, obviously, got out of the school, because we talked to a couple of them. some of those kids were safe, escaped injury, some of the teachers doing their very best trying to protect those kids, may have been severely injured, maybe even killed in this storm. again, its indescribable when you look around, literally, 360 degrees, everywhere y...

Pottawattamie county, youre under a tornado warning ahead of the track of this super cell with what i believe is a likely tornado cell. lets check back with reid with a live update. >> were about to clear the trees and gain better vision. yep. theres definitely a wall cloud. it looks like very low wall cloud right now that we can see. and that circulation probably west-southwest of pauls valley right now. very low wall cloud. i dont know if you see it on the screen there. zoom in. it looks like ...

And you have strong upper level winds that are going to come on top of that producing a lot of shear. ill explain that in a moment. there are two tornado watch areas extending west of oklahoma city, west of 35, across the 70 corridor and then up and across 80 in nebraska. those going until the evening. and already there are a number of severe thunderstorm warnings. these cells moving very rapidly now to the northeast or north, northeast. large hail certainly a threat with this cell. theres going...

him minutes ago. okay. were going to stand by for that. and chad myers, tell me where the storm is now. >> ashleigh and jeff were on the same road. >> they were on the same road together? >> going different directions. ashleigh is going toward st. louis, jeff is to the west driving toward the tornado. they crossed each other, obviously didnt see each other because its raining so hard. but they went the opposite direction. jeff is following that storm -- it did some damage near birds ey...

Tornadic storm. you can be a small tornado, but not a big one. its a hail maker and wind maker. hail damage, tornado damage, whats the difference? >> if youre getting hit by it and your roofs coming off. so, your cold front is up here, so you are getting colder than normal weather up here? >> significantly colder. i did have the pictures but i dont have them live. its been snowing around colorado, estes park has had 14 inches of snow since last night, its running up the hill and cold in some spo...