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>> get away from windows. get out of your car. >> it was like something out of a horror movie. i was hoping no one else was headed this way. >> norman, oklahoma is home to university of oklahoma and the be loved sooners football team, but its also home to some extraordinarily unpredictable and violent weather. >> that storm once it started really spinning west of norman ramped up pretty quickly, and boom, in a matter of a couple minutes it started spinning much, much faster. >> thats trouble wit...

So far its reached a height of just over 2,400 feet. a long way to go before reaching outer space but that is the plan, deliver cargo, come back to earth, do it again. one more kind of cool note, a drone recorded the entire video. cut out the middleman. we didnt even need to be involved. >> very, very cool. >> isnt that cool? >> i love it. love rockets. >> thank you so much. lets get straight over to indra petersons with another check of the weather. youre looking at impressive storms there, i...

Its pretty impressive. this is a strong updraft from the rotating thunderstorms. yesterday was not rotating. they did not have a tornado. either way, this system was so powerful, they had winds as strongs a70 miles per hour. they had tons of return of quarter-size hail. that is the same system well continue to monitor today, however, it makes its way across the country. it is weakening. where are we expecting rain today with this front? stretching from minnesota down through texas. in texas, thi...

Birthday. in the meantime she has a pink car to get around town. >> those arent easy to put together either. he probably had his hands full. >> dads going to be quite a mechanic by the time the story comes to fruition. in 16 years im putting that on my to do list. >> put it in the ipad it remembers everything. indra petersons a scary picture behind you. >> if you live in kansas you might be used to this but the rest of us, this is impressive. this is a wall cloud, really the strong updraft porti...

>> theres probably going to be a tornado. pull off the side of the road right here. yeah, this is our view of it. theres your wall cloud here. look at that wall cloud, dude. >> weve all seen the devastation and loss of life from tornadoes in oklahoma alone. at least seven tornadoes hit in the month of may alone. kansas also looked into the sky and saw frightening images like this one. out here in new mexico and california, on tinder dry conditions are fueling wildfires. experts say the fire seas...

Monster tornado, it just kept spinning this wall cloud and the suction vortices would come straight down to the ground. you could also see the upward motion, too, so its not just the really violent horizontally rotating motion but also the updraft that caused some of that damage and thankfully at that time when the video was shot there was open farmland that went further east and caused damage. we saw some storm chasers and motorists that were thrown off the road. we pulled them out of their veh...

With the available mylink system. ♪ [ beeps ] ingeniously connecting you to your life and the road. thats american ingenuity to find new roads. weather is slamming the nation coast to coast. >> theres probably going to be a tornado. pull off the side of the road right here. right hire. >> yeah. this is our view of it. theres your wall cloud right there. look at that wall cloud, dude. >> weve all seen the devastation and loss of lives from tornados in oklahoma alone

Rearview mirror like george was describing says he was expecting the storm to generate a monster tornado. he described to cnn what he saw. >> those multiple vortex tornadoes that you see there can be very intense on a small scale. you can see a violent motion in there. we saw some severe damage to some homes from south of el reno east. i think union city was hit really hard. im hearing reports there were a few fatalities. its a very rural area there just west of oklahoma city as well. but we wer...

Us better journalists. we always appreciate all of the pictures and videos you send us and here are some we have received since the outbreak began. this one comes from ariel vandorn. this was the wall cloud over her house. they did the smart thing getting into the basement. that tornado touched down in williamsburg, missouri. and this is above the air force base in oklahoma city. and here is one from nathaniel hobble he was driving down route 40 heading west last night when a twister came out of...

>> we -- >> its practically on the ground. >> we couldnt really see it from our view but it sure looks mean. >> how big would you say that is? >> sorry. >> how big would you say this is that were looking at? >> i koucouldnt really tell. >> a mile? >> at least. we had driven two miles and couldnt get around it. it looks like a wall cloud that almost hit the ground. is there a tornado under there? thats huge. >> just a massive, massive wall cloud and you see the leading edge of the storm there. >>...