it was a chaotic scene as five tornadoes hit the oklahoma city area last night. storm chasers got this incredible video of one forming in el reno. more than 70 people were hurt. el reno and union city suffered most of the damage. this comes less than two weeks after a huge tornado plowed through nearby moore, oklahoma. and that's not the end of it. now oklahoma city is dealing with major flooding. check this out. huge chunk of land washed away. right next to a road. some areas have seen as much as 11 inches of rain. the white house says it is closely monstering the situation in oklahoma. el reno, oklahoma, is littered with debris from the tornado. nick va lenshas been there all . what is the immediate need of people there? >> reporter: right now they need to get their power back on. that's been the most inconvenience for thoses dents in reno and canadian county in
another round of storms they're facing this daunting clean-up? >> reporter: great question, miguel. there is an underlying anxiety here. you know this from covering tornadoeses. you know this from, you know, time spent here in oklahoma. there is resilience. they've gone through so many natural disasters and, of course, oklahoma city bomb terrorist attack. it's come to a point where they're dealing with calamity. it's more of a put on our gloves and we're going to work and help each other out and help each other clean. if there's any uplifting thing happening here, it's that, neighbors helping neighbors and even strangers helping strangers. >> nick valencia, thank you, stay safe. george how well is in union city, oklahoma, where he's been surveying the damage.
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you're now -- you were in el reno this morning and in union city now. the breadth of it. it's hard for people to imagine how people can make their way through this. how are people coping? i though they're tough out dl but this is a lot to take on. >> you know, when you look a the damage in moore and not to downplay any of this damage out here but moore was a lot more densely populated, miguel. there was a lot more people right in the middle of that tornado, that ef5 and it was a stronger wind stream that went through there. more people were at risk. people are really, you know, anxious. there is an underlying sentiment of anxiety. when the tornado sirens go off and the thought of, gosh, we just can't get any luck here, can we? new round after new round. talking to local affiliates today. they were saying that there could be possibly more severe weather next week. so it just seems that tornado alley, this place that they call tornado alley in the united states, is really living up to its name. miguel? >> sounds like ptsd all around
mercy, ambulance service. we're trying to get through this. i think it goes back to commissioner carson's initial statements. let these guys do their job. try to get infrastructure back on. we had water issues. we're working through those as we speak now. the police department and the fire department are trying to get in and assess these areas. let them do their job. there will be time to look at the damage later. try to get all the information to us. appreciate you all. >> okay. now we'd like to take an opportunity, you've heard from officials with the city and the county. we're very fortunate to have state officials that support us here in canadian county and we have our senator ron justice that's here this morning. we want to let him know how much we appreciate him and give him an opportunity to make a comment. >> thank you very much. on we behalf of the state of oklahoma, i want to say how much we appreciate the work of those
and with light of day we can tell that these tornadoes did cause damage. george howell, cnn, union city, oklahoma. at latest count, more than 212,000 customers in the midwest have lost power. you can see how the extreme weather toppled lines. missouri and oklahoma right now are facing the most blackouts with more than 160,000 in those two states without power. illinois and arkansas and kansas also have thousands in the dark. flooding is making it impossible to get around in many parts of missouri. the missouri department of transportation reports portions of nearly 250 road s are closed because of flooding. they have prompted missouri's governor to declare a state of emergency. from the tornadoes to the floods we're tracking a lot of severe weather right now. meteorologist karen maginnis is here. karen, what should folks be looking out for today? >> it is another round of severe
welcome back. i'm alison kosik. oklahoma is once again cleaning up after devastating tornadoes. at least five new tornadoes hit the oklahoma city area last night. look at this incredible video taken by some storm chasers. that's just one of the tornadoes forming in el reno about 25 miles outside of oklahoma city. at least nine people are dead, including two children. more than 70 people were hurt. el reno and union city suffered much of the damage and this comes less than two weeks after a huge tornado plowed through moore, oklahoma. now the oklahoma city area is dealing with major flooding. look at the collapsed road in eastern oklahoma county. huge. some areas have seen as much as 11 inches of rain. missouri was hit by storms, too. road closed all over and hundreds of homes were damaged. remarkably, no one was killed. i've got steve patterson on the line, he's a reporter in
that jury decides has to be the proper verdict as long as they follow the evidence in the law and then we're done. >> well, so now we know what evidence won't be allowed at trial. let's bring our legal guys in, civil rights attorney and law professor is in cleveland and richard herman and law professor joins us from las vegas. avery, judge did leave some wiggle room here, didn't she, zimmerman's attorney says if he can show relevancy he can still maybe bring in this stuff. he says he doesn't need it though. >> how much damage does do to his case? >> first of all, miguel, it's a mere preliminary ruling. if the state is foolish enough to bring in the character of trayvon martin, believe me, o'mara is going to bring that evidence in. that's why he released it to the public. we understand what he's doing here. the prosecutors can't do it. the defense is letting out all this evidence, i include ag monk other things that trayvon martin had two goelld caps on his teet.
general. you have then tens of thousands throughout the state without power. we're pulling upon a scene here where the house lost half of its roof. surveying and sort of assessing the debris, overturned cars. on our way into reno early this morning, el reno, i should say, miguel, we saw some overturned semi trucks. damage or the magnitude of this storm until the sun came up. what's interesting and we found most interesting is our crew drives around el reno. you will turn a corner and see a section of the neighborhood that is untouched. >> nick, i can stop right there. you're breaking up a little bit. let me ask you one other question before we lose you all together. you are in moore cover that. you've become basically our oklahoma bureau chief at this point. great job that you're doing, but how are people dealing with yet
killer tornadoes are forming with a speed and vengeance. last night el reno, oak oeklahos caught right in the path of the tornado. nick valencia is there. what have you been seeing? >> we're on the second floor of what once was a house and we're surrounded by volunteers who came to this residence. they had no idea who the owners were but decided to lend a helping hand. in fact, i want b to bring in one of the volunteers. she came here from houston. >> hi. >> what brought you here? >> i saw on the news that grand bury had a tornado, headed there for a few days to moore. and then today our leads are assessing damage from one of our churches so i drove out and asked if i could help. >> what was the response like? a lot love times people just want their privacy in a situation like this. how do you approach a family in oklahoma, so self reliant? >> the mother of the house here is an american red cross volunteer and she also works with some of the communities and she just seemed glad for the