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Down. one of these levies has failed. when you put a tremendous amount of water in the region, the wind speeds, at one point, making landfall at 150 miles per hour, its among the strongest storms weve ever seen make landfall across the u.s. in grand isle, the wind measuring device had 148 miles per hour wind gusts and its indicative of it breaking down because of the intensity of the storm system. we lost communication with it. winds could have gone higher than that. it speaks to how intense of ...

Intensity the storm has. landfall, 150 miles per hour. coming in around noon central time when it made landfall, we had wind gusts observed at 152 miles per hour. and in grand isle, a wind gust of 148. and the asterisks here is because the wind measuring device broke off, the instrument stopped reporting at 148 miles per hour. again, talking about an impressive storm here. this is the strongest storm ever to impact louisiana. so where is it headed? it will spend much of monday across the state o...

Landfall. gusts, observed here at 153 miles per hour. the wind measuring device stopped reporting at 148 miles per hour. these are historic values on back-to-back years. hurricane laura this time last year came ashore with 150 miles per hour in the state. incredible scenario playing out. >> yeah. just extraordinary. pedram, many thanks. now to derek van dam on the phone with me from homer, louisiana, near where the storm made landfall. i know we had trouble getting your signal up. you have been ...

Well see. lets get the latest on the track of hurricane irma. whats the latest on the track of irma? >> yeah, the latest track here has shifted this a little farther toward the east. well touch on that momentarily. the storm approaching the islands where about 100,000 people will experience one of the strongest winds ever observed across the atlantic ocean. as it moved over barbuda, the wind measuring device stopped functioning so kind of talks about the significance of the storm essentially p...

Here. it went over interstate 40 and killed three on the interstate, then it came up into piedmont. here in this subdivision, turned out to be okay, nobody was injured as far as we know, and nobody was killed. but you can ethe immense size of the wedge tornado. by the way, it went over a wind measuring device, the wind measuring device was not destroyed. and a wind gust was clocked at 158 miles an hour arc amazing. thats a high-end ef-3 on the fujita scale. you dont see homes, thats because they...

Now to the search for survivor, from the latest round of killer tornadoes overnight, 14 people confirmed dead in oklahoma, kansas and arkansas. many more are injured and missing. the severe weather is still moving east. the weather channels mike sidle is in piedmont, oklahoma, with the latest developments. mike, tell us what is going on there. >> reporter: good afternoon, andrea. another huge tornado outbreak yesterday. the preliminary count, at least three dozen twisters touching down across th...

>> were safe, so thats all that matters. >> lets go to piedmont, oklahoma, where the weather channels mike seidel is standing by for us. >> reporter: good afternoon. another deadly day yesterday and most of the fatalities were right here in central oklahoma, north and west of oklahoma city, and here in piedmont. first, lets me take you back to the tornado as it formed south of i-40, near el reno. we got some still photos at the weather channel showing how quickly this developed. in under ten min...