irrelevant. an 80-mile-per-hour wind gust will take shards of glass and broken boards and send it on down and hurt a lot of people. we need everyone out of there before that happens. >> thank you, chad, for that not terribly happy report. all right. terrifying reports tonight from storm chasers taken as a tornado touches town in oklahoma. twisters are ripping apart homes and two are confirmed dead. joining me now is reid timer, host of discovery channel's "storm chasers." where are you now and what did you experience in the center of the storm? >> reporter: right now we are due east of shawnee and about 20 minutes ago we did see a tornado that crossed i-40. looks pretty intense. it was a rope tornado and that one moved off to the north. we're dropping south down to the red river. earlier we saw a tornado that was about a half mile wide in northwest oklahoma. seems like every single storm has a violent tornado underneath it. >> are you seeing any tornadoes now as you're driving south