coming down both sides of the metro, back to you. chad, it s amazing because this these pictures happened literally just moments ago and it s so dramatic and scary. you ve seen this kind of stuff before but no matter how many times you see it, you get scared. you understand there are people on the ground unable to get out of the way. there are other storm chasers on the ground. but there are people in this cell right now that cannot get away. even though they may be in their safe room, we know people in the safe room in joplin, but with a 198-mile-per-hour storm in joplin, missouri, they were killed even though they were in a safe place. this is a storm with the same type of speed moving into a populated area. storms happen in oklahoma all the time. there s ef-2s and 3s all the time mowing down wheat fields, and it doesn t make the news at
relations. are the tensions of recent days any worse? any better? i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. first, breaking news this hour. a large tornado has been spotted on the ground in oklahoma and storm-ravaged missouri is being hit by severe weather and possible in the coming hours, searchers in joplin have been taking advantage of the break in the bad weather for a few hours now. 17 people have been pulled alive from the rubble as of last night. but the death toll is far greater. up to 118 right now and that makes this the deadliest single tornado on record in the united states since the weather service began keeping records 60 years ago. almost 500 people have been killed by tornadoes in this country so far this year, including one in that storm and a security camera gives another look at the power of the twisters and how much damage they can do literally in an instant. now more on the twister reported on the ground in oklahoma just minutes ago. the danger