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The noaa storm prediction center in norman. >> greg, where is this tornado headed? >> what we've been watching the last fwo hours is a massive thunderstorm complex really that moved very little. these tornadoes are forming on the southern edge right along the i-40 corridor leading into oklahoma city area. they continue to form and move gradually east and south. question are seeing extreme rain fall and extreme winds with the occasional tarpds developing. still very tarn to see because of the rain falls occurring within the oklahoma city area. hopefully it won't be as bad as it looks right now....

This is quite flower. has the condition to spawn powerful tornado. sitting there west of oklahoma city. casting a dark paul over the entire area. jay gray just talked to us from downtown oklahoma city. he describes the scenes as dark, empty scene. and seeking shelter in some iras as well. a tornado warning is declared for all of oklahoma city. folks are directed to get out of the area. local news is telling them to the street level where tornadoes may be brewing and where they may be headed. we have here, expert on disaster and disaster preparedness. the roads to get in and out of oklahoma cit...

I had to close the door. couldn't peek outside without the wind pulling. so we decided to get inside. >> do most people have a shelter to get into. >> i don't know what numbers would be. most oklahomians do know where to go where they live. that is the safest place. the safety of the storm depends on how safe you are. if you are hit by 200 plus mile-an-hour winds, you need to be in a safer space. a sturdy structure will with stand most tornadoes as long as you are away from tornadoes, in a central room, of a lower level of where you are. >> curt, watching the last tornadoes unfold in tornado a...

Threatening the oklahoma city area? >> like i said, we've been watching it complex on radar for the last two hours. incredibly well organized. probably we have at least another hour of extreme weather in the oklahoma city area. and hopefully after that things will begin to decay. as you good through night time hours, will limit the potential of tornadoes threats as we go into the night time. still a big flaet from flooding rain condition and even into missouri as we go into tomorrow. >> 20 thousand people without power right now. there are tornado working their way through the area coming thro...

>> jay, we should note, since it's fresh in everyone's mind, the horrible disaster in moore right by oklahoma city, it is a different time of day than that tornado hit. it was anomalous that that tornado hit during the day. much earlier than when tornadoes form, which is much more around this time. so that means there is more lead time for folks to get out of the way. and b, schools are out of session right now. >> you make great points there. a lot of people have said at the time of the moore tornado, when it rushed through the neighborhoods and ravaged that entire community, that the timing ...