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Chopper shot kfor. we've seen tornadoes, at least one tornado touch down in each of the cities of edmond in arcadia, in luther and now in wellston, oklahoma, and an extraordinary sight, not only were we seeing the flashing from power lines that were being hit, but, according to this chopper reporter, he counted about two to three houses that were simply decimated by this tornado, and, again, now you're seeing a more defined view of this funnel cloud, and you see the sparks there, power line, and it hitting anything in its path. this is a monster of the storm system. we've boon hearing from jen...

>> okay, john. appreciate that. john is backtracking. he's north of the turner turnpike, north of wellston. unfortunately, folks, we see the damage now from the tornado that we suspected was an f-4 tornado. it looks like it's of that category. let's just hope everybody here is okay. there's going to be a lot of heavy damage here, and this is such a bad deal. a lot of this damage is quite severe. john, how many structures -- we're looking alt this live from john welsh and bob moore chopper 4. how many structures have you seen so far? >> a dozen, mike. and a lot of these, travis, could you pan a...

When we looked up, there it was. we saw the helicopter. i said the helicopter is in distress. >> another news helicopter responding to the same story starts filming the chopper 4's wild fall from the sky. >> it suddenly started coming right down. but guess where it was coming? right down at us. we started running. it came right down coming down, i said, no, no, no, no, no. >> the helicopter with two pilots and a reporter on board twirls and twists around like a corkscrew. the pilot, fighting for control. >> it was coming down like this, like this, coming down, coming down. >> but it's no use. ...

These eyes in the sky are supposed to help cover the news. so what happens when they are the news? brooklyn, new york, may 4th, 2004. a tv news helicopter is dispatched to the city's flatbush neighborhood to cover a shooting. it arrives about 6:15 p.m. and begins hovering over the police cars at the scene. it's business as usual until suddenly the helicopter's camera goes haywire and then the shot dies. bystanders look up and see the helicopter spiraling out of control. >> suddenly we heard a loud boom! when we looked up, there it was. we saw the helicopter. i said the helicopter is in distres...

These eyes in the sky are supposed to help cover the news. so what happens when they are the news? brooklyn, new york, may 4th, 2004. a tv news helicopter is dispatched to the city's flatbush neighborhood to cover a shooting. it arrives about 6:15 p.m. and begins hovering over the police cars at the scene. it's business as usual until suddenly the helicopter's camera goes haywire and then the shot dies. bystanders look up and see the helicopter spiraling out of control. >> suddenly we heard a loud boom! when we looked up, there it was. we saw the helicopter. i said the helicopter is in distres...