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Coast. most of the rain would be off shore. we could see even this weekend, an increased rip current threat and larger waves in florida and southeast coastal areas. miami to fort lauder dale area. and some added rain in the carolinas. not the best end of your weekend here if you head to the beaches. as far as the great, apple picking, pumpkin spice weather is around the great lakes. chicago with 77 for a high. temperatures are below normal for the first time. new york city, only the high of 79 on saturday. at night, as the sun sets, the temperatures will rapidly cool.

The threat is going down daytime heating is gone. darkness the cooler temperatures are coming in. we a moderate risk as we go through the evening. this is kind of rare to see into the overnight hours to see a moderate risk still up for these areas where we still think we could have potential for tornadoes. tomorrow it starts up all over again. the same type of risk for long track perhaps very dangerous life threatening tornadoes from north texas up towards the great lakes and midwest region, oklahoma city, joplin, missouri you are in this danger zone again. as we head into tuesday slow moving ...

Oklahoma, kansas and iowa tonight. it has been a heck of a day. the worst of it is in shawnee, oklahoma. we have an oklahoma state representative that will join us by phone now. he was in shawnee when the twister hit justin wood is on the line with us mr. wood. what exactly happened and what is the situation there. what can you confirm? >> i can confirm there was one death that we were told in the dale area. i know for sure that there are many cars a, a large semi turned over. we drove through an area where homes were completely destroyed roofs were taken off, insulation, shingles, all of like...

Emergency how many people is that? >> i am not sure at this point. we have been moving pretty quickly trying to make sure we are keeping everybody safe. we have had about 23,000 homes, we don't know how many homes or businesses have been destroyed. we had cars and semis in the interstate that wshut down one f our main highways. you are seeing pictures of the area that is actually the area that i grew up in in shawnee. my family lived in that area. thank goodness they were all safe. i had one that lost her home lost everything. we were really sad for her. we have a lot of things going on in our...

They say they are concerned about peoplie getting back into the back area as they are pulling people out. make sure that doesn't happen in a situation like this where (indiscernible). they are working to keep opeopl out of this area. the survivors are able to come back and pick up anything that is salvageable. >> okay. thank you so much. let's go out to luther right now. we have someone close to volunteer firefighters who have been responding to the situation up there. tiffany? >> mike, you are absolutely correct. these firefighters have been working around the clock. looking at these flashi...