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Inches of rain in some areas. we have team coverage across the damage zone. george howell is in union city, oklahoma, ed valencia is in el reno. george let's begin with you. it's been daylight for about an hour, set the scene for us, what are you seeing now as opposed to when you were sitting there in the dark. >> reporter: alison, okay, so union city just west of oklahoma city, this is where the storm system first started to develop, first started to drop those tornadoes, and this is where we are now seeing the result of what those twisters did here just south of union city, in this neighborh...

Several barns are completely destroyed. most of the houses we've seen are intact. we're getting further into the damage zone. we've had gas leaks. it appears like there are residential homes that have been damaged. i'm rolling up on them now. you can see some of the structural damage. i'm very concerned for these people. >> ben, that's what a truck or a home? >> yeah, i'm just about to pull into a drive waive a home that's been hit. we have safety patrol on scene. this is a disaster zone. there are gas leaks. please bare with me as i check for the injured. this is a very fluid situation. i'm g...

>> shepard: and on the ground look now owe incredible cefings of monday's tornado here in moore, oklahoma. police have rejoint exhibited media access to some of the hardest hit neighborhoods so get in there to clean up and restoring the power. they did allow our own casey stegall into the damage zone. he has been driving around in our quick response vehicle. casey? >> yeah, shepard, good evening to you. heather ellayna is where we are. not far from your location in our quick response vehicle, a qrv. we are going to now cut to live cameras on the very truck that i'm riding in. they are on the r...

So thank god we're all okay. >> let's get right to the damage zone in new york city. weather channel meteorologist reynolds wolf is live in brooklyn. can you believe it? twisters faring throue in teari york city. what about clean up? >> it's going pretty well. we replaced the sound of wind and rain with some hammers, a couple leaf blowers and whatnot. there is a mess to clean up. is this something that comes close to rivals a joplin or us the tuscaloosa? of course not. there are no fatalities, no injuries. there is some damage. the tree behind me, we're trying to decide, is that an american oa...

Telephone. you sent us photos of what the grocery store shelves look like in tokyo, largest city in japan, quite a ways from the damage zone, but people there have swarmed the grocery stores. >> yeah. i took those today. as you can see, there is very little left. it's actually not necessary for people to hoard. tokyo is in very stable shape and most of the goods don't even come from the stricken areas anyway, but one factor is that they have these scheduled brownouts, electricity brownouts. people are not going to work and going home and this and that. that's part of the reason. in general, th...