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All you find is the concrete slab. remember in oklahoma 0 city, this is built on rock. there's not many people with basements in this town. i lived up in norman and edmond as well. no basements in my house, not even a storm shelter. you have to shelter inside your home if you can. or if you have a neighbor with a storm shelter, get over there as quickly as possible. this is a tornado going right into downtown moore, almost an identical place where a very large tornado went many, many years ago. maybe it was '99 or 2000. i wasn't living there, but right through moore houses were scoured from th...

To the extreme southwest of moore. if you are anywhere near moore, you also need to take cover. the next town, if you keep going, would be like toward mccloud, but there's a lot of territory to cover here. we're still seeing those power flashes. we absolutely know that this tornado is on the ground in a populated area. you ask how many people are affected. right now the latest number for the tornado warning proper, jake, 170,000 people inside this warning. getting a little hard to find where this tornado is on the picture here. that's because it's getting a little wrapped in rainfall. rain com...

Oklahoma city from our affiliate koco. an intense tornado has touched down in the oklahoma city area. on the phone right now, we have jaime shelton the emergency official for the city of moore, oklahoma, which is south of oklahoma city. mr. shelton, thanks for joining us. what is your recommendation for anybody in the area who is listening right now? >> people have to take emergency precautions. we see debris in the air over city hall in moore. we are at 301 north broadway. we have debris in the air over city hall. everyone in moore needs to take precautions immediately. >> and if people are a...

Just south of oklahoma city in the area of moore. this is an area that has drawn some of the deadliest tornadoes in recent memory, in 1999, 36 were killed a eed in an oklahom tornado. oklahoma city, the general area, has been struck, but more than two dozen times by two or more tornados. it is an area prone to this sort of activity. we are right now looking at live footage from our affiliate kfor of this tornado touching down. we were talking earlier to spencer basoco, storm track he. he was talking about huge buildings in the path of the tornado being struck down. i'm going to go to chad myer...

Tornadoes just like yesterday was. we're seeing living proof of that right now. >> spencer, when you talk about this is a highly populated area, describe it. this is an area south of oklahoma city. is this a highly populated suburb? >> yes, highly populated suburb. it's where a lot of the oklahoma city workers. they litch theve there and they commute to the city monday through friday, which most of them are still at work right now so that's one good thing. kids are locked down in schools. we've got to slow down. we've got to pull over. >> spencer, you've covered a lot of these tornadoes. how b...