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Over the weekend, to oklahoma, where we have some powerful tornadoes that swept in over the weekend. nbc's kerry sanders is in el reno, just west of oklahoma city. kerry, thanks so much for joining us on this. first the flooding, now these tornadoes there. how bad is it from your perspective, kerry? >> reporter: well, if you consider what folks in this part of the country have been going through, in the last ten days, there have been more than 230 tornadoes that had touched down. and the one that you can see or the damage, at least, from the one over my shoulder here is extensive. this is esti...

Governor calling in saying he hopes the worst is over.>> a tremendous widespread damage over our farmland. some of the communities, with the monitoring some of the dams along the river also. with the dam system we've been monitoring. we have the national guard out walking the levees. make sure they are fine.and is just unbelievable. we are hoping and praying the rain will stop and it will crest finally today. and get to the upside of this. mike: fox team coverage.adam klotz is tracking this in extreme weather center. but we start with jeff paul live in el reno with the latest there. reporter: ...

One minute later at 10:27, the tornado sirens started to go offe off. two minutes later at 10:29, that is when we started to see some of the damage as the tornado made it down to the ground. when we look at all the damage that you can see on the other side of your screen, a lot of this damage is consist i wante e ef-3, the same rating of the tornado six years ago. you will have walls and roofs torn off and a lot of trees uprooted and heavy cars that can be lifted and thrown several feet away. again, we have a lot of those images showing that. one thing to note with this particular one, why it ...

We unstick it, it's going to be like this for a few days. just to happen what happened in el reno, ef-3, it goes to ef-5. well built structures can sustain significant damage. we saw 75 yard wild tornado on the ground for 2.2 miles. take a look at this map here, if you think it's been busy, it's been quite busy. we've had 237 tornados in the last 10 days. we're going to add some more tornados on the ground tonight. already under way as that are as the watches, since the last time i spoke to you, the tornado watch has been expected. we're talking eastern new mexico heading into kansas. that str...

Then we went back to google earth to show you what it looked like before the apparent tornado struck and you can see the second story becoming that is now reduced to rubble all the way down to its base. so this is consistent with what is called an ef-3 tornado, enhanced fujita scale with winds anywhere between 136 to 165 miles an hour. we typically see roofs and walls torn off of well constructed buildings, trees uprooted, complete heavy vehicles overturned. that is consistent with the damage that we saw. so go back in time, this is not current, this is late last night as the bow echo started ...