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In some of those major vortices, those satellite vortices going around these satellite tornadoes. an incredible day there. that was friday. it's going to be another couple of days we have severe weather here in oklahoma city. but it's been a crazy couple of weeks. in may a devastating tornado ripped through moore, oklahoma. leaving 24 dead, including 7 children from a leveled elementary school. raising questions about why more storm shelters weren't available. >> there should be a place that if this ever happened again during school, that kids can get to a safe place. >> there was a tornado on...

Friday's storms. 2.6 miles wide. what you're looking at there, that tornado, the national weather service says this powerful ef-5 tornado that hit el reno, oklahoma sshgts widest tornado ever recorded in this country. chad myers reports the oklahoma tornadoes are a spring of wild weather related events across the country. >> tornado ripped through moore, oklahoma, leaving 24 dead including seven children from a leveled elementary school raising questions about why more storm shelters weren't available. >> there should be a place that if this ever happened again during school that kids can get ...

From a leveled elementary school. raising questions about why more storm shelters weren't available. >> there should be a place that if this ever happened again turg schoo school kids can get to a safe place. >> an ef-5 touched down in el reno, oklahoma, less than 30 miles from moore. when the unthinkable happened in moore it was a mile wide. ef-4, ef-5 damage as far as you can see. the storm in el reno was 2.6 miles wide. twice as far as here. that's wider than the island of manhattan. and the widest tornado ever recorded in the u.s. the el reno storm surprised chasers by shifting directions ...

Politics. we are learning more about last week's deadly tornado in el reno. we are learning it is the widest ever recorded. friday's tornado was a record 2.6 miles wide. to put that into perspective the island of manhattan is 2.3 miles at its wieftd point it has been upgraded with winds that reached 295 miles her hour. 19 deaths were blamed on the storm. for more on the weather now, we are joined by nbc's bill kerry. we saw an ef-4 and one so close together. bill karins. >> now, we are realizing why they got caught. why lives were lost of those storm chasers. they were actually putting probe...

Said about that car? >> reporter: this is an airplane with a retractable gear. going to be worked on here at the tech facility for the men and women who wanted to learn how to work on airplanes. and there's just nothing left to work on now. this is just a big piece of scrap aluminum. nothing to put back together. this is a wreck. and there's this whole tech center here in el reno is also a wreck. it's going to take a long time to put all this back together. it was a very dangerous storm, don. it turned left, it turned right. it was an ef-3, at least preliminary. i believe in my walkaround and ...