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Least five tornadoes touched down near oklahoma city. our nick valencia is in el reno. nick, what's it look like there? i think we're having a problem getting nick. we'll try to go back to him. karen maginnis, any threats of concern today? >> we have a risk in an area where we could see some thunderstorms, could produce an isolated tornado but we think the real risk today is going to be the heavy rainfall, lots of lightning and maybe some wind damage. can't rule out that possibility of an isolated tornado. we want to show you what's happening, oklahoma city you started to clear out. wish we co...

Water, a lot of power lines down, and certainly storm damage from where these tornadoes came through. >> george howell, thank you. now let's move down the road to el reno. nick valencia is there this morning. nick the sun is up. what kind of damage are you seeing there? >> reporter: we're in front of an oil field repair shop that took a direct hit from that tornado last night that came through el reno, oklahoma. you look mind me there, alison and you think that structure all toppled upon itself, the twisted metal, if anyone was inside there it's unlikely they would have survived but that's e...

Really about it. that's about all we have out here. lots of debris, lots of debris around here but no real major significant structural damage. victor? >> nick valencia in el reno for us, thank you. oklahoma city, the will rogers world airport there is open but there are no flights headed in either direction and it's expected to stay that way for the rest of the morning. earlier i spoke with the airport spokesperson who told me about how they handled the storm. >> as we began watching this, we knew it was going to be difficult because again on a friday afternoon the busiest time of the week,...

Picked up and the rain and we had debris coming at us. we turned the corner and there was the tornado looking us dead in the eye. >> reporter: about how much time, we hear the average time people have to take cover for a tornado is 13 minutes. how much time would you guess you had? >> we couldn't hear the sirens, it was loud and we couldn't hear them at all. >> reporter: you were inside with two other co-workers and that roof just completely collapsed on top of you. >> that's correct, yeah. that was it. >> reporter: you were showing me some pictures a little while ago, you had time snaps of th...

So much. i know it's been a tough year for you as well. thu thanks. meteorologist chad myers is in oklahoma city. we heard there were three tornadoes that touched down. is that the kind of storm damage you're seeing? >> absolutely. no doubt about t not up to the ef-4 damage and certainly nowhere near moore, what happened there, approaching the 210-mile-per-hour mark on some of those houses. we went and explored those houses yesterday. clean-up is going okay, but okay is just a relative term. what the crews are doing to those homes are just scraping the foundations now, the slabs, piling ever...