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Well. chad myers is in el reno now, joins us. the tornado was upgraded today from an ef3 to an ef5. that really caught me by surprise. does that mean in terms of power? i mean, why was it upgraded? >> reporter: because doppler on wheels, scientists, storm chasers that we talk so much about, two teams of scientists with doppler on the back of pickup trucks spinning around found wind speeds of almost 300 miles per hour. now, those winds never hit anything. so we don't have houses that are missing because there's so much empty space here. but what we know, anderson, think about this. think about ...

Rachel nichols for us this morning in miami just down the road from really what is ground zero for this incredible scandal engulfing major league baseball. thanks, rachel. to oklahoma now where authorities say 19 people were killed in last friday's storms and 2.6 miles wide. that's how big this tornado was. the national weather service says at 2.6 miles wide, the powerful ef-5 tornado that hit el reno, oklahoma, is the widest tornado ever recorded in the u.s. cnn meteorologist chad myers is live in el reno with more on that wild weather that's taking place across the country. good morning, c...

Weather is going to move in. tomorrow more rain is anticipated. what's going to be crucial is how much rain, where will that rain fall, especially to the north, and is there going to be wind as well was you see, the water is at the top of a lot of these levees. if you get the wind, if you get the wave action, it's going to have more of a kind of corrosive effect. it will erode even more and weaken the structures that right now are already showing signs of weakness. so it is really going to be a time when people are going to watch the water and watch the sky, anderson. >> all right, martin, we'...

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 ...

Multiple horses going around a two-mile, 2 1/2-mile circulation moving right toward el reno. and they know that some of those vortices had winds of 295. remember, moore was only 210. this was stronger than moore. the good news is there wasn't a lot to hit. it hit this building right back here. this is ef-3 damage, not ef-5. the ef-5 out in the field with nothing to hit. >> i saw one figure that said it was 2.6 miles wide at one point. in perspective, manhattan, the island of manhattan is 2.3 miles wide. what could this have done in a more populated area? >> reporter: it would have taken out --...