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Wichita falls, springfield, not good news for you. that is going to be the bull's yim he eye here for potential strong weather and strong tornados as well. guys, that its the set of what we are dealing with right now as far as the rest of tonight heading into tomorrow. three days, maybe fourth one here. watch that closely of the worst kind of weather -- >> ivan, oklahoma, tornado alley its used to big, bad, deadly storms. this one steamed to be even by that standard, an enormous killer. how different was this? can you give us a sense of the scale of the storm that hit moore compared to the one...

The tornado struck, at least 51 people were killed by monday's storm in oklahoma. but the toll is expected to rise even higher. as more bodies were received at the oklahoma medical examiner's office. >> dozen of people have been hospitalized as well. this is a picture of a medical center in moore, oklahoma, as you can see, it was devastated. incredibly, no one was killed in that hospital which took a direct hit. in all, an estimated 30 square miles lies in ruins. that is in and around oklahoma city. our john king is one of the correspondents who rushed to the scene to get as close as he coul...

Number is. 51 is what we heard last night. my guess is that number will go up this morning once we get more information coming from the public information officers. >> unfortunately, you are probably correct on that. rick, stay with us. we'll be back to you throughout the show. thanks so much. >> we just saw lightning in the live picture from kokh. maria molina is live in our weather center with a preview of where the severe weather will be today. >> good morning. good to see you. we have storms just to the south of moore, oklahoma. they have been rolling through the area producing strong wind...

>> unfortunately, of course, as we started to see it strengthen as it moved closer towards moore. that's where we started to see this really intensify, starting seeing winds potentially from 160 to 200 miles per hour. these really were eighas it sta to move into densely populated areas. >> here, right into the briarwood elementary and this is where the population center is and this is where all the devastation is right now. >> even with all that lead time, we talked about 16 minutes before it went into newcastle, still, 20 or 30 minutes before it hit moore. unfortunately, it just was not enoug...

>> well, we will rebuild, we have seen time and time again the strength of our people, the courage, the perseverance, come back much stronger after tragedy. whether the may 3rd tornado that struck moore. the community have done very well. in a great period of time for our state with a strong economy, low unemployment. this has certainly thrown us back a long ways, but we'll regain our strength and i know our people and, you know, wey one thing we became famous for in 1995 during the bombing of the federal building, when we had 167 loss of life, our people can pull together, they will find the ...