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Winds have been knocked down e little bit. i have zero concerns that chantal will do any damage as it approaches the u.s. this weekend. much worse is the morning commute from cleveland to pittsburgh. thunderstorm after thunderstorm. a lot of flash flooding in the region. we're worried about that. interstate 44, a lot of thunderstorms through missouri and the west side of st. louis is getting a lot of heavy rain and lightening strikes. keep an eye on that. strong storms, more garden variety this afternoon. the east coast, mara, have that umbrella handy. it's warm and humid as you expected. >>...

There's a wall eastbound. it's coming into the heart of if city now. >> shepard: you talk very fast, as you know, jeff and i have a hard time understanding you. did you just say that this headed into the town of oklahala city? >> yes, people are fleeing the path of the tornado, i have state troopers and highway patrol, they are trying to get out of the path. it's west of me, look at the radar. >> shepard: okay for our rur viewers, i-40 and i-44 cross paths, and it's a completely populated area, absolutely completely populated, there's no breaks. it's like a large city with suburban areas and i...

Heading east yukon. >> shepard: do you get a sense of how big it is? >> it's almost a mile wide. >> shepard: wow, the latest are radar and we are watching it live has it tracking along mustang, oklahoma, which is exactly as you said, south of interstate-240. right now, it's west of interstate 44, right? >> reporter: yes, still west of interstate 44. >> shepard: and the weather it's still a mile wide.

Populated. >> it absolutely is. and then one other, the interstate 44 at the i-44 corridor that cuts the state. the storm moving directly east, edmond, to the north, suspect on the north side of the tornado, chr is not good news. i think we are talking about a more populated area because it gets more populated the closer you get into the city and this is going directly into that area, and boy, take a look at that picture. you can see the tornado right there on the ground. yeah, very, very >> this one, though, i tell you, shep, the latest warning takes this continued toward the due east with ma...

Yukon, and that is in its poth and oklahoma city itself, and you are in the middle of all of that, jeff? >> that's correct. look at the live extreme right now. there's literally, here comes another 5-7 highway patrol troopers. they are going west. blocking all ramps going into the suburbs, this is heavy populated. just north of will rodgers airport let me look at the map. i'm now tracking -- >> shepard: just a moment, i have gotten information from the national weather service, circulation is now strengthening again in northwest oklahoma county, along i-40. potential tornado headed directly fo...