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Catastrophic tornado. >> bret: yeah. jeff, you have seen this before. can you characterize this on a scale how big, how damaging? looking at these pictures, it's pretty amazing to look at. >> this tornado track from what i understand ground report. friends digging people out of rubble south of oklahoma city. people out at the school helping with kids and i have got other people that are up there right now that are literally pulling people out of rubble in houses. super catastrophe on the south side could be up to a mile wide. i understand there is a lot of injuries. unconfirmed number of deitz...

Enhanced fujita scale for this tornado which would mean winds of 156 to 200 miles per hour. and the reports i have are two miles wide and the winds of 190 miles per hour. but that's preliminary. we're going to have to wait until the national weather service goes out and does their survey tomorrow. >> bret: okay. janice, thank you. it's important to point out that we are trying to establish a number of phone interviews but the phone connections there in that region, as you can imagine, are spotty. storm chaser jeff pitrowski is joining us again on the phone. jeff, did you see this particular to...

>> bret: okay. janice head back on breaking news from the storms. national weather service is saying preliminary classification is an ef-4 massive tornado touching down in that particular region just around oklahoma city. storm chaser piotrowski is joining us on the phone. what did you see? did you see this particular storm? jeff, can you hear me? we will get jeff back in just a moment. let's go back to casey stegall. is he on the ground in moore, oklahoma city. take a look at pictures as we get them established. we just love jeff pitrowski one of the storm chasers. saw tornado up to 200 miles...

Those are catastrophic damage if they go through a very heavily populated area. >> bret: we want to be careful about numbers of possible fatalities. obviously authorities are trying to get through and rescue and they are still in the search and rescue mode right now. for people not in tornado alley, this storm in particular, just looking at that community, looked like it leveled at least part of that entire -- essentially erased part of some of those homes and buildings. >> that's what i understand. i am heading that way now from i-35. -[inaudible] it's my understanding from the ground reports...

The city with reports that cars are just sort of everywhere and know one quite knows what to do. we also have reports in the lower end of manhattan that the water is now coming from the new york harbor with this very high tide flooding lower manhattan and the water is cascading into the brooklyn battery tunnel and filling it with water. on the east side of manhattan along the fdr drive which runs all along the eastern side of the island itself, all the way from the southern tip of manhattan, all the way up the east river, the flooding is now to at least the mid 20s which means at least 55 to 6...