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Highway patrol troopers out here all over the place trying to make sure that everyone is okay. it is a mess, my friend. this will be a huge clean-up project. we just hope and pray there are no fatalities because there are cars all over the place. >> lance, appreciate that. let's go back to the storm tracker. we will check with mark dillard here next coming up here. this is strong circulation. dangerous storm by minco. you see bridge creek towards newcastle. yes, over toward washington and noble lloyd, noble center there. >> this is local coverage from kfor, oklahoma affiliate. i want to go now...

Go back to meagan with any updates you might have? >> major problem here. flash flooding causing big problems for everybody. >> it has. >> people can't get anywhere. emergency crews are having trouble getting to victims they need to tend to. power outages all over. we have reports of 40,000 plus. we're following that closely. crews having a tough time getting out to deal with that as well. . we just went to natasha and we saw people breaking down a door to take cover. >> let's go to lance west. there is the shot with the rain coming down. lance, you said one of the major highways, maybe i-40, ...

Heard lance west as he approached plaza towers elementary school. let's join him again on the phone. lance, i know this is a very emotional devastating scene you're looking at. >> reporter: yeah, it certainly is. we are here five feet away from the school. what was apparently the gymnasium. there are emergency personnel doing their best to save -- those are classrooms right there? okay, those are classrooms. i stand corrected. it is our understanding there are at least 15 children trapped under this debris. there were 75 kids in the classroom? okay, i'm told the number has just been upgraded t...

Workers. the oklahoma city police department was asking people to keep back, he was tearing up after a father was upset they weren't doing more. obviously, it's traumatic for everybody and they are doing everything in their power to get these kids, these faculty members, out of this debris. >> lance, we hate to deal with numbers, but parents watching need to hear these numbers so they can understand what's transpiring, because the numbers tell the story. when we talked about an hour ago, 30 minutes ago, you said 75 students were believed to be in the school at the time the twister hit. is that...

Subtract those 30. obviously i'm going to continue to get more information from the folks out here. this is all preliminary. >> lance, we appreciate your efforts, a parent yourself. and for those of us parents watching, it is difficult to watch, but nothing compared to those families. >> let's go back to adam. >> linda, we're at orr family farm. some people were able to make it to a basement in one of the houses here. but a lot of people had to ride out this storm inside of these horse stalls. one of those people that did this, lando, describe for me the moments that this tornado came through ...