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Mustang middle school 5:56. mustang, downtown mustang, 5:57. mustang high school 5:57. and med owe park 5:58. we re looking at a large tornado. let me bring in chad. chad, you ve been listening to it. you know oklahoma. where is chickasha? chickasha is down the turnpike from oklahoma city. you would go south of 40. i-40 goes across oklahoma east to west, down the interstate to chickasha right here. why this is concerning to the people in oklahoma city, to moore, to norman, is because that is the direction that all of the tornadoes have been going today. from the southwest to the northeast. this was a storm, we know it was on the ground in south chickasha, and it has now moved along the interstate, moving right up the interstate into moore and norman. if it continues on the path, it could be aa big tornado on the ground by the time it gets into those oklahoma city suburbs. he also talked about cashen. cashen getting significant damage. ....
Slow-moving twister around the hospital. it kind of lingered around the hospital for about a minute or so. the longer this storm stays in an area, stays over a city, obviously, the worse it is. that s something obviously also we ll be tracking with oklahoma city. you ll be interested to know, our viewers will be interested to know yesterday we ll be reporting the tornado in joplin was an f-4. now authorities have officially said it s an f-5, with winds more than 200 miles an hour. anderson, we re going to be watching ac 360 later tonight. thanks for your excellent reporting. lots going on right now. we re going to continue breaking coverage. tornadoes getting ominously close to oklahoma city. chad myers will explain what s going on. we ll check in with our affiliates on the ground. you saw these devastated pictures. much more of our breaking news coverage right after this. [ female announcer ] experience dual-action power, ....
Coming down both sides of the metro, back to you. chad, it s amazing because this these pictures happened literally just moments ago and it s so dramatic and scary. you ve seen this kind of stuff before but no matter how many times you see it, you get scared. you understand there are people on the ground unable to get out of the way. there are other storm chasers on the ground. but there are people in this cell right now that cannot get away. even though they may be in their safe room, we know people in the safe room in joplin, but with a 198-mile-per-hour storm in joplin, missouri, they were killed even though they were in a safe place. this is a storm with the same type of speed moving into a populated area. storms happen in oklahoma all the time. there s ef-2s and 3s all the time mowing down wheat fields, and it doesn t make the news at ....
From our affiliate in oklahoma as a storm chaser came right through the tornado. let s go back to chad myers in atlanta. chad, before we get back to you, let me play the video for viewers who didn t see it. this is courtesy of our affiliate kfor taken only a few moments ago. went across highway 81 when it reintensified. it s a half mile wide, kill letter tornado. it s going to cross gregory road. it s going to cross northwest expressway in about a minute. it s crossing right now. crossing northwest expressway. it s a massive tornado, half mile wide, no doubt about it. it looks just like it did an hour and a half ago. deadly, deadly, deadly tornado, mike, coming down the northwest side of the metro. back to you. let s bring in chad right now. chad, whenever i see these storm chasers and you know this ....
Missouri, an f-5 wind speed above 200 miles an hour. that death toll has just been increased to 122 by authorities in joplin. chad myers is watching all of this unfold. let s get to the breaking news in oklahoma right now. is it one tornado? multiple tornadoes? what are we seeing in oklahoma? how endangered in some of the urban areas would these folks be right now? i would say we still have three tornadoes on the ground. the one up near guthrie is much smaller than it was before when it moved over el reno and caused some damage to devin industry out there. we certainly have a tornado on this cell that is very close to the south side of oklahoma city, and a tornado emergency, which means a tornado, large tornado, has been spotted, and it is moving into your town. that would be newcastle and moore. as this hook right there. there s the debris from the tornado that s on the ground. we ve never talked about this in ....