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Supposed to ride out the storm that's worked in many cases. we've heard over the past 12 to 14 hours and others, of course, tragically has not. chris, really quickly, we've got tom cole, a congressman from this area. it's his home, he grew up in moore. before we get there, just for viewers that are watching and they see, it always seems like this natural disaster is declared the very worst. and we've heard it time and time again, but like myself, you went to those cities along the gulf coast. and as i came in here, i could only think of waveland where we reported from and also where we went th...

>> yeah. >> it's pretty amazing. and also, the national weather service is going to be out here. we've been talking about this storm at least an ef-4. they're going to try to figure out categorically if it could be an ef-5 because of the severity of the wind. >> well the width and the devastation and the track, the 20-mile track this left behind. and i think most people in the midwest will know and recognize, you know, as we've been talking about this residential neighborhood. it's a perfect grid system and these streets go on for blocks and blocks and blocks. so this is what it looks like as ...

They're going to go. if this happened at night, at this strength, the way the subdivisions look in the homes. a lot of people don't have basements and storm shelters, most likely the interior rooms in the bathtubs or closets, they wouldn't have survived. and i want you to listen to this. just listen. >> that's the cook from a kentucky fried chicken stepping outside and literally what you are hearing -- that's not the winds from the tornado. that's the tornado sucking in the wind. it's literally pulling in the wind. and you heard the helicopter pilot say that also that the storm itself was so p...

Miles and miles. even after the storm dissipates. and it dissipated well before tulsa. so just an amazing, amazing storm. and unfortunately, we have to bring results that are just awful. mile wide damage path. a tornado that's probably going to certainly see winds upwards of 200 miles an hour or more. back to you. >> all right. jim cantore, thanks very much. and what we're seeing here, the sun's just come up and we're completely overwhelmed as we walk around and look around, 360 degrees. >> everywhere you go, you see bricks all over the place p flown everywhere. we talk about these homes here....

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