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The north of oklahoma city between oklahoma city and tulsa. right now in the short term that looks to be the area we'll probably see initial developments. >> how much warning will folks get? >> once the storms form about ten or 20 minutes before they begin to show character in terms of rotation. hopefully we won't see too much activity but there should be plenty of warning. people are in tune to what is going on out here. they know the atmosphere is going for this type of development through the evening and we'll keep a close eye on it. >> what is the best advice for those people who may be in...

Early because i had some long hours. i left about 4:00 to go down and do my mama duties and helped my son clean out his apartment. he just got out of college last week. i got down there for about 30 minutes, and all of a sudden i got all these weather alerts so i was driving back to norman to get to a safe area myself. i'm sitting here driving through what looks to be bad weather and coming up -- it's not raining in oklahoma city yet, but it's a good 30, 40 minutes right outside looking at the radar. >> you're heading toward oklahoma city then, right? >> i'm just passing right by the capital, ...

Now. and it's been going on for days. and as we heard from samantha moore, our meteorologist, at the cnn weather center, at the cnn center, as you heard, this is a dangerous situation. that's going to continue, presumably, through the weekend. the governor of oklahoma is joining us on the phone right now, governor mary fallin. governor, what's the information you're getting? >> i'm actually driving right through the area, just passed through the moore damage site by the theater, where the hospital is, where the neighborhoods were destroyed. it's pretty dark here. i've got the radar on my ipad....

In moore, oklahoma, outside of oklahoma city, or closer to tulsa, or in between? where's the biggest threat? >> here we go. these storms are west of oklahoma city, and then moving from west to east. maybe slightly north of due east from the west. but that is going to take this cell right into northwest oklahoma city first. then possibly over edmonds. we have more developments south of here that could still get to the moore, norman area. but for now, i don't see that cell going up as hard as the cell here, that will affect maybe piedmont, or guthrie. but these storms are just going to travel ju...

Storms. last year we didn't have that many storms. it's been a little bit remarkable as far as having some storms this year. >> what i hear you saying, governor is, what, the next half hour, potentially, could be the most ominous? is that what's going on? >> absolutely. i'm looking at the sky. and it's pretty dark in the area. and it's moving -- mostly moving into the oklahoma city area, around i-40, which is a major interstate that runs east-to-west through oklahoma. which it will come right toward oklahoma city. and it's about 40 miles out from here. if it moves on to the south and the east,...