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>> i want you to get home and get out of here quickly. the winds are picking up. >> absolutely. >> wow, amazing. let's bring in a storm chaser. saw five or six tornadoes today, just east of oklahoma city. he joins us now. reed, i know you're in eastern oklahoma. how many tornadoes have you seen in the past few hours? >> well, it's died down for us. we usually shut down after nightfall because it's too dangerous to intercept the tornadoes. we saw five or six throughout the day. the first of which was a violent wedge and we were able to intercept it in our armored vehicle and record some data in...

Take a look at the television screen right now. thees are the first pictures of damage coming into us of sedalia, missouri, where a tornado had been on the ground earlier. chad myers, what are you seeing here? >> we knew that the after ffili out of missouri was getting gas and now you will see the damage out to the side. this is significant damage to a mobile home park, and this is what you would call downtown sedalia with 20,000 residents there, and still, as they have just arrived on scene, they are finding more and more damage as we fly. you will see more and we will have the latest picture...

Place substantial. some place out of the weather. i'll be here watching it for the rest of the night. >> and gary tuchman is at a shelter where hundreds of people have sought safety tonight. i'm told we just lost gary. there's about -- i think gary told me before he left, there were about 400 people at a shelter tonight that they have gone to. and chad, one of the things we've been talking about yesterday is there's -- there's a lot of areas here that have been destroyed, so people don't have their homes to go to. even those homes, they didn't have basements in those homes. they were just buil...

And the air makes the cumulus clouds and so on. so looking at the last couple of watch boxes from ohio to illinois to indiana, and a couple of boxes in missouri and through st. louis and even down to memphis. the box is now getting busy, and the whole map is getting covered almost in tornado watches. not severe thunderstorm watches. there is a difference there. a severe thunderstorm watch means that we don't expect the tornadoes, but we do expect storms with hail and wind. so the weather service thinking that almost every storm in any one of the boxes' areas, you can make a "i" where it is ove...