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We knew this was going to be another major tornado day, and clearly it is. this is the live pictures we re getting in near chickasha right now. wow, that is getting bigger. courtesy of our affiliate. let me play chad had a good idea. we ll play that video of what happened just a little while ago in oklahoma. look at this. i ll let the storm chaser describe what he s seen. mike? yes, go. tths a half mile wedge, another killer tornado. it went across highway 81 when it re-intensified and almost got us. it intensified right on top of us. it s amazing. half mile wide tornado. it crossed gregory road. it s going to cross northwest expressway in about a minute. it s crossing northwest expressway right now. right now, it s crossing northwest expressway. it s a massive tornado, about a half mile wide, no doubt about it. looks just like it did an hour and a half ago. deadly, deadly, deadly tornado, mike, coming down the northwest ....
Joplin is about 400,000, but oklahoma city is much bigger. it s a real source of worry. we re showing our viewers this live picture of this monster tornado. you can see how wide it is as it moves closer. it s near chickasha right now in oklahoma city. that s a suburb of oklahoma city, not far from oklahoma city. we re watching this very, very closely. i don t know what s going on in the world, anderson, right now, but there seems to be disaster after disaster after disaster, and you ve been on the scene for, i would say, all of them. it s hard to see that another place is suffering and there s been confirmed fatalities already. it s the worst possible news. again, it s not just the size or the speed of the wind here that we have to look at. it s the speed at which the twister is actually moving. that was one of the problems here, i think, in joplin, people were saying this was a ....
relations. are the tensions of recent days any worse? any better? i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. first, breaking news this hour. a large tornado has been spotted on the ground in oklahoma and storm-ravaged missouri is being hit by severe weather and possible in the coming hours, searchers in joplin have been taking advantage of the break in the bad weather for a few hours now. 17 people have been pulled alive from the rubble as of last night. but the death toll is far greater. up to 118 right now and that makes this the deadliest single tornado on record in the united states since the weather service began keeping records 60 years ago. almost 500 people have been killed by tornadoes in this country so far this year, including one in that storm and a security camera gives another look at the power of the twisters and how much damage they can do literally in an instant. now more on the twister reported on the ground in oklahoma just minutes ago. the ....