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East and southeast. i understand i-40 is clogged with heavy, heavy traffic. i m trying get out of it. i m trying get out of the path of it here. shepard: on the left hand side is a wide shot of oklahoma city itself. from that, we are trying give you an idea of how wide it is. what a huge area it s covering. there s a tornado in spot a does not mean that there s not another one forming in spot b. on the right hand side of the the storm chaser vehicle and de jeff is talking a million miles a minute, telling us what is going on. jeff, go on. i m slowing down, shep, dave, a friend of mine, chaser here, he is saying that tornados are on the ground doing damage, we are about three miles to the northeast of it. i m going back southbound, and ....
Tornado has dissipated, and jeff s reporting it s easier to see one of the tornados itself. we see the power flashes happening. meaning it s taking out transformers, everyone understands that. do you have an idea of where this one is? give me a second. what? david? what david? he is telling me shepard: 100 miles an hour breaking news, it s hitting oklahoma city community college right now, is that right, david? it s right near the college, and a large debris cloud in oklahoma city, he has local communications with a ground unit inside the tornado saying that the tornado is near the oklahoma community college and doing damage. yep, yep. and continuing to watch on the thing here. tornados on the ground to the southwest, it s in the rain ....
All over ñhe place west of the city and that the storm is still moving and headed into that densely populated area which encompasses a 40 square mile radius and one million residents. it s our hope now that this storm will lift back into the sky and that the tornadoes will miss the city of oklahoma city itself. but there s nothing to indicate that that isñgoing to happen. our chief meteorologist rick in the fox extreme weather center, rick, this is as bad as i have ever seen. especially after we saw it last week. you are 11 days out from what we saw last week going through oklahoma city and now a similar scenario. the radar picture, i know for a second, you can split that screen at all, the radar picture, what yef is talking about, there s a broader rotation. he was talking about the merry-go-round, with tornadoes in multiple areas and you can see that there are sorry a!out that. ....
Bad news if you live to the south includes moore. it s still moving, quicker than it was earlier. which is certainly welcome news. shepard: that is good news. but barely welcome news.ti u. shepard: we are, if yu figure oklahoma city is a dot in the middle, if you go out for many miles in all direction, it s all suburban oklahoma city, it s wrapped with a freeway loop, and houses densely populated for miles in all direction and the entire region is under this this storm could not have picked a worse target, rick.ñ it could not have picked a worse target and worse time of day. ....
Rotating and it may last two or three minutes, weakens and then more tornados form. that is what has been happening. shepard: in from the national weather service. the oklahoma highway patrol said that motorists have been hurt in a storm that hit the oklahoma city area and that other people are now listed as missing. the national weather service issued this emergency for the city the s downtown, the airport that has been evacuated and suburbs to the north and south of oklahoma city, as the storm continues to role through the metropolitan area, there s a trooper named betsy randolph that said motisterists are stranded, and they are urged to get off and drive south. a tornado confirmed touched down in el reno and it moved east toward oklahoma city, we have seen the storm carrying debris ....