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0 until this morning. we're also going to talk about infrastructure needs, the county commissioners will do that, the chief will talk about some of the same information as far as how it relates to the city of el reno. basically, we had a tornado that came through, i understand it's been labeled as an f-3, maybe an f-4. when this tornado came through yesterday, basically, it stayed south of state highway 66 or interstate 40 which run pretty much parallel to each other. most of the damage in the county to the west end is going to be around chiles, which is west of el reno. and then it runs all t...

talking about law enforcement, first responders, fire personnel, but a lot of good citizens that respond and assist with rescues. that is typically what happens in the beginning is you have rescues. we had some of that that occurred last night. and then we tried to stabilize the area to determine which areas we need to restrict for access because power lines are down. we had flooding. we have lots of different issues. and typically you go from a response and a rescue into a recovery effort. we did have fatality victims. right now, and this is a preliminary number, we're sitting at se...

Services. at this time what i'd like to do is go ahead and turn the mike over to the county commissioners. jebster and phil carson are both available. >> i'm the district three county commissioner. right after the storm ended last night, we got ahold of all of our workers and brought them all in, organized them into 12-hour shifts and, basically, what we're doing is to install and repair traffic control signs to block traffic into washed out areas or areas where there's high line wires, electric wires down on the ground. we do road and bridge repair because there was a heavy amount of rain wit...