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We have actually got the governor of oklahoma, mary fallin, on the phone. thank you for joining me. >> piers. >> obviously another very serious situation tonight. what can you tell me? >> it is a very serious situation. i'm here in oklahoma city close to the capitol and the tornado siren's going off right now for the fourth time. it's been a little crazy around here. our biggest challenge right now is the storm's pretty large and it's had several spin-ups of funnels in it and really strong winds and lots of hail. we've had a lot of power flashes which i'm seeing right now even on our local new...

From any windows, anywhere around the ou campus. let's go back to john well, and see what we have. >> this cloud, we had a huge cloud come over and just north of per sell just shooting back towards the north and ou campus and the whole area is black, extremely violent here. heavy winds. moderate turbulence here. we can barely see highway 9 on the south side of town. tons and tons of lightning. it appears that there is still a lot of heavy rain and what you are showing on radar, there still could be a tornado in there. through the rain and everything else. so some of those power flashes are mas...

All the power flashes, saw it all. as the local station says, they were telling everyone to go east. we saw people in pickup trucks full of people going east but i-40 eastbound was just completely -- it was a parking lot. so people were getting chased by the tornado but they couldn't go anywhere. >> did people ignore the warnings, do you think? it seems strange that there's a parking lot when you've got tornadoes coming. what happened here? >> i don't think so much that people ignored the warning. i think it's actually quite the opposite. the fact that people did listen to the warning but the ...

Yes, and we are watching the tornado. watch the live camera, you will see the tornado with the power flashes it's coming toward me. a strong tornado cuplet, i'm positive it's on the ground in the rain. and all the air is rushiñg strong here out of the southeast. probably 40 to 50. keep watching the scene, you will see the power flashes, the tornado is on the ground doing damage. i have reports of tornados on the grown from the northwest now. >> shepard: for viewers that are joining us, it's 15 minutes before 8:00 in the heartland of america. tornados are touching down all over oklahoma. one i...

Niq east. power flashes. and you can see the -- now look on the screen, you can see the inflow cloud again, it's a powerful inflow jet. >> shepard: and let you know, jeff, i will go to reid, who is on the west side of oklahoma city. look at that. those are -- that's the power going out and in some cases lightening. reid, what are you seeing to the west of the city. >> earlier, there was massive multi-vortex tornado, we have a armored vehicle, there was destruction in some of the towns. union city, we saw cars blown off the road. pulled people out of cars that had injuries. we are on the west ...