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History. for instance, if you were in dire circumstances before and you don't want to admit those circumstances to yourself, like growing up in a household where you are constantly in danger and you really denied and denied that, you might stay, in circumstances like this, because you can't bring yourselves to believe there's a calamity unfolding. these people on rooftops should have been rescued from other circumstances and they weren't and didn't want to look at it up on a roof with a helicopter grabbing them. >> isn't this situational? if you can get to your storm cellar, you go there and i...

Extremely fast clip. by the way, we just got word that we have a tornado one mile south of the fairgrounds and visible from the airport, is that what i hear? correct. okay. so it is visible from the airport itself. this is a very dangerous strong powerful tornado that is moving into the oklahoma city area from the southwest to the northeast. people are being urged to take cover at this hour in the lowest level of their house, the most interior room of their house, if they don't have a storm cellar. if you have a neighbor or you know someone who has a storm cellar, you may want to become fast f...

Were similar to may 20th, we would probably be in for some pretty severe weather. my husband and i were pretty prepared for that. we decided we are staying in, not going anywhere, and the sirens and stuff went off, and wind started to pick up, the rain came, we went to the neighbor's storm cellar, did that with our family and just kind of rode it out under that. we didn't come back out until, you know, the sirens quit. >> you were in briarwood elementary when the storm hit under two weeks ago. can you explain, describe your experience with that? >> yeah. it was in the afternoon, had

Storms. last year we didn't have that many storms. it's been a little bit remarkable as far as having some storms this year. >> what i hear you saying, governor is, what, the next half hour, potentially, could be the most ominous? is that what's going on? >> absolutely. i'm looking at the sky. and it's pretty dark in the area. and it's moving -- mostly moving into the oklahoma city area, around i-40, which is a major interstate that runs east-to-west through oklahoma. which it will come right toward oklahoma city. and it's about 40 miles out from here. if it moves on to the south and the east,...

Get into a basement of a building. if you're at work and you've already got a basement, or a storm shelter, don't leave work, just stay there. it's better to be in a place. >> chad, hold on for a moment. we're just getting word of significant, what's described as activity west of oklahoma city. we're watching this situation unfold. stand by, everyone stand by. we'll take a quick break and resume our special coverage right after this. i want to make things more secure.