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Shelter with other family members. possibly -- certainly other children and an adult in a storm ditch. was swept away, which obviously, you know, deepens the severity of the incident exponentially. so beyond that, we're receiving a lot of missing persons calls. we really don't know how many of those are potential victims. the missing persons reports are not uncommon. most of them are cleared within the first 24 hours after an event like this. that said, obviously, the number of casualties would probably go up. we would expect that to go up in the next 24 hours. hopefully not much and hopefully...

Off. people in the airport were ultimately forced to shelter down in the basement. power has been restored to the airport. again, no flights are coming in or out. you talk about transportation. one of the effects we saw last night, a lot of people tried to race home ahead of the weather and that caused a big traffic pileup. we can see from some video out of hinton, oklahoma, a big traffic jam that formed. as you can see the funnel clouds, the storm off in the distance. people are at great risk at this point because if they're in their car, they're not as protect as some sort of structure or do...

>> is that a vortice on the side? it's unrecognizable. >> houses are leveled. >> this doesn't even look like it was a development. >> for those in its path, a frantic race for cover. >> very loud, and you could see stuff flying everywhere. just about like on the movie "twister." >> they said it was coming. we were like, what do we do? do we have time to get in the vehicle to outrun it? we have pets. or do we just hunker down. so we grabbed our motorcycle helmets and hid in the closet and prayed like hell. and luckily the only reason we were spared is the room we were in. >> caught outside with...

Martha: sure do. >> thank you. martha: she is a strong woman. and we wish her well. coming up look at this picture, we will talk to a reporter live on the scene who can give us some more insight into what it is like on the ground there at this moment, and also coming up what country star trace atkins is doing to help the folks in moore, oklahoma, when we come back. >> we see it coming straight towards us because it's heading east right up the middle of the road. at that point it's time for us to just start making moves. so we go a little bit farther down the road, i'd say about a hundred meter...

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