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along i-240, between i-35 as it moves through that area. >> george, in terms your location right now on i-40 east, what can you tell us about the condition on the roadwayroadway are around in that area? >> reporter: traffic is quite heavy east and westbound on i-40 from about shaufta east to shawnee. a lot of people trying to leave the oklahoma city area as the tornadic storms were moving through. it is starting to thin out, but traffic is heavy east and westbound. >> the only two confirmed fatalities that we have heard reported from kfor confirmed by oklahoma highway patrol happened on interstate 40, a woman and her infant child killed in a car that got caught up in the storm. are you seeing debris or have you seen overturned vehicles out
tennis ball to softball sized hail also reported along with torrential downpours. i watched this develop a couple hours ago. slowly watched it trek across interstate 40 and going from a rural area storm to a much much more urban area and hearing that oklahoma city itself was evacuated and hotels and airport with everyone going under ground, that is what local meteorologists are advising. they are just saying, you have to get under ground. it is not safe enough with storms this big to just be in an interior room or bathroom. underground is the safest place to be at there moment. >> dylan, in terms of people watching nationally and warnings under effect, we should say it is 9:04 p.m. on the east coast. 8:04 local time in oklahoma city. you will hear us give times on the air that are specific to anybody who might be in harms way in this central oklahoma storm system.
in your storm shelter. this storm is not through. we are still seeing flashes. hunker down. i will try and get out. if this thing continues to cross and goes and on the road there, mike, it'll be catastrophic for several people. we have four lanes, all looking southbound. so stay in your area there, mike. >> appreciate that. report there from norman with tornado still going through. there is another significant situation in twin lakes. fire lake grand casino on 40 near the county line. far southeastern oklahoma city. far northeastern cleveland county. that the lead storm that produced the storm in south oklahoma city. there is significant warnings. stay alert. there is a tornado warning in effect. for that storm. twin lakes, dale, shawnee, the
visibility. but no power flashes. that means not anything on the ground. right now, i don't see power flashes. that would be the only indicator. was that a power flash or lightning? >> mike bennett talking about circulation on the northern side of shawnee. mike, would you verifier center of rotation is near shawnee near i-40? >> hard for us to figure out, mike. one thing we had a hard time getting bearings on the storm since we been here because of that. it's, i don't know, mike. it is hard for us to identify any area of this rotation, we lose the visibility. >> that's mike bennett, who is fine. mike bettes' car was crushed earlier by the tornado, he is
metro right now. let's go back to john well, and chopper 4 and right over norman really. directly over the ou campus. what are you seeing through there? >> we are seeing a lot of heavy lightning right now which pretty much allows us to -- we haven't seen funnels or anything drop out. lightning flash in the background but it helps us illuminate the back of the storm. it is set over norman and it has taken pretty much a straight south track. i will have to move all the way down to the airport. i'm actually just south of the airport. this thing continues to push us down south. but we got a lot of rain up there. we haven't seen any flashes the last few minutes. i-35 and about the river casino back north. it lock is like a monster tornado. and a hurricane wrapped up in
tornadoes in the city limits. that's all very preliminary. >> jamie, in terms of the continuing recovery efforts from last week, do you know if in advance of the new round of bad weather that came through today if presumably people were cleared out, i imagine it is harder to find a safe place to be in moore after what you went through last week? >> that's correct. volunteers that were working in areas were moved out, we watched the weather the entire day. national weather center in norman is maybe 15 miles from moore, so we have the best people in the world giving us information to make sure we can communicate to citizens. >> in terms of any continuing threat to moore, are you still being advised that there may be heavy weather ahead, may still be dangerous situation in your city? >> i believe the entire central oklahoma area is still under severe weather and storm watches and warnings, so we're just
okay, he was standing up, talking to emily a few hours ago. >> greg carbon at the noaa storm prediction center in norman, oklahoma, thank you for joining us. appreciate your time and expertise. >> good evening, rachel. >> can you tell us about conditions where you are in norman and how norman faired in this storm tonight? >> we've lost power in parts of norman. seems some high winds or perhaps lightning may have taken out the power awhile ago. we are still experiencing pretty gusty winds and occasionally torrential rain. it appears the tornado threat diminished quite a bit. the storm complex that brought tornadoes to oklahoma city has gusted out and cold air associated with massive amounts of rain is cutting off the inflow to the storm, likely producing an environment less favorable for tornadoes. >> cutting off inflow, less favorable environment over the course of the night. when will that become more
winds, and everything else associated with this storm, obviously we've heard reports of some localized flooding. that's got to affect the ability of rescue crews and first responders to get around it and it presumably effect evacuation as well. can you tell us anything about the state of the roads in and around the city. >> i think there is some local flood willing like you said. there probably are pockets for the flooding. but typically doesn't flood very long in oklahoma city. once it stops raining it recede very quickly. so i i think in flooding would be short term. >> do you think the city had adequate shelter and businesses closing early and people taking care early on in the afternoon today? >> yeah. we basically had 48 hours to prepare. they've been telling us this will be a high likelihood of storms. i was surprised so many people though ended up on the street. i've seen people in cars and interstates kind of got packed. people trying to move.
to just people who knew that this under ground tunnel existed and came here seeking shelter. again, some 1200 people. they brought their pets. children. airport workers walked through with bottles of water for children and everyone is calm at this point but we are still in the midst after big storm overhead and they are not letting anyone out any time soon. >> have they given you a timeframe of when you might get an all-clear or how long they think everyone will have to stay there. >> they have been great with updates. a man with a m megaphone has be walking through. he said, good news is we are between systems. but another one is coming. they haven't put a time limit here. we have been in here, i would say, approaching 90 minutes. every flight is cancelled but no one is attempting to leave. there are a few windows can you see out of. people are looking a not trying to hold their cell phone up and
moments ago we talked to lance west. he told us about a business he had seen that was destroyed. we now know more about it. p t is called performance technology. >> they had eight employees in there. they took shelter. the storm did come through and damage part of the building, blew some of it away. they had a little bit after gas leak and got everybody out okay. that's good. >> that's right. >> let's go to courtney. courtney? >> i'm on eastbound i-40 in el reno. and i'm passing throw overturned semi truck sigh ways. and in the median, all can you see is piles of sheet metal, debris. and crews are working to get semis up bright to clear them off of the highway. and there is a barn further up, by some sort of barn that was