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Junction, i believe it is called, is under water right now. parts of it at least. and if you want to evacuate, and an ambulance by my house, i think they were turned around in the wrong neighborhood, but we have high with thor, that will impact everything. we are hearing advice from the oklahoma highway poe troll that mote vist are on or around interstate 40 should leave the highway and should take shelter. what kind of shelter should people be looking for if they are caught out on the road and are told, they are listening to the media and advised to take shelter, what kind of shelter? that s a very tough question to answer, of course. you always want to get off the road in a storm, especially when there is potential for tornadic activity. what is heightened more with this storm going through oklahoma, it was following interstate 40 for some time. i believe it veered off to the south side. i m looking at a lot of reports ....
Limits it steps down again. but oklahoma city, at this point has been spared. but damage hasn t been all collected? in terms of how safe oklahoma city should feel, are you seeing advised and that worst may be over or is there no reason to think this is an all-clear because the storm is present? i think we don t want to be naive. it appears, but to answer your question, it does feel like the worst is over. but we know better. there is some significant power outages so a lot of people are on their cell phones taking in the media. but over all, the sun is still too cloudy to see it but skies are still light to the west. and that s a good sign. it was much darker an hour ago than it is now. from the storm experience that you have had and heavy rain and hail, and straight line ....
Double fatality. mother and instant killed in a vehicle on closed interstate 40. that stretch of roadway itself seems to have been a path for at left some of the tornadoes and a place where a lot of people got caught out in trouble. want to bring in msnbc meteorologist, dylan dreyer. what is latest on the overall direction of this storm? general direction of this whole storm, the one that stretches from illinois back into oklahoma. the slow-moving cold front moving slowly east. this is the area of concern today where we knew we would see very strong thunderstorms and isolated area back through oklahoma where we would see those very strong tornadoes, which has played out. tornado watch boxes extend up into parts of illinois. we had reports of tornadoes in wisconsin. through illinois. in the st. louis area and into oklahoma city where the threat was heightened and a. a potentially dangerous ....
Without power. we believe those numbers will rise. it is currently report had that those without power. another big problem is flash flood pg. we have been told that people at crossroads mall are stuck in the parking lot because of the flooding. and they are having a hard time getting out. again we are having a hard time with rescue crews and emergency vehicles getting to those who need help at this point in time. if you have a livloved one who know is in the area, keep your cell phones by you and make sure you are in contact with that person. they may have a tough time getting out of there. at one point, we had 1,000 people. 1,000 in the tunnels underneath will rogers airport. the storm was coming that way and they got a thousand people under there. also the barons play off hockey game, they today get people into the clohesapeake arena. and they handled that well. ....
Some year near the el reno area. we tell people not to drive into the storm. this may be the deal where there was no in the, no warning. and it is just gut wrenching and heart breaking. we have multiple crashes all over. just includes mustang, el reno, yukon, oklahoma city, moore and now into norman. we are stopping traffic on i-35 coming north. stopping and turning back south. and we are asking everyone, everyone on i-40, anywhere around oklahoma city metro area, if you do not have to be on the highway, do not get on i-40 right now. don t get on i-35. take shelter. to not get on the interstate right now. we appreciate that. we will come back to you in a ....