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Weather to be occurring. >> can you bring us up to speed on the damage that you've been able to witness and see at this point? i know it's dark now. you're dealing with heavy rain, flooding hail.xfcñr what have you been able to witness? >> stillñv various aspects of damage. it appears significant structure damage is west of oklahoma city. that is partially rural area, too. a lot of horse ranches and farms have been damaged. >> how many counties are involved?. >> approximately six counties here. >> what do you expect so-to-see when everyone wakes up in the morn something what do you need to ...

Search and rescue units are going door to door through that entire space to find survivors. as i indicated right now, it is a race against the clock before darkness falls. i want to bring in cnn meteorologist who is a storm chaser. we heard the governor of oklahoma say that this is worse than what happened in joplin two years ago, the horrific tornado in which 161 people lost their lives. we heard this described as unprecedented damage. what is -- how would you describe the magnitude of what has happened? >> unfortunately this damage is like you're saying, complete devastation out there. of co...

>> reporter: imagine you're home is destroyed or severely damaged and you come home and there is a red sticker on your door that threatens criminal prosecution. it says you are failing to maintain the property and you are in violation of building codes. the stickers from the new york city department of building, the agency said they are meant to try to document the damage. but despite that, folks say they were shocked. >> we have no structure damage. we called the building department back down to see if they will reevaluate the structure. >> they have to rip it apart. my stuff is inside but i ...

Bottom of the hour. stick around for that. and they lost just about everything because of hurricane sandy. now the few things they have left are about to be bulldozed. the city of new york is demolishing 200 homes deemed too dangerous to go back into. homeowners are trying to salvage what they can before it's too late. >> we got marked as red. we have no structure damage. we're calling them to come back down to reevaluate the structure. they have to rip it apart, take it apart a stuff is still inside but i can't get it out. i'm stuck. >> alisyn: the city is struggling to find homeowners now ...

South of here. and that is the reason -- the ordered that evacuation is because there is going to be about a 90-minute window that if that dam does breach, or if there is a type of structure damage to the dam, they have about 90 minutes to get out of harm's way, before the communities are inundated with water. at this point, the governor of louisiana is planning to fly over and assess the situations here. he plans to update us in about a half hour to see what the situation is. in an earlier press conference, he said there was a type of breach, no imminent danger, but they're planning to do tha...