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Out of oklahoma city and actually jeff pietrowski is ñ%ack. what are you seeing? >> breaking news for you. just got a text and e-mail. apparently the tornado from the weather channel a vehicle hiá by the tornado. a good friend e-mailed me and said mike and th team got hit and hit the vehicle on the west sid some have been injured. they are being rushed to the hospital right now. i just got an e-mail picture and the vehicle they were in was detroyed and heavily damaged. i don't know the condition of the tornado hunt team. i got a picture just e-mailed me this and said that other members were...

City, we have the airport, it has passed by there. it's now believed this is, it should be moving in to the downtown oklahoma city area right this moment. that was the prediction. that is what doppler radar is showing. the worst of this storm is going over downtown oklahoma city now. go ahead, jeff. >> yes, i'm looking at the latest information. we are clearly tracking two tornados, one is wrapped in the rain, along and south of i-40 nd close to downtown, it's coming in, it's 1 mile southwest of downtown, oklahoma patrol is taking all of the eastbound and westbound traffic and moving them to ...

East and southeast. i understand i-40 is clogged with heavy, heavy traffic. i'm trying get out of it. i'm trying get out of the path of it here. >> shepard: on the left hand side is a wide shot of oklahoma city itself. from that, we are trying give you an idea of how wide it is. what a huge area it's covering. there's a tornado in spot a does not mean that there's not another one forming in spot b. on the right hand side of the the storm chaser vehicle and de jeff is talking a million miles a minute, telling us what is going on. jeff, go on. >> i'm slowing down, shep, dave, a friend of mine, c...

Tornado has dissipated, and jeff's reporting it's easier to see one of the tornados itself. we see the power flashes happening. meaning it's taking out transformers, everyone understands that. do you have an idea of where this one is? >> give me a second. what? david? what david? he is telling me -- >> shepard: 100 miles an hour -- >> breaking news, it's hitting oklahoma city community college right now, is that right, david? it's right near the college, and a large debris cloud in oklahoma city, he has local communications with a ground unit inside the tornado saying that the tornado is near ...

Rotating and it may last two or three minutes, weakens and then more tornados form. that is what has been happening. >> shepard: in from the national weather service. the oklahoma highway patrol said that motorists have been hurt in a storm that hit the oklahoma city area and that other people are now listed as missing. the national weather service issued this emergency for the city the's downtown, the airport that has been evacuated and suburbs to the north and south of oklahoma city, as the storm continues to role through the metropolitan area, there's a trooper named betsy randolph that sai...