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5:00 p.m. eastern time. we will continue to see the tornado watches throughout the rest of the afternoon and even as we head into monday. so we have two days here in tampa fort possibility of tornadic activity. the latest update is that we have maximum sustained winds of 65 miles per hour, currently, the storm moving to the west-northwest at 18 miles per hour. very warm water across the gulf. so the storm is going to become a category 1 hurricane and possibly even a category 2 hurricane before landfall across southern parts of mississippi, maximum sustained winds of 105 miles per hour. that's ...

There's potential for tornadic activity also and the strong winds. power outages are expected all over the region, and as you know, tamron, we're talking about devastation possibly here with catastrophic conditions affecting some 50 million people. >> so many people affected by this, vivian. thank you very much for the latest. let's go to emerald isle, north carolina where neighbors's kerry sanders is standing by with us for the latest. >> reporter: it's actually a beautiful day here on emerald isle here in north carolina, and the folks here are, of course, irene is back that way about 900-plu...

People today. this is going to be a horrible day, we knew it. we've been talking about it for a week. it's been a crazy day. i guess now i just talked to the news room. the death toll is officially ten year and they're still trying to find people. there were a lot of tornadoes on the ground for quite a while today. >> yeah. david payne, i'm glad you were safe and appreciate you talking to us tonight. there has been loss of life in oklahoma. joining us on the phone is the governor of oklahoma. we appreciate her talking to us. governor, what is the latest information about the situation in oklah...

But it was actually safer for the kids to be at school than in some of the homes there. >> incredible. no one injured? >> no one injured. nothing. we had probably about five or six families that lost everything. one parent actually sent a text message to her teacher -- her child's teacher to say, we just lost our home, but don't say anything to the student. we want to tell him ourself. so it was really an emotional time. that was, i would say, in decades, that was the most severe storm that ever hit the city of chattanooga. >> it has been a historic storm on so many levels. >> yes. >> the dead...