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Breaking news. a tornado on the ground near oklahoma city. let's go live to our meteorologist jennifer gray. she's at the cnn weather center. what do we know? >> a tornado warning in effect right now for grady as well as mcclain counties including cities of blanchard and bridge creek. the tornado warning will include possibly norman, maybe the south side of oklahoma city. this is just on the outskirts. this is until 5:30 central time. you can see the proximity to oklahoma city just on the southwest side moving about 25 miles per hour, to the northeast. we know moore is no stranger to tornadoes...

Try to get into that area, but it is an area, if you look at the entire seaboard the mid atlantic states are favored for this to happen and it's another way below normal year for tornadoes. only six. a record low for the date. so, things like this could be expected. >> what makes the difference between severe storms and a watch for them and then the next leap to tornado? >> the tornadic activity has a different stronger set of parameters that cause the extra rotation. forz the -- there's one area north, which has a chance to get more inflow out of the south. the other area is on the southeast ...

The west and some might produce strong winds and hail and large amounts of rainfall and the chance of tornadic activity. you take a look at the national perspective over towards the central plains could see snowfall and rain move into the ohio valley and some into the great lakes, and we are going to see the chance of scattered showers. we could see widespread delays and in the deep south. sfl many headaches for a lot of americans on your saturday. so it looks like the weekend of troublesome weather. we will send it back to you. >> thank you for the update. indonesia officials say search tea...

They are saying parts of memphis between 12 and 18 inches of rainfall. cars have stalled out. we had an unconfirmed report that an apartment building had several feet of water in it. the rain is coming down so quickly it's being measured in inches per hour. right now there's a flash flood warning out for the memphis area. but this area is also a region where the ground is absolutely saturated. they can't take anymore wet weather. the midwest, we have seen for weeks now the ground saturated there as well. most notably in minneapolis where a number of areas, they have sandbagging, neighbor helpi...

This circulation is going to be developing here about a 40% likelihood in the next two days, we could see this possibly turn into tropical storm arthur. and then across the midwest, a big storm. not just from minnesota that you heard so much about over the last several days, but also across the ohio river valley with strong storms, oklahoma, wind gusts as high as 70 miles an hour. but here's the problem today. watch out. between interstate 80, interstate 70, where you've got this moderate risk from des moines to lincoln to omaha, just to the north of kansas city, this is where you could see th...