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Just a tornado itself. but the winds associated with the storm, incredibly large hail as large as soft balls. that is some four inch as cross. and also the flooding conditions. you need to be off the roadways at this point. there is no excuse for anybody except for emergency personnel and some of our trained chasers to be out at this point. jake? >>reminder. if you're just tuning in, you're seeing live footage of koco of an immense storm heading east towards the oklahoma city area. the storm has already produced several tornadoes, one violent and large tornado according to the national weather...

Loved ones because i want to let them have their time to mourn and grieve and do what they need to do to help their families now. i have been to the shelter, certainly been in the neighborhood, talked to the citizens. went to the shelter awhile ago, talked to some of the people that had been in the tornado itself, staying at the shelter. also talked to one of the teachers that was a hero at briarwood school that had students and she were trapped under a lot of debris, the fireman pulled her out, it was a remarkable story. lot of good stories today of people that are true heroes, people that su...

Miles per hour. they'll be out tomorrow looking at the real damage, not just aerials. >> did you say the debris around this thing was as wide as 2 1/2 miles at one point? >> that's right. when the suction picks stuff up off the ground, it throws it into the tornado itself, into the funnel, into the c condensation funnel and everything gets thrown out. if the radar sees all of that debris and thinks it's rain, thinks it's something, it's bouncing off of that debris. and that debris bounce-off field is 2 1/2 miles in diameter. you can see how much larger the debris field is when it turned into i...

we're following the breaking news this hour, a tornado outbreak that scraped parts of the midwest this morning, killing at least nine people and injuring more than 100. hardest hit, harrisburg, illinois, where at least six people died, including two children. within the last half hour, we learned the tornado was a category ef-4, with winds, get this, up to 170 miles an hour, and as wide as two football fields. in the last hour, the mayor spoke at a grief-stricken news conference. >> we have suffered the loss of lives. we've suffered many injures, and millions of dollars worth of is i...

Went down yesterday. >> this radar is remarkable how it blew up. we'll run through this real quick. the tornado itself, the radar, just really ripped through joplin after exploding across southeast kansas. this wasn't a long-lived event where it went 200, 300 mile super cells like the last ones that rolled through alabama. it was enough to have all the ingredients to explode and notice it moved to the south and effort. 48 reports of tornadoes yesterday. 20 on saturday. also a deadly tornado in kansas saturday. of course our friends in minneapolis we're thinking of you, several injured with one...