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>> one of the big problem hes and what we saw out there, people running from the storm in their vehicles are not only exposing themselves to a great deal of risk but actually impede our ability to deliver emergency services and also our ability to restore utility services on the backside. so if you are running from the storm just as it is coming into the area you are way behind the if that was something you were going to do you needed to do that a long time ago. at this point we are asking people to please shelter in place, please stay off the roads so we can get emergency equipment and emerge...

6:00 central time they started t form and now they are racing across metropolitan oklahoma city. started west of the city, about 30 miles west. began a track that was first due east and then southeast and then northeast and then one of these tornadoes just went right along interstate 40 as it tracked right into downtown oklahoma city. tornadoes were falling from the sky in areas to the north and south of the city. arepáhto the west have been hit. we have eyewitness reports of mobile home parks being flattened, of people being injured according to authorities. a number ofxpeople said to be mi...

And then head back out to try to make sure people were heeding warnings. what is your sense of things? >> it has been chaotic because the storm has been big. it had a wide swath and hit many communities. still lightning and raining here in oklahoma city. i'm right next to the capitol, the governor's house. the power has gone off four times in oklahoma city alone. and many other communities all around oklahma city experienced the storm itself. i have had a report from the oklahoma highway patrol we had at least two fatalities on i-40 west of oklahoma city and there have been some people taken ...

These are live pictures courtesy of kokh in oklahoma city coming to us from a roadway there. do we have any context on this in the booth? apparently we don't. the storm so wide that the tornado threat has diminished. i want to bring rick reichmuth in on this. the weather radar out of oklahoma city shows the leading edge of the storm, rick, is where the greatest danger though diminishd, the greatest danger of tornadoes exist now, right? >> there is only one tornado warning in the greater oklahoma city area. pretty far out into the suburbs about 30-40 miles east now and that is the one that is ...

Historic storm that is now tracking across the heartland. q9here is our hope. our hope is they so much warning that most people went to ground but you just before the storm came through just before the sun is set we could see lines of cars stretching in all drrections out of the city of oklahoma city, especially to the the north and south as they try to get away from this massive storm system. casualties, we know there are some and we don't know how many. by casualties i mean injuries. we have no idea how many. we have no idea exactly where the damage is and we can't know exact le where the ne...