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tornadoes struck across oklahoma, kansas, and iowa, causing widespread damage and climbi claiming the lives three people. right now, more than 16,000 customers are without power across oklahoma as strong winds brought down trees and power lines. joining us now from oklahoma is scott gibbons. deputy sheriff, thank you for being with us. what are the conditions on the ground there this morning? much better than last night we got some visibility we got crews working to clear debris and power lines off the roadway, giving us access that we didn t have last night to some of the more rural areas, addresses and locations that we weren t able to check to our satisfaction last night. just how significant is the damage i know overnight there were concerns about people being trapped in their homes where does the search and rescue effort stand this morning? we don t have any outstanding folks that we believe are still entrapped that we re aware of. that may change just based ....
Nbc news meteorologist bill karins is here to tell us what we can expect. i know you were on top of this, tweeting about this overnight. just give us the picture of what it is today and what happened overnight? this was just another strong tornado. this wasn t the tornado outbreak from the end of march, early april. this is more isolated, south of oklahoma city, south of norman it could have been a lot worse this was a strong tornado and i know we had three fatalities he said we had, you know, at least dozens of homes that are completely lost. we showed you pictures of businesses, one school that is completely lost. this was a strong tornado, likely somewhere maybe a strong ef-2, maybe low end ef-3 if it went through a city, we could have been talking a mass casualty event it is horrendous as it is, this just happened. if you get a strong tornado, wherever it hits, it is going to devastate that area. let me show you the areas that hit yesterday. we had 15 tornado reports. by the way, ....