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off and they got the truck in and -- and found a man and a woman and a baby. >> reporter: they begun the search for more survivors. here is the latest. the tornado hit the oklahoma city suburb of moore 4 hours ago. 10 people are confirmed 10. two dozen children may be dead at the school destroyed by the tornado. another school was also damaged. authorities put a no-fly zone into the area. they are concerned concerned the helicopters will muffle the cries for help. that is the latest. back to you. >> our chief meteorologist bill martin has been tracking the tornado. we heard two miles wide. that is markable for a tornado
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-- remarkable for a tornado. >> yeah. it is a massive tornado. this isn't just one tornado, there is a bunch of them from the great lakes south to texas. there is cold air from the planes, from here. you can see the low-pressure system. and there is moist, warm air. where they collide that is where the tornadwatches watches and warnings are. i put in the areas showing rotation. you see the spinning? those are storms that are rotating, they could produce severe weather and tornadoes. how many tornadoes today? there was one big one in moore, oklahoma. take a look. these are official tornado reports on the ground by the national weather service. lot of tornadoes. not just one. that low pressure i showed you, the dynamics are in place for
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this to opportunity tonight and tomorrow as well. when i come back we will look at this and your weather back here. >> right now we have live pictures here from moore, okay. as you can see -- moore, oklahoma. as you can see. i heard a story about a family who went into their bath room as the tornado was coming, when they came out all that was left of their house was the bath room. everything else was gone. you can see here, nothing left, as we have been talking about. incredible size for a tornado and you can see the damage it has caused, a lot of it and there are reports a number of people have died and a number of the victims were kids inside a school there in moore, oklahoma. we will continue to follow this. we can tell you the state
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medical examiner said today a second person has died from the tornadoes that hit yesterday near oklahoma city. both victims were men in their 70s. it is not clear if both lived in the same mobile home park. tornadoes in wichita got so close to a television team an anchor team has done something they have never done in 20 years. >> as the storm bears down -- >> you know, in 20 years i never said this, i think it is our time to go. we have been monitoring the conditions. at this point, folks, we here at ksn are moving to our shelters. we will continue to talk with you as long as we can. we are leaving the radar image up but it appears it is time for all of us to get to shelter. get to shelter right now.
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ryan, newton, now! ryan. everybody down below. let's go. >> remarkable video. you can hear the tornado outside that studio and this is video of one of the tornadoes. the storm uprooted trees, and spawned hail that was so big it broke windows. in vacaville a six alarm grass fire is under control. we brought it to you at 2:45 p.m. as breaking news. officials say the flames destroyed a barn and a travel trailer and threatened homes. it burned through 15 acres before firefighter brought it under full containment. the cause is under investigation. in contra costa county a grass fire destroyed 8 acres and burned close to homes. news chopper 2 brought us these
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pictures live today. as firefighters dropped retardant on the flames. this started at 1:20 p.m. this afternoon. it gave some neighbor as scare. >> fortunate the wind was blowing in this direction. >> lot of excitement. i have never seen the airplanes with the fire retardant. >> crazy. it was insane. >> firefighters from cal fire, contra costa county contained the fire in 90 minutes. officials don't know what caused the fire. five-year-old died after the car she was in rolled over. it happened on the richmond parkway. ktvu's ken pritchett is at the scene and tells us six people were in the car but only one was wearing a seatbelt. >> the only one wearing a
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seatbelt was the driver. six people in the car, three children, there were no car seats in the vehicle and with a 5-year-old dead, police say the driver could face charges. >> reporter: bird song replaced the traffic noise. this suv was the last car of the morning commute. >> that was very, very hard to see. >> reporter: she lives next to the intersection. she heard the crash at 8:00 a.m. and came out to see a child dying in the road. >> it is heart breaking to know this child did not have their seatbelt on. >> reporter: police say the driver of the suv was heading westbound when the driver lost control after swerving to avoid another car. >> potentially the driver of the suv may have been -- attention may have diverted. >> the five-year-old was
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thrown from the suv as it rolled twice. she suffered major head trauma and died at the hospital. police say the girl's death was avoidable. >> the five-year-old should have been secured properly. >> reporter: what she witnessed this morning was horrible. she called friends and relatives to remind them to buckle up. >> one easy step and i could have saved my child. >> reporter: police say the people in the car were from san pablo. they assume they were family members. the parkway was closed for six hours. opened at 2:00 p.m. this afternoon and police believe that speed was not a major factor in this crash. ken pritchett, ktvu channel 2 news. a high school student on a
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bicycle was killed in san jose this morning. ktvu's robert handa is live after talking with people who knew the victim. >> reporter: anyone who travels in this area knows how busy it could be. it is especially busy right now and in the morning hours which is when the teen was hit. he died. we know the boy was not wearing a helmet. the investigation is ongoing and for those who knew the victim, the grieving. >> the view from news chopper 2 shows you how quickly it disrupted the commute. police say a teen riding a bicycle was hit in an intersection by a man driving a why truck. paramedics tried to revive him
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at the scene but he died at the hospital. he was a sophomore. friends, students and teachers are still dealing with the shock of losing a person they describe as happy and upbeat. >> keep your head up. he was a good friend. to hear about his passing is hard, heart breaking. i am sorry for the family. just really hard. >> always singing. often dancing. wants to be a music producer. >> reporter: investigators are trying to determine how the collision occurred. ithe driver will continue to cooperate. the only thing he wanted to say was that there was a lot of traffic. a woman says the intersection has been a problem for many
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years. >> a life was just taken from him, you know? just taken away. >> reporter: at this hour police and the medical examiner haven't released the boy's name. at 6:00 p.m. more on the investigation and the effort to get changes to make this area safer. robert handa, ktvu channel 2 news. university of california medical centers were granted a restrainer order that limits the size of a strike. they held a news conference saying the strike will put patients at risk. they plan to keep emergency services operating but dozens of surgeries and other treatments have been canceled and hiring replacements will cost $20 million. the restrainer order applies to 450 employees in critical positions. >> we believe even with the restraining order all of the
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cancilations will still be in place. it will only bring our staffing up a small percentage. >> more than 12,000 eyes are still expected to walk off the job -- employees are still pacted to walk off the job -- expected to walk off the job tomorrow. governor jerry brown gave the commencement speech at university of california at berkeley. [ music ] >> governor jerry brown and graduating seniors. governor jerry brown graduated from university of california at berkeley in 1961. his father was governor at the time and handed jerry brown his diploma. he said that was a bit embarrassing. >> no one knew i was the son of the governor till i graduated. and by the way, he wasn't that
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popular at the moment in time. >> governor jerry brown focused on the future of california and the ability of individual people to make a change for the good. a man died after a four story from a bay to breakers house party. what neighbors saw and heard. >> significant changes coming your day. today was very warm. tomorrow very different. when i come back the specifics on your tuesday forecast. ♪ ♪
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we learned the man who fell after the bay to breakers race on sunday has now died. ktvu's david stevenson tells us we know the name of that person and more about how it happened. david? >> reporter: we learned more about the victim who fell off this roof and heard from neighbors. >> i was athome and i heard a
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thud. >> this resident described to us what happened sunday afternoon after a man fell from this roof during a bay to breakers after party. >> it was -- i mean it was crazy. literally couple minutes after i heard it i started hearing police sirens. >> reporter: the victim was 28 years old. a manager at demand force. he was among six people on the roof of this condo building. >> apparently they had been drinking and fell off the roof. >> reporter: it is unclear whether a residents or outsiders through the party but it doesn't appear to be a criminal case. >> awful tothink of somebody -- to think ofimably falling -- of
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somebody falling. >> just such a tragedy. probably will be discussing the situation and future strategies for maintaining security for future bay to breakers. >> reporter: police broke up 20 house parties yesterday but say with increased security this was one of the least roddy years for bay to breakers part -- rowdy years for bay to breakers parties. david stevenson, ktvu channel 2 news. >> here are more details about the bay to breakers. 21 arrests for public intoxication. one person arrested for possession of a gun and one felony arrest for robbery. san francisco police spokesperson says one officer suffered a minor injury while making an arrest and that 16 people were taken to sobering centers. a proposal to charge disabled drivers to park in san francisco may be on its way to the mayor's office.
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expanding and metering blue disabled parking zones. supporters say it would cut down on abuse and free up more parking spaces for those who need them. >> i think i am okay with feeding a meter on a smaller scale. something that keeps it fair to those who may not benefit from the situation. >> implementing fees and time limits needs approval at the state level but a proposal is expected to go this fall. in the oakland hills no flair ups following a fire that broke out this morning. started before 1:00 a.m. this morning near the science center. a ktvu was there. it took firefighters an hour and a half to surround the fire due to brush and poison oak in
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the area. what started the fire is still under investigation but they think it may have been started by illegal campers. >> we don't do open pits. we have a history of fires and we are susceptible to fires. >> flames burned three acres of trees, grass and brushes. and we have new video of a arsonist being arrested by police right after she started a grass fire. the video shows the officer approaching the woman on the hillside. officers say she was incorruptative and that is why they knew -- uncooperative and that is why they knew here to the -- through her to the ground. she used a lighter to ignite the grass. that fire spread towards homes but firefighters were able to
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stop the flames before they did damage. investigators are looking at a barbecue that started a fire. it started before 1:00 a.m. three people inside got out safely and called 911. the fire destroyed a garage and a pool out. officials put the damage at a $500,000 -- half million dollars. the parks service should have been told to changes at yosemite national park. three people died last summer with hantavirus after staying in the cabins. a new report notes a concession air added wall studs to the cabin. deer mice then nested inside. our ktvu weather center was busy all day long tracking
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fires and bill, you have been talking to us about the hot weather. >> the hills, they are still green in the hills. that is why they knocked the fires down. plenty warmth today. temperatures into the 90s. the winds were there. slightly there. still green out there in the hills and that helped but it is fire season and it underscores the dangers we see. it was warm. look what is coming. this system. is it going to bring rain? no. but it will drop temperatures 15-20 degrees. major cool down. that brings the fog back to the coast. temperatures not like these. 60s and 70s. 89 in fairfield. 87 livermore. pretty hot. 73 oakland. warm around the bay. typical summer -- not summer.
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this is what you look for in the summer. heat inland, mild at the bay. cool at the coast. tomorrow cooler for most of us. you will notice it. that helps fire danger, air quality. the low, as it comes in, stretches out the fog. simple. stretches out the fog, marine layer means moist, cool air. could mean fog. pushing into the valley, napa valley, moisture, humidity, it comes up. fire danger drops off. allergy issues go away a little bit. big change in the weather. fire danger shouldn't be a major concern tomorrow. we are expecting winds tomorrow. here we are tomorrow morning 10:00 a.m. 30 miles per hour winds pacifica. for wind along the coast.
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34 miles per hour winds at stenson beach. tomorrow morning at 10:00 a.m. cool, moist air into sacramento, foothills. into the afternoon hours. winds higher in some areas. what did i say? cooler tomorrow. breezier. higher humidity and different day than today. when we come back the forecast highs, cooler than today and we will look down the road in the five-day forecast, things are going to change towards -- looks to be a holiday weekend. see you back here. breaking news in oklahoma. powerful tornadoes there. as we bring you live pictures of rescue crews. we have just received news the medical examiner office confirms 37 people have been killed in oklahoma as a result of the tornado.
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the medical examiner says it expects the death toll to rise. we mentioned there was a elementary school that took a direct hit in the storm. we do not know how many of the dead are children. we know that that school and many other buildings in moore are in extreme chaos with crews digging through rubble. we have seen and heard reports of children being pulled from the rubble alive and crying. the newest information we just got, 37 people confirmed dead as a result of the tornado and extreme weather in moore, oklahoma. some reports, the tornado one was two miles wide. we showed you pictures of the destruction. the newest information we have is that 37 people are confirmed dead. we don't know how many are children. so you know, we are expecting
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to hear from officials in the city of moore, oklahoma, in the next 10 minutes. when that happens we will bring it live to you. the governor of oklahoma has reached out to president obama and that president obama has offered the nation's help and gave the governor a direct line to his office. new numbers are out to show the number of poor people living in the bay area is going through the roof. coming up the two main reasons for that. >> common, prayer at city counsel or other government meetings, the key decision made today by the supreme court. medications?
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$0 deposit, and $0 first month's payment on any new volkswagen. visit vwdealer.com today. . thought of as a innercity program. more people are living in poverty in america's suburbs than in its city. in 11 years it jumped 67% nationwide. in the bay area. we have seen a similar change. in the san francisco area, 56%. in san jose, the poor population increased by 53%. there are two big forces. first of all, population changes. with more people moving. and secondly unemployment. the supreme court announced
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today it will consider whether prayer may be offered at government meetings. they signed briefs supporting prayer at public meetings. they say thecologist allows -- the constitutional allows for the prayer. thought opponents say it has no place in government. >> when you have prayers being prayed it looks, feels, sounds like an endorsement of christianity by the government. >> arguments will take place at the supreme court in november or december. a decision is likely next year. contract negotiations broken off between a south carolina company and concession workers add at&t park. according to the company, leaders walked out of contract
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talks last thursday. the union says the pay for workers at at&t has been frozen for three years. however they claim employees earn the highest pay in the nation for concession workers. the workers voted to authorize a strike at some point during this current baseball season. he took drugs and he sold them but this is no ordinary crime. he was the head of a drug enforcement team. would a judge show him mercy? what happened in court today next. >> and a big move, yahoo buys up a blogging site for a billion dollars. is it a big splash or a gamble?
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complete bay area news coverage continues right now, this is ktvu channel 2 news at 5:00 p.m. a judge showed no mercy today when she sentenced the head of a bay area drug enforcement team but first our top story. a tornado that has slammed into a oklahoma city suburb. that twister was two miles wide as it passed through moore, oklahoma. the state medical examiner confirms 37 people are dead. the tornado also hit a school. the school is just gone. authorities say they shifted from search and rescue at that school to recovery. that is not a good sign because they think there are no more survivors and a tv station 24 children were killed at the
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school and the tornado damaged a local hospital. we are waiting for news conference to begin. when it does we hope to carry it live with updated information on the situation in moore, oklahoma. now back to the former head of the drug enforcement team. he was sentenced after pleading guilty to charges, including selling drugs. he will spend a long time behind bars. ktvu's paul chambers was in court. seems his apology didn't make a difference to the judge. >> reporter: it was a packed courtroom with 40 friends and family in attendance and he asked for leniency. >> reporter: we were there when his attorney and family entered court. he was hopeful the judge would sentence him to home confinement. >> he was hoping the judge
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would grant him concessions. >> reporter: she gave him 14 years in prison. in a tearful statement he apologized to his family, law enforcement and to the people of california. he said he was ashamed. >> we are not saying he didn't commit the offenses. we are saying the motivation was mental disease. >> the judge disagreed. repeating several times he admitted he wanted to make money before he retired. >> he has been unfairly singled out because he is a cop and as the court said, you know, i need to sentence in a way that the public doesn't lose respect for the courts. >> reporter: new piece of evidence we learned, a sex
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tape. someone blackmailed him into continuing the crime spree. he blew a kiss to friends and family and said good-bye. paul chambers, ktvu channel 2 news. police are looking for two men who shot and killed a teen as had boy was sitting in a car. jose luis quinones was sitting in the driver's seat of a car with three friends when the men walked up and began shooting about 11:00 p.m. two others in the car were wounded. police found 25 shell casings. >> based on the witness accounts there was definitely no communication between the suspect and the victims. the victims were just hit in a car. the car was running. >> police believe the shooting was gang related but they would
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not elaborate. the victim's father said he was not in a gang. yahoo explained its plan to spend a billion dollars to buy tumblr. ktvu's health and science editor john fowler is live where you found reaction? >> reporter: that's right. lot of folks said they were surprised at yahoo but they say microblogging is hot and tumblr the hottest. >> always connected. >> people are always posting new things. nice to see what everybody is posting. >> reporter: think of twitter for blogs and photos. >> there is a lot of interesting new content. it is up to speed. >> reporter: this is my tumblr feet. there are 108 million contributors.
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yahoo plans to spend 1.1 billion for the company. >> great decision on their part. it is widely used. >> tumblr made $14 million last year. experts say the ceo appears to be paying 10 times too much but tumblr may be different. >> user generated content. people spend time on the site. gives them an opportunity to become cooler. >> reporter: adding advertising will hurt tumblr. >> reporter: yahoo says it will complete the deal in the fall but will keep it a separate company. reporting live in san francisco, john fowler, ktvu channel 2 news. >> yahoo's announcement didn't have too much of an effect
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today. closing at $26.58. on wall street today, the dow is down 19 to 15,335. the nasdaq is down 2 at 3,496. the s&p is down 1 to 1,666. all she was doing was watching television. how a 10-year-old was killed while at home with her parents and what we learned about the investigation and how it relates to her brothers. >> and coffee could be good for your health, the disease that coffee helps prevent. you kids should count yourselves lucky.
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we are getting a better picture of sexual assault in the melitary -- military. 85,000 veterans were treated for problems from military sexual abuse. there are long term consequences, including ptsd. relatives are calling calling for justice after a 10- year-old girl was gunned down in sacramento county. two gunman stood outside a home saturday night and fired a number of shots through the picture window and the door. inside she was hit while she was watching television with
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her parents. they were also injured but expected to survive. >> you think this home was targeted. the family was targeted. >> authorities have been interviewing a teenage brother who was in another room and a 20-year-old brother who was out at the time. drinking coffee may help prevent a rare liver disease. researchers looked at people who have psc. comparing them to a control group, they found those with psc were less likely coffee drinkers. a frightening scene, what happened when we took prescription pill bottles to preschoolers and two things you should never do if you have bottles like these. >> temperature drops tomorrow,
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has been a spike in the number of children rushed to the er after being poisoned by medications. >> potentially danger and risk associated with kids ingesting medication could be life threatening. >> reporter: these caps don't have to be child proof, only resistant. meaning they keep children under 4-1/2 years old out 85% of the test. we wanted to put it to the test. they agreed to let us conduct an experiment. we brought a bag full of new empty bought tools see if they couldope -- bottles to see if they could open them. . >> we will see. >> i want to see if you can open them. >> one, two, three. >> reporter: the children scrambled for a bottle and their fingers go to work.
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takes 10 seconds before a four- year-old is the first to open a child resistant cap. seconds after that. she figured it out. after a couple of minutes this is what the children left behind. >> hard for me but i opened it. >> i didn't think my daughter would be able to do it. i was surprised. >> she opened it so easy. that surprised me. >> reporter: the director said parents should never unestimate how persistent they are -- under estimate how persistent they are. and this should remind all parents not to have a false sense of security. >> no, you are not going going to take your eye off of them in a pool, no, you are not going to keep your medicines out just
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because it is child proof. >> reporter: don't even open or take your medicine in front of your children, you are essentially teaching them what to do. >> the fda has yet to tell us about it. if you are wondering why they aren't more difficult to open it, because seniors could be locked out. at 6:00 p.m. the change that could be changing to prescription bottles in california and why pharmacists are not happy about it. research finds more health problems with children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. researchers followed 200 children through adulthood and found they were more likely to be over weight as adults. researchers believe people with adhd may be self medicating
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with carbohydrates, which promotes dopamine. new labeling requirements for sun screen, labes will have to have information about protection from skin cancers and warning if it doesn't meet with fda tests and they will have to endicate if it is water re-- indicate if it is water resistant. some don't think the rules go far enough. >> people see that number and they have this false sense of security. >> they tested 1400 products products and that 1-7 claims an spf number. 30 is adequate.
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you just reapply. two wildfires today in the bay area this afternoon alone. our chief meteorologist bill martin to tell us about a change that is coming. >> fire danger up today. hot in the bay area. 80s and 90s. what you are looking at is a weather system that will come in and drop temperatures down 10, 15, 20 degrees. that changes things around quite a bit. with that moisture or the cooler we will see more moisture and less pollen. everything changes tomorrow. cooler and breezier. wind gusts into the 20s and 30s along the coast. breezy day coast side. breezy in your neighborhood as well. coast late, tonight, tomorrow morning, fog lingers and then goes away. there is the fog right there.
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along the great highway. and in the afternoon it clears out. temperatures tomorrow mostly in the 60s and 70s. yellows are 70s. temperatures using colors. greens are 60s. most of us tomorrow when we were in the 80s will be in the 60s tomorrow. cooler. forecast, will be for the cooling. gives firefighter as break. temperatures trend down. this low-pressure system is pushing in. temperatures start to drop. big drop into tuesday and wednesday and hangs there. game tonight at at&t, 7:15 p.m., 63 degrees. not a bad night. highs tomorrow, 77 in napa. highs are looking pretty warm. move forward. five-day forecast with your bay area weekend in view. you can see it right here.
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definitely on the mild side compared to what we have seen. now to more, oklahoma. the press conference is starting. talking about the horrible tornado that hit there in moore, oklahoma killing 37 people. >> we are doing everything we can as a state to get as much emergency personnel, all the different charities, doing search and rescue. trying to make sure we looked under every single piece of debris, building, roads, communities to find anyone that might be injured or lost from the storms that hit oklahoma. i want to say how much i appreciate all the first responders, the law enforcement, the fire, the police, salvation army, we called out the national guard and many other emergency services throughout the state. the hospitals that are
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responding so well to those that have been injured in this terrible storm. and we are doing everything we can to get all the resources and we have other areas that we are dealing with now. we will bear no resource. we will bring every resource out that we can. we had offers from other governors. i had a phone call from president obama who sends his prayers for the state and offered to do anything he can to speed up our federal assistance and any type of red tape that may be in our way, offer resources. we called in extra resources from out of state for search and rescue. brought in rescue dogs. it will be dark soon and we want to do everything we can to continue to look for those that might be lost in this tragedy.
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i want to encourage all oklahomaens to stay away. we have lots of emergency personnel working. we have tremendous traffic jams right now with i-35 and i-44 that took a direct hit. and there are many side streets that are also jammed up. communication is very hard with cell phone towers and downed power lines throughout the areas of the state. in moore. communication is very, very hard. we are asking the public to be as patient as possible and letting us work through what we need to and knowing every doing everything we can to assist those that are in need right now and bring out the resources. i want to say thank you so very much for the media. media has been a great job of
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keeping people informed about the current weather conditions, especially our weather man and those driving and tracking the storm itself. as i visited the trailer park today that lost so many homes and people and highway 177, many people say because of the media and their response and reporting on the track of the storms that they were able to get to a storm shelter and we saved a lot of lives. as we know today we had a massive tornado, huge one, passed through the community. there are fatalities. we don't have a number count yet. we know there are a lot of injuries. we lost a tremendous amount of structures throughout this community and throughout the state. our health department and our medical examiner are working as quick as they can to try help
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families identify their loved ones. for those families that don't know the status of their loved one, especially the children, there is a center at st. ann drew's church, our -- st. ann drew's church. we have signed a federal emergency declaration yesterday for 16 counties. today we added another 5 counties to the declaration. it allows us to access emergency services, coordinate with local communicates, make emergency purchases, bring in resources to help with search and rescue and the clean up and we have been in direct contact
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with fema and talking to them about the types of aids and assistance we need. >> listening live to oklahoma governor talk about the task. oklahoma city. we know there are 37 people confirmed dead. 120 people injured. neighbors flattened for miles. we continue to monitor the search for survivors. we will be back with more in 2 minutes on ktvu channel 2 news at 6:00 p.m.
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complete bay area news coverage starts right now, this is ktvu channel 2 news at 6:00 p.m. a frantic search for children trapped in the rubble of a school flattened by a tornado that tore through oklahoma. good evening. hello. i am frank somerville. >> and i am julie haener. >> 37 people are dead and the death toll keeps rising after a two mile wide tornado ripped through a school and across much of the area. right now rescue crews are still looking for any signs of
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survivors in moore, oklahoma. just outside of oklahoma city. a school took a direct hit of that tornado with speeds up to 200 miles per hour. we heard reports from the scene that as many as two dozen children may have been killed there. but still it will be a long night as you can see from these pictures taken a short time ago of the debris caused by that destruction by the tornado. >> a moment ago the governor, the governor of oklahoma spoke to reporters about the situation. she said her heart is broken for the parents who have lost their children as a result of this tornado. that tornado scored a direct hit on an elementary school there. it is believed several of the students at the school may have been killed. this was an ef-4
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