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tide vivid y el boost. traducele. she only uses tide vivid detergent plus boost for her whites. y me deja los blancos viendose como nuevos, lavado tras lavado. that part's true. ese es mi tide, cual es el tuyo? this man -- >> hope you're not married. >> wants the prostitutes in his neighborhood gone. >> if i catch you, you get a life sentence. >> he -- >> you ought to be ashamed of yourself! >> -- wants government officials to play by the same rules as everybody else. >> they're afraid of me. >> you're not allowed do that. >> and they're afraid of my video camera. >> and she -- >> i probably cried more than i have in my life. >> -- summoned the strength to protect her father. what all three of these people capture on camera is shocking. >> something just hit me like a ton of bricks. >> in plain sight. >> you're going to jail, buddy. >> and in their homes. >> get out of my face, man!
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>> using video cameras. >> to fight for justice for safer streets. >> do you want to go to jail? >> and for their loved ones. >> the camera saved my dad's life. >> "caught on camera: video vigilantes." have you ever seen something that made you so angry that you wanted to say something or even do something about it? but you weren't sure what? most of us can't hand out a ticket or arrest people. but the folks you're about to meet have found a clever way to take action, to get their own brand of justice. they call themselves video vigilantes. and armed only with their video cameras, they're fighting for what they feel is right. >> you made an illegal u-turn in a business district. >> don't do that. >> you made an illegal u-turn -- >> don't do that. >> he's patrolling the mean streets of new york city. >> you broke the law. >> get out of my face, man.
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>> but he's not handing out tickets or catching criminals. >> you broke the law. >> instead, he's catching them on camera. police officers, meter maids, and any other government official he sees violating the very laws they're supposed to enforce. and they are not happy to see him. >> are you going to run me over now? >> i've been roughed up. i've been threatened. i've been confronted. i'm jimmy justice. >> but the man who calls himself jimmy justice won't back down. >> they're afraid of me. >> you're not allowed to do that. >> and they're afraid of my video camera. >> what are you doing? move away from the vehicle. >> i'm filming you breaking the law. >> his goal -- to bring justice, vigilante justice, to the streets of new york, streets on which he says he sees a double standard. >> everybody else gets summonsed the second they break the law. you're in a "no-standing" zone. it's a bus stop. >> so what? >> you would give a ticket to somebody else that did that? >> yes. >> but the people writing those
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summonses drive around the city like cowboys and do whatever they want, with impunity. and i wanted to bring justice. i wanted to level the playing field. >> it all begins in 2005. a fuse is lit when jimmy justice sees a traffic agent make a u-turn over a double yellow line. in his mind, an obvious violation of the law. he starts reporting the violations he sees to law enforcement by taking still photos. but he says his complaints go nowhere. so he comes up with a plan to become a video vigilante. >> wherever i am in the city, i bring my video camera with me. the video camera is the great equalizer. the video camera does not lie. and it's just a matter of a few moments before i see something that i feel i need to videotape. >> jimmy, by day, a 37-year-old sound engineer and part-time musician, by night video vigilante. he doesn't make any money at it. but he says moments like these are priceless. >> why are you taking a picture of me? >> the sign is clear. no parking anytime.
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i'm taking a picture of you because you're a police officer who's supposed to enforce the law. >> no parking? >> and you parked your police car in a place where the sign says no parking anytime. >> you're harassing me. >> you're not doing your job. >> she confirms that there's a "no parking anytime" sign. >> the new york police department declined our request for an interview. but they tell us that marked police vehicles are allowed to park in "no parking" zones during emergencies. jimmy justice says the agent in this video comes up with the most creative emergency he's ever heard. >> you're not doing your job. >> you're taking pictures of me. you went into the rite aid. >> i can go into the rite aid. you don't know if i have a feminine problem. you don't know if i have any type of problem. >> right. >> you don't know if i have my asthma, if i need my medicine, or anything like that. you don't know my business. so if i go to rite aid and i have my period, i can go in there. all right? >> and you don't have to park properly. >> i am parked properly. >> the sign says no parking anytime. >> a handicapped person could park in a no parking.
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>> are you handicapped? >> how do you know that? i could be handicapped. >> when he gets videos like this one, jimmy justice posts them on youtube, he says, to expose what he sees as a double standard. his clips have gotten more than a million hits. >> the general public loves what i'm doing. everybody would love the opportunity to yell at a police officer, scream at a police officer, when they catch a police officer doing something wrong. not everybody has guts to do it. so some of my fans on youtube are living vicariously through me. >> and jimmy's kicking it up a notch to keep those online viewers coming back for more. >> wah, i'm calling for backup. wah, i'm calling for backup. wah. he has a camera. he's dangerous. >> jimmy knows he sounds like a crybaby. but he says this is a serious issue that needs attention. and he thinks these antics help. >> you broke the law. >> what has jimmy justice so upset in this video? these new york city sanitation enforcement agents are blocking a bus stop. >> look, the buses can't get
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through, can they, thomas? >> yeah, yeah. >> look, skippy. can the buses get through? no. they can't get through because of you. they can't get through because you parked your official vehicle, blocking a bus stop. a designated "no standing" zone, skip pio. >> they parked not at the edge of the bus stop, to allow room for the buses to come in and out. they're right in the middle. it's disgusting. >> jimmy isn't only furious because of what he sees here at the bus stop. minutes earlier and a few blocks away, he caught these same sanitation enforcement agents blocking a fire hydrant. >> you're parking your official city vehicle blocking a fire pump? you ought to be ashamed of yourself. you're supposed to enforce the law, not violate the law. are you allowed to park within 15 feet of a fire hydrant in new york city? >> yes. >> you are? so you don't even know the laws. >> get out of my face, please. >> jimmy's not surprised he catches these agents with his camera, twice. first at a fire hydrant and then at a bus stop. but when they pull their official vehicle up to another
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hydrant -- >> ooh, it's a fire hydrant. oh, my. >> a third violation? he's seen enough. >> she's in there writing a summons to someone else when she commits a violation with her own official city vehicle. what a shame. shame on you! it just shows the systematic abuse of authority. that's why i do what i do. that's why i make these videos, because i'm trying to change the system. coming up -- >> get out of my face, man. >> danger ahead. a department of education employee tries to teach jimmy justice a lesson. >> stop. >> and playing with fire. >> you ought to be ashamed of yourself. while you're in the store, you don't hear the siren? what's the matter with you? >> when "caught on camera: video vigilantes" returns. vietnam in 1972. [ all ] fort benning, georgia in 1999. [ male announcer ] usaa auto insurance is often handed down from generation to generation. because it offers a superior level of protection
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a week, keeping track of law enforcement and government officials, catching them on camera. >> what is your problem? >> here's a traffic agent, parking in front of a fire hydrant. she goes into the store to get some food, and while she's ordering, sirens, flashing lights, fire trucks pull up. and jimmy justice is hot under the collar. >> you're a traffic enforcement agent, and you parked your official vehicle blocking a fire pump, and there's a fire outside with firemen out there and they have no access to the pump? you ought to be ashamed of yourself! while you're in the store, you don't hear the sirens? what's the matter with you? and fire engines were coming from every direction. and the nerve of this woman just to stay there on line and order her food and not come out and move her vehicle. that was just a little too over the top for me, and i lost my cool. >> have a good day. >> what's the matter with you? >> jimmy often gets aggressive in his videos. in his mind he's doing a public service.
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but critics say he goes too far to embarrass people in uniform. >> thank you very much. >> you've been parked at a bus stop for 20 minutes. you broke the law! >> james huntley's the union president for traffic and sanitation enforcement. he wants jimmy justice to let up. >> basically, traffic enforcement agents are doing a job, a hard-working job for the city of new york. i'm disappointed that a new yorker doesn't understand what a traffic agent goes through every day. >> so you don't even know the laws? >> jimmy won't deny he treats law enforcement with contempt. and he won't make any apologies. >> you broke the law! i'm treating them in the same way that they treat the public. they treat civilians with such disdain, i have to go at them in the exact same way. >> take, for example, this guy who threatens to hold jimmy for videotaping. >> otherwise, i have to call somebody. i'm going to let you go. >> call whoever you want. >> he's trying to intimidate me. he's trying to tell me that i'm not allowed to videotape him.
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>> can i see an i.d., please? >> who are you? >> i'm an agent. i'm authorized. you're making movie, okay? >> show me the badge. i want to see it. >> sir, i want to see your camera first. >> and he's asking me to hand over my camera and my footage to him. i'm not responsible to provide this footage to him. the footage belongs to me. it's my camera. and i can do whatever i want. >> jimmy isn't intimidated and turns the tables. >> you're parked in a bus stop. that's a "no standing" zone, sir. that's a "no standing" zone. >> sir, put your camera down. okay? >> that's a "no standing" zone. are you allowed to park in a "no standing" zone? >> yes, i do. >> why? >> because i had an emergency. >> where is the emergency? >> the truck is over there. i had to write a summons for this truck. >> that's an emergency? >> yes, sir. it is an emergency. >> when we asked, the nypd wouldn't define an emergency for us. based on the video, this agent is writing a summons. appears to be doing his job. but what he says next crosses the line for jimmy justice. >> it's an emergency to write a
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$115 summons, to generate revenue for the city? is that the emergency? is that the emergency? >> that is an emergency, sir. i pull him over. >> i thought an emergency is when somebody's life is in danger. >> maybe your life is in danger. i'm milissa rehberger. we're following breaking news out of carney, oklahoma, where there's believed to be a tornado on the ground at this moment. reports of heavy rain, a huge cloud, and power flashes which does indication there might be a storm there. this is in carney, oklahoma. let's join our affiliate in progress. >> it looked a lot like this. you had bands of fog feeding in. there's the wall cloud, that low thing, and there it is, right there, you can see the edge of the tornado. there's the wall, the wall of it. >> there it is. >> violent, could be a mile wide. it just went through the southern and southeastern sides
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of carney. and it's on the blacktop eastbound. now you can see it much more clearly now. there it is on the blacktop on the east side of carney. i know a gentleman over there by the name of mike. his house is on the east side of carney. that's where it is. he's got a vineyard up there. there it is still on the ground. >> you can definitely see it now. the rain has actually pushed forward into the feeder or the feeder part of the storm. huge wedge that's on the ground. right behind it, you have a coup couple, that scud that's rotating, and behind it, you have another heavy band of rain and another one trying to come down. i don't know if this storm has that much energy, it's going to try to send two out of it, but you can see the town of carney is definitely in its path. we're over, just about a mile and a half north of chandler, and it's just a couple miles north of me tracking pretty much
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straight east. mike. >> john, your vantage point really cleared up. you can see kind of a barrel shape. more of a barrel-shaped tornado now. still violent, still large. going back between a barrel and a wedge. this will wipe stuff clean as it passes over, and it's on the eastern sides of carney right now. clearly visible with high velocity. showing a bunch of 130 to 150-mile-per-hour winds on the doppler radar on the eastern side of carney and the winds inside the vortex are stronger than that. it's likely an ef-4, and it's fair to say that the sides of carney have been hit. you saw those, and now it's heading up towards tryon and avery, little town of avery and agra and tryon. if we have mark diller or reed timmer, we can go to them. who is that? is that emily? emily sutton, are you there?
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>> yes, i am, mike. let's go with an update for the south metro. reports of wall clouds, and i have a pretty significant spinning circulation south of highway 9 west of riverwind casino. >> yes, mike, that's right. we're actually trying to get out of the hail. we're about to head east on highway 9. we're tracking the lowering. you can -- we notice a very low lowering earlier, and definitely a lot of indication of inflow. we had hail ahead of the storm. so folks in norman, be prepared for the potential of large hail, and we're going to watch closely for the rotation of the system. mike. >> let's go to the south doppler. she's tracking this. take a look. this is a well organized super cell. here's normal right here. and the yare yea spin, you can see the curly cue right there, just south of our doppler site in south new castle.
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there's highway 9 right there. emily is making the turn right now on highway 9 from i-35. she's looking right at. she's in south norman. no tornado warning at this time, but there could be one at any time with this circulation that is deep and large northwest of cole, west-northwest of golsby and west-southwest of norman. it's heading direct leinto norman down highway 9 into the river wind casino. let's go back to emily with a live update. >> mike, that's correct. we are still tracking the storm. i'm driving the opposite direction, but behind me, i can tell you there's definitely a lowering. there's lots of hail with it. we're trying to stay out of it. we have small hail pinging ahead of the storm, but the storm definitely has some structure to it, and the folks in norman need to be careful. need to cover up your car, protect your property for the
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potential of large hail, and we know you're watching closely, the radar, mike, make sure the latest on rotation. back to you. >> appreciate that. tell us your location where you are right now? >> we're on highway 9 and we just passed mcgee drive. >> mcgee drive and highway 9. we're going to focus on norman. that is emily sutton looking at that storm coming into norman right now. let's go to the warnings we have. a large tornado has moved through parts of carney. we know that for a fact. it's still on the ground southwest of agra, northwest of chandler, large and on the ground. one tornado warning for oklahoma. one tornado warning, that is lincoln county. only lincoln county. that's the one right now that is northwest of chandler that has been a large, up to a mile wide multivortex tornado. down south, southern oklahoma county, eastern oklahoma county, a storm there. it does not have significant rotation with it.
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large hail coming into norman. cleveland, maclaine county, all under severe thunderstorm warnings. a tornado just tracked across the kansas/oklahoma border down by south haven, kansas, but it's up in kansas and is no longer a threat to oklahoma. and there have been tornadoes in the wichita, kansas, area as well. let's look at the overview. here's the norman supercell with a deep mesocyclone just south of new castle, and going up toward luther, it does not have significant rotation, and the massive hook and super cell on the eastern side of carney. that's a large debris ball, likely from debris picked up around carney. that's likely a debris ball from carney picking up debris in carney. i think the winds in the tornado are over 200 miles per hour. it's still on the ground, still very, very large. let's go back to bob and john. he's on the storm. >> about 17 minutes, but i have to dodge this next storm, so i have to move to the north before
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i go south. >> talk to us here for a minute here. what have you got? go ahead, john. you're on. who is that? let's go back to emily and kevin. let's go back to emily. we see your wall cloud. tell us what you got. >> there we go. we're finally faced the other way. we're going to go to i-35 and we're going to follow it north for you. it's about to move into edmonton. you can see the lowering of this. we notice some distinct in-flow earli earlier. it could have a lot of large hail with it. so norman, prepare for the potential of very large hail. genl, we're locating near mcgee drive on highway 9, heading towards i-35, and the core of this is about to head that direction, so we're keeping a close eye on it for you now. not seeing anything in terms of a funnel or anything like that, but definitely some strong
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inflow, big lowering, and we're c keeping a close eye. >> tornado warning coming out for narmen. we have been telling you about the circulation on this. it's been serious. tornado warning now coming out for norman. emily sutton is right on it right now, looking at it. there it is right there. this is a tornado warning for norman. cleveland, maclaine counties, and folks, the circulation is heading right for norman right now. emily, what have you got? >> mike, yeah, we're still looking at an area of concern. the lowering, the possible lowering. we're located near i-35 and highway 9. i want to go ahead and pull off safely here so we can get a better look. and yeah, there's been very large hail. i'm not seeing anything in terms of a funnel or anything yet. but we are definitely seeing this lowering. i'm sure it's picking up on my screen right now. it's still fuzzy, not completely got its act together, but it's definitely heading to norman,
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and folks need to be ready to take cover. >> how big was the hail in indian hill, i-35? it says large. let's goto -- this is not very good for norman. let's take a look at the south dot. tornado warning for cleveland maclaine. tornado warnings. let's go to -- i'm sorry, the north. let's go to the north. two dopplers here so we're going back and forth between the live dopplers. important to give live ones because they give you live stuff, minute by minute, second by second. here's west moore. here's highway 37 at the top of the screen. this would be u.s. 77 cutting down toward norman. this is i-35 right here. there's u.s. 77. there's i-35. this is imhoff, lindsay, maine, and robinson. that's the river right there, that white line is the river. this is all large hail here. indian hill and i-35, right here. see the purple. this is large hail here. it's southmore, southeast moore.
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big hail, could be baseball-sized based on the intensity of the updraft, and it's now centered on highway 9 coming directly into norman. let's go back to emily sutton with a live update. she's there. emily. >> mike, that's right. we're still tracking this storm very closely for you. we're looking at a little hazy lowering. no signs of a stall at this time, but definitely could have large hail with it. again, we're at highway 9 and 35. mike, where should we head in terms of main area of circulation? drift a little north with it, i suppose? >> it looks like it's probably basically going to go right into norman. just on the southern sides of highway 9 right now, but it's basically going to go directly into norman. >> that's exactly where we're looking right now. if there's going to be a funnel here, we'll be right on top of it. we're watching the lowering closely. >> ping-pong-ball sized hail.
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just west of the airport. max westheimer is on the southern edge of the big hail. it's from there north to the high school. from max westheimer to moore high school. highway 37. ping-pong ball, could be baseball-sized hail in there, tornado, by the way, continues on the ground east of carney, eight miles southwest of agra and avery. tornado continues on the ground there. we have reed timmer and mark diller on that. we're shifting gears right now for norman. a tornado warning is in effect for maclaine and cleveland counties, and we're showing strong circulation now intensifying. it looks to be about two to three south of highway 9. southwest of the river wind casino now. you're looking to the west-southwest it looks like. what have you seen changing? >> yes, looking at the west-southwest. i'm still watching this lowering.
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we can actually see the bands of rain and hail heading towards norman. so get ready for that large hail, guys. and just keeping a close eye on the lowering. nothing to report as of yet with any sort of funnel cloud, but it's certainly still possible. so we're in a good spot to watch this. and so we'll continue to monitor this very closely. again, we're located at i-35 and highway 9. we're looking to the southwest. and you can see kind of it starting to be eliminated by the sun and the outer edge of this lowering. so that's the latest, mike. >> let's go to bob moore, chopper four. on the damage track from the tornado. john? >> we're having to head back to the station to get some gas and en route, we're looking for -- >> that's all right. we'll hang with him. we'll hang with john. john is back tracking. he's back tracking now for fuel. go ahead. you're good, john. >> all right, yeah, we're showing you this damage here that this big storm took.
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and my monitor is kind of crapped out on me up front, but as you can see, the houses are completely destroyed here. we have a lot of trees that are kind of mangled and some snapping in it. but this is right here, just north -- let me zoom in here one second. yeah, we're coming up on -- i don't know, county road, like 832. going to be just north of the kill patrick, and it's going to be probably just to the west-northwest of wellston. as you can see right here, a lot of damage at this home, and there's like a low-lying creek. travis will pan the camera around to the right. you can see where the tornado kind of stayed in this low level and sheared off the tops of all these trees and completely destroyed these big, probably 75-year oak trees out here, mike.
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>> okay, john. appreciate that. john is backtracking. he's north of the turner turnpike, north of wellston. unfortunately, folks, we see the damage now from the tornado that we suspected was an f-4 tornado. it looks like it's of that category. let's just hope everybody here is okay. there's going to be a lot of heavy damage here, and this is such a bad deal. a lot of this damage is quite severe. john, how many structures -- we're looking alt this live from john welsh and bob moore chopper 4. how many structures have you seen so far? >> a dozen, mike. and a lot of these, travis, could you pan around to the right? it's right out your door, another one. i'm trying to bring up this house. we have a lot of people out here in the yard and on the roadway. i want to make sure that everybody is okay. but probably a dozen. a lot of these houses are on at
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least ten-acre tracks, so they're not here, but over county road 870 is a blacktop east-west road, and they have taken a major hit here. there's some brick structure houses, frame over brick. roofs are completely gone. and almost all the roofs are gone. but this house right out here to the left, there's a lot of people on the road. you can see their barn is gone. you know, they have everything flung into the trees. so it's -- it's definitely, they took the hit of it here. but i'm not seeing anybody trying to flag us down like we've seen in the past when there's been emergencies. but all these roadways are completely washed out. it's going to be tough if any emergency crews have to actually respond out here for any injuries because of the massive amount of rain they've got and debris crossing the roadway. >> this again is northwest of wellston, about five miles to the north of the turner turnpike. we're looking at the damage
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swath of this intense tornado that came through here. john, as you look back down to the southwest, what are you seeing further back down the line to the southwest -- >> if you look to the southwest from here, the sun has kind of popped out in between these two storms. it's very bright, a lot of rain. from here, southwest is a dark area. we're seeing it looks like it's going to be south of the turnpike there as far as what we're seeing, but incredibly bright. a lot of rain still coming in. that's really it. you know, you can see, travis is back on the damage on this road. and you've got a tractor looks like a farmer is out there trying to clear the blacktop road. where are we at? if you would come to the right, follow the road up. you can see, you know, the great oklahoma spirit here, trying to help clear everything out in front of, you know, so we're not waiting on emergency crews or it they need to be, if you'll come straight on our side of the
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road. >> new tornado warning for northeastern lincoln and southeastern payne. that would be for you folks heading up toward cushing. agra, avery, tryin', and cushing, that's still on the ground. we have mark and reed on it, and we'll keep track of it. it's heading to cushing. southeastern payne county. keep in mind, around cushing and agra and tryin' and cushing, northeast of stroud and chandler, a violent tornado, may have been a mile wide, at least an f-4. here's a super cell over norman, and you see the big hail over the norman area right now. let's go to emily sutton live. she's on it, looking at it live. emily? >> we have new development for you, mike. first of all, the sirens are blaring in norman. we're seeing some rotation, clear rotation, like right in front of us in the stream. you can see it. and some inflow. so it's starting to get nasty. i wouldn't be surprised if we have a funnel coming up.
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we're keeping a close eye on it. we're located on highway 9 and i-35. >> highway 9 and i-35. so the rotation appears to be coming up some. you just reported that, right? >> yes. yes. we're starting to see some more activity, more rotation. definitely more inflow. this whole thing is rotating for sure. it's really close to us. >> okay, tornado warning continues for norman. and we're looking at the velocities here. and yeah, wow. okay. yeah, it's back over highway 9. emily, it ought to be due to your west, right over highway 9. is that where you have it? >> yes, we're looking straight at it. that's where i'm seeing the rotation. it's not terribly strong, but it's gone up. now it's actually rotating in front of our eyes. >> okay. you know, the trend, as emily was pointing out, the trend continues to be in the wrong direction.
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let's go to the tracker. you're under a tornado warning in cleveland and maclaine county. here's new castle. there's gullsby, the ou campus, downtown norman. this is ping-pong-ball-sized hail and larger. the hook is coming around here. it appears to be on the northern side of highway 9. if it continues its motion, it will come directly into norman. the circulation could even go as far north as the southern half of moore. the southern half of moore. and keep in mind, the big hail is on the southern side of that mesocyclone track for the most part. obviously and definitely still a very developing situation down south. i would have one door on your safe spot, both in all of south moore and all of norman. you know, visibility hopefully will stay good so we'll be able to see it, looking at emily's live stream, but have one hand
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on your safe spot, and we'll keep monitoring this with emily. let's go back to emily with a live update looking at it. emily. >> all right, mike. it has weakened a little bit, but we're still watching these bands of rain, and we see the lowering behind the big shields of rain out in the distance, off to our west-southwest. and again, we're on highway 9 and 35. and it doesn't completely have its act together, but it seems to try and cycle with this rotation. so we'll start to see the rotation, then it calms down a bit, and then it comes back. so again, we still have a potential of it getting its act together and possibly creating a funnel. certainly large hail with this storm as it approaches norman. >> appreciate that. we know you're there, and we've got you and kevin tracking that very carefully. there's the live storm tracker, looking at it from moore down to norman. and still a tornado warning. you still see it has a hook. the hook hasn't really swung
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around. it hasn't really swung around. and as long as it doesn't swing around, it may just stay more of a kind of a wall cloud type of circulation. but it's obviously still hook shaped. it's still a supercell. this is baseball, ping-pong sized hail. in the purple, the river right there. the river, lloyd norman, do downtown moore. let's go back to john and bob. tornado continues. okay, let's go back to the -- troy, let's take the storm scanner and start with that storm. here's the norman storm again. so you see it has a hook. kind of hanging back here on the back side. it stale has the little fingers here trying to come around. emily noticed that it ramped up. that's the fingers you can see on the radar coming around. due south of new sassal on the northern side of highway 9. let's look at eastern oklahoma county. that storm is not very intense, this one right here may have small hail, and still this tornado warning storm that has
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had the large long-track storm. and you folks in cushing, don't take it lightly because it's still a tornado on the ground. our velocity indicates it's very much on the ground, moving northeast. moving to the northeast. it hit east and southeast carney. you saw the power flashes when carney was physically hit, and then it's lifted more to the southeast. you take a straight line path, it's heading into cushing. heading directly into cushing. southeastern payne and northeastern lincoln county. from there, it's heading to d m drumrite. and also as far over as yale to m manford, this could easily stay on the ground or cycle a couple times as it continues right on up into the northwestern sides of tulsa. cushing in particular, over agra right now. small town of agra, and it's been a large, violent long-track tornado. velocity shows it's still very much on the ground right now,
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moving northeasterly. we have tornado warnings right now for maclaine and cleveland counties and tornado warnings for northeastern lincoln, southeastern payne, northern creek, and southern pawnee county. kevin and linda have been gathering information from the news desk and have more. >> thank you very much. good news right now, in edman, anyway, the last word we got from folks in that area and in oklahoma city is that there have been no serious injuries with the tornado that went through the edmund area. as i said earlier when i was talking to linda, it hit not too far from where i live. i talked to a lot of the folks, trees blown down, fences blown down, but other than that, not too much damage that i saw at that time. >> they fear injuries however in the wellston area. you saw some of the homes we covered live just about six or seven minutes ago. many of those homes literally destroyed. we have search and rescue crews on the way to take a look. chase is live on i-35 between
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15th and 33rd. chase? >> yeah, good evening, guys. we've been tracking the storms as they track through the area. if you're watching our continuing live coverage across northwest oklahoma city, we tracked the tornado as it raced through the south. >> the city of oklahoma, a rash of severe tornadoes. there's a warning on the ground in norman, which is in southern oklahoma. it's the home to the university of oklahoma, which is packed with college students at the moment. that is definitely of concern. you are watching some damage that has already happened. clean-up is already under way. the good news is we have not heard of any injuries yet. hopefully it will stay that way. once again, there is a rash of tornadoes that has broken out in the state of oklahoma tonight. there are reports of very large hail which can in itself cause a lot of damage. we will keeping a very close eye on this for you, but we're going to take a quick break. you're watching msnbc. ium plus d to support strong bones.
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oklahoma city. it's notorious not only here in oklahoma city but really all over the globe, especially through the internet for the availability of street prostitutes. >> with video camera in hand, brian is trying to drive prostitution out of his hometown, oklahoma city. >> this is the most notorious area right in here for prostitution. and all kinds of criminal activity. a lot of them live in these little flop houses around here, rooms for rent. >> this time, he's taking us along for a rare view into his seedy underground world. and it doesn't take more than 15 minutes before bates and our
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cameras spot a prostitute working a street corner in broad daylight. >> i'm going to kind of pull further away down here and act like we're not interested in her. see if she gets picked up. >> he doesn't want to get too close and scare her off, so we pull off to a side street about a quarter-mile away. now, it's a waiting game. >> she's behind the green suv. >> a car approaches. even swerves for a closer look. but no pick-up this time. and then suddenly, that same car reverses and the video vigilante goes for his camera. >> a situation like this, got a girl, i know her to be a convicted prostitute. she's out here working. she's actually out here working right next to what is one of our school bus stops. i'll simply tape her activity and wait to see if somebody picks her up. if they do, we'll see where she takes them. >> as he sits and waits with his
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camera trained on the subject, the suspicious car pulls away and the prostitute deserts her post, and bates goes fishing for his next catch. >> two hookers working that street in front of the elementary school. you get to know these people on sight. people say, how do you know that's a hooker? she's not dressed like julia roberts in pretty woman. you see the same people every day. it's a sad story. >> another woman bates tells us is a prostitute is pounding the pavement, so he settles in a distance away and pulls out his camera. >> here's this one up close. see, he just pointed us out. >> bates never knows what to expect while filming, but he knows danger is never far away. his camera is recording as this woman gets a little too close to his car window. >> why are you taking pictures of me? >> because i can. >> why? >> because i can. >> what do you think i'm doing out here? >> i didn't make any allegations what you're doing. >> are you the police?
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>> no. >> okay. well you have a nice day, and god bless you. >> you, too. >> the woman walks away, but bates isn't sure whether she'll be back, so he decides it would be a good idea to change locations. he goes to check out a hide away he recently came upon by following a prostitute and john looking for some privacy. >> this is the hot spot right now, where the girls take the johns. this is their spot they use for each john all day long. >> the coast is clear when we visit the abandoned building today. >> we don't have to look very hard today. we've got two very fresh condoms. >> but only a few days earlier in this same location, this house isn't nearly as abandoned. it's a sunday afternoon, and bates is out running errands with his wife. >> i'm pretty sure he went up in here. >> when he spots a car pulling into the abandoned property. >> pull in. >> so he gives his wife instructions and goes in for a closer look.
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>> let me out here, and you're going to keep pulling up there. >> he takes an alternate route so he doesn't get spotted. >> a felony. you're over here by a church. >> and this guy is in a pretty big rush to vacate the hide-away. >> for an abandoned lot, this property sure seems to get a lot of traffic. it's only a few weeks later when bates sees another car parked outside. he hears noises, this time coming from inside the house, so he goes in for a closer look. sure enough, these people are getting pretty comfortable in a home that isn't theirs. >> you do realize this is private property, don't you? >> so brian chases another couple off. >> cops are on their way. i already got the tag number. >> now some people would say, well, this is kind of out of the way, not in the public, nobody seeing it. we're in the middle of a neighborhood, within 1,000 feet of an elementary school. it's just disgusting. these pockets of places, they'll
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show up. this one, they'll stop using this one in a month or so and then i'll have to figure out where the next one is. >> next stop, an apartment building. a truck pulls up. a woman gets out. bates initially doesn't think this woman is a working girl, but he has a bad feeling about what these people are doing. >> no good, whatever it is. >> sensing danger, he takes off and parks in another yaarea. here we see the same woman, same green pants, who bates didn't think was a prostitute when she got out of one car only moments earlier, getting into another car as our cameras record the action. >> if he comes towards us, put the cameras down. she is. >> the car drives right by us and we have to put our cameras down, out of view. >> that's a pretty good example of what i see out here every day. >> as bates keeps his camera rolling, the chase is on. he thinks we're trailing a prostitute and her john, and
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he's making sure to keep his distance so we don't get spotted. >> try not to stay in their rear view mirror if i can. >> the red car turns right and we follow on a parallel street. he catches them at the next traffic light, and as we get close enough, bates has safety on his mind. >> very first thing i want to record, either visually or audio, is the tag. that way if something was to happen, i was to get hurt, they would hurt somebody else, whatever, i have to tag number so that the driver can be identified later. >> as we trail this possible prostitute and her john, bates explains what he's feeling. >> there's certainly a rush that's involved in this. some people make the mistake and think, oh, catching people, they're out there having public sex, must be a sexual rush or perversion to it. you don't have to spent 20, 30 minutes out here to know the rush is you're catching a bad guy. a guy who thought he could come down here and prey on this community.
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and you know you can actually make a difference. >> but as we follow the red car gets too far ahead. they make a left turn into a neighborhood. >> they don't normally go this direction. he may actually have a house down here he's taking her to. >> with this unexpected left turn, the tour gone, no gotcha moment to post on the web, this time. >> you figure the hookers aren't going anywhere. they'll be back. you'll have another shot. >> as we pass through town, he spots a prostitute he knows, so he takes out his camera. >> the last time she got arrested, she had a set of brass knuckles with knives coming out of each hand. >> as bates tells the crew about the woman's violent pass, she spots us across the street and reaches for something hidden in her coat. a tense moment. will she pull out a weapon? >> she's going to take a picture of me? >> she whips out a camera and turns the tables on camera. she's obviously making a joke, but she's got a violent past, so
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bates plays it safe and calls 911. >> wondering if you had an officer available. prostitute and her pimp out at southwest 33rd and south robinson. >> she walks right up to the window, inches away. >> how does it feel to be films? >> finally, a money shot for the video vigilante. bates doesn't necessarily mind having his picture taken. in fact, he's glad this woman is recording. he thinks everyone, himself included, is fair game when it comes to being caught on camera. >> i think when i first picked up my camera, 12 years ago, what i was doing was extreme. now, when we're becoming a society where everyone has a cell phone, everyone has a video camera, everyone has access to the internet, what i do is no longer an oddity like it was 12 years ago. i think it's a good thing. >> up next, shocking abuse caught on camera. a woman summons all of her
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welcome back to caught on camera. i'm contessa brewer. ryan bates and jimmy justice use their video cameras out in plain sight, looking for that big gotcha moment. the savvy woman you're about to meet never wanted to catch anything like that. and hers is a very personal story. jackie taylor installed a security system, so-called granny cams in her house, when her elderly father became bed-ridden. the cameras were meant to give her peace of mind, but what they recorded did anything but that. 90-year-old john taylor, a stroke victim, lies defenseless as his nurse repeatedly beats him over and over again. >> she just was angry right from the beginning. shaking her finger at him, and
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just pounding him in the chest and the stomach. >> john's daughter jackie catches it all on a security camera she installed in her home to be her eyes and ears while she's away. >> of course, anger and shock immediately. >> the vicious beating sickens jackie. not only because of its cruelty, but because this is a woman she trusted, a woman she considered a friend. >> she would say, jackie, you're like a daughter to me. mother's day, i bought her flowers. things of that nature because even in the short period of time she was here, i thought we bonded pretty well. >> it all begins two months earlier. jackie is a single woman working seven days a week to pay for her dad's soaring medical expenses, so she carries the woman to care for her father. he suffered two strokes. jackie wants the best possible care for the man who has doted on her all her life. >> daddy's little girl, always gave me anything i wanted. >> she especially wants loving treatment for her dad after a
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recent horrifying experience at a rehab facility where jackie learns her father had been abused. >> i probably cried more than i had in my lifetime, just the frustration, not knowing where to turn, who to turn to. what do i do. kind of thing. but i can't be falling apart. i can't help my dad falling apart. you know, i have to show that same strength, that same tenacity, that same motivation as i have seen my dad show through his whole ordeal. >> jackie, a woman who relies on her instincts, decides to bring him home to the house she grew up in as a little girl. but experience tells her to be cautious, so she installs video cameras in her home. >> at this point, i didn't trust anybody, so i wanted to make sure he was really being taken care of. >> on first impression, jackie really likes the new nurse. >> she was someone who sat in the dining room and read the bible every day. i think, hey, i have this really
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nice christian woman. you know, in my home, taking care of my dad. she seemed very nice. really down to earth. >> despite her good feeling, jackie checks her security cameras regularly for the first couple of weeks. she says she sees a nurse doing her job. changing her father, feeding him, bathing him. everything she's supposed to do. weeks go by. jackie's working hard, and her father seems very happy and well taken care of, so she stops checking the foot blg, but then, suddenly, that nagging instinct kicks in. it's saturday afternoon and jackie's coming up from doing some laundry in her basement. >> something hit me like a ton of bricks and said you really need to look at these cameras now. it stopped me dead in my tracks and i went back down the stairs and to my surprise and shock, i saw her just beating my dad with her fists. and my dad wasn't doing anything but lying there. she was trying to change him. >> horrified, jackie knows she
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needs to go back upstairs. she runs through her options. should she confront the nurse? should she call the police? she wants to see what her father remembers? >> i say to my dad, i said, daddy, are you okay? and he said, yes. and i said, are you sure? and he goes, yeah, i'm okay. >> the man's had two strokes. his short-term memory is gone. he can't remember what happened to him. and he can't tell his daughter about the beatings. so she turns to anastasia. >> my insides are churning. i look at her and say, do you like working here? and she says, yeah, of course, jackie, i love working here. you know, i like my job. why? >> jackie had already called the police. minutes later, they arrive, look at jackie's footage. they arrest the nurse. the ordeal makes jackie very angry. but she's thankful about one thing. >> the cameras saved my dad's life. the cameras were able to see what i couldn't see since i'm
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not at home, so they were one of the best investments i have ever made. >> jackie taylor wants her story to be heard. she's written congress, spoken to her senator, and wants the penalties for elder abuse to be harsher, but most of all, she wants everyone to protect themselves and their loved ones with a video camera. >> i mean, if i can help one individual, you know, say, who's in a nursing home today, keep them from being beaten, if i have gotten through to one care giver that maybe thought about hitting a person today and said, you know what? i don't know if they installed cameras while i was off this weekend. maybe i shouldn't do it. maybe i shouldn't push her down. maybe i shouldn't be verbally abusive to them. then i think i've done a lot. >> these days, video cameras are everywhere. in stores, mounted to traffic loathes, even on cell phones, and you can bet if you're doing
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something wrong, something outrageo outrageous, or something illegal, someone somewhere is recording it all. that's it for this edition of "caught on camera." i'm contessa brewer. it's a force so deadly it can kill with a touch. >> i can't believe i'm still alive. >> so powerful it drops suspects on the spot. whether it's a bolt out of the blue, an electrifying fall, or a dangerous climb. >> i wanted them down right then. >> what you're about to see is sure to be shocking. >> definitely something i'll never forget.
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