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.

hello, i'm contessa brewer. welcome to caught on camera. it can happen in a flash and with devastating impact. electrical shock. when we control it, electricity powers our lives, but when it's unleashed, high voltage can be terrifying. february 3rd, 1996, a desperate man attempts a perilous high-wire act, straight into 16,000 volts of electricity. >> i thought he blew up in a million pieces because there was such a shock and a sound, it was boom! i was, whoa. >> east los angeles, a vibrant hub of the city. for firefighter eric huck, one call from dispatch would be like any other.

>> everybody was shocked. myself and many guys who had many years on the job, this was something you'd never seen before. >> eric and his team arrive on the scene to find a suicidal young man perched atop a power pole 30 feet up. the rescuers immediately recognize the danger. >> we are dealing with high tension wires. we are talking about, death. within seconds. >> it's not just the suicidal young man whose life is at risk. a crowd has begun to form beneath him and if the man pulls a live wire down with him, he could electrocute a bystander below. the fire department's first priority, cut the power. >> so the power company showed up and shut the wires from one pole to the pole that this individual was on. >> with the electricity shut down on that one pole, they have reduced the risk of electrocution. now their concern is whether the

man will jump. >> we start anticipating spinal injuries, broken bones, major trauma. >> this is their chance to talk the man down. >> he was just looking up to the sky, seemed to be talking to the sky. maybe somebody he sees up there. >> but as the authorities move in, the situation takes a dramatic turn. the man doesn't jump. instead, he begins to move out of reach. now everything changes. a sudden shift that takes eric and his team by surprise. >> this pole right here, with the last light, he was up on that light post over there. >> the firefighters fear anything could happen. >> when he got over here, that's when the situation started to intensify because we had crowd control and had to start pushing everybody out of the way. >> the man is moving down the line toward the pole that's high voltage.

and the crowd is exposed to serious risk. >> now we have charged lines. and we are worried about charged lines dropping down on the crowd. >> all eyes are on the man as his behavior grows increasingly reckless. >> he did like a high-wire act. back and forth. he was swinging. people were kind of calling to him. >> get down. get down! >> and they were yelling out prayers and trying to bless him, and trying to remove satan from him. >> jesus said we can do greater things. in jesus' name, i defy you, satan. >> finally, it happens. he makes contact. and for an instant, he completes a high voltage circuit with his body and disappears into a fiery flash of orange and white. >> it lit up the sky. you're going to actually feel -- you can feel the shock and the pressure of it go right through

your chest. when he got zapped. something i still to this day, can still feel it and hear it. it is definitely something i will never forget. >> the onlookers are stunned. >> for us, a natural reaction would be for everyone to run over and help him. we had to take a second look, make sure the scene is safe. >> the rescue crew gets the all clear, and the biggest shock of the day, the young man survives. >> it's a miracle. how can he be alive? that's a high fall right there that should pretty much traumatize him, crack his skull, but his major injuries were his burns. if anything can come out of this, it is respect wires, respect electricity. respect high voltage. >> coming up, lightning strikes. and two men get the shock of their lives.

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a single lightning strike can pack up to a billion volts. that's enough energy to keep a hundred watt bulb lit up for a century. the empire state building is new york city's lightning rod. it gets struck roughly a hundred times a year. volcanic lightning, a spectacular phenomenon, air particles can be electrically charged by an eruption and their plume transformed.

april, 2011, a plane reported to be an emirates airlines a-380 is about to land at london hethrow airport when it's struck by lightning. the 500 passengers on board or fine. emirates had no comment on the incident but said all their aircraft are designed and certified to be able to withstand a lightning strike. this is true of all modern airplanes. the planes' aluminum bodies act to conduct the current and shield the passengers from shock. on land, another glimpse of the power of nature. it's july 26, 2006, when a man working on his motorcycle is stopped in his tracks. >> i can't believe that i'm still alive. it's absolutely terrifying to go through that experience. to feel mother nature's fury

upon you like that. i got lucky. >> james bady is an avid dirt biker who along with his brother is busy filming an adventure movie. >> all right, 210 miles of dirt today. >> no rest for the weary, right? >> not if we're going to cross all the mississippi. >> i'm a filmmaker working on a documentary called, road less traveled. it follows myself and my brother as we ride motorcycles across off road america. >> matthew is the documentary cinematographer. >> we were in a small town in colorado. one of the few days we weren't riding, there were quite a lot of thunderstorms. but we didn't give it too much mind. >> despite the weather, james is intent on fixing his bike. and matthew is there to film him. >> this sucks. this sucks. i had to clean out the carburetor because it was just leaking gas nonstop.

i pushed my bike underneath the awning of this hotel. i thought, i'll be safe here. no problem at all. i'm covered. >> james is wrong. >> holy [ bleep ]. >> there was just this huge bang and a flash. >> it's like a sonic experience. bursting through you. >> the next second all hell broke loose. >> damn it! holy [ bleep ]. >> so i feel -- >> i still feel really shaky. i'm not trying to be overdramatic or anything but my spine feels lit up. i'm trying to understand what happened. not only a bolt has gone off near us, but why my body feels kind of tingly. >> the lightning seems to erupt straight out of motorcycle but the bolt didn't actually hit the bike, not directly at least.

>> the lightning bolt hit those two vents right up there, according to one. of the guys who saw it. >> james believes the charge must have travels down the vent, across the parking lot, through the water pooling on the ground, straight into his kick stand. >> i didn't realize that my bike's kick stand was standing in a puddle. >> the same water that was pooling around the chimney seeks to have conducted the lightning into his bike. >> i'm just glad i wasn't hit by the bolt itself. that was -- that was some pretty scary stuff. >> james feels like himself again only after a few minutes, but the experience leaves him shaken. >> it has been a long time since i've been scared that bad. >> every time i hear a thundercloud, even one in the distance, i can remember the feeling of being in that moment.

>> few people know what it feels like to come in conduct with lightning. but another person who can relate is sam hall. >> to get hit by lightning, the feeling is -- it's pretty much undescribable because it happened so fast. you just feel the rush, the current travel through your body. i was worried that i would be paralyzed. >> barker, new york, for sam and his girlfriend, kim, october 3, 2008, began as an ordinary day. they were unphased by the darkening skies above. >> we get a lot of rain around here, so you really don't think much about the skies. >> we had some errands to do, so jumped into the truck and came back to get gas. this is the gas station we got it here. >> this is the station we were at. >> you want to go in there? >> pump three. >> pump number three it is. >> i left a little bit of me behind there at the pump.

>> at the local k & k food mart, the store's surveillance camera captures what happens. that's sam dressed in hunting camouflage. >> paid for my gas, had a little conversation with the patrons inside. >> among them, amelia joy. it is just by luck that he's safe inside when an explosion rocks the gas station. >> while i was in the store, i went to the counter, to change my pump number. and that's when it all happened. >> kim is in the couple's pickup fiddling with the radio when suddenly a terrifying noise. >> i heard this huge, loud sound. the truck shook, and i hit the floorboards. it felt like a bomb, to be honest with you. or that the gas pump blew up. >> sam shows us where he stood when it all went down. >> next thing i know, all i seen was this orange v framed out by the brightest white.

i felt the charge going through my arm. as it went through my elbow. that's basically the last thing i remember. >> it was thunderous. >> i heard it, it was loud. >> when it hit -- when it hit sam, it was just like world war iii. it was the loudest thing i've ever heard. >> in fact, the lightning never actually hit sam directly. >> the lightning bolt struck the pavement just feet from me. traveled through the pavement because it had just recently rained. >> luckily the gas pump is grounded directly the current from his body. but the force of the bolt dropped sam on the spot, unable to move. >> he wasn't breathing. i couldn't find his pulse. i started pounding on his chest. and i started shaking him and slapping him up. and i got really upset and i told him if he was faking i was going to kill him. the things that were going through my head, you promise me

you were going stay with me until we were old, you know. he kept his promise to me. yeah, he did. >> an emergency medical team revived sam on-site and he is rushed to the hospital. but as shaken up as he is, he has only one visible injury. >> had actually blisters on my elbow where the current actually blew out my elbow, so i went home, every muscle in my body was sore for a couple days. >> still, things have changed since that bolt from the blue. sam had always wanted to sing in a rock band. now he has decided life is too short to put it off any longer. >> it made me realize that you only have so much time on this earth, you only have so much

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august, 1989, a frightened bear climbs to the top of an electrical pole. three stories up and dangerously close to high voltage power lines. >> i am thinking, gosh, this is amazing. he hasn't gotten shocked already. >> minutes later, she's blasted

with 7200 volts. >> and we literally had an explosion. it was really, really horrible. >> over the years, drought has driven many bears down from the mountains into the city of albuquerque, new mexico. one such bear became legend. at that time, janet blair was a network news reporter. >> we kept getting calls in the newsroom. there's a bear loose in our neighborhood. so we loaded in our news units, and we headed up there. >> nbc news camera man, barry mootz. >> bear loose in the heights. that's a great way to start your day off. >> the bear is on a desperate search, presumably to find her missing cub. little did she know the cub was safe and sound. officials caught him wandering through town the day before. >> and i said, now that they

have baby bear, the big question is, where's mama bear? >> the answer, fast approaching a busy intersection. >> so we get over to tramway and month gomry, and the bear heads for the power pole. and so, immediately, i'm thinking to myself, can bear climb a power pole? >> when a bear feels cornered, instinct tells it where to go. straight up. now, getting her down safely is up to game and fish officials like mark burkehouser. >> it is just looking for a place to get away and find a place that's safe. for a bear, that's high. as high as it can get off the ground where not much can get to it. >> this is not your normal pole. this is a large, high-wire, high-voltage pole. and there's, i think, three sets of wires that were up there. and the bear's up like by the top. >> albuquerque police department is there. game and fish is there. everybody's, you know, trying it figure out, you know, what we're going to do. >> officials want to try to tranquilize the bear.

but they will have to be careful. >> can't hit the bear and you miss, that dart's going to come down somewhere. with crowds around, there is also a public concern. >> the decision is made to fire the tranquilizer. the shot, a direct hit. within seconds, the 105-pound bear feels the effects. >> she's going. you can just see she's getting woozy. >> it is starting to droop a little bit. and it is hanging on to the pole the best it can. >> starting to lose function. his leg starts dangling down. >> she loses one claw and then she loses the other claw. >> the bear has avoided getting shocked until now. >> the electricity arced across and the bear immediately just boom, flies off the pole. it was like ten times louder than the gun firing, i mean, in my mind. and that electrical sound, that

crackle of electrical, you know. >> all of a sudsen, we had a bear exploding in midair. >> and smoke and flash. i mean, it was intense. >> then the smell. the smell of barbecue bear. >> everybody all around is getting emotional. janet blair lets loose. you killed the bear. and she is going run over and ring someone's neck. >> i was very upset and i stamped my foot and i said a bad word. very loudly. i am a journalist. and i'm supposed to be dispassionate. but that doesn't mean i don't have really strong feelings about every story i do. and in this case, i had very strong feelings for that bear. i thought, she was a goner. you know, if she didn't die from that fall, she must have died from the electrocution. >> but the story turns out very differently. >> we went up to the bear and the bear was still breathing, still had a heart beat. it was like, amazing.

we were just, amazed. >> she survived it. and she survived the burns on her paws and everything. >> lucky for the bear, the fur that's dry doesn't conduct electricity well, and lucky as well, her body is equipped for a high fall. she needs urgent care, but her condition isn't critical. >> she seems stable. she is breathing regularly. her heart rate is regular. and i can't really find any injuries on her other than a little burn on the inside of her right rear leg. >> i can't tell you then the elation i felt when we got the call, hey, this bear is alive. >> it was amazing that she had survived all of that. it was a miracle. >> the mama bear who came to be affectionately known as sparky, spends five months at rio grande zoo under the care of a team of veterinarians. gains 75 pounds r

reuniting with her cub, she's returned to the wild. >> people do get attached to this bear. it became albuquerque's bear. mama bear coming and looking for her cub, this traumatic incident occurs, yet they are reunited and able to be turned loose. i think it is a story of hope, you know. >> many wildlife officials rely on air bags to cushion the fall of bears they have to sedate. a development they owe in some part to sparky the bear. december 6, 2010. in tucson, arizona, another animal is stuck high on an electrical pole. this time, a cat who's been up there for three days. >> i just thought the cat might either slip and fall off or get into the power lines and get shocked and die. >> but kim, the cat, surprises everyone. >> on a monday, cameraman andrew brown heads out to cover the story.

all day, phone lines had been buzzing in the newsroom. >> people were so upset about this cat being on this pole and them not being able to get it down. that i didn't know what to expect but i knew it was going to be kind of crazy. >> when andrew arrives on the scene, a crowd has formed. looking 30 feet up at one very confused cat. >> people heard about it. i came out this morning and i've been here ever since. >> it's like, let's watch. >> the cat's been up there since saturday, 4:00 p.m. with no food, no water. as you can see, everybody is standing around. so, see how it turns out. >> live entertainment. >> also on the scene are kim's owners, amber fernandez, who's deaf, and her mother lisa. >> we've had her for two years and now she is stuck up there. i don't know what to do. >> if you touch one of the wires, it's high voltage.

it doesn't take much to kill a cat. with amber and her as close as they are, it would be very painful. >> given the risks to their employees, the power company is reluctant to intervene. but by the third day, the crowd is demanding action. >> i was going to get my spike shoes and climb up the pole but they said they would arrest anybody that attempts it. >> the police informed us that someone considered climbing our energized equipment to remove the cat. so when they happened, we decided the best course of action is to try and bring the cat down. >> tucson electric shuts down the power, leaving more than 2,000 people without electricity. still, there's residual charge left in those lines. enough to make the operation dangerous. for kim the cat and her rescuers as well. >> it got really, really tense. everybody was just nervous and there was a lot of tension in the air. >> it was scary, because the cat started getting scared.

she was scared of the two men. >> for kim the cat, it's a big decision. should she stay or should she go? >> i didn't know what was going to happen. i kept thinking it was going to get shocked. >> one of the onlookers on-site, provides the play by play. >> oh, jesus, joseph, mary, please. oh, god, oh, god, oh, my god, oh, my god. let the boys take you. let the boys take you. oh, no. >> suddenly she jumps. oh, my god. ahhhhh! >> it looked kind of like slow motion. >> it was shock and awe. like a moment of sheer terror. you can hear it. everybody just gasped. >> a cat's physical make-up helps it to brace for these kinds of falls. >> it was almost like she was flying like a flying squirrel does. because she was all four, you know, arms and legs out and she was kind of gliding down.

then when she hit, i was praying inside my head, god please make my cat safe. i thought for sure, you know, she's dead. >> but kim survives. >> she did. no broken bones. no internal bleeding. like nothing ever happened to her. >> in fact, she's raring to go. >> i couldn't believe it. i really couldn't believe it. hit the ground and just started running. >> went straight home. that's all she wanted to do was go home. >> i felt so happy inside, like it was like going to heaven. >> after her adventure, kim still looks for trouble. >> she isn't a good girl. a little bit fat now. >> coming up -- >> oh, jesus. >> a hot air balloon on a collision course. >> it's a disaster happening in

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we're watching breaking news out of oklahoma. a strong and very dangerous sorm system including tornadoes have been rolling east of oklahoma city. so far, we've had no reports of injuries, no reports of widespread damage. funnel clouds have been spotted in some of the rural areas, but so far, major population centers have apparently been spared. a very severe weather situation moving across oklahoma. we'll keep you updated here on msnbc. back to caught on camera. welcome back to caught on camera. i'm contessa brewer. imagine being in a hot air balloon drifting through a cloudless day. what could be more sublime and what could be more frightening when the wind carries that balloon straight into high voltage wires? that's just what one spectator caught on camera. october 1984, a hot air balloon

draws perilously close to electric power lines. >> oh, jesus. >> it's a disaster. it's a disaster happening in front of your eyes, then the you think, the people in there are -- who knows, burnt, dead, or anything. >> arthur and his wife, dee, are having a memorable vacation, visiting the albuquerque balloon fiesta. >> there is about 400 hot air balloons. >> it is really something to see. >> every color in the rainbow is there. and there's all the different shapes. >> art brought with him what is then a new toy. >> this is what i used to videotape it. you know, it's a new fad. i thought, you know, that's a nice way to record. >> art's video of day three captures the spectacle that greeted them right outside their motel room. >> look at all those balloons.

so pretty in the sky. >> it's hard to believe when you see 400 or 500 of them ascending, floating all over. >> they were landing around the freeway here and there, which looked a little perilous. a little miscalculation and you get hit by a car, too. >> this one was coming down, we were watching and all of a sudden we could hear the tanks when they turn on the propane, you here, woosh. >> the balloon abruptly changed course from landing to rising. its pilot and his passenger may have noticed there's a fence in his way. >> so he gave it a shot of hot air. and it started to rise. well, being in the basket with the balloons sticking out over the side, he couldn't see the power lines. >> the balloon rises straight into the high voltage power lines. >> all of a sudden, there's this

flash, i mean, flash, and it took all of our breaths way. >> the balloon could burn. it could catch on fire. the tanks could explode and kill people. >> with circuit breakers cutting the power from the line temporarily -- >> i'm thinking, my god. what are they going to do? i can't see how they're going to get down from there without something happening. >> the balloon is suspended in a deadly tangle of high tension wires. then suddenly, the power surges on again. >> oh, jesus. >> oh, jesus. >> there was a bigger flash and i -- i truly thought that whoever was in the gondola must be burned to death because it

was a tremendous flash. >> oh, jesus. >> another big arc, enormous arc, and it burned through the cables that hold the basket and the balloon, and that's when they separated. >> the balloon itself is cast off to sputter through the air. as for the gondola, it is hard to imagine anyone on board it could survive. they have endured a series of potentially lethal high voltage shocks and a 30-foot drop. >> it's like slow motion. that basket, you can just see it going down. and it hits the ground. you think, oh, boy, if they live through that, they're going to be in really bad shape. >> but incredibly both balloonists are alive. the pilot sustains a broken shoulder, a fractured pelvis and ribs, and the passenger, just bruises and a broken wrist.

>> i was absolutely amazed that they both weren't more seriously hurt or dead. but it happened so fast, and you are just thankful that this tragedy wasn't worse. coming up, police deliver a wedding present of 50,000 volts. >> how to start off a marriage, having a groom tasered on his wedding. >> when "caught on camera: high voltage" continues. you hurt my feelings, todd.

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december 3, 2007, tallahassee, florida police officer, donald poppy, is on patrol. dash cam rolling. when a car pulls ahead. the driver hits 65 in a 35 mile-per-hour zone. and he also hits a fence. the speeder, antonio givens, tries to bolt. poppy responds, taser drawn. >> stop now! on the ground, now! >> givens drops his gun. and grabs for it. poppy fires at givens with a tase of up to 50,000 volts. but givens isn't done. poppy goes for his firearm. as givens rises, his weapon in hand. poppy fires, twice and givens goes down. incredibly he's only wounded. i'm milissa rehberger.

we're following breaking news out of eastern oklahoma where a large funnel cloud has been spotted approaching a large mall. in a town called shawnee. let's join our affiliate in progress. >> flashes in there. we're seeing some debris floating up. if you're in this area, you need to be underground. this is going to be, i don't know, probably just from my vantage point, about two miles, three miles east of the 3-w exit on i-40, so it's going to be just the west of the college there. if you're on track i-40, right there, you have walmart, lowe's, all those stores, you're definitely going to need to evacuate the area, come south. i'm right now just south of the shawnee airport, and everything is going to track north of here. but if you got friends or family in there, listen to us on the radio. definitely take this precaution and get underground, get in a safe area because it's coming, and from our vantage point, it

doesn't look like it's lifting up soon. >> let's go back -- >> i'll come around to the west. >> it's at 177. sitting on the northern sides of shawnee. right now is where the debris ball is currently located on the northern side of shawnee. emily sutton joins us live. it's going to hit the shawnee mall. right now, who's up, hank? the shawnee mall is going to get hit, coming up here in less than a minute. in less than a minute, it's on i-40, the shawnee mall is going to get hit in less than one minute's time. let's take the chopper, take the chopper. john, can you push into that a little bit? can you push into that a little bit? >> we'll zoom in for you. >> it's going to hit the shawnee mall, like right now. it's absolutely, positively hitting the shawnee mall right now. okay, it may go half a mile north or south, but i'm telling you right now, the debris ball is over the shawnee mall on i-40 right now. this is a live picture.

>> rain, it's picking up all the rain from the backside. from our vantage point, it's harder to see. you're right on it, travis, but just as you can see all that gaesh golly. we're getting really beat up by some wind here. but as you can see, all that rain just sucked it up and it made it very, very hard to see the inflow band we're in right now, mike, this is absolutely crazy. we're getting tossed around. but as you can see, it's right up i-40, and like you said, the shawnee mall, definitely take your tornado precautions very seriously. >> appreciate that. it's a large debris ball. right over the shawnee mall. highway 18 and i-40 right now, as emily sutton or reed? we could get back to them. reed was in the vortex on i-40. let's go to reed live. what have you got? reed timmer, go. there's reed's live stream. that is i-40 in shawnee right

now. i think reed was blocked by power lines. let's see if we can actually talk to reed here. reed? >> mike, can you hear me? >> yes, go, reed. >> there's a violent cone tornado to our northwest. wrapped in rain. major damage. major damage on i-77, 2-70 and i-77 and i-40 meet. it's just across that. we're watching it now, violent cone. violent cone. debris flying through the air. >> from i-40, on the northern side of i-40 right now, is that right? >> sorry, go ahead? >> on the northern side of i-40, correct? >> yes, north of i-40, about a mile north of i-40. debris is flying through the yare. massive debris flying through the air. hit houses back on 270, 177, and i-40. yeah, there's major damage there. major damage. >> major damage at i-40 and 177. >> cars flipped.

cars flipped everywhere. >> cars flipped everywhere. how many cars have you seen flipped? >> i have probably seen five, six, seven, eight flipped. semi trucks rolled and houses with complete devastation. big stovepipe to our northwest right now. we intercepted that earlier tornado three times near edmund east, and major damage there. search and rescue. had to put a cow out of its misery. thankfully, no one was hurt in the town. this is a very dangerous situation. >> okay. that's from reed timmer. john, you can still see it in your screen. can you push into that? can you push into that a little bit? it's very close to the shawnee mall. looks like it's now to the east of the shawnee mall. it either went through the shawnee mall or on the northern sides of it, but that's right where it went. is that i-40? >> no, that's -- that's the 3-w that comes off -- 177, i guess,

that comes off i-40 to the southeast. from our vantage point right here, it's sucking all that water in there, which makes it white. we're trying to adjust our iris so we can depict the blacks the shot here. so they can give you the shape here. you know, it's definitely right there. and it still looks like it's tracking to the northeast. >> appreciate that. it is on the ground. it's heading to eastbound i-40. numerous cars flipped, blown over. extensive damage in northwest shawnee. reed joins us live. what do you have? >> we're just to the north side of shawnee. i would estimate that tornado is about three miles northwest of shawnee. there's a new tornado warning

now two miles west of shawnee with a new circulation. that one still just getting going. to the northwest, tornado in progress. large tornado in the rain now. northwest shawnee. but it crossed i-40 and caused extensive damage. >> i can confirm what we're talking about. there is another circulation that your west. it's going to be to the east. it's a strong circulation. there might be another rotation there. >> got it. there it is. >> let's go to reed. you say you got it. what you got? >> you see that white area right there? >> yes. >> west end of that, that's the west end of the large tornado. still in there. as we go north, we should get a better view of it.

just to be clear let's go to the storm tracker. this is what's happened rieg. about four miles east of the shawnee mall. there's another tornado.

>> you see the main is back here to the west. here's the hook on the lead tornado right there. it's still on the ground likely but probably roping out by the way it looks. the second tornado is up here north of i 40. it's not all that strong but it's a significant tornado but the main bang is back here to the west now so there's a

likelihood this will come in as a tornado on the ground. let's go back for -- i think you're looking at the wall cloud of that western -- that far western corner. is that right. >> yeah it's breaking up now but this is the lowering and this will be probably four miles just to the west of walmart on i-40. it appears to be north of i-40. we're just south of the shawnee airport. toward the southwest and northeast and that's what we have at this time. if we'll pan -- travis is going to pan to the left and there's another spot right here, you're going to have to -- keep coming to your left. you can kind of see this thing right here is starting to turn and it will kind of lower down a

little bit and there's one right behind it. this storm definitely has energy. it seems like it's cycling. it's sucking more energy. the lowering that we have seen throughout the day -- it's been typically low. it's raised up a little bit now. probably 700 or 800 feet. before when we were producing the larger storms -- you are watching breaking news coverage on msnbc on a rash of dangerous tornado in eastern oklahoma. right now there's three to talk about. one on a ground in a town near shawnee that came close if it did not hit a shopping mall there this evening. there's also a funnel cloud west and another one forming further west than that that could also hit the exact same town. all the people in shawnee are expected to stay underground if you can get there or in the safest place that you can find. certainly, there are reports of damage at this point. there weren't earlier and