people in north moore and south oklahoma city knew that one was come.n one developed really quickly. it was also a wider tornado which made it that much more damaging. >> jim bishop, you were a mile away i believe from where the tornado struck today. tell me about that. >> it was just a chilling experience. i mean, there isn't anything else like it. a major tornado developing going right through a metropolitan area. it's something a storm chaser never wants to see and it happened today. i was actually chasing with a couple of people and we were driving out out of kansas and driving into the oklahoma city area as the tornado was on the ground. i was listening to the local reports on the radio, and they were describing that it was just like may 3rd, '99. i was getting chills because i was getting closer and closer to it. there was so much rain and track and i was driving through the east side of oklahoma city. finally we came up to about a mile and a half northeast of the tornado. you could see this massive edge. it didn't look like a normal tornado becau

moore, oklahoma, kevin durant paid a visit to the tornado-ranched town. the oklahoma thunder star met with fans. the arena is about ten miles north >>> "cbs morning news" continues next. memorial day sale get half off shorts and tees and our lowest price ever on this craftsman propelled mower plus get 150 dollars back in points this is something super. this is sears race in for big savings. at the petsmart memorial day sale! save up to 50% on hundreds of items, and save up to 30% on select flea and tick products. thursday through tuesday only, at petsmart®. happiness in store.™ . >>> good morning. welcome to wusa9. today is thursday, pre-friday. may 23, 2013. i'm andrea roane. this month is gone, flying, amazing. >> hard to believe. we're in the soup again. good morning. i'm mike hydeck. thanks for joining us. good morning, monika. sleeveless is no problem today. >> howard, give us the report on women's fashion. how should they dress? >> frizz alert. open toed shoes. going to be raining at times. shoes that can get wet. sleeveless is not going to work this weekend. weather wise we have showers and storms today, especially this af

as this storm heads into moore area, a little north of moore and into the oklahoma city area. >> if you're just tuning in, the national weather service has issued a tornado emergency for the western oklahoma city metro area. that is more serious than a tornado warning. a tornado emergency which has been declared. the tornado emergency includes the suburbs of ucon, bethany and oklahoma city. a tornado emergency means a large destructive tornado is moving into a densely populated area and widespread damage and fatalities are likely. that's what it means. it is likely that there will be widespread damage and fatalities. a tornado touched down in the el reno, oklahoma area. you see some of the wreckage. you see it on your screen now. some of the tornado chasers that we've been touching base with all evening have talked about and shown us homes that are destroyed, vehicles that are destroyed and now that tornado is heading to the east-southeast according to chad myers. samantha moore is at the cnn weather center. samantha, what is the condition of the storm right now? >> well, it seems to be re

moore, oklahoma, kevin durant paid a visit to the tornado-ravaged town. the oklahoma thunder star met with fans and victims in oklahoma. the arena is about ten miles north this is the "cbs morning news." memorial day sale get half off shorts and tees and our lowest price ever on this craftsman propelled mower plus get 150 dollars back in points this is something super. this is sears race in for big savings. at the petsmart memorial day sale! save up to 50% on hundreds of items, and save up to 30% on select flea and tick products. thursday through tuesday only, at petsmart®. happiness in store.™ >>> good morning. i'm jessica kartalija. don is off today. the morning's top headlines in just a minute. first let's head over to the first warning weather center. it's marty. >> we've got shower s around the area right now. we'll get a break midday. this evening we could see vigorous thunderstorms in the mid atlantic. it's 66 on tv hill right now. 73 at lunch going to a high temperature right around 80. jessica, take it away. >> thanks. >>> here's what we have our eye on today, a judge in prince george's county will hear arguments in the lawsuit over the univers

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and we do have at one of the treage hospitals just north of moor, probably about 7 miles north. there's probably about 85 trauma patients right now. 60 of those are children. we'll get more of those reports in throughout the night and have the updated information first thing in the morning. >> thank you for helping us keep everybody informed, sir. if there is word that you want, i hope you'll let us help you. we feel like we need to do something. >> rachel, thank you very much. >> oklahoma lieutenant governor todd lavm. >>> as we just discussed, there are two 00 med bers of the active guard to to search and rescue, to provide perimeter security assistance to the fegs first responders. >> what can you tell us about what you expect your national guard members to be doing through the night and the coming days now that you've been called up. >> well, certainly, our first responsibility is to discyst where ever we can, the first responders' efforts in mitigating these defects. it will be providing any kind of search and rescue that they need accomplished. and assisting those first sp

on i-35. >> in you're anywhere from north of newcastle right into moore, this your storm. >> just before 3:00 p.m. central time cnn meteorologist chad myers spotted the telltale signs of a tornado. >> you look down it was a ball. the next time i looked at that doppler radar there was a hook echo on the bottom. and i looked at it, i looked at it again. there's the spin, there's the hook echo. i said, did i just see this? did this just happen in six minutes? because this wasn't here. >> you could feel it all coming. you're knowing as a storm chaser that it's going strong, in fact it's going to intensify. there you see it. now it's on the ground. >> moments later. >> look at it, on the ground. >> a tornado was born. >> we are in moore and we have a tornado to our west. >> i widened up to a skin in tornado and then as it moved into the moore area it widen. >> not ten minutes ago this was not in contact with the ground. it's a fast developing storm, we knew it, saw it and then the tornado dropped straight to the ground. >> as thousands scrambled to safety, kev

north turn and went up to hederberg drive and i-40. we don't know if this will do the same thing. it is now east of mooreigh school at sunny lane sooner, and south 4th, and north 12th street. go, john welsh. >> yeah, hey, i'm going to tell you exactly where this is. this is right on my house. it's crossing right now bryant just north of 12th street. we're getting some highlights of some flashes in there. and there are antennas right there just north of 12th street. that's what we're hitting. it looks like from our vantage point it's right there. it looks like it's kind of weakened a little bit. travis will kind of push in there. it's still tracking straight east. looks like on 12th street. where you have -- it's fixing to cross, if it hasn't already, it's crossing bryant, fixing to cross sunny lane. it's going to hit the band in sooner road where they made the annex for the proposed lake they made years ago. that's where it's headed right now. straight east. looks like it's over 12th street. we're still getting tons of power flashes way in front of this storm. >> let's go to the north doppler control roo

if there's any slight difference to the day we saw with moore, oklahoma, these storms are firing further to the north. the day before the moore, oklahoma, tornado, there were big tornados that we watched in the afternoon, live pictures cutting to the north of oklahoma city. that town had two days of it in a row and we have it here again. >> it looks like these are track engine an area somewhere between oklahoma city and edmund to the north. if they head due east, which they tend to do. it will go across the heavily populated corridor, that is really highway 77 that goes down to oklahoma city and then interstate 35. that whole area, pretty heavily populated. >> it absolutely is. and then one other, the interstate 44 at the i-44 corridor that cuts the state. the storm moving directly east, edmond, to the north, suspect on the north side of the tornado, chr is not good news. i think we are talking about a more populated area because it gets more populated the closer you get into the city and this is going directly into that area, and boy, take a look at that picture. you can see the tornado right there

moore, oklahoma. and these storms are drifting to the north. et downpours at daybreak in the moore area along with active lightning. at worst maybe small hail. no tornado threats. not what they needed. i'm sure they're looking at the skies to the south and lightning to the south and they're not excited. >> hopefully this doesn't interfere with rescue and recovery efforts. >> it will, it definitely will. hamper it a little bit, at least. >> let's talk about the mechanics of a tornado. we see something this massive, this powerful, what are the factors that cause this? >> i'd say about 99% of our tornados are weaker tornados. they're what we call ef-0s or ef-1s, can maybe damage trees, do a little damage to a roof, but they don't devastate property. when you get a storm like this, the tornado itself is just spinning so much faster and sucking up so much more energy from the atmosphere around it, that's how you can get these. it's very rare, i mean, the equations in the atmosphere, the equilibrium that has to be maintained to get these storms this s

this tornado warning further to the north of moore and north of oklahoma city, the one that has beenve a current tornado warning on it, as well. that one is moving to the east at around 25 miles per hour. i think we have some video coming out of that particular cell. yes, here's a location one of the chasers north of oklahoma city on i-35. this is the view he has, obviously, he's more in a treed area right now. you can't exactly see the clouds, so we'll leave that picture. as we go to the big picture, you can see just how many people can be affected here, some 323,000 square miles, 43 million people from wisconsin, down in through eastern iowa, illinois, including peoria, minnesota, st. louis could be affected here, into springfield, missouri, stretching down into arkansas and then, of course, over into oklahoma city we have that watch, that tornado watch. all of these marked in red are tornado watches, of course, they'll be in effect until the late evening hours and the one in oklahoma city and central oklahoma will be in effect until 10:00 p.m., so as chad said, things are just rea

and we do have at one of the triage hospitals in the oklahoma city area just north of moore probably about seven miles north, about 85 trauma patients right now, 60 of those are children. that's just one hospital report that i have. and we'll get more of those reports in throughout the night and have the updated information first thing in the morning. >> just heartbreaking. thank you for helping us keep everybody informed, sir. and again if there is word that you want help getting out nationwide, i hope you let us help you. we feel like we need to do something. >> rachel, thank you very much. appreciate that. >>> as we just discussed, 200 members of the national guard have been called up on active duty to do search and rescue, to provide perimeter security assistance, first responders who are in moore and surrounding area. i want to bring now into the conversation major general miles deering with the oklahoma national guard, the man in charge. general, thank you very much for your time tonight. we appreciate your time. >> my pleasure. >> what can you tell us about what you expect your

moore? >> we are about 15 minutes north of moore.a city downtown and we have two facilities on campus. we have a children's hospital where we have received patients and the adult side a major medical center as well. >> that's good news that it's a level one oklahoma university hospital. thank you, scott. >> thank you, greta. and one thing i can tell you is we called code yellow when we take on a lot of casualties. and that expired about an hour ago. that lets you know that we've received the bulk of the patients that we're going to receive and hopefully we won't see many more. >> that's great news. thank you, sir. >> you bet. >> straight ahead. more breaking news out of oklahoma. scenes of chaos. the latest on the scramble to find survivors in the rubble, especially that elementary school. that's coming up. all stations come over to mission a for a final go. this is for real this time. step seven point two one two. rify and lock. command is locked. five seconds. three, two, one. standing by for capture. the most innovative software o

moore. we are at 301 north broadway. we have debris in the air over city hall. everyone in moore needs to take precautions immediately. >> and if people are at their homes, in their homes, obviously they -- >> they need to be in the center of their home, in a closet or a bathtub in the center of the home, covered with a mattress or blank blankets. put on bicycle or motorcycle helmets. be in the center of the home or basement or storm shelter. >> get out of the way of the windows is what you're saying. how much -- >> do not be looking outside. do not be near the windows looking outside. be in the center of your home in a storm shelter. there's debris falling on to the hall on 301 north broadway. people just need to take that seriously. it is happening. >> take shelter immediately. go to your storm cellars, go to the basement. if you don't have a basement, go to your bathroom, go into the bathtub, cough yourself with a mattress. take shelter. have you, sir, heard of any injuries or fatalities? >> things are -- it's just happening right now. it's just the middle of

we are in moore north of the war re ren theater here. just to the north of us is the moore medical center. let me swing you around this way. we were directly back here in this neighborhood. it's just to the west. right behind us, the moore medical center, we spoke with a lot of people. the neighborhood back there, a lot of people along sixth street back in there in moore that rode out that neighborhood. the entire neighborhood is completely destroyed. fortunately, a lot of the homes in that area do have storm shelters and we spoke with one man who rode out the storm in the storm shelter, ricky stover, and here's what he had to say. >> we thought we died. we were in the cellar door, it got louder and the next thing you know, you see the latch coming undone, it ripped open the door and it just -- just glass and debris started slamming on us. we thought we were dead, to be honest. >> yeah, a lot of people in that neighborhood echoing those same sentiments, an absolutely terrifying moment for them. we spoke with another family who had severa

south moore has really blossomed a lot more than what north moore has. just -- it going through the south sides of the city, i mean, just -- i mean, it is, again, it is a completely at a loss for words. >> megyn: help us understand as somebody who grew up in moore what -- it seems like the town was functioning close to normal yesterday in the morning. we knew there were going to be storms there were warnings of potentially severe twisters coming through. school was in session and businesses were open. is that normal? do people generally go about their day-to-day lives until they hear those sirens? >> usually it does. there has been one past tornado event where they kind of did like where they released schools a little early i know it wasn't like really early. and they were kind of shutting stuff down and that was the tornado that happened two years ago. but that wasn't the case with this one. i mean, the chance was not that high yesterday. i mean, there was a moderate risk issued by the storm prediction center. they also, you know, put out their tornado

so this was on the south side of moore where the 1999 tornado was a little farther to the north. the conditions coming together perfectly to form this absolutely spectacularly intense kind of a perfect tornado, the kind you just hate to see, you know, when we see these things come together. as you say, winds almost certainly 200 miles per hour. perhaps if it was an ef-5, we won't know until they go out and actually look at the damage in detail, whether it was an ef-5 tornado where those winds at that maximum end of the scale up in that 250, 260 mile an hour range. i have a map here that i can show you where it tracked exactly in reference to moore, oklahoma. they're going back to 3:20 central time. what we're looking at here this, that's where the debris ball is, as the radar is seeing it. there is downtown moore. oklahoma city is up here at the top. it tracked across moore in a direction like that. very unfortunately it peaked in intensity, martin, as it was going by this populate d suburb moore, oklahoma, and dissipated as it moved past that populated area. here we're seeing th

on i-35. >> if you're anywhere from just north of new castle right into moore, this is your storm. >> reporter: just before 3:00 p.m. central time, cnn meteorologist chad myers spotted the telltale sign of a developing tornado. >> you look down and it was a ball. the next scan, the next time i looked at that doppler radar, there was a hook echo on the bottom. and i looked at it. i looked at it again. there's the spin. there's the hook echo. and i said, did i just see this? did this just happen in six minutes? because this wasn't here. >> you could feel it all coming. you're knowing as a storm chaser that it's going strong. in fact, it's going to intensify. >> there you go. you see it? you see it. now it's on the ground. >> reporter: moments later -- >> look at it, mike. on the ground. >> reporter: -- a tornado was born. >> we are in moore, oklahoma, and we have a tornado to our west. >> it widened out to a straight up and down skinny tornado. as it moved into the moore area, it widened and widened and widened. >> not ten minutes to go, this was not in contact w

bill: how far are you from moore, oklahoma, your facility? >> we are about 15 minutes northof moore, just straight up i-35. we're located in the downtown area of oklahoma city. bill: right there smack dab in the middle of downtown oklahoma city. >> right. bill: scott, i can't imagine what happened here when these ambulances arrived and what you and your staff had gone through. can you get us an image for what developed at that point? >> i have never seen anything so mind-boggling, yet it was so smooth. we continue to receive patients, oh, i would say probably a half hour after the storm hit. all through the night and it was amazing. i spoke with our chief trauma director and she was saying that, if you remember, in '99 we had a tornado sweep through the same area. it was much more smooth operation. we learned a lot since then and all of the specialties were there. they were, had presented themselves to take care of all types of injuries. the nurses were already to go. even down to services, social services for families and employees handling the patients. bill: that is remar

north! very large, heading into moore, oklahoma. >> because this was such an immense and ravaging storm, the results of the casualties and fatalities, that's been a fluid number, but the newest numbers have been lowered as we have them right now at this hour, according to the medical examiner, 24 people confirmed killed. other agencies telling us as many as 50 people may have died because of the storm. we expect the numbers to rise. more than 100 people have been found alive. there is hope, and the search and rescues continue today. tornado was on the ground for an agonizing 40 minutes yesterday. it traveled more than ten miles. by far the most heart breaking story is unfolding at plaza towers elementary school. with every responder on the scene, they're hoping to recover children. seven were confirmed dead from the inside. listen to what a teacher said and what a student said about how a teacher saved their lives. >> i was in a stall with some kids, and it just started coming down. so i laid on top of them. one of my little boys kept saying, i love you, i love you. please don't die with me.

when it came to moore, when north and then straight east. it stayed straight east until it got past eastern and it shocked a little bit north and continue these for a mile and half and started going north east again. but that's not real, and for it to do that. usually continue north east. this one may direct angles. when it was over, this area -- it was over the school for about three minutes and continue to tear this area up. it was a slower-moving tornado. >> you watched it. backside andn the followed until there was too much debris. my daughter's school was over there. then enlarged telephone call started falling. i cannot get by. people were yelling for help. a lot of storm shelters were covered with debris. a lot of things you don't think about. we had to deal with that. our home is fine. my daughter's school, the gymnasium was torn up but nothing like this. no one was killed in her school. --t is pretty much obama hates to arlington national cemetery for service.l memorial day he will lay a wreath at the tomb of the unknowns. the presi

streets, to avoid the traffic, get around some traffic jams, and then we were able to get on the north side of mooretornado as it crossed interstate 35 and then as it started to dissipate in what we called a rope-out stage east of moore. and the debris going around it was a lot of different, instead of large chunks of debris, it really seemed like the debris was atomized. >> juston, explain to viewers who may sit there and say, how do these guys do this, what is it about storm chasing and all this, explain what information you hope that you're gathering that can help in the future. >> well, when simon and i are out chasing, we go out because we want to document whatever super cell they were on actually produces. and some of this video we get, it really shows the type of interactions that are going on within a storm. and we're hoping that later on as they do research for storms such as this one, maybe our video will possibly shed some light on the actual interactions and stuff that's going on within the storm after a tornado actually forms. and maybe they'll get some insight later on and maybe able t

got a very dangerous line there zooming in towards ard moore wells north of gainsville.th of mcallister and moving up we still have tornado storms for fayetteville, arkansas. springfield, missouri, north of springfield. and tornado warning for joplin, missouri. these storms are moving into heavily populated areas. as the sun goes down we want to make sure people are taking precautions. keeping noo whether radio radio -- weather radio on. we have a tornado worn storm. joplin and branson, missouri. of course, joplin had an ef-5 tornado. that threat continues tuesday. widespread area including very big cities. we will continue to watch that for you throughout the evening. >> shepard: janice back to you for what's happening where at this moment. where we think it will be happening next. thank you. reports from the local trauma center. the state's only level one trauma center which is where the worst of patients are always taken. it also happens to serve additionally as a children's hospital and a primary care facility. that's o.u. medical center where the spokesperson is sco

moore. you can't make out what the building was in the bottom of the screen. just northhouse after house gone. here's what you need to know this morning waking up. the tornado watch was issued for moore, oklahoma, about 2:10 before the storm hit saying, tornado are possible. the tornado warning telling people in moore the tornado is heading that way was 25 to 40 minutes in advance. the national average is 12 minutes so they had plenty of lead time. we had a helicopter pilot up there showing you the storm before the tornado even formed, showed it forming, going to the ground, and it happened at 3:00 in the afternoon. i mean, there's not much else you could do. i know in these situations, especially with kids and the injuries and fatalities at the school, you just want to assign blame somehow. but i think everything was done properly. >> you know, so people evacuate order did they go to their base snmt we saw streets and streets destroyed and not everyone who lived in these homes perished. >> a lot of places in this area don't have basements. a lot of places in the east ha

moore, oklahoma. while overall those storms are moving towards the east and towards the south away from that region, they're very, very close and any slight movement toward the northe looking at heavy rain, lightning and wind gusts. to the south of moore, one storm produced a wind gust in excess of 70 miles per hour. powerful storms out here. we're expecting that threat for severe weather anywhere from parts of texas all the way up into parts of the great lakes. damaging winds, large hail and tornadoes. a moderate risk across parts of texas into arkansas, meaning longer track and also damaging tornadoes possible. i also want to point out, cleborn, texas, last week had a confirmed es-3 move through that area. granbury, confirmed ef-4, under risk today for possible tornadic activity. >>gretchen: this morning "the oklahoman" newspaper declared the storm worse than the storm that hit the town 14 years ago. >> that certainly says it all, that headline there: worse than that. preliminary reports are putting it in the same league as some of the country's worst storms. the national weather service is classifying yesterday's tornado as an ef-4, but that could be upgraded a

so you're looking north across moore, and again, a lot of neighborhoods, a lot of fairly densely packed areas, and you're just going to -- lost hundreds and hundreds of homes. >> and we can only hope that the people were protected as this huge tornado ripped apart this area right outside, this is a suburb of oklahoma city. it's not very far from downtown oklahoma city. how far would you say? >> about six miles, almost a straight shot up the interstate. very close, again, surrounded by oklahoma city on three sides. some of the areas you've shown, the school district actually straddles oklahoma city and moore, known as the moore school district. some of the devastation you're seeing is within the oklahoma city limits. fortunately so far not further north in an even more heavily populated or through the downtown section. but it's clearly very, very damaging and very devastating event. >> if you can stick around for a moment, chad meyers, our severe weather expert is watching what's going on. are more tornadoes on the way to this area? >> i believe there's probably a tornado just to the nor

. >> reporter: both just north of the city of moore devastated by a tornado last week. and over in arkansas, this tornado swirling into a waterspout over lake washita. further north in wichita, kansas, rain is the issue. floodwaters rising past the headlights of cars leaving some stranded and others just looking for a place to keep dry. >> well, the county fire responded very quickly. you can see the number of fire trucks out there. >>> and then there's the heat out west. firefighters battling a raging wildfire near santa clarita, california, that has scorched at least 400 acres of land. >> this firefight still very, very active, and probably will be for some time. >> reporter: in the east, the first signs of summer in new york's central park. from the splashes to the scoops to the first slathers of sunblock, the heat wave has officially arrived. >> i guess i wasn't so smart so i need to go get ice cream. it melted. >> melted ice cream, a welcomed sight after the late season memorial snowstorm had places like vermont measuring snow in feet. syracuse and binghamton weathe

if you're anywhere from north of new castle, right into moore and then north or northeast from there,t enough rotation to give you this warning. oklahoma city right here, a watch box in effect meaning anything you could see today could get a atornado on the ground and rotate. farther to the north, springfield, missouri, we even have storms firing into parts of michigan at this hour. here's a look at the storm itself, the tornado warning, there's new castle, the spin, the hook echo as we call it. it's there moving across i-44. turner and up toward moore. we don't have confirmation on the ground yet, but if you're in this area, new castle, moore, and points toward the north and northeast, you need to take cover now. this could get to the ground at any time. it is that serious, just as serious as it was yesterday. we'll keep you advised, ashle h ashleigh. >> chad, just a quick look at the u.s. census, it has the population of oklahoma city at approximately 500,000 people, but i can imagine the metro area is different than that. do you have statistics on how many people this could affect?

the circulation could even go as far north as the southern half of moore.he 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 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 g

moore and i want to show it to you now. >> kevin, get the pictures, man. i'm getting the video. i've never heard a roar like that before. [ siren ] oh my gosh. it just turned northd tornado heading in to moore, oklahoma. hold on. it's going to our north. >> i know that. >> i have never heard a roar like that before. this tornado and the devastation hitting home for another storm chaser tracking more than 100 storms, dave holder, lives in norman, oklahoma, next to moore. dave, you heard that storm chaser say, i have never heard a roar like that. you were covering tornadoes yesterday when this one hit. now you've seen the damage. have you ever seen anything like this? >> no. it's definitely once in a -- first time i've ever seen anything like this. it's completely overwhelming. we got in there a few minutes after it happened and i was just in a total state of shock. i've never seen anything like it. >> and you have -- i mean, you have covered more than 105 tornadoes, i believe. and tell me if that number is wrong but i wonder, dave, you think about it where you live and what you do, is the risk of something horrific like this tornado happening, this experience, so

>> i wanted it show you the radar out of norman, oklahoma, with moore to the north and they got a strong or severe thunderstorm rolling through the neighborhood right now so that black is usually an indication very high radar run that comes from hail so i feel back for those folks. it is quiet on our radar and as we jump over here, it will move through in the next half hour to 45 minutes and they can get back to restoring their hive -- lives 4 in los gatos in the hills, and headed in lower elevations you can see saratoga and cupertino at 45 and sunnyvale at 47 and temperatures in the 40's until you get to alameda at 52 and redwood city at 50 along with san ramon and 41 in calistoga. day planner today the next 12 hours, temperatures are stuck in the 60's away from the coast from noon to 4:00 and into 7:00 we are stuck in the 50's at the coast and as we move through the weekend, temperatures will climb just a little bit with a few more clouds in the morning and a few high clouds in the afternoon. we will see if there is potential hotspots this morning. leyla gulen? >> there is, and it will

north, charlie. good morning, gayle. good morning, everybody. welcome back to "cbs this morning." hundred us of school children survive this week's tornado in moore, oklahoma. this morning, they are having a reunion in the last day of class. >>> the ceo of delta airlines is here. he'll explain why customers are paying all the fees and if there's any relief in sight. >>> and they are partying at the white house last night in honor of national musician carole king. here's a look at "eye opener." >>> as investigations goes this one has plenty of leads. several eyewitnesses video evidence. and most importantly, two suspects are alive and in custody. >> a british soldier was murdered in a bloody attack in southeast london. >> the police and security services will not rest until we have brought all of those responsible. >> president obama will be here in a couple of hours on counterterrorism strategy. and he announce limits on drone

but these storms are just going to travel just to the north of i-40. moorebe south of i-40. >> the live pictures from our affiliate koco in oklahoma city. you see how it looks like those clouds, those dark clouds, chad, i don't know if you can see what we're seeing, it looks pretty ominous right now. the pictures on the right are coming in from el reno, oklahoma, from the left they're coming in from oklahoma as well. i think they are right where you are, chad. it looks pretty ominous to me. >> it truly is. the updraft we have going is very, very strong. we just had a brand-new, what we call a cloud-to-ground lightning strike. the more lightning we get, the more shear is going on in the storm. the more pale being generated by the storm. we'll see this continue for much of the night. >> chad, stand b for a moment. our meteorologist, samantha moore, is watching what's going on. even as bad as the situation is, samantha, in oklahoma right now, there are new warnings being released in nearby kansas. what's the latest? >> yeah, into kansas, we've also had our seve

moore, oklahoma. because of the storm 14 years ago. as you mentioned, the ef-5 tornado that went through there, just north of where this one tracked across the city of moore. that one was measured at 302 miles per hour. the strongest winds ever measured on the planet because that occurred just after the technology came into play that allowed us to measure tornadoes. we don't know. in fact, i doubt it was. let me show you this as it went. the dot you saw on screen with the radar, that's where the elementary school was. let me go to 3:15. watch the time. that's central time. unfortunately if you look at the purple here, that's the tornado intensi intensifying. it just intensified to its worst at the time that it crossed near that elementary school and then moved across i-35 and weakened as it went on through moore. the lifetime of the tornado, brian, was only about 40 minutes and the core peak time was about 15 minutes and it was in that period in the populated part of moore, oklahoma, south of oklahoma city, that the storm peaked over top of where the elementary school was and where a well known horse barn is there south of oklahoma city.

moore is right in the middle of a region west of the mississippi from north texas to south dakota whereyou could hear the tornado come over and the tornado ripped the door off the cellar and debris started coming down the cellar. mud, all kinds of stuff. >> reporter: may 3rd, 1999, 46 people were killed and more than 800 were injured when a tornado touches down, just miles north of moore. that storm had winds peaking over 300 miles per hour, the fastest ever recorded on earth. the damage from yesterday's tornado, estimated to be twice as large as that storm. >> apocalyptic, i would say, would be the best word to describe it. >> reporter: two years ago, 161 people lost their lives during a tornado in joplin, missouri. that storm is the costliest in u.s. history, estimated at $2.8 billion. as the damage is assessed in the days and weeks ahead, yesterday's tornado is expected to be in the top five. >> i don't know how to explain it, how to describe it. this is, this is terrible. this is war zone terrible. >> we'll go back to moore, oklahoma, and get more insight from joe and mika, coming u

north! very large. heading into moore, oklahoma. >> i've never heard a roar like that before. said that spoke not just for himself, but for an entire nation in horror at the destructive power of mother nature. and now the frightening question. are we destined to see more just like it in the future? let's ask jeffrey kluger of "time" magazine. he has a riveting article in the latest issue which is devoted to this week's tragic weather event. thanks for coming in, wrjeff. this tornado came as a surprise to a lot of people. in your article you said the people at the national weather center in oklahoma knew pretty much both that it was coming and that it would be very destrictive. >> that's right. the piece principally authored by david, i sort of worked with him on this. >> very gracious of you. >> thatit has the benefit of be true, also. one of the points that we made is that these folks knew that this was coming. this came after a weekend in which hurricane -- in which a tornado had already hit. there had already been two deaths. they came into the tornado center that morning a

rotation will be south of moore but that means that the hail core could be back into moore because the hail is always northf the storm when you have the storm moving from west to east. one thing i can tell you is that the rain has picked up where i am but, more importantly, the lightning has picked up as well. >> why is that significant, chad? >> because that tells me that there is more shear going on in the storm and the storm is probably reintensifying, jake. think about taking your old leather shoes and rubbing them on a shag carpet and then touching the doorknob. that rubbing, that shear, you know, your feet on the carpet, that creates electrons in your body and you touch the knob and all of a sudden you get a shock. well, that's what the storm is doing now. it's rubbing its feet on the shag carpet and creating more lightning, more electricity, more shock. and so the storm as it makes more and more lightning tells me there's more feet rubbing going on up there, more shear, more intensity, more hail being formed as well. and pieces of particles of water bei ining sheered apart creatin this difference in

moving north and east, this is oklahoma, just in oklahoma in and around the oklahoma city area several tornado warned storms here. and then the storm that moved out of moore right there, there is oklahoma city so the pictures we are seeing of the devastating damage is from the tornado that now is moving north and eastward. it might be a separate super cell, but these -- this line of storms is holding together. that's the most dangerous news we can have in meteorology. if they hold together they will do more damage to more pop layered -- populated regions. as we go through the evening this is going to continue unfortunately throughout the evening and even to tomorrow. a wide swath where we could see strong storms and then this area here in red where we think all of the storms will come together. you can see the line i superimposed the radar on. it shows the line of storms that moved through oklahoma city and with it the super cells and the tornado damage. >> janice, thanks. stay close if you will. back to live pictures from the oklahoma city area. actually this is video from moments ago, but live pictures are coming in as well. the choppers were up over th

north. very large heading into moore, oklahoma. hold on. it is going to our north.fine. >> get in the car. get in the car. >> i'll jump in when you guys are ready. we need to go. we need to go. we have lots of debris coming down. go north back behind it. >> going back through the debris field. >> this is the damage path right now. houses are completely levelled. >> it is unrecognizable. >> houses are levelled. >> this doesn't look like it was ever a development. >> it doesn't. >> this -- >>o my god, guys. >> look at those people. we have to help them. >> pull over right here. this is like a daycare or school or something. look at all of the kids. >> it is so hard to believe. there is a strange silence here today. you hear generators and trucks backing up. you hear heavy earth moving equipment kind of moving some debris, people walk by having quiet conversations. but there is a silence. it's almost like a stunned silence. a lot of people kind of standing around. some are taking pictures. some shaking their heads. they don't know exactly what to do or where to go. wha

moore. the one that we saw today wempbt through the southern portions. so within 15 years, the norths destroyed and now the south side was destroyed. how is this looking as far as deadliest tornadoes in our country's history? look at the date on a lot of these. it's before we had tv. mostly before we had radio, in some cases. they were talking before 1950 when they had very little warning. but in the modern era, the joplin one, two years ago, was 158 in fatalities. so here's how we are tonight. seve severe weather through texas. but it's that one little red triangle that made this a historic night that we'll never forget. >> msnbc's live coverage of the oklahoma tornado continues now. >>> hi, we've continuing coverage of the devastating tornado in moore, oklahoma. 21 of those killed were which i shall. children. the death toll is expected to climb further. at least 145 are injured, about 70 of those hurt are also children. as we've seen throughout the evening, entire neighborhoods have been completely levelled, and that includes two schools that were crushed. one of the schools is th

we are just north of oklahoma city. moore, oklahoma is just south of oklahoma city. my neighborhood and e and and edm u.n. d h-p received damage on sunday when the storm came through. this has affect eg the even fire metro area, really the entire heartland. jenna: you have a young wife and young son, your family went through a tornado just a few days ago. how is your family doing and where were you when the storm came through yesterday? >> thank you first of all. we are fine, and everyone in our neighborhood is accounted for, and we have property damage, and of course you can replace property, we can't replace people and that's why our thoughts and prayers are with the people in moore right now. i'm a state representative as you mentioned. we were actually in session here at the state capitol yesterday when the storm started to come through. weee evacuate waited to thwe evacuated to the basement of this building that is nearing 100 years old. we had to watch as the storms moved through and everyone in the state of course wants to help and wants to do what they can. t

i know you grew up in north carolina and the family -- excuse me, moore, oklahoma, the family home isfamily, your parents, your brothers, everybody to meet at that home. isn't that right? >> yes, that was our first initial response we have to get to mom and dad's, get safe. all of us are in an apartment so it's not like it's super safe, we were all planning to go over there. >> yesterday you were on your way, chris, you were on your way, your parents were on their way, too, is that correct? >> um-hum. >> as it turns out, you didn't get there until after the tornado and when you came home, what did you find? >> well we were running to the cemetery, like we had jogged five or six miles to get there and didn't know what was going on. we got to the cemetery and just saw flat and when we finally got there, our parents were in the driveway. our first initial reaction was just hold each other and we all were just crying, we didn't know what else to do. >> when you got there, chris, your home you grew up is basically gone? >> gone, there's cars rolled over and neighbors had a car threw their

you couldn't go to the hospital in moore yesterday afternoon. some went north to oklahoma city.e 85 trauma patients in o.u. medical center, 60-65 of those were children. >> 3:00 it hit, what was the warning? >> the warning was, i want to be very sensitive here. my understanding is that the warning system was good. it was adequate. of course you lost your life, if you lost your child, if you lost your home, you may not think so. but the tornado sirens were activated, they went off very loudly, very audibly. there were shelters available. maybe the shelters weren't as strong as they needed to be in some parts. but also our meteorologists in oklahoma second to none, first rate, top-notch. and we were talking about the storms yesterday and the potential for the storms yesterday as much as three to four days ago. we knew yesterday we had the potential for tornadic activity because of the fair warning we had with our meteorologists. >> help me understand how it works in terms of where houses are built, what they're built on. because as an east coaster, you think you must have a shelte

moore where norah is located. these storms will eventually drift into north texas producing severe weather here in north texas as we go into late morning and early afternoon hours. now, the setup has been just right for severe weather. big upper level low spinning in the northern plains and the spokes of energy are rotating around that upper level low. we had a cold front and a dry line draped across oklahoma yesterday. south winds blowing in. strong westerly winds aloft. that got the storms rotating and produced that tornado in moore, oklahoma. it was an ef-4 tornado which is a rarity. we only see about 2% of all tornadoes in that ef-4 to ef-5 category and winds from 166 to 200. severe threat today from michigan all of the way down into texas. if you live in this orange area there's a threat again of some tornadoes during the day today. charlie? >> larry mowry, thanks. >> there are so many different areas of the city that have been destroyed. the tornado itself was very very wide. it just wiped out miles of areas and homes and businesses. it's probably the worst i've ever seen. >> worst than may 3rd, '99? >> worst

. >> reporter: both just north of the city of moore that was pummeled by a devastating tornado last week. and over in arkansas, this tornado swirling into a waterspout over lake washta. and floodwaters rising past the headlights of cars in kansas, leaving some stranded and others just looking for a place to keep dry. >> l.a. county fire responded very quickly. you can see the number of fire trucks out there. >> reporter: and then there's the heat. out west, firefighters battling a raging wildfire near santa clarita, california, that has scorched at least 400 acres of land. >> this firefight still very, very active and probably will be for some time. >> reporter: in the east, the first signs of summer in new york's central park. from the splashes to the scoops to the first slathers of sun block, the heat wave has officially arrived. >> i guess it wasn't the smartest idea to go get some ice cream. it's melted. >> reporter: melting ice cream, a welcome sight after the late-season memorial day snowstorm had places like vermont measuring snow in feet. upstate new york weathered the late flurr

. >> both just north of the city of moore, pummeled by a devastating tornado last week.his tornadoes swirling into a waterspout over lake washtetaw. in wichita, floodwaters are the issue. some were left stranded and others just looking for a place to keep dry. >> l.a. county fire responded quickly. you can see the number of fire trucks out there. >> and then there is the heat out west. firefighters battling a raging wildfire that scorched at least 400 acres of land. >> this fire fight very active and probably will be for some time. >> reporter: in the east, the first signs of summer in new york central park. from the splashes to the scoops to the first slathers of sun block, the heat wave has officially arrived. >> i guess it wasn't the smartest idea to get ice cream. it melted. >> reporter: welcome ice cream. a welcome site after a late season snowstorm over labor day. it had vermont measuring in feet. it broke 40-year-old records. >> freezing like three days ago. >> all seasons in one week. >> yeah. >> we're still dealing with wild weather. instability right now, usual

insurance agents are on the ground in moore and the surrounding areas surveying the damage. early estimates place the cost at something north billion. >> he would like to see storm shelters required in all new construction. that is a new topic. while storm shelters can save lives they can't save houses. sh woman has no place to stay two days after losing her house she is getting a face to face meeting with agents. >> they did lodge us at a hotel. so we have that for a night or two. and now we just need to know what to do with our property, what steps to take and where to go from here. >> how you doing? >> i guess we're doing -- we're just so grateful that we're out there is no place like home and you want to keep going back to the home that you had and that home is not going to exist. it's just not there. >> state farm is the largest insurer in the state. many tornados, six of his clients report total losses. >> they went back to their home that was totally destroyed and the first thing their son pulled out was their home insurance policy. >> her father had called an hour earlier. before the clients even show up. >> jane we

moore former photographer was there. >> i was there, it was a cold war, it was still as far north as you can get. it was pretty difficult. >> reporter: a special tribute was paid to vietnam veterans and one man said he was lost when he came home. >> we don't talk about it, i give them three days and i want to go back and these kind of things help. >> i usually come here early in the morning so i can walk by myself and stand by the markers and remember each marker has a name and each had a family and each marker deserves to be remembered. >> reporter: now the ceremony officially got underway about an hour ago and democratic leader, nancy pelosi and ed lee is here and we will have much more coming up on our news at 5:00. live from san francisco, i am ktvu channel i am tara moriarty, channel 2 news. >>> and other memorial day observances, people gathered across the park and orchestras played patriotic songs and the color guard closed it with a wreathe to be laid at veterans memorial plaza. >>> we are live at the coliseum where the battle of the bay is back and under this long weekend, they talk abou

and more rain to the north will come to the south. moorem warning. by far the worst weather since the tornado rolled through. here's some of the images i will take with mechl one of the thing that made this one of the strongest tornados i have seen is this ten ton tank picked up and thrown from a farm a half mile away. imagine that. this was filled when it was moved, too. right near is a bowling alley destroyed in moore. but inside the rubble, in all of the lanes nine out of ten boulg pins sit there like they were placed down for someone to throw the next ball. you get scenes like this from many tornados. this came out yesterday. it was take bin a 19-year-old in his storm shelter as the tornado went overhead. doesn't look like he was in the worst of it but it was bad enough. the tree down to the trunk. he sat there probably with winds 150 miles an hour. just about feet away. at one point you see tires blowing by in the sky. as far as what we will deal with today, i mentioned it is thunderstorming right now in oklahoma city. we are going to

to the 7th inning and rain right now is inches across the parts north and we sent that other system out and rain is beginning to who mooren pie everybody else and the cloud cover is and coming out of the west, we will have a mostly breezy day for some even though a few locations stay calm. sacramento ukiah and fresno, we have another cool pattern and you can see the rain from the north and it is just moving into mendocino and northern lake county and ukiah says cloudy and it is getting there. again much weaker as the system will not be coming in from the south, and would i don't see much on that and they really improve toward the end of the week warmer. >> they did it and the fans could plot be happier. see i told you last night it was do or die for the sharks and the sharks won, they beat the kings, 2-1 and the last game will be tomorrow night in loss and less and the winner, it is expected to be a kickeddous and they have an all time series against the giants. game starts at 1:00 and there are still tickets available and the game starts tomorrow night moving to san francisco for the final two games of the series. >>> c