, although nothing of this scale and actually another storm by dallas, chris, and extending northwest st. louis, those are nothing like the scale that we've seen here happen in moore, oklahoma, earlier this afternoon. >> well, let's get the dimensions for the history books. is this an e-5? is this 200 miles an hour or where are sfwhe. >> it's certainly 200 miles an hour. the only windstorm recorded over 300 miles per hour. this one visually looked like that but until you get down and higher. the national weather service has categorized this as an ef-4 at least. they actually go out and they have to do that on the ground to categorize it for sure. we won't know that until tomorrow. >> it sounds like it was a mile wide and 20 miles long. it dcan throw cars around, trucs around, homes bear no relationship to where their homes were once it has passed. is this something that a tornado can do at an ef-5 rate? >> yes. almost no buildings can survive an ef-5 tornado. they wipe buildings clean off their foundations. now, we are talking about moore, oklahoma. this may be one of the best-prepared cities i

see this is all a part of a line that is still active extending southwest of dallas up to northwest of st. louis. now, tomorrow, we still have the potential of some storms over here or down in here, especially and a satellite chance a little farther east than we have today. so these storms are slowly going to diminish this evening. stormy, somewhat of a chance. these massive tornado likely we saw today, likely a historic tornado, that kind of tornado is not expected tomorrow. >> many thanks, appreciate it. >>> now, for the moment, we may return to oklahoma city coverage and tornadoes as we go along this evening. let me shift back to washington, d.c. the irs scandal, where tea party and conservative groups were targeted. it turns out, virtually the entire white house staff knew about the problem and the treasury investigation for several weeks, except the president. i'm not blaming him for the irs problem. as a former white house staffer myself, i don't understand the lack of information flow into the oval office. he seemed to be the only guy in the building that didn't know. anyway, what was the

st. louis into the great lakes. showers are possible in the mountains of the west. >> cooler than usual in the upper midwest all the way to the rockies. look out in the pacific northwest normal. aloha, honolulu, 85 degrees. >> always makes us jealous. >>> here's a story that brings the classic video game donkey kong to mind, the little scaffolding. >> in this case, scaffolding is all around a townhouse construction site in houston, and it was also the scene of a somewhat high altitude chase yesterday, which resulted in the arrest of a would-be thief. >> crews just put a high tech camera system which caught the suspect's every move. fire truck ladder came to the rescue, the scene there, and the guy, police, were back on the ground. >> wah, wah, wah. >> did you play donkey kong? >> i did. it was fun. not as fun as this video, though. apparently, this guy's name is dwayne potts. there he is in the red little square. he has, of course, several thefts and burglary arrests under his belt. criminals are never smart. >> where there's smoke, there's fire. >>> coming up, paying tribute to a veteran actress who kept soap opera viewers on the edge of their seats day after day. >>