live in storm-ravaged moore, oklahoma, this afternoon as the recovery effort gets underway here in earnest. we re getting a much better look at just what monday s deadly twister did to the community. preliminary estimates are out now. and they indicate those winds which topped 200 miles an hour, devastated an area that covers some 30 square miles. that s eight square miles larger than the town of moore, oklahoma, itself. police have closed off hard-hit neighborhoods, but they have given access to our casey stegall. he s now live driving in one of those areas in what we call our quick response vehicle. casey. shepard, yeah, we re driving on 15th street here in moore, oklahoma. let s get right to the live pictures. we have cameras mounted on both sides of the truck. and this gives you some perspective in terms of what it looks like not just standing in
after the presentation yesterday yet another series of interviews that were, you know, as bizarre as the others. and, you know, this new potential jury pool likely would have seen that as well. so it would be hard to find jurors who wouldn t be biased by virtue of it, trace. got ten seconds left here. jodi arias says she didn t get a fair trial, her lawyers were not effective because they got death threats. does that play into this at all? no. it doesn t play into this part of it, but it would play into part of an appeal. pretty standard stuff. 99% of the time doesn t work. gregg jarrett live for us in new york. gregg, thanks very much. we ll keep you up to date on what s happening in the jodi arias trial. right now let s get back to shepard smith in moore, oklahoma. shep. trace gallagher, thanks very much. much more here. our casey seagal will be out and about and he ll do a drive through of one neighborhood live in this newscast.
telling look from our quick response vehicle and the live cameras there. casey, thank you so much for that. we realize that there s a lot of recovery to be done here, but i can t stress how impressive it is with what they ve already gotten accomplished. hats off to you in moore and beyond. speaking of beyond, there is a lot of other news out there. this question about why the irs was spying on people or snooping in their things has come up yet again and there are hearings on capitol hill. it s important news and we ll have it for you next.
mostly suburban area of a suburban town, but when and where it did do damage, you can see the houses were ripped apart. in some cases roofs came off. in other cases the homes were just twisted and churned. parts of stuff into the clouds. here we re seeing areas where trees were uprooted. in this particular space the tornado was high enough in the air to where the cone, which is touching the ground, the tip of the cone wasn t very wide. you heard about areas where the tornado was as wide as two miles. we ll get to that in just a few minutes, but this area right here fairly sparsely populated. a similar storm happened back in 2009 jim johnson was piloting back then. we re hearing some air traffic control. we can talk to him. jim, do you see as much worse or similar? i think it s more concentrated in the one area here that you see up in front of us than what we had back in 99. more concentrated, but in the spots where it did the worst damage, would you say today it s simi
suburban town, but when and where it did do damage, you can see the houses were ripped apart. in some cases roofs came off. in other cases the homes were just twisted andchurned. parts of stuff into the clouds. here we re seeing areas where trees were uprooted. in this particular space the tornado was high enough in the air to where the cone, which is touching the ground, the tip of the cone wasn t very wide. you heard about areas where the tornado was as wide as two miles. we ll get to that in just a few minutes, but this area right here fairly sparsely populated. a similar storm happened back in 2009 jim johnson was piloting back then. we re hearing some air traffic control. we can talk to him. jim, do you see as much worse or similar? i think it s more concentrated in the one area here that you see up in front of us than what we had back in 99. more concentrated, but in the spots where it did the worst damage, would you say today it s similar, worse or how would you