had several units chris crossed on i-40. had a live truck have a power pole come down almost on top of them, lance and waleed as he tried to get to that fatality accident. it is incredible weather. folks need to remember, it is just water and wind causing this and heat. but it s just amazing that moore people hopefully aren t injured or killed. it is unfortunate we had the fatalities we did. we hope people learn from it, when we put out the warnings, there s a reason, and we mean it. hopefully the warnings worked and they heeded our advice. the inflow, guys, was amazing. inflow and outflow both. high velocity winds all over the place. this is kfor, the affiliate in oklahoma city, listening to storm chasers, sounding a little upset about what nearly happened
eyes on it. we ll see what damage we encounter. what s the biggest concern with the flood waters that you re seeing? i really haven t seen any flood waters to speak of, anything significant yet. i worry, i hear that some people were trapped in water, what was the location, south of oklahoma city. just low lying areas that are prone to flooding. i hope it is not too bad, but i haven t experienced the worst of that myself. chris mcbee, storm chaser in oklahoma that got away unharmed, despite what you see in this video. we appreciate your work. thanks for having me cht. just to bring you up to date, this is some of the more incredible video i ve seen coming out of oklahoma where the storm took such an immediate
tornado. we ve not seen anything like that just yet. we have definitely seen some low-level rotation, and this is of immediate concern to people in this area. and as you look out, are people still using the roads? can you see people around? or have people generally decided to move away or move under ground, as it were, and away from being exposed to this weather system? well, we re not seeing that many people scrambling to get under ground right now. the storm we are on does not have an active tornado warning. it did earlier. we re still watching it because it may gain strength again as we go east. i m sure people will take the necessary precautions if need be. chris mcbee, a storm chaser. thank you so much. as i said, we will continue to follow this developing news as it happens this hour. but coming up next, should michele bachmann step away from congress before 2014? we ll ask someone who may know, straight ahead. [ tires screech ]
room and basement of the home, and hunker down until the storms and tornadoes pass. i m grateful to you. i know you re going to stay with us for the hour. thank you so much. let s go to chris mcbee who s a storm chaser actually on the ground in oklahoma. chris, we re looking at aerial shots. these pictures are pretty ominous. what can you see? well, we had a very low-hanging wall cloud near chikashay, oklahoma. we re reapproaching as it reaches blanchard, oklahoma. this could be a threat for the oklahoma city metro. we re watching this very closely. and are you noticing any kind of rotation yet? have these clouds in any way begun to gather together and produce the kind of force that happened ten days ago? well, i don t know about the force that was ten days ago. it was quite a devastating
0 though it looks extremely ominous, there is no indication from the ground there is any rotation, but with the lowering of those clouds and any rotation that could occur, i mean, it could take a minute s time before this storm gets itself a little more organized and that s what the storm trackers are out there doing from the sky. you can see the helicopter right there and also from the ground, with a lot of spotters just driving and trying to follow those storms. they are moving to the northeast at around 25 to 35 miles per hour. so, again, that storm just to the southwest of norman, oklahoma. not a tornado-producing storm just yet. but that certainly is going to be one of concern just because of that area being the hardest hit between last week and just past tornadoes in that area. so we are keeping an eye on those three storms, and the tornado warnings are in effect, and we have a lot of tornado watches in effect, actually up and down the midwest. you can see from wisconsin, right d