objects of interest. if i could just ask our director to pop up camera two for us over here, because i have this very rudimentary piece of cardboard. just imagine a pizza for a moment. this will explain why we could have two hours of searching, the boat turns back around and only gets 15 minutes of pinging at that point. because it didn t make much sense to me. i m not sure if you can see the lines i ve drawn in here. thomas, you can help me. let s do it on camera one and then you can point this out. you can see the dot in the middle. this is a pizza floating on the ocean s surface. in the boat is going this way and crossing towards this pinger way deep down, it s getting louder as it gets close and it s getting softer as it gots away. if they re getting a two-hour long line, what would it be if they were farther away, would this be the 15 minute line? that s correct. if you think about it the range of the pinger is something on
bad news if you live to the south includes moore. it s still moving, quicker than it was earlier. which is certainly welcome news. shepard: that is good news. but barely welcome news.ti u. shepard: we are, if yu figure oklahoma city is a dot in the middle, if you go out for many miles in all direction, it s all suburban oklahoma city, it s wrapped with a freeway loop, and houses densely populated for miles in all direction and the entire region is under this this storm could not have picked a worse target, rick.ñ it could not have picked a worse target and worse time of day.
our west coast newsroom with more. hello trace. reporter: shannon, this high risk warning is only issued by the weather service a couple times a year so this stands to be yet another very, very dangerous day in that part of the country. now, as the search in vilonia gets underway, we re talking about more than a dozen people still missing, this town is part of the greater little rock area, and the reason that we don t have extensive damage footage is because the rescue teams and video crews are having such a difficult time getting in there, between the high flood waters and the tornado damage. they re just having difficulty. i want to give you some context about how this tornado tore up this town. this entire town of vilonia is only 6.4 square miles. you see the dot in the middle? this tornado was 15 miles long and 3 miles wide. the tornado alone, the damage zone was 45 square miles, so when they talk about.