office, deputies there are conducting search and rescue operations. there s piles of debris everywhere, don, making it really, really difficult for the sheriffs there. he also tells me in regards to the injuries. he says a few people, he didn t have an exact number for us, but he says a few people were transported by ambulance with minor injuries. he also said there were two serious injuries with lacerations, and currently the medical examiner is on the scene. don, the sheriff mike booth tells me they are going to be there a while. all right. thank you, nick valencia. safe travels to you. we ll get back to nick as he gets more information. i want you to take a look at this video. this video was shot in wichita, kansas, and joining me now on the phone is a storm chaser who shot this video for us.
all right. i m don lemon. you re watching breaking news here on cnn, and we re looking at several disaster areas in the american midwest tonight. sunday started normally enough in kansas and oklahoma, and then this. tornadoes, lots of them, in edmond, oklahoma and then in a straight line to luther, then to carney. they ripped up trees and tore up houses in a wide path. whoa, that thing is huge. the same storm system sent tornadoes into towns around wichita, kansas. here s what we know about the people and the storm zone. one person is dead. at least two people are missing now, and emergency crews are frantically searching for them tonight. a quick update from the town
midday we honestly really are not going to have a real good handle on the extent of the damage. jerry lojka from the oklahoma department of emergency management, very best of luck two. a very busy night and appreciate you joining us here. a good chance to get to chad myers, our meteorologist. probably won t know until tomorrow. you said it s cooling down which means it will probably slow down, but it s certainly not over yet. it s not over. the storms are lining up into what we call a squall line, and a squall line will make a small hailstone, but it will make a wind event, wind damage event, 70, 80 miles per hour, but not a typical tornado event. not a big tornado, small ones but not big ones. to get the big ones you have to have the one cell out by themself, and we call them supercells. one thing about the cells, one thing about the tornadoes is there was plenty of warning. doesn t happen all the time, but in oklahoma they know what they are doing. all the little weather service
tonight these peoe in oklahoma and people in kansas and now iowa, everywhere that tornadoes ripped along the ground today, some are hurt. some have lost everything they own, and if there is a way to make this worse, it is this. the massive line of storms are still tearing across the country right now. this look like somebody got a giant cat bulldozer and just went to town on these houses. i mean, they are completely destroyed. 102 runs north and south, just south of fire lake casino. that is a wide swath of damage, and it is a very over shawnee, oklahoma just a short time ago. cnn s nick valencia is en route to shawnee as fast as he can go and i ve got nick on the phone with me. where are you now, and tell us what you see. reporter: hey, don, we re about 200 miles or saw outside of oklahoma city. we don t see much severe weather
chris, hey, it s don lemon and chad myers here. you were making your way through these storms. tell us about this particular one before we ask you about the rest. yeah. what was happening here? yeah, with that one we started out in kind of eastern southeastern kansas, and then the storm popped up, you know, just west of wichita and that was pretty much the only storm in play. out in front of everything else, kind of isolated so we decided to go after. it got up on it and started rigging cameras up outside the vehicles, and within minutes had a beautiful wall cloud, dropped the tornado, and we started chasing it east towards wichita, and before you know it it got kind of shrouded with rain and then we got rain between the rain and the trailer itself and got some great, great shots as you can see in the video. hey, chris, it s chad. this isn t over, you know. tomorrow is going to be another big day. yeah. what are your plans? we re kind of, unfortunately, for this area it s