as big. that is coming down. imagine that . gregg: it the head it could kill you. heather: as you say you have to be very, very careful. gregg: i lived in kansas and i went through self not only tornadoes but hailstorms and i tell you, the property damage and the injuries at the hospitals were unbelievable and we will talk about how to handle a situation like this from an emergency medical standpoint. look at that hail. again, it is no overstatement that something like that following from the sky hitting you in the head could kill you. heather: hail, heavy rain, possibility of flooding, strong wind in excess of 60 miles per hour and tornadoes and rope tornadoes, wedge tornadoes,
storms. i am not releasing people until i know. heather: how many are in the shelter with you now? guest: probably 150. heather: you are telling everyone to get inside if they do not have shelter, come to where you are. where are you? guest: there is a public shelter at the wellston middle school at this point. we do not if you have shelter at home we prefer that. gregg: is it an underground shelter or above ground shelter in a strong structure? guest: it is below ground. gregg: that is good because it is always recommended you go to a predesigned shelter such as a basement and that is always best. that is the best source rather than above ground. can you describe how people are
kansas, and we have sun line and a last clouds and it looks like the storm is coming our way. we are monitoring the storms particularly in wichita. that is our biggest concern. gregg: how does emergency management community with the population? guest: we have individuals in the wichita area who are working in conjunction with the county. right now, we are communicating through our computer systems and phone lines to all emergency managers that could be in harm s way. we are aavailable to assist them if needed. we will continue to help out if they need help. there is this assistance requested but we have reports of damage potentially in the area of the mid-continental airport in wichita. at this time we are fortunate
we see the tornado go out into that area we hope that it will be lucky heather: debris reported and we are told it is about half a mile wide at this point. have you heard anything additionally in terms of the damage report at this point? you mentioned there had been some. specifically, any homes damaged? we heard of one home, i believe, inned money, in edmund where the whole second floor was ripped off. guest: we have heard of damage in edmund but not the additional areas. we are waiting to get reports on that. we don t have any information yet. it is still really soon. gregg: on the wire services i am reading the storm prediction center in oklahoma city issued a tornado watch for much of the state of oklahoma until 11:00 p.m. tonight.
this is video, try, from early on? you can really see the dark cloud and you can see from a different chopper, the great area below it is rain. some of the tornadoes can be rain wrapped which are so dangerous because you cannot see them coming. video south of oklahoma city and we had reports of tornado touched down in wellston, oklahoma. i believe this is the same storm system but correct me if i m wrong, carney, oklahoma, is what we were looking at. certainly, on radar it looks like a very intense super cell. gregg: let s go to oklahoma emergency management, kelly, can