proper. there is a beltway around st. louis and it is right on the beltway right on the missouri river. a holiday inn with some damage. there were air early reports which were wrong of casualties there. the police are now telling us people are okay but there is damage. there is some damage, i don t know how significant but you some damage right around bush stadium where they were supposed to play a baseball game tonight but the cardinals canceled or postponed the game with the giants from san francisco. employees of bush stadium were told to tech around for awhile. apparzntly no casualties there either. lots of hail across the river, though, in illinois. our chief meteorologist rick reichmuth is back with us. rick, that is not unexpected at all? rick reichmuth is sending me notes now saying that they he can expect extremely high winds in the low hurricane force winds. around 70 h-75-mile an hour wind gusts. further they can expect hail
significant sized hail and some very strong straightline winds. so, in the st. louis area, you are not out of the woods and the weather map there on the the big yellow box is an area for extreme thunderstorms, severe thunderstorms. and the red boxes are tornado warnings. let s listen in to local coverage in st. louis where they are giving a heads uñ to locals there. with the radar and show you what is going on. there is the bow right in there. again, i-70 north and to the east of 55 right now. it is approaching highway 51 in illinois. so here is 51. there is 70. there is 55. the most severe weather is right boxed in there. the severe squall line and anywhere along the front edge of that line is where we can get these spinup tornadoes which is why you are under a tornado warning right now. and these are now becoming what
down pours, rain, strong winds. the skies darkened and i know that in parts of my district there is just some heavy storm damage. earlier, and in the spring had been hit again tonight. i will go daylight and try to, some of the damage. i do know interstate 70 is closed in bothd now, we heard reports of cars being flipped over on their sides. we have reports of that. from the patrol and rest as well. and much of the storm moved over into illinois and tornado danger has apparently pass add cording to local meteorologists. any damage there at bush stadium? there are reports people might have been trapped.
and at one point moving about 20 miles an hour. later at about 35 miles an hour. the latest word on casualties comes to us at fox news from the oklahoma highu(v patrol. that of a mother and daughter blown off a highway and killed in the path of this storm. with that said, i can tell you that the cbs television affiliate kwtv in oklahoma city our network news service affiliate there is reporting on its phone five fatalities in the oklahoma tornadoes today though fox news does not have the information and cannot confirm it. noaa is now reporting 11 tornadoes confirmed today in missouri, oklahoma, illinois and iowa. we are waiting for more damage reports to come in from the oklahoma city area. from what we are able to bring together so far, no areas of
big flooding. more severe weather tomorrow. still a tornado threat across illinois. the storms in illinois now moving towards central, illinois are the only tornado-warned storms that we have left tonight. and that is great news because we have seen it across probably ten states. we have it now just towards the one state, that is good. but we still have the warnings across areas of central, illinois. kind of to the south of springfield and just to the west of vandallia. just to the east of st. louis. shepard: i m getting reports of significant damage in earth city, missouri. west and north of st. louis %itself. and in earth city apparently adore cording to multiple local reports including some from law enforcement, overturned vehicles and damage at a holiday inn there long interstate 70 to the north and west of st. louis. you just never know where the significant damage is going to