oklahoma city, the governor of oklahoma. we are so sorry to hear about the life loss and destruction in your state once again. do you think the fatalities and injury numbers will go up any? we certainly hope not. we were taken by shock that we could have another storm like in oklahoma. we weren t surprised the weather got bad, but we just couldn t believe we were having to go through this all again in such a short period of time after we had such terrible storms the week before. but i will say the state is responding well. we re good at handling disasters, were well prepared yesterday. opened up our command center early, just a couple of clouds in the skies. we actually had alerted our department of transportation to utilize their electronic signs over their highways, that basically said be aware that
we re having some technical issues in west, texas. as martin said, heavy weather right now, could screw up our satellite signal right there. we ll get back as soon as we can 40 to 50-mile-an-hour wind gusts, heavy rain, lightning strikes. we already know, significant injury numbers here, especially how strong the community is 150 people. doctors and nurses busy at the hillcrest medical center. where a majority of the casualties were brought. george on the scene. any latest information? reporter: chris, we re diligently checking with hospitals. the latest numbers we have at hillcrest as you mentioned, the hospital that saw the most patients. 101 patients. we understand that five of those patients are in intensive care. two in critical condition, and three in what is described as serious condition. and in providence hospital, 65 patients were seen, and the
trauma team, taken care of a handful of patients that have had head injuries. reporter: so i spoke with robinson a few minutes ago. he said we will get a new update around 3:00 p.m. central time. a lot of information, but i want to run through this real quick. other hospitals, providence hospital, saw 65 patients, chris, scott & white saw 5 patients, 2 children in critical condition. three adults, one in critical condition two in stable condition. parkland hospital in dallas, quite a stellar burn unit there. one of their expertises. we know they have two patients from this area. still unclear why those patients are there, and their condition, but we are you know, obviously keeping in touch with the hospitals to learn more. all right, george. please keep us in the loop. we know you are doing reporting down there. be safe in that weather. the good news, these are big injury numbers for such a small
thanks for being with us on msnbc. we are able to confirm three dead and more than 110 people injured. the injury numbers at this point, we ve heard 113, 120, we are getting continued updates from the hospitals, from the many hospitals close to where i am, mass general, in terms of those treated. as we get more details, this does seem to have mostly hit people who had been gathered on the sidelines, not just passers by, and not just runners, but them people there to cheer on runners approaching the end of the four hour long race. the president today characterizing this as something that the perpetrators of this event will know justice, will know the full weight of justice. a senior white house official after the president s remarks characterizing this as an act of terror. much, frankly, inane political
night. it s coming. the power lines right here. there were no injuries nor significant damage reported from that storm. let s get the latest now from weather channel s mike bettes in kansas city, missouri. mike, with another good morning to you, what s the latest? reporter: storms have struck with a vengeance across the country, and certainly yesterday no different as 20 tornadoes were reported across the states of oklahoma and kansas. one fatality in the town of reading, kansas. multiple tornadoes and funnels touching down all across this area. in fact, large metropolitan areas once again, just like we saw back in the southeast a couple of weeks ago, were hit. topeka and kansas city near st. joseph as well. more than a million people impacted by these storms. the good news about all this was that they could have been a lot worse. in fact, even with these storms hitting at night, we didn t have any significant damage reports or high fatality or injury numbers. but as we look forw