but he s all right and everyone has a good laugh. look at the size of that shoe. shaq, thank god he s okay. let s get a check on your weather with bill karins. bill you said yesterday that they didn t think the weather was going to be too severe in the midwest but it got bad. we call that an overachiever. it s may. it s the peak season. we were expecting some tornadoes but not 50 to be reported in one day. that s how it happens. as far as predictions go in weather, winter storms hurricanes, a lot easier to predict than thunderstorms and what the form is. the pictures out of the area it was scary. from about 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. everyone from oklahoma city, these storms were southwest of the area and coming up interstate 44. there was big and strong tornadoes. a lot of these lifted and got a little weaker but the time they made it to norman and moore.
interstate 44 just to the north of chickasaw. again, no tornado reported with this but this storm is cycling through. the storm itself actually split into two and has two separate circulations. eventually one of those will win out over the other one and it should gain strength. but there s still a lot of daytime heating in this area. we ll see if this regenerates and the tornado threat returns. we ll have our eyes on the oklahoma city area about an hour hour and a half from now, ed. it s not a widespread tornado outbreak but isolated tornados are possible over the next couple of hours. that s the greatest concern and that s the risk. ed this is a week-long event. we ll do this each and every afternoon. on saturday it looks like one of our first major outbreaks will happen. we re watching the same areas, oklahoma and kansas. everyone has mother s day weekend planned, but saturday is the day to watch. okay bill karins meteorologist here on msnbc. we ll follow the weather
watching just east of interstate 44 about 40-minute drive outside of oklahoma city that s the storm that the nbc helicopter has been up in oklahoma city following. it s just an amazing view. you just have to follow these storms in the air from these helicopters, it just gives you an incredible vanitytage point. this storm at times has had funnel clouds. has not proud necessity big tornados or damagingtornados. the concern is that this storm is moving to the northeast, almost parallel to interstate 44, and eventually it will move up towards the oklahoma city city suburbs and then the city itself. that s the concern. there s a lot of storm chasers on this storm. if there s a tornado being produced, we ll see it from the nbc helicopter or hear about it immediately from the storm chasers. it s more of a heads up right now for everyone in oklahoma city. the actual area under the gun right now, the ones that have all their family members in their shelters is amber, oklahoma, which is just ea
severe weather. and we ll see it in parts of oklahoma, arkansas and missouri. the moderate risk for severe weather and highest threat for damaging hail. and along the interstate 44 area we could see it in that area. if you are in oklahoma watch out for it. this is the time when you watch that as well. and where you have the pink you will generally see tornados in the month of march and we are right where we are looking at this. we have been so quiet jenna. and severe weather season is upon us and we ll see that ramp up and so quite and today is not the case. that is a sobering reminder and an important one, too. thank you. you bet. we were expecting a decision from italy s high court today on
northeast. well, by interesting, i mean cold and awful. ice, heavy snowfall triggered this 30-vehicle pileup on interstate 44 in missouri today. wow. similar scene in oklahoma as yet another winter storm blankets the region with snow and freezing rain. the northeast is not being spared either. we saw snow i think several hours early. senior meteorologist janice dean is in with the details from our fox news extreme weather center. and it just stopped snowing a few minutes ago. to see a few flurries in the new york city area, but boston, you re going to pick up an inch or two. you re getting closer to your snowiest winter on record. current temperatures, as you can see, still cold across the upper midwest and the great lakes down south, but we re getting warm air that s moving up the coast, and that s going to give us that changeover from snow to freezing rain and sleet. it has been freezing rain and sleet for much of the afternoon for d.c. and philadelphia. new york, we re starting to s