on down into southern padawanamy county. let s go to the storm scanner and here to the east, this circulation coming into shawnee. tornado warning with that one as well. there is hail the size of golf balls and larger. logan county is in good shape. king fisher county is in good shape. no activity in central northernern oklahoma. all of the action is here. these two storms here. this one east norman. and this one coming into shawnee, both very sil significant there. may produce additional tornado as they move southeast. this one here, mainly severe thunderstorms. large hail, flooding rain fall back to the west. i think we can talk to john well. what john is doing, tell you what, let s go back to can we
0 tennis ball to softball sized hail also reported along with torrential downpours. i watched this develop a couple hours ago. slowly watched it trek across interstate 40 and going from a rural area storm to a much much more urban area and hearing that oklahoma city itself was evacuated and hotels and airport with everyone going under ground, that is what local meteorologists are advising. they are just saying, you have to get under ground. it is not safe enough with storms this big to just be in an interior room or bathroom. underground is the safest place to be at there moment. dylan, in terms of people watching nationally and warnings under effect, we should say it is 9:04 p.m. on the east coast. 8:04 local time in oklahoma city. you will hear us give times on the air that are specific to anybody who might be in harms way in this central oklahoma storm system. dylan, let me just ask you, talking about a storm system moving so slowly, 20 miles per hour which is slow for a storm sif
sioux ward, lake liberty, lake guthrie, neff vine nah, dangerous, very dangerous, david payne on it right now. this is yukon, west oklahoma city, all of edmond, south edmond, central edmond, north ed mopped, even the village, mercy hospital. this has got a tornado warning on it. not tornadoing now, we have got our tower cam looking straight to the west. if it produces a tornado, we will be able to see t village, nickel hills, mer city, this could produce a tornado quickly. we are going to peel off jim gardner, bounce down, get a full tank of gas and come back up. mercy hospital there jim is going to be touching down at thç station, gas up and come back up with a full tank of jet. this storm has a big hook on it tornado warning, too. big hook, right here. southwest of chickasha. this has got a big, big, big, deep meso cyclone on it the kind that produces large tornadoes. let s do a stormtracker on it. it is going to come right up i-44. economic ka shea, middleburg, blanchard,
makes me want to vomit. it s sick. no other word for it. neighbors were stunned when the two were charged. now, they say nicholas wrote his fiance a letter, then said he wanted to have daughters with her and detailed graphic sex acts he wanted to perform on them starting at age 1. if they re convicted here in federal court, each suspect faces a minimum of 15 years in prison and a maximum of up to 40 years behind bars. at the federal courthouse, adam may, wjz eyewitness news. the couple is still awaiting trial on the state charges as well. they re being held without bail at baltimore county detention center. just a short time ago, an indictment was handed out by the harford county man, accused of attacking a police officer in an alleged hate crime. mary is live in the newsroom with the latest on the case. mary? reporter: 20-year-old james kimball faces charges of assault, reckless endangerment and hate crimes. police say he was on his way home when kim bel confro
any idea of measuring how much of the oil is actually making it into that tube? reporter: not yet, fredricka. we were asking bp those very hard questions. how much of this oil are you actually stopping and collecting and keeping from going into the gulf of mexico? the answer so far is they re not sure. and they re not going to give any estimates. right now what they say they hope to have in the next couple of days, to be able to optimize the flow of this operation that they have now. to be able to fully pump the oil that they have down at the bottom through that tube that they ve inserted to a waiting containment vessel at the top, on the surface of the water. at that time in a couple of days they hope to be able to quantify how much oil they are collecting and how much oil they are keeping from going into the gulf of mexico every day. but, again, this is the first bit of good news that we ve had since this disaster began. and it s the first success after a week of failure.