looking at live pictures. shawnee, oklahoma. shawnee, oklahoma. these are, sorry, pardon me. these are moments ago. shawnee, oklahoma. our meteorologist jennifer delgado is here. jennifer, looks like a tornado to me. looks like a tornado. and it is a tornado. we ve had denv reports of tornds tornadoes on the ground in shawnee. we re watching this area. very questionable. we re seeing the rotation. there is shawnee. again, weave been talking a lot about pink. as we zoom in, we re going to track this for you. we re looking at two areas of rotation as we track this for you. we go 33 minutes out. this is what s going to happen. near johnson if the storm holds together. if the super cell, for areas like belmont, at 7:20. keep in mind, this tornado warning is in effect until 6:45. could we still see some more
it s in full swing now. chad, you re watching. you said you re watching the live stream. and i am on social media following this as well @donlemoncnn. i m not sure if you have time to check social media, but chad is on as well. chad, i have a question from a viewer. people on the stream keep talking about the mall. what s going on at the mall? which is a heavy, you know, heavily traveled area. have you heard that as you were watching? i don t know what mall they re talking about, don. i mean, there is there s a kind of a strip mall-ish things on up there at the 3-w and i-40 and i just saw pictures of rescue squads, of first responders, lights on. i couldn t even get a locator for that. i couldn t figure out what intersection that street was. there s damage all the way from the lake thunderbird east of norman area, across that area, lake thunderbird, lake zrap draper. this tornado almost went right
over the radar. it traveled just to the north of shawnee. this is lake thunderbird area. for those of you downstairs, our national desk, if you can check on the mall, just ask our affiliate, kfor, what s happening at the mall. i m getting people asking me ar about that. say, again, tom? i m sorry. we did see some damage in the lake thunderbird area. just a couple minutes ago. we ll get that video to you shortly. and also i m being told, chad, shawnee mall is on the north side of town, i-40, looks like it may have been in the direct path of the tornado. thank you, folks, on twitter. excuse me, for that. that s something we need to check and confirm with cnn and our folks are all over it. thank you for that. they re saying that the mall may have been hit by a debris ball. so, again, that needs to be confirmed. we re checking on it. of course, it s sunday evening. that s what people do.
i want to get you up to speed on what s happening right now. tornadoes are raking across oklahoma right now. warnings are sounding in the r normond and oklahoma city areas. more than one tornado has already touched ground just in the past few minutes. it s the top of the hour. you re watching cnn newsroom. this is breaking news coverage. we re seeing huge trees stripped bare. houses torn from their foundations. and a wide path of complete destruction in the area around oklahoma city. this video you re looking at right now from one of the storm chasers, from our affiliate who has been watching this entire thing play out throughout the evening has been talking to us here on cnn. also watching this play out is our meteorologist chad myers. and chad, you know this area very well, you used to work and live in this area. we saw a tornado rip through a neighborhood live earlier here on cnn and it was nothing,
it was tough to get her in the she shelter. what s going on with that? she had surgery last week. she had a hip replacement. she s good at getting around but needed help. luckily for us, she called us and made us come over. we got in the shelter with her. that is the great news, everybody out here is okay. the other great news, guys, is karen was telling me they have people from all over coming to help them. you were telling us, church, boy scouts. who do we have helping you guys? a lot of men from our church and ladies. so that s our affiliate coverage, kokh. that lady there affected by the storm. our meteorologist chad myers listings and watching as we continue to look at the shawnee area now. i understand from folks on social media, again, not confirmed, but people sheltering in places at the shawnee mall. it appears everything is okay there. what are we looking at? you know, i m concerned at this point in time with the area