shelter deciding to out run the storm and got caught in it. they, at this point, do not have any reports of serious injuries or fatality. it doesn t mean we won t have any. he went onto say he s saying we re hopeful the tornado did not set down in oklahoma city. there s flooding on a large scale. a lot of people, he s saying, is trapped in large vehicles. if you do not absolutely have to travel, do not travel at all right now, not to any part of the city. there s widespread flooding. he said i don t know what else to say about that area. a city that don t normally flood, we re seeing flooding. high traffic volumes that appear to have been generated by the storms. but, again, the headline here is they are having grave difficulty even responding to all of the calls they are getting from people who are said to be trapped in vehicles in high water. so that, now, is a developing situation as the threat from new tornadoes has dissipated, the threat from these floods and
yes, i had a lot of debris and a lot of mud. the elementary school was on 149th. i m at 156th. straight across from the elementary school, just that many blocks from it. i know your neighborhood well, i was there just last week at briarwood. as you said, the houses were okay, it just got real dirty and had some minor damage. can you believe, candiace, that another storm is heading toward moore at this point? no, i actually can t. i m feeling something. i m hearing noises and i just felt some water.
we ve been telling all day that we have the signs up. and when the storm started moving in about 5:30 or 6:00, it was the time people got off work and then people are traveling down two major interstates across oklahoma. i know a lot of businesses let off at 2:00, 3:00 this afternoon just because we knew we were going to have some bad weather. there are reports of multiple, overturned vehicles, some tractor trailers, so cars with the highway patrol.
we haven t heard whether they re going to open it later tonight or not. they were hoping to get flights out between 10:00 and 11:00. we re on emergency power, still. so i m not sure what else is going to happen. we re going to hang out for a couple hours and do the best we can. i m sorry for what you re facing in the hours ahead. good luck to you. we ve just gotten this video in. the storm forming in elreno. you really get an up-close view. it s probably the closest we ve seen. let s watch this. oh, my gosh, back up. samantha moore is also joining us now. as we watch this, what are we looking at? explain this? it looks like we have
storm chasers drive to it. i m really afraid that people got hurt. they were in their cars. they were trying to be storm watchers. then, all of the sudden, they moved across i-30, 44. people were stuck on those highways. that one is a tornado event where we ve been telling people for days to get to your safe place. get to your home. people trying to get out of the way. get out of the way. this is a very big storm. there s no place to go. the roads were completely jammed. we saw fife lanes going one way.