mississippi river and up towards the midwest. we are going to continue to see 3 to 4 even 5 inches of rainfall which will add to the worries along this already devastated area by floods and tornadoes. the rain wrapped tornadoes is that part of the problem in terms of keeping keem safe even in the tie time? you can t see the storms coming. at least in the daytime you have a chance of looking out your window and seeing a strong storm coming your way but because we are in the overnight hours we have to rely on tv, radio and i always stress if you live in tornado alley you need to have a kn noah weather radio with fresh batteries that s the only way you are going to know other than a siren in your neighborhood if a storm is on its way. janice dean will come back at the top of the hour as we put danger red on the map the areas we are watching closely.
we are continuing our coverage of the tornadoes that hit the mid section of this country today. the worst of it in the state of oklahoma. we spoke a minute ago with the governor of the great state. we depend on our viewers to be our eyes and ears it makes us better journalists especially when it comes to breaking news. janice dean said at 1.40 million people on the bath of t path the storm. here are some we received since the outbreak started. this came in to us from a viewer showing a large funnel cloud over edmond, oklahoma. that area is north of oklahoma city. this image comes in a few miles away hail literally the size of baseballs. look at that. that will do major damage to cars and windows.
state and portions of i 40 around highway 102 outside of shawnee closed tonight as they try to obviously recover the vehicles from the roadway. you are joining us on phone but we don t have access to what you are showing people. these are some of the early pictures. getting more from shawnee, oklahoma. many of them you were describing really playing out on the screen. you can see many of the first responders going down the streets and some of the side roads to try to get to the areas to pick through the debris south safely. i want to tell people shawnee, oklahoma has seen strong tornadoes in its path. most recently may 10th 2010 a cat gore rooeshg f 3. moments ago meteorologi meteo