0 until this morning. we re also going to talk about infrastructure needs, the county commissioners will do that, the chief will talk about some of the same information as far as how it relates to the city of el reno. basically, we had a tornado that came through, i understand it s been labeled as an f-3, maybe an f-4. when this tornado came through yesterday, basically, it stayed south of state highway 66 or interstate 40 which run pretty much parallel to each other. most of the damage in the county to the west end is going to be around chiles, which is west of el reno. and then it runs all the way to the east about as far as cimarron. there may be other damage, but this is the major damage that we are talking about. these are the areas that we actually recovered some of the fatality victims out of. basically like a lot of events when these tornadoes happen is it s pretty chaotic. there s a lot of destruction that happens. we know there s going to be injuries and death. a lot of peopl
devastating tornadoes. officials nine people died in last night s twisters. two of them were children. we heard this morning most of the victims were in cars. it was a chaotic scene as five tornadoes hit the oklahoma city area last night. a lot of people tried to get out of the area turning the interstates into parking lots. more than 70 people were hurt. while communities are dealing with the mess left from yesterday s storms the big question now is what s next? can we expect more of these dangerous systems? meteorologist karen maginnis is here. karen, what can we expect? all right. right now what we re seeing are some strong thunderstorms that are producing some very heavy rainfall. we just showed you memphis a few minutes ago. the severe thunderstorm warnings that were in effect are no longer in effect. memphis, i think the worse is over. some of the winds were gusting around 25 miles aen hour. but there s a large volume of rain that s materializing across this region in
0 kind of conversations they had all last week during the congregation. one of the key things, because the cardinals don t campaign for this, he didn t have a platform, there is all the speculation, about what will he do as a reformer, a caretaker? he probably doesn t know yet. everyone looks for clues. he picked the name francis, what does that mean? he wore black and not the papal white, what does that mean? he told the cardinals hold on, i m going to address the crowd, what does that mean? he will roll it out in his own good time. fascinating as he rolls forward with the american church, some people think of moving forward. my parents are very devout. my mother would say the church s job, not a popularity contest. not to move. people are voting this way. change all the doctrine and yet at the same time that is a challenge for the american church. how do you keep up with what people consider to be modern times, but keep to a doctrine that is obviously based in t way past, in hist
and you re in the situation room. we begin with mitt romney who s just unveiled a new campaign strategy just 50 days before the election. in a speech this afternoon, romney refocused on the economy and got specific about how he would reduce the size of government. cnn national political correspondent jim acosta is in los angeles where romney spoke to the u.s. hispanic chamber of commerce. jim, today it looks like romney is reaching out to latino voters. reporter: that s right, joe. he s doing just that. but he s also according to his campaign unveiling some of the details of his economic plan. just as voters are starting to pay attention to this election. but there are new distractions out there. namely a campaign blame game that does not go over well 50 days before an election. after a week of gop handwringing over his response to violence in the middle east, mitt romney is rebooting his message, returning to the issue that has driven his campaign from the beginning. t
we begin with mitt romney who s just unveiled a new campaign strategy just 50 days before the election. in a speech this afternoon, romney refocused on the economy and got specific about how he would reduce the size of government. cnn national political correspondent jim acosta is in los angeles where romney spoke to the u.s. hispanic chamber of commerce. jim, today it looks like romney is reaching out to latino voters. reporter: that s right, joe. he s doing just that. but he s also according to his campaign unveiling some of the details of his economic plan. just as voters are starting to pay attention to this election. but there are new distractions out there. namely a campaign blame game that does not go over well 50 days before an election. after a week of gop handwringing over his response to violence in the middle east, mitt romney is rebooting his message, returning to the issue that has driven his campaign from the beginning. the economy. it s time for a presiden