all you find is the concrete slab. remember in oklahoma 0 city, this is built on rock. there s not many people with basements in this town. i lived up in norman and edmond as well. no basements in my house, not even a storm shelter. you have to shelter inside your home if you can. or if you have a neighbor with a storm shelter, get over there as quickly as possible. this is a tornado going right into downtown moore, almost an identical place where a very large tornado went many, many years ago. maybe it was 99 or 2000. i wasn t living there, but right through moore houses were scoured from their foundations. if you re just tuning in, these are live pictures from kofr, affiliate in oklahoma city. oklahoma city and the area are in the path of a tornado right now, especially south of oklahoma city in an area called moore. oklahoma city proper had has a 600,000 population, but this area inside the warning is 170,000. an the tornado is, according to warnings, approaching an area of 170,0
be needed in the area. obviously our hearts are going out to those who are getting impacted by this. but, again be, as you mentioned, get into shelter if you are in the path of this storm. that is our biggest recommendation at this moment. ken garcia with the american red cross in central oklahoma, we ll touch base with you later. we ll go back to kfor. you see this horrific image of this immense tornado, reportedly anywhere one to two miles wide touching down south of oklahoma city. we ll go back to our affiliate kfor in oklahoma city. back to bob moore, chopper 4. go john. there it is, mike. fixing to cross sooner road right now, coming into that annexed part of the lake. luckily for the time being there s not there are very few houses in here, if any. ity the city has bought most of them out. but it s continuing to track straight east. as you can see, this thing hasn t decreased in size any. i m actually kind of getting a little closer than i want to be to it, but this thing
obviously a large i two-had m e havoc in southern oklahoma. ken, where are you, what are you seeing and what are your roem recommendations for those in the area area? obviously, the number one thing is, get into shelter immediately. there s no reason to play around with this kind of storm. from what we are seeing, here in our office in oklahoma city, we are just to the north of where this actual storm is hitting. and we ve actually had the sirens go off a few times, and our staff and volunteers here in the office have had to go into the storm shelters as this storm continues to push through oklahoma city. so this is not something to play around with. just get into that storm shelter and stay in there until you hear this storm is has finally passed. be sure to stay safe. this is a big storm based on what we see on the images on the screen. ken, what have you heard from on the ground there in terms of
those people s homes and right into theirive ls. there will be a lot of cleanup here. obviously we can pick up the pieces, pick up homes, pick up thips. it s the people now, the safety of the people there that we have to worry about. many times, as the governor was talking about i had talked about this earlier today more people can be injured after the storm trying to dig through debris. there are still power lines that are live. there are still many, many boards with nails sticking out. there are still so many dangers outside that you don t realize because 15 minutes ago those dangers weren t there, jake. we were just looking at what looks to be a movie theater. this is the area south of oklahoma city, moore, oklahoma, population 56,000, just outside of oklahoma city, population 600,000. a category ef-3 to ef-4 tornado touched down. as you mentioned, it looked like a bowling ball rolled through the town. you can see the devastating path. we saw earlier the helicopter from kfor,
on the ground, jake, and they are going to be very close to mccloud, although still not the size of this storm. that s another southeastern suburb of oklahoma city. we have a tornado warning now to the northwest of tulsa. we re talking about barnesdale and ramona, a small tornado but very significant if it hits your home. to the east of marlo we had a little tornado on the ground, i believe that has lifted. and near wa reek ka in oklahoma. these are all tornado warnings. those are all warnings where people are still in danger at this hour. looking at this, you may let your guard down, but if you re in those areas you re under the gun as well. jake, i saw cars in a school. i saw cars with no place left for the owner inside. we talked earlier about this when this was on the ground. we tried to describe this as a