leaks and various things that you have to be careful about when you enter into one of these neighborhoods. and many times people want to rush up to a certain neighborhood, but law enforcement has to get control of the situation to where people don t put themselves in danger by trying to go up and help their neighbors. boy, the sirens are just going off for a third time, just now starting again here in oklahoma city. so must be something else coming back around. you re looking at live i m sorry, not live pictures. you re looking at pictures from moments ago of a very large tornado that touched down just south of oklahoma city in the town of moore. right now we re told that almost 8,000 homes in oklahoma city and the oklahoma area are without power. governor fall in, we ll let you go. we ll check back with you, our best wishes and prayers to you and the citizens of moore and
the back seat to keep filming, but it s just a huge tornado. i mean, it s moving as fast as we re moving. it s destroying everything. i m seeing debris, horizontal row tisties, large debris. oh, my goodness. spencer basoco, storm tracker, thank you. we re going to go to live coverage from koco-tv in oklahoma city. you can see the tornado on the right-hand side of your television screen. again, that is right here over southwest 149th street. again, that becomes south 34th street and moore. that is going to be one block north, one street north, of indiana hiin indian hills and moore. danielle, go. hey, we re still following this tornado. the street you re looking at, we re drive to the east trying to get away from it. we re coming up on it looks like wilson boulevard.
anchors referring to the may 3, 1999, storm, those storm trackers saying this tornado is actually wider than that storm, which killed 36 people, the one from 1999. we still don t know anything in terms of the death toll with this one. hopefully there won t be one. we saw two schools destroyed and dozens and dozens of homes. i want to bring back chad myers, who s at our weather center in atlanta. chad, we know that there is another tornado warning outside oklahoma city in the lake stanley/draper area east of mccloud. obviously people should still be on alert for any other tornadoes, weather activity. what have you learned more about this horrific, horrific scene aas we see the individuals come from their shelters and try to make sense of what just happened. i do think, as you look at this, you sigh, you as the father of an 8-year-old, you take it very hard. but we do have still tornadoes
large tornado, a devastating tornado. i don t think those words really can describe what you re looking at. no. it s devastating. and of course i don t know if they even have power in this area, but obviously to anyone who is in the area of oklahoma city, keep in mind that a lot of death and injury can happen after the storm goes away from recovery efforts, from debris, from power lines that are live. so please be careful and be safe. do not think necessarily that the worst is over. please be on guard obviously as chad myers in our weather center in atlanta just noted, there is still yet another tornado warning in the oklahoma city area. we talked to governor mary fallin who talked about how alarms were going off where she was, taking shelter. there s a fire that we see. this is the kind of thing that happens in the wake of a tornado with power lines on and immense danger still present even if the
right. those are live images on the left. we don t want to alarm people by showing old pictures of tornadoes. governor fallin, of course the work begins now to clean up. we need to remind the viewers that oklahoma city has been struck more than two dozen times by two or more tornadoes in the same day. even if this tornado is gone again, the picture on the left is from minutes ago, not a live picture you re looking at, from earlier today, the picture on the right is live people should still heed the advice of those suggesting we re not out of the woods yet in that area. is that right? that s right. we need to pay attention to the weather. still very dark outside. one thing is, once a tornado cops through, it s still very, very dangerous because there s debris on the ground, there s power lines that will be down. there s certainly a lot of glass and nails and boards and gas