stadium, playing the cincinnati reds on thursday. but lightning strikes left and right. tornado reported on the outskirts of st. louis as well into the evening hours there. but overall, 198 reports of storm-related damage. about 150 of them are related to hail and here is the perspective as far as what we have in store across this region. how oddly enough, the hail report comes out of denton, texas. plenty of dents to go around. we re talking about this size hailstones and one of our reporters sharing these photos saying hey, the hailstones, you see it on the corner of your screen, most of them are pretty small. then you get some this large. this is just north of dallas showing us some ominous clouds coming in across this region. this was actually a minor league baseball game. had to be postponed after the
el reno, oklahoma. five people were killed. more than 70 others were injured. the oklahoma city police department, public information officer tells us, unfortunately, the number of those killed will possibly increase. but he hopes not so high. everyone does. footage is coming our way from parts of missouri there were hammered by this storm. right now, you re looking at new video we re getting in. this is what is left of a home in st. charles, just on the outskirts of st. louis. look what a tornado obviously did to this house. there in missouri. thousands of people are in the dark. hundreds of thousands in the middle united states. power is out for 200,000 homes and businesses. missouri has 89,846 customers without power. in oklahoma that number is 86,204. illinois has more than 31,000 without power. 3,000 without power in arkansas.