i m page hopkins in new york with breaking news. tornado warnings are in effect for parts of the oklahoma city metro area. tornadoes have already touched down, and we have this report from our nbc affiliate kfor just moments ago. you re looking at it right now, mike. i ve got debris lifting out toward me, past me now on 36. we ve got a lot of tree damage. i ve got debris blowing in towards the tornado. this is going to be heading toward the water tower on the north side of rock creek. power flash, large power
an f-1 tornado right now. it s just to the south. it s in north norman right now. at least f-1. it might be an f-2. and let s go back to marc dillard s stream. he is in the tornado right now in norman. go, marc! yeah, power flashes. i ve got power flashes in front of me. it is really cranking down folks. i have tree damage. it is coming down right on top of us there. i m just to the north of rock creek. on 36 here in west norman. i got a lot of power flashes going toward the i-35 corridor now over towards the airport on the north side. and it is a maelstrom out here mike. whoa, hang on. it s back. it is trying to move the car on me here. it is bad news. you re definitely in it. well we are going to continue to track the tornados going on down in oklahoma. hardball with chris matthews continues right after this.
patriots quarterback. tom brady as i said probably knew the game was being rigged. this is hardball, a place for politics. i m page hopkins in new york with breaking news. tornado warnings are in effect for parts of the oklahoma city metro area. tornadoes have already touched down and we have this report from our nbc affiliate kfor just moments ago. you re looking at it right now, mike. i ve got debris lifting out toward me past me now on 36. we ve got a lot of tree damage. i ve got debris blowing in towards the tornado. this is going to be heading toward the water tower on the north side of rock creek. power flash, large power flashes. this is it mike coming to the ground right now. this is it. folks you got to be ready for it. mike, i ve got trees coming down on me and power flashes. i ve got to back out of here. i ve got trees coming down on me. back it out, mike. back it out. marc dillard is in at least
flash. shepard: power flash. power flash. they are hitting the power lines. i m going to continue to track it. kathy watching this area of circulation. i can tell you off the local doppler radar, i m getting a strong and powerful tornado coming along and south of i-40. shepard: you can say with certainty, jeff, that it s on spthe ground, not in the clouds? jeff, i cannot see the tornado, i can tell you bagsed on power plashs in the bowl, the rotating bowl, i cannot see the
and i m watching out the wound here, shep, power flash, see that right there? right in the middle of the screen tornado on the ground. the rain is lightening up@(t i will get a better view of the tornado. it s rain wrapped. we may have a visual here. bear with me. it s one of those days where it s rain wrapped. shepard: see, here what jeff is describing now is what was so concerning to locals a short time ago. the tor ado was wrapped so heavily in rain. rain on all sides of the tornado in a massive cloud around it, so people driving on the freeway, when they drove into this rain did not realize according to the local weather spotters and our local station there, that they were actually driving into the tornado. now, some of the rain around the