warning for a different area outside oklahoma city. the lake stanley/draper area and east to mccloud outside, the picture on the left right now is taken from a helicopter, obviously, that was earlier today. the tornado touched down right before the hour, right before 4:00 p.m. eastern. we have a helicopter pilot on the phone right now from k diagnoskfor. we ll listen to what he has to say as he surveys this horrific image. it s completely destroyed. the houses are destroyed. they re completely leveled. we re going to just stay right here in this area. this is the hardest hit area. police have folks stopped right here on santa fe in between 19th street and 4th street. this is by far the hardest hit area, as you can see. we have moore police out there trying to find everybody or doing what they do best, rendering aid. and all the kids are running.
area. you can see we have more police out there trying to find everybody or, you know, doing what they do best, rendering aid. and all the kids are running. we ll stay here for a little bit. see if we get some damages or if we get some, a report of how everybody s doing. i m just going to talk to you as we kind of stay on this shot. as we continue to look back toward the west, this whole area is just completely demolished. every house in this area is leveled. i m fixing across i m just north of 149th street and this whole area right here, this neighborhood, in between santa fe and western john, can you hear me? police are driving through there looking for any. yeah, i can hear you, linda. can you hear me? john, we want to let people know they re going to set up a search and rescues headquarters at the warren theater. we saw the video from before where the karen theater is in relatively good shape compared to the buildings around it.
this, they argued, was the act of a cold-blooded killer. instead of calling 911, instead of rendering aid, he left his wife who was severely injured and bleeding face down on the cold hard concrete of the basement floor and picked up chemicals and poured it on her body and lit a match. the prosecution told the jury that tests conducted at the time revealed that indeed smoke inhalation, not the head wound killed jean. they relied heavily on the medical examiner s testimony. she took the stand and she describes, first of all, that they had found soot in her airways and her nose past her vocal cords. they said it was proof that she was breathing for at least ten minutes after the fire, which means that it hadn t been immediately fatal. an intentional act, prosecutors contended by a calculating man who set the fire to cover his tracks and ensure that his wife died.
how can you do that to someone you profess to love? but this case turned out to be not so straightforward. the key question in the november 2005 trial of gordon weaver, exactly what caused his wife s death? the gash in her head or the fire? this was far more than a legalistic academic argument. hanging in the balance was whether or not gordon weaver, the one-time runner, who had been caught, would go to prison for the rest of his life. shannon prather covered the trial for the st. paul pioneer press. she said prosecutors described what happened in the weavers basement. gordon was so angry about jean wanting a divorce, he attacked her, pushing her into a cement wash basin, causing a deep gash in her head and rendering her unconscious. he then lit her on fire. this, they argued, was the act of a cold-blooded killer. instead of calling 911, instead of rendering aid, he
and were rendering aid, but now we understand that the national guard has reached the site. major guy hayes of the alaskan national guard says rescuers reached the site early this morning and were giving medical care to the survivors. we understand that this is a view of the actual plane that went down at the site. yeah, that s the tail number that we have been given, the n number there on the just above the stripe, that s the registration of the plane that went down carrying senator tommer former senator ted stevens and former head of nasa, sean o keefe. that s a look at that plane with the raidual engine installed. we also have a statement from mark begic hsm, the alaska senator who replaced senator ted stevens in the u.s. senate. we ll bring you that in a minute.