frustration i guess because not everybody has a storm shelter. i think us oklahomans, i have a basement here in downtown el reno above one of our historic buildings and we had people from the restaurant, people from the liquor store and people from a church right down the street come in so i think we all i think there needs to be more legislation and more emphasis on trying to get these shelters in different areas. for a lot of folks it s a couple thousand dollars. it s a lot of money and even for schools that haven t been retrofitted, some of the older schools don t have it, as we saw in moore. you talked about downtown el reno. where did this tornado that hit a short time ago, did it hit downtown? no, it did not. it was south of us. it s mainly along the i-40
inside of a basement itself, that s the best thing because we saw after the last storm people who had cars in parking lots or some that were on the highways, they get tossed around real easy in high winds. yeah. certainly i just talked to the mayor of moore who you know very well, who said it s just unthinkable that his town could be hit yet again. i know. we are heartsick about it. we hope this storm passes through and it s just some rain and hail but we do know the winds are whipped up pretty good and it s just a loud rumble outside. it was hailing just loud from all the thunder and lightning. as soon as it s safe to go out, i m going to be checking to see where we have damage around the state. i know our command center is up and running. i ve already talked to them several times. they have everybody in the command center and they re all
we speak. that s why we had those very gusty winds. did you guys say they were 90 mile per hour winds? confirmed tornado moving in moving southeast at 25. it is now northwest of moore moving right into moore at 25 miles per hour, producing 90 mile per hour winds. obviously you need to be in the lowest level of your home in a basement or storm shelter. you definitely don t want to be out in it. you need to be in a very safe place as this strong system moves in. a confirmed tornado moving back into moore, where we have already seen so much devastation in the past ten days. so let s just repeat this. you have a 90 miles an hour confirmed tornado moving back into moore. is it definite that moore is in the line of sights of this thing? confirmed tornado moving towards moore. it s just west-northwest of town by three miles and is moving to the southeast at around 20 miles per hour. so it is moving into moore and
overturned vehicles, some tractor trailers, some cars, according to the highway patrol. there are reports of injuries. we don t know the extent of those. do you have any reports of any update on that? i have heard there are trucks overturned on our major interstate along i-40 which is a big area that people travel through, right through a major kind of shopping business district. and that was where it s kind of a slow-ming storm which is always a problem. then it s moving down towards i-35, other storms close to the moore area. i know they re getting heavy rain and it s hailing here where i m at right now in the central part of oklahoma city. but our big concern is that we ve got to get people off the highways, get them safe. if they can get off an exit and just go to some building, get inside a building, especially
working together just like they did last week. well, if anybody can get through this, it s the people in oklahoma, because unfortunately, you are all too familiar with these kind of storms. we wish you the best. we ll continue to check in with you throughout this evening. governor fallin, i appreciate your time. thank you. candice looper is a resident in moore. she is now sheltering in her laundry room with her cat. she joins us now on the phone. how are you holding up? i m fine. i ve been praying and i ve been singing the lord s prayer and singing amazing grace so i m okay. do you have anyone else with you or just your cat? just my cat. how is the cat doing? she s upset. the laundry room that you re in, is that where you traditionally shelter? i never actually had to in this house. i have only lived in this house a year. but it s the innermost room, it has no windows, it has two exits, and i ve got giant couch