just ahead, powerful storms sweeping across parts of the u.s. with reports of multiple tornadoes, large hail and damaging wind and we will speak to a meteorologist on the ground. the u.s. is warning china it could face cost if it provides aid to russia for the war on ukraine and in-laws charged in murder with the gruesome chilling of model abby choi. thanks for being with us and we begin this hour with a crust storm system damaging oklahoma kansas and texas. at least nine tornadoes have been reported so far, 7 in oklahoma and two in kansas. there are reports of widespread damage down power lines and did i bree blocking roads in norman, home to oklahoma s largest university. 10s of thousands of people statewide are without power. and wind gust of 114 miles per hour was reported in northern texas in the town of memphis. more than 115 storms have been reported across the southern plains and more than 65 million people are under high wind alerts. on the phone is max unger meteo
but high winds across the southwestern and southern central parts of the statement we have had 7 tornadoes that we can preliminarily confirm across our forecast area across parts of southwest and south central oklahoma but most significant tornado perhaps appears to be the norman tornado moving across the southeastern part of normal and we are going to send a survey team. how unusual is that along with all this extreme weather that you re deal with there specifically? yes, so in oklahoma statewide we average about one tornado every february. the most tornado we have had on one february day in 2009 and 1975 so with 7 tornadoes preliminarily confirmed this looks to be the handles tornado event in oklahoma history in