location. we will keep you posted. members of the oklahoma national guard are still searching if are survivors. joining me now on the phone is the lieutenant colonel moss. what is your mission right now for the folks down there in moore? as it has been since the beginning, about 200 oklahoma army and air national guardsmen are know continuing to support first responders and law enforce am. there concerns about two things in a storm situation like this. looting and shelter. what can you mow about the situations? the looting has not been a big problem that we have seen.
well, geraldo, this is the last thing that residents of in the northeast want to think about, a potential storm. this will not be sandy. will not be a big ball of wind encompassing hundreds and thousands of miles in span. but it is a storm system. if sandy was not on the plate last week, this would be your typical nor easter but the circumstances for the northeast have changed. we have seen huge impacts as the storm system initiates, it will be off the coast. some change in track. we could see variation. all the parameters have not come together and we still have energy that has yet to come into the united states of america. so we re still looking at 72 to 96 hours worth of time before we get into the meat of the storm situation. as we go ahead into tuesday and wednesday, worst-case scenario, the storm system hugs the coast and we see a storm surge of two to four feet along the jersey coastline. with the inundation of storm
well, geraldo, this is the last thing that residents of in the northeast want to think about, a potential storm. this will not be sandy. will not be a big ball of wind encompassing hundreds and thousands of miles in span. but it is a storm system. if sandy was not on the plate last week, this would be your typical nor easter but the circumstances for the northeast have changed. we have seen huge impacts as the storm system initiates, it will be off the coast. some change in track. we could see variation. all the parameters have not come together and we still have energy that has yet to come into the united states of america. so we re still looking at 72 to 96 hours worth of time before we get into the meat of the storm situation. as we go ahead into tuesday and wednesday, worst-case scenario, the storm system hugs the coast and we see a storm surge of two to four feet along the jersey coastline.
and people are sending me tweets that campaign videos have been playing at these events themselves and still having a message for sure when they show up. sure. well, you know, i think both campaigns are trying to deal with the situation in a sensitive way knowing that so many of our countrymen and women with are suffering, but thomas, this circumstance demonstrates as clearly as anything i can think of, the importance of having a strong, federal government. fema is doing a wonderful job and they re going to be called upon and these times remind us in a big way that we are a big, national family and we can do things collectively that we can never accomplish as individuals and part of that is to provide the kind of protection and relief and recovery that we re going to need during this storm situation. yes.
i m maria molina. we do want to update you from storm situation that produced hundred tornadoes yesterday. today it s bringing in a severe weather risk further off to the east from portions down from minnesota to down to eastern texas. we already have thunderstorms that producing reported tornadoes in nebraska and currently wouldn t in effect until 4:30 eastern time. 3:30 central daylight time which is local time. that does include northeastern bauham county in south dakota. you have to seek shelter when these tornado warnings get issues for your counties. we do have a tornado watch in effect for parts of southern missouri and portions of northwestern arkansas. what this means that conditions are still favorable out there for thunderstorms to produce tornadoes, large hail and damaging winds. we re still seeing the severe