weeks of horror. three mass shootings. the latest hours ago in tulsa, oklahoma. police say a gunman burst into a medical building on a hospital campus and killed four people including the doctor he blamed for his post surgical pain. we also learned from police that that killer bought an assault-style rifle less than three hours before the attack and a handgun only three days earlier. we are also letting new details about last week s horrific school attack in uvalde, texas. the mayor says a negotiator tried and failed to reach the killer as he was barricaded in a fourth grade class room. today two of his 21 victims will be buried. and next hour, in buffalo, new york, the teenager accused of killing ten people in a racist attack at a grocery store will be in court. he faces more than two dozen charges including counts that are terror, and hate crime related. 223 mass shootings, already this year. more mass shootings than days so far. and cnn is on top of all these development
this one is for stella city. and this is just to the east of there s norman. you can see for yourself. here s stella. 6:18. bethel acres at 6:39. and this tornado warning, it goes until 6:50. now, that is what s happening right now in parts of oklahoma. as you can see. and we go to the live pictures. this is stella. yes. you see it on the right hand side. don, there s no question this tornado is on the ground. very large wedge tornado. this is moving through and we already know this is near, again, stella. as we show this to you, you need to make sure you are in an interior part of your home in the basement. making sure you are properly, properly covered and you have you re not near any windows. don, you see this video here. is that that is a tornado. yes. we. this is live. that is a tornado. it is giant. just like what we saw last time. coming out of oklahoma city i think it was.
i want to get you up to speed on what s happening right now. tornadoes are raking across oklahoma right now. warnings are sounding in the r normond and oklahoma city areas. more than one tornado has already touched ground just in the past few minutes. it s the top of the hour. you re watching cnn newsroom. this is breaking news coverage. we re seeing huge trees stripped bare. houses torn from their foundations. and a wide path of complete destruction in the area around oklahoma city. this video you re looking at right now from one of the storm chasers, from our affiliate who has been watching this entire thing play out throughout the evening has been talking to us here on cnn. also watching this play out is our meteorologist chad myers. and chad, you know this area very well, you used to work and live in this area. we saw a tornado rip through a neighborhood live earlier here on cnn and it was nothing,
reportedly some people were says about a half mile wide. this one right here, let s give it some competition to the one we saw earlier coming out of oklahoma city. and, again, as we zoom in again, this is out of stella. this is stella. hey, just to check, producers, is there any sound on this? an we hear this or is it just pictures? no sound. no sound? again, this is near stella. you know what, you don t even need sound with this. yeah. you know, don, you know that this is a tornado. this is in your path. this is a large one, again, near stella. as we go through, we re looking at the cell right there, and i think this is the area, 6:38 bethel acres. 6:42 clarks heights. i don t know if chad is on the phone or not. he is a lot more familiar with this area than i am. i m here, guys. right. okay. there it is. just northwest. there it is. there is our signature. anywhere to the east of that. this is the area we are certainly concerned about.
per hour. des moines. adelp 15 minutes. your time is coming to a minute to get to shelter. make sure you re getting into the interior part of your room or your home as well as into the basement. something that provides safety. better than being on the outside of the home, of course. never be near the windows. again, that s what s happening in des moines. so, again, still looking at several tornado warnings through parts of oklahoma and if it s not my imagination, i think now there s been another one issued there. i don t think there were two boxes out there at last check. now we re seeing two different areas for tornado warnings. and then for areas up to tulsa. we have tornado warnings in place as well. not sure if we have that on our radar as well. i ll zoom out a bit more for you. this is iowa, again, we re talking about. hey, jennifer. i m hear from the producers, kfor, new pictures. it is believed to be something that is developing there.