barely getting out alive. i ve never taken any of the warnings seriously, but something snapped and i put pillows and blankets in the bathroom. we were just praying and screaming. and it was very loud, and it all happened so fast. terrifying moments that changed their lives forever. it s indescribable. i don t know what to say other than that. i ve never seen anything like it. what happens now? we re going to stay there until every home is repaired, until every neighborhood is rebuilt, until every business is back on its feet. and were more storms threatening tonight, is the city safe? if you were hear and a tornado comes through, there s no place to go. no place to hide now. i ll ask the world s leading tornado expert how you can protect yourself. this is piers morgan tonight. we begin tonight with the latest breaking news. a tornado emergency near oklahoma city, the national weather service warns anyone in the area to take precautions immediately. callin
back on its feet. and were more storms threatening tonight, is the city safe? if you were hear and a tornado comes through, there s no place to go. no place to hide now. i ll ask the world s leading tornado expert how you can protect yourself. this is piers morgan tonight. we begin tonight with the latest breaking news. a tornado emergency near oklahoma city, the national weather service warns anyone in the area to take precautions immediately. calling the situation extremely dangerous and life threatening. this extraordinary video shows you just how dangerous. take a look at this truck. you see a twister coming towards it and then literally demolishing it. that s the power of what is going on right now in oklahoma. there s also a new warning in joplin, missouri of possibly another tornado there, and i want to bring in storm chaser jeff petrusky, he s on the phone in oklahoma. what is the latest from where you are in oklahoma? piers, we ve had an incredible tornad
i actually talked to him the night before the tornado and his little brother called me and said that he was trying to get home in it and that severe hail had hit his car and nobody had heard from him and that was roughly about right ten minutes after the tornado went through joplin. and i actually live in tulsa, and i was in my car on the way to joplin as soon as i got that from my youngest son. well, i hear that he was in the car with somebody else who has survive. is there any way to use that lead as a way to help track lance down? well, that lead was actually how we found the car, lance s car, and where a start point. before that, there were just massive searches in i mean an 8 block by 25 block radius. all my friends, my ex-wife s friends, my wife s friends, my friends, everyone was just looking for him. and through that kid being found at freeman hospital, we were able to locate the car, as soon as he came to, he got life flighted out of freeman hospital here in
pillows and blankets in the bathroom. we were just praying and screaming. and it was very loud, and it all happened so fast. terrifying moments that changed their lives forever. it s indescribable. i don t know what to say other than that. i ve never seen anything like it. what happens now? we re going to stay there until every home is repaired, until every neighborhood is rebuilt, until every business is back on its feet. and were more storms threatening tonight, is the city safe? if you were hear and a tornado comes through, there s no place to go. no place to hide now. i ll ask the world s leading tornado expert how you can protect yourself. this is piers morgan tonight. we begin tonight with the latest breaking news. a tornado emergency near oklahoma city, the national weather service warns anyone in the area to take precautions immediately. calling the situation extremely dangerous and life threatening. this extraordinary video shows you just how danger
the forecast. wow. the storm battered south. this area is going to get hit again this weekend too. this map was just released by our government, by the national weather service. this one kind of sums up, if you like geography this will really wow you this is a map of the preliminary tornado track to get your bearings, this here is atlanta, this is the nashville area and birmingham. this is almost the entire southeast. this is how long these tornadoes were on the ground. the one the big one through tuscaloosa did this track like this through three different states. and hundreds of miles. all these purple lines, the tornado tracks. incredible length and violent tornadoes. that s why we have so many fatalities, such a rare event. during the day today, a slight risk of severe storm. we don t expect big ones, but the areas around little rock, pine bluff, memphis, south of st. louis and north of shreveport, that s where we could see severe weather today. tomorrow, it is pretty much the s