good evening to all of you, as we close out this week of fierce tornadoes and the worst storms of the year. let us show you now some new pictures, what a lot of americans are facing tonight. while that entrenched and violent weather system keeps spinning off twister after twister and abc s mrng ginger zee tells us the very latest at this moment. reporter: multiple tornadoes forming right now outside oklahoma city tonight. very dangerous conditions, one tornado already ripping through el rino and other cities west of oklahoma city. the city itself bracing. reports of airport passengers evacuated to safety, as downtown oklahoma is under tornado warning. earlier today, a pdf warning issued. a particularly dangerous situation, meaning there was a 90% chance of two or more tornadoes touching down in the city. and they have. this, after another night of severe weather. overnight, 16 tornado reports in three states. this one near broken arrow, oklahoma, caught on tape. there it
reporter: the same high winds that whipped this flag can easily push flames across several acres in just minutes. add in tender dry grasses and the danger is even greater. we anticipate that we will have larger fires, multiday fires that occur throughout california and our prep railings for that preparation for that is bringing in resource early so we are in conditions and staffing conditions similar to what we would have in july and august. reporter: in alameda and santa clara county, fire season was declared a month early, the first day of may now an additional 90 firefighters were set to respond. they responded to a fire in los altos. the humidity and winds contributed to the a busy season. fires are started by humans and usually mechanized equipments is one of the major parts of that the other is controlled burns. reporter: why there is now a burn ban throughout most of the bay area. cindy nelson lives at the base of the foothills in morgan hill so concerned a
tornado sirens have been sounding. we d like to begin by dipping into local coverage on our nbc station kfor. now fair warning, they are in the middle of covering a local emergency. people have been told to take cover there going back over the past hour. they are covering a tornado on the ground in their city, so with that warning let s listen in. south side of the air base, take cover now. the bottom line on this deal. it s not on the ground it could be rain-wrapped and unable to be seen. i will send it back to you. i m trying to get my bearings on where this thing is exactly located at. i think it s off to the crossroads area. really picking up some wind now. i think it s going to be to the south and east of the crossroads area, mike. okay. showing the i think it may be weakening some down at north 27th and i-35. north 27th and i-35 in north moore, just to the north of moore high school by about a mile and a half. reed tiller joins us live. where are you? hey, right
from desperation to jubilation. an arizona mother of seven, grandmother of two, is now a free woman after spending a week in a jail in mexico. she didn t want to let her husband go. can t say i blame her. she s are her cries early this morning from yanira maldonado as she walked into the long awaited embrace of her husband, gary. she was freed after a mexican judge saw video of the couple just last week, boarding a bus, carrying just a couple of blankets, bottles of water, her purse and that video was enough for this judge to drop the drug smuggling charges against yanira maldonado, a u.s. citizen born in mexico. mexican soldiers had accused her of sneaking 12 pounds of marijuana under her bus seat as
in latin america, we improve a lot. say for example chill she as kruptd as germany. there is no kupgs. other countries, maybe mexico, maybe venezuela, even maybe my country argentina, it is still a problem. we are working. government is trying to do certain thing to avoid that, but it s a problem to normal people like her, hike the police, like i was listening to cnn domestic. one of your analysts was saying, it happened to me, i was in mexico. i was crossing alt a red light, police stop me and ask for a bribe. it doesn t happen as much as in the past. but it s a reality. it is nothing that happens in the usa. police never respond to a bryant. the other thing, mrs. maldonado said they chose to ride the bus in mexico, because she thought it was safer. we reached out to the state department this morning. there are warnings on the state department website, never,