word about where he might be? >> 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 joplin to springfield, missouri, to st. john's, and through him coming around, we were able to pinpoint where the car was, the last place, the grocery store that they pulled into and the window, the front window and the back window imploded. he jumped in the backseat and that was the last time he actually seen my son. >> look, i don't want to create false hopes, but is there any sense that it's good news that you haven't found any sign of him right near the car and that maybe he's just -- we know communications are incredibly hard right now in the whole region. any possibility he's somewhere else and just can't reach you somehow? >> luckily, we all have cell phones and we've gotten out to hospitals from dallas to st. louis to can kansas city to rogers, arkansas, and no news is good news right now, i guess you could say, as long as nobody pinpoints where he's at, there's still hope. we just want to find him. >> everything we hear is that people are going through every house, lifting up everything that can be moved to look for people, to look for survivors. and as you say, the fact that he hasn't been found has got to be some form of good news. >> from the firefighters to national guard to lance's friends that actually located the car to, you know, we got from jt, jonathan taylor, the kid that was with lance, where to look for the car, but one of lance's friends was actually the ones that found the car and we were all there within minutes. and firefighters, national guard, cadaver dogs and we've ran every hospital, we've ran every lead and thank god you guys put us on to get it out there, maybe somebody's seen lance hare. he's 16, 190 pounds, 6 feet tall and his family just wants him back. >> we'll put that picture up on the screen so everybody can see it and maybe we'll get word of where he might be. jt is his name of the friend who was with him in the car. does jt remember anything about where lance said he might go or what condition lance was in when the tornado was hitting? >> no. jt was actually -- when he came to at freeman and my ex-wife, michelle, was -- we were all on our way there, but she got there first and she got to talk to him before they took him back to the er and he said the only thing he remembered was walking up in a van on his way to freeman hospital, and since then he has been in critical condition in the trauma unit in st. john's. he's been able to give the nurse leads to give us about where and how it all went down, like i say, the windows imploded. he jumped in the backseat and next thing you know, he was in a van. so now he remembers being at dylan's and subsequently we found the car, and through that, a national guard member told us that he had found lance, wasn't sure about his condition -- or somebody fitting lance's description, and that he was life flighted, and we just don't know. we've called 150, 200 hospitals. we've done everything we can. now it's a waiting game to find him. hopefully he'll wake up somewhere and call his dad. >> what is the best way for people to reach you if, in fact, they find lance? >> my cell phone is 918-497-8498 and we have phone charges for the house, the car. we haven't been home, but we find a way to charge our phones. we will accept every phone call. every lead, we will run down. we won't leave anything unturned. >> here's what we're going to do. we'll take that phone number and put it up on our website, so anybody who see lance's photograph can go to our website cnn.com/inthearena, and hopefully he's doing well. >> there's two websites, one on facebook, find lance pants, and another one that is findlancehare.com. >> one last question, what condition was the car in when you found it? >> it actually looked like it had rolled over. there was the grocery store, railroad tracks, and his car was found about 150, 200 feet away and they originally started in the grocery store parking lot. it looks like it just rolled and rolled and rolled, i don't know how many times, but the car is destroyed. >> we'll pass on any little bit of information, obviously. we hope somebody can find lance and can in some way, shape, or form help and hope we get a happy ending to this story. thanks, michael, so much for joining us. >> thank you. >> we're all praying for michael hare and his family. let's hope there's a happy ending there. now to oklahoma, where we've been watching frightening footage from just outside of oklahoma city. deadly tornadoes touching down there. watch this tv clip from affiliate kofr. >> it's crossing gregory road right now. it's right in front of me. it's a maxi, another quarter-mile-wide tornado. it's a quarter-mile-wide, maybe half-mile-wide maxi tornado. there's the power flashes, crossing gregory road right now. crossing gregory road as a maxi tornado right now. look at the size of this thing, mike. it's an ef-4, maybe an ef-5. piedmont, get below ground or get out of the way. you're running out of time. you're down to a minute or two. piedmont, get out of the way. get below ground. you're out of time. do it now. >> yeah, it's a -- look how big it is, mark. >> oh, my gosh! >> get out of here! get out of here now! >> maxi tornado coming into piedmont. piedmont, get out of the way. piedmont, get out of the way, get below groubd rignd right no. maxi wedge multi-vortex tornado. get to your safe room, storm cellar, basement, interior closet or bathroom may not do it. get out of the way. get out of the way or get below ground. >> unbelievable footage. and of course, we now are used to seeing what damage and havoc is wreaked in the wake of those unbelievable tornados. chad myers standing by in our severe weather center right now with the latest on these tornados in oklahoma. chad, where is there the greatest threat and risk right now? >> moving on up from stillwater to tulsa, and the new risk that i'm seeing now is in north texas. and that's even including dallas-ft. worth. most of the rotation is now south of the red river. that's where the air is warmer. it's been sunny all day down there. there were big tornadoes -- now, the man that was just on that video, david payne, found this tornado very close to hinton. it moved across i-40 to el reno, just south of cashen and south of guthrie and traveled on the ground, eliot. it was on the ground for about 60 miles as a half-mile-wide tornado. it's impressive in itself, but it's also scary to think that something that could be that big could be on the ground for so very long. get rid of this here for you for a second. we have some video here, and there's a couple of reporters in the shot, but that's okay. this is actually some of the damage from that tornado. and i'm going to circle something for you. there's a little brick building right there. the people that you see in this shot were in that little structure. that's the only reason that they are alive. there used to be a house right here. it is completely gone, leveled. leveled right on down to the slab. there is nothing left of the house. without that storm shelter, they would not be alive today. then we take you to koco, channel 5 affiliate there. here's a tractor-trailer -- well, that's just really the trailer. they disconnected the tractor, because it had already completely fell over. i-40. a lot of devastation here on i-40, up and down the turnpike, and they are still chasing these tornadoes. this is still the same storm chaser that was on that storm that you just had. the video you had was two hours ago. these guys are still out there chasing tornadoes now as they move well east of oklahoma city. and it's going to be a long night. and the threat now, el quoth, is that in two hours, this weather will be getting to joplin, missouri. joplin, missouri, a big town, the problem is half the town is in rubble. that rubble will get picked up by a 40-mile-per-hour wind gust. they could get 70-mile-per-hour wind gusts. if you are in that zone or know somebody in that zone, trying to retrieve something or fix something, you need to be out of there before the storms come. sheets of plywood will be in the air, flying all over the place, that wouldn't have been there, the rest of the town, even with a 40-mile-per-hour wind in a normal day would have been fine. but sheets of plywood are just laying around. they will be in the air and they will be missiles. >> chad, you're making a point, just thinking about when a tornado, if it goes back over territory that has already seen this massive destruction and you have all that loose rubble laying around. it will be picked up and whirling around at 180 miles an hour. the devastation from that is absolutely horrifying, even to think about, and that can travel across whole territories of property. >> i have told all of our crews tonight that before this weather gets to joplin, they need to be out of that zone. north or south by ten blocks to 12 blocks, i don't care, but you can't be there, because there's going to be so much debris in the air with a 60-mile-per-hour wind or an 80-mile-per-hour wind, let alone if at last tornado, i hope there's not, and there probably won't be, because the odds are astronomical, but irrelevant. an 80-mile-per-hour wind gust will take shards of glass and broken boards and send it on down and hurt a lot of people. we need everyone out of there before that happens. >> thank you, chad, for that not terribly happy report. all right. terrifying reports tonight from storm chasers taken as a tornado touches town in oklahoma. twisters are ripping apart homes and two are confirmed dead. joining me now is reid timer, host of discovery channel's "storm chasers." where are you now and what did you experience in the center of the storm? >> reporter: right now we are due east of shawnee and about 20 minutes ago we did see a tornado that crossed i-40. looks pretty intense. it was a rope tornado and that one moved off to the north. we're dropping south down to the red river. earlier we saw a tornado that was about a half mile wide in northwest oklahoma. seems like every single storm has a violent tornado underneath it. >> are you seeing any tornadoes now as you're driving south across i-40 in that region? >> right now we have a rotating wall cloud just to our north that could put down a tornado any second andwe we're trying t get in position to deploy probes to collect data on this one. it could touch down any second. i'm looking at it to my north. and it's right at the intersection of 377 and interstate 40. >> all right, well, if anybody's listening, and we hope they hear the location of that devastation and certainly either get below grade or get out of that little region right there. what are the wind speeds that you can tell? can you measure that from the car that you have? >> well, it's off to our north, so we don't have a tornado on the ground yet, but we have the intercepts a less tornado in northwest oklahoma earlier, and those are the strongest winds i have ever experienced with a vehicle, i bet it was well in excess of 150 miles an hour. thankfully, our vehicle is made to withstand those winds. >> and you've designed it to be aerodynamically safe in order to prevent twihe wind from getting underneath you. so what were the wind speeds? 150 miles an hour? >> we launched parachute probes out of our air con nkoco cannon them get lifted up. we'll have to go back and retrieve them. we have the second tornado tank that has spikes that can anchor us to the ground and we definitely needed those today. >> and tell us where you're headed right now? >> right now we are going north, towards of wattmy county in oklahoma across i-40. >> all right, thank you, reed, stay safe and keep in touch. >> thank you so much. >> now joining us from el reno, oklahoma, jeremy smith, director of emergency management in canadaia county. how do things look? >> north of el reno, the tornado track is actually north of el reno. it was on the ground from the southwest portion of canadian county, traveled to the southeast of calumet to the north side of el reno and then tracked to the northeast side of canadian county and going through the city of piedmont. we've got two confirmed fatalities at this point. however, the news has been reporting as many as four. that has not been confirmed to me as of yet. we've got numerous injuries. we've got a lot of structures that are completely destroyed. and right now we're in the process of doing some damage assessments and we've got our fire departments out doing some search and rescues oon some of those homes that were hit and destroyed, with the possibility that we've got some people that may still be in a storm shelter with debris over top of it. we're going to concentrate our efforts in trying to locate those. you know, jerry, with so many tornadoes breaking out all over the place, are you getting any warning, or does it almost seem haphazard the way they're landing and striking willy-nilly all over the place? >> no, we're actually getting some good warning. our news stations with were on top of it. we had as much as 15 to 20 minutes notification that they were on the ground. our news, local media stations have done a fantastic job in advising us. we were watching it as it come in and so we knew exactly where it was going. it took the tracks that they pretty much said it was going to take. so we were able to get notifications out to those communities in advance and hopefully the people were watching. >> all right. well, thanks, jerry, so much. and let's just hope that those casualty figures don't begin to creep up any higher than you already gave to us. >> i know. it's pretty devastating at this point. we've got a lot of structures that are damaged, but we'll know more probably tomorrow when we're able to actually get some roads cleared and get out into those areas where we can do a good damage assessment. >> all right. well, thank you much. we'll be checking back in with you later on. all right, coming up, i'll be talking to anderson cooper. he's there on the ground in joplin where tornados are threatening. we hope they're all safe. but first, echd hill is here. what have you got? 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how many folks have lost their lives? >> it has just been an incredible day in oklahoma, and we're still right in the middle of our storms. we're not out of the threat of tornadoes. we still have several active areas where we think we still have tornadoes that are on the ground, but so far, we think we've had around 12 plus communities that have been hit by tornadoes. we're still not quite sure how many have occurred in the last, basically, two hours. we have had reports and still not quite confirmed yet, that we may have had seven fatalities. certainly, lots of injuries throughout the state. we're still in the mission of search and rescue. we have first responders throughout the whole state and we're, of course, going door to door and even looking at cars and trucks that have been hit on highways, as you just saw on your station. we have power that's down, shelters are open right now, but we still have very dangerous storms that are still hitting down south in oklahoma, so we're warning people to take cover and take this storm very seriously. >> well, governor, as you know, we've been covering this full-time to try to get out as much information to focus as we possibly can. any one particular region of your state where you want people right now to be conscious of the fact that there is high risk, that the storms are coming through. they should either get inside to a safe, secure spot or get below grade. any towns or counties in particular you want to pay attention to this warning? >> well, it's still a large storm front that is coming through, but it basically goes almost from the texas border clear up into the kansas area, but down around the ardmore area, they're showing possible circulation around there, up around perry, bartlesville, there's still pretty heavy storm activity and possible threat of tornadoes. it's sort of a moment-by-moment situation right now, but we're still not out of the woods with this very strong, heavy line of storms as you come through oklahoma today. >> all right. well, governor, obviously you're busy with all these tragedies and this hard weather passing through your state, so thanks for taking the time to talk to us and let's hope for the best in terms of no more loss of life and minimal damage to your economy and the property the there in the state. >> why, thank you, eliot. we appreciate you helping us get the word out. >> we'll do what we can. thank you, governor. we turn back to joplin, missouri, to dr. jim ariesco. he was an emergency physician at st. john's, the hospital that no longer exists. it was decimated by the tornado. he's now the site commander at the triage center in j