what was going on in moore? i asked the question because moore, big chunks of it were destroyed on may 20 in the tornado then. i was there for a few days in the aftermath. i wonder how badly moore has done this time around. i m not sure, wolf. but one problem you have with a lot of damaged areas that still haven t been cleaned up yet is you have a lot of loose debris. today, we had high winds move into those areas. i don t know for sure whether or not actual tornadoes hit, but i can tell you that strong winds impacted that area. i think that might have caused some issues with all that debris getting kicked up and flying around. they lost a lot of power over there, as well. how close did you get to the storm on this day, ben? we we are about a half mile away from the tornadoes that formed south of the el reno airport. it started off as small, stovepipe tornadoes but grew into a half mile to mile wide tornado that moved east from our
and she said they were watching the trackers and everything else, and i told her that there was circulation out by the el reno airport and she said she was going to look again, and shortly after that they sent me a text message telling me they had left and went to union city and they came back for a few minutes, and they saw some of the destruction, and i am not sure if it was like this or not, but that there was another one coming and they had to leave again. reporter: thank goodness they got a call from you, yeah? i don t know if it was me or the trackers. they made it. everybody is okay. that s the main thing. when you see this, what do you think about this. this is this is unbelievable to see. it s a sombering thing to think about life, and all your
6-8 inches of rain already has fallen in much of central, oklahoma, causing a life-threatening situation there. right now, more than 190,000 customers across the midwest are without power. oklahoma city s will rogers airport is still without power, as well. all flights to and from the airport have been cancelled. also, in oklahoma, parts of interstate 35 are still shut down. interstate 40 has reopened. a spokesperson from the oklahoma highway patrol called conditions on the roads, though, a nightmare situation. chad myers is joining us now on the phone. he s in oklahoma and rode through this storm, watched it all unfold and got very, very close to the tornado that swept across parts of oklahoma city s greater metro poll tan area. chad, where are you now? we are on i-35, north of norman trying to get back into moore to take pictures of the damage that happened in moore oklahoma. . we re about five miles south of that city. it should have a hundred cars on it. we are literall
here is a closer view of it if it s moving toward the south and east. is it mike? yes. reed, what do you have? reed s audio is terrible. mark. it s off to my north and east by about a half a mile if not a quarter mile. it s large rain wrapped tornado. i would put it on a scale of what we ve seen from the 20th and the 19th. it s a very, very large, very violently wrapping, rotating tornado. i m going to be at the corner of southwest 49th and reno road. southwest of el reno and it s literally just cranking a way to my northeast here from this intersection. it s going to cross 15th, 29th
airport, all in through there. this will happen fast. if it doesn t change, a tornado will drop out of that very, very quickly. this is south oklahoma city. you folks need to be if you can go south, if you don t feel safe, go south. reid t reed timmer. . reporter: there a wall cloud. based on what storm has done, i see the put my head out the win dehere. i would treat it as a tornado. reed, i agree with that. right now, i tell you what, state fair park. whitewater bay, south 15th, reno, south 15th, rock well, mcarthur, may, pen, southwest integris, whitewater bay, state