bodies. they have dogs there which are especially trained, and they ve been working those dogs over the site, four of them, but it is grim work and they have not been finding what they hoped. when you talk to these teams, they re veterans of tornadoes in the state, they re veterans of national disasters. they go back and forth, and when they see this, it s hard to describe the power of this storm. this was a school. thankfully, they ve got heavier moving equipment. they have a number of jackhammers. they were able to drill through these walls itself. these front walls are incredibly thick. two slabs of concrete with insulation in between and a lot of rebar in that concrete, very well made. it s hard to find out if anyone is underneath and then moving those walls away. again, it s just been brutal
concern. but the exhausted search and rescue teams coming here from all across the state and elsewhere in the country spent the day digging and hoping. throughout the day crews have been working at the twisted wreckage of a home depot store where people were seeking shelter sunday night only to be buried when the walls and roof came in on top of them. that site is cleared and there are, quote, no more people. you re reporting and people know 48 hours, they re racing the clock. racing the clock and racing the weather. they had to pull people off sites often. i was with missouri in home depot today, but the walls basically collapsed. they recovered seven people yesterday. they recovered one body today. one person was found alive in the home depot yesterday. but this team only found dead
chad meyers is in the severe weather center. let s get right to chad on oklahoma. chad? we have a line of weather from kansas to texas right across the red river. we have multiple i counted eight a little bit ago severe thunderstorms all rotating that could put down tornadoes at any time. we do know that big tornadoes have been on the ground, tornadoes in excess of 150 miles per hour to the west of oklahoma city. one just to the west of el reno into oklahoma. that s just a suburb of oklahoma city and on toward guthrie. tornado emergency down near norman, oklahoma and more with a big tornado on the ground and another one down near washington. that tornado has been on the ground for a while. it is going to be one long night, because it is certainly not over, and in fact, with the heat of the day just now being 6:00 central time, it is just getting going for places east of i-35 into tulsa and eventually, yes, that word joplin right there, as the weather just rakes across o
tonight. there are some planes flying around overhead and there s also some forklifts over here. a transmission grid right there, transformer grid, was destroyed in the storm. you can see the heavy equipment here for that. you can see as they debate to go to the recovery phase from search and rescue. that would allow heavy boulders to go on-site, but they worry that there are survivors underneath. we re also on top of breaking news in oklahoma. tornadoes reported on the ground in the oklahoma city area. the oklahoma governor mary fallon on the phone in oklahoma city. governor, what are you being told about any fatalities or significant damage so far? we re actually right in the middle of our storm. the fire engines just went off a few minutes ago here at the capital city a few minutes ago. we re still tracking all our storms. we don t have any counts right now of any fatalities, but we do know we ve had at least four tornadoes and there s still some