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Jon: we continue to monitor the plaitest developments in oklahoma. people in the area still refer to another massive tornado that hit moore 14 years ago in 1999 simply as may 3rd. 36 people were killed that day. winds reached more than 300 miles an hour, the highest winds ever recorded near the earth s surface. that storm track, noted in this map in green. well, yesterday s powerful tornado hit almost exactly the same spot in moore traveling along the same trajectory for a while. yesterday s path note inside red. it then veered off to the east but, boy, jenna, look at those two stracks, almost one on top another. two tornadoes 14 years apart in moore, oklahoma. jenna: unbelievable. in the meantime, to washington, d.c. now. the former head of the irs ....
Loss of life here, people if your fellow community, neighbors, what how do you even wrap your mind around? you really can t. um, you know, two years ago whenever the joplin tornado hit, i m from kansas originally, and some friends and i went over, and we just helped pass out water, and we helped people go through homes and get what they could, and, you know, you always pray and hope that it s never you. i hoped it was, but i hoped it wasn t us. but, unfortunately, unfortunately it was. reporter: and, dana, we re seeing neighbor helping neighbor. you mentioned you going to joplin. we re seeing that here in moore. people are driving through and passing out bottled water. this is a time when americans pull together. this is what america s all about. exactly. there s some people back there helping us now that they, actually, were helping in the joplin tornado as well. ....
Threats of severe storms anywhere from texas up into the great lakes and even some isolated tornadoes, flash flooding another concern, jon, because this storm is such a slow mover and it s been producing a roth of heavy rain in a lot of heavy rains in area where is the ground s already saturated. jon: maria, thank you. jenna: we are hearing some incredible stories of survival and jo ann coleman has one of those stories. her home collapsed around her when the tornado hit. she lives in moore, oklahoma. she s joining us live on the phone from her son s home oklahoma city. jo ann, i hope we can get the picture up of your home so our viewers can actually see what you survived. how did you make it through this storm? well, i was in a hallway which is the only place in my house that was not on the outside wall. and i had pulled several ....