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getting in the winds basically pulled off their door and blew it o.their home is completely destroyed. no one here was hurt, but we are getting word of lost pets in the area. no word on any fatalities here in carney, but we will keep you updated throughout the evening. all right, priscilla luong. one of those twisters caused havoc on interstate 40 near shawnee, oklahoma. the highway was shut down in both directions as first responders checked on several people. 18 wheelers were overturned, cargo thrown all over the road and cars and advance tossed all around the highway. it gives you another idea of just how powerful these storms were. let s go now to jason mclaughlin, a storm chaser, and has been chasing this storm all day. tell us where you are right now. right now i m about an hour east of shawnee. actually i would say stayed with that storm as it moved east to keep warning to those residents out ahead of it. that storm has kind of dissipated. i m headed back towards that shawne
harms that people may have faced. the damage is to structures. that will take longer just because you have to figure out, you know, how much was the building, how big should the check be to the people who lost their home, but the most important thing now is saving life, anyone who may have been harmed or hurt and we know that there s already at least one death. julia kiam, cnn s national security analyst, thank you very much for that. chad, as we look at this, as we look at the pictures that we saw, some rescuers, rescues happening earlier, and then there it is right there. people, volunteers i would imagine and also emergency workers helping folks out there, and then, of course, we had those live pictures. i don t want that to go unnoticed. live pictures still at this hour of people in shawnee searching for at least two people who who are missing, and then there we go. that s the video right there, searching for people who are missing, and we also know that one person is dead now.
from the chopper pictures, there is a pilot who is on the air now, kfor, an interview in progress. let s listen in. john welch, our chopper pilot. you re the one who gave us the scenes from the air to let us note extent of the devastation. we saw especially the shawnee area, we saw some damage from the earlier northern storm or edmond, but nothing as severe as where shawnee was. that area was really hit very hard, especially the trailer park that we showed you several times there just south of i-40 east of highway 102, but, i mean, coming back, we re trying to go to little axe and flew over that area and saw lights, but it s unbelievable how when there s no streetlights or star light how dark it is, and our camera couldn t iris in to show a lot of the stuff down there. but there s still crews working in the little axe area trying to find people. just that second storm, it did a
can tell you to do or not do. they can tell you don t go there. that s a state of emergency. you can t go there. you can say, well, i want to go help. no, thank you so much but you go that way because now we re state of emergency. it gives a slight different edge to where we are at this point in time with the cleanup and search and rescue. earlier we were kind of looking for the damage and saying, okay, don t go there. that s not so bad. another storm is coming. two missing people and 3,000 people without power around des moines. it s not over. certainly a long night, and it will continue to go. this is just one of many nights of severe weather that s still to come this spring. all right. chad myers, stand by. we ll be getting back to you, and as we continue on with our coverage tonight, they are searching the debris for two people who are missing in one oklahoma county, and we have learned from our nick valencia that one person has died, according to to an official in pottawatomie c