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All you find is the concrete slab. remember in oklahoma 0 city, this is built on rock. there s not many people with basements in this town. i lived up in norman and edmond as well. no basements in my house, not even a storm shelter. you have to shelter inside your home if you can. or if you have a neighbor with a storm shelter, get over there as quickly as possible. this is a tornado going right into downtown moore, almost an identical place where a very large tornado went many, many years ago. maybe it was 99 or 2000. i wasn t living there, but right through moore houses were scoured from their foundations. if you re just tuning in, these are live pictures from kofr, affiliate in oklahoma city. oklahoma city and the area are in the path of a tornado right now, especially south of oklahoma city in an area called moore. oklahoma city proper had has a 600,000 population, but this area inside the warning is 170,000. an the tornado is, according to warnings, approaching an area of 170,0 ....
Area. you re looking at a picture right now of the storm, according to our radar. we re going to go to spencer, a storm tracker. he s following the tornado. he pulled off to get to shelter. not shelter but out of the path of the tornado. spencer, what are you seeing? right now at least a quarter to half milewide large tornado. we are on the south side of it, maybe a quarter mile from it. i mean, it s just destroying everything. there s so many homes in the air right now. the motion on this storm is sickening. this is almost as bad as what i was seeing yesterday near shawnee. oh, my goodness. what are you seeing? what are you looking at, seeing out the window? is it hitting buildings? yeah. we re heading west on southwest 34th street or east on southwest 34th street paralleling the tornado. i m actually i had to jump in ....
They did not have underground sheltering in place. we hope that that s the case. we hope the death toll does not resemble that may 3rd tornado. mike, was that the exact path of the may 3rd tornado? this was along the exact path. then as it came deeper into moore, it s toward the southern side of the may 3rd path. i don t want to make comparisons too much to may 3rd in terms of what i ll say is i believe this tornado is wider and i think we re going to find that there are many more structures that have been hit compared to may 3rd, what we re seeing live from bob moore chopper 4. the may 3rd tornado took areas not developed, and i think the total was 6,000-some-odd structures destroyed or damaged. i believe the amount may be more with this particular tornado today. and you look at that scene of destruction there, and the small figures of those rescuers working frantically here. ....
if you re just tuning in, you re watching live coverage of a one to two-mile wide tornado that touched down south of oklahoma city. population 170,000 those in the warning area. we have on the phone right now oklahoma governor mary fallin. governor, obvious alily we re warning all of those in the path of this tornado to go to the cell cellar, the basement, get away from the windows. what is your advice for those watching who are in the storm s path? absolutely. be weather aware and take these storms very seriously. the tornado that s on the ground right now, as you mentioned, is huge. it is has hit through some populated areas of our city in moore, oklahoma. it s actually kind of ironic that we had a major tornado many years ago called the may 3rd tornado that wiped out a good portion of moore, oklahoma. and this is coming along that same path where that tornado ....
May 3, 1999, storm deadliest in oklahoma city, cost of billions, 36 killed. you mentioned a school is in the path of this tornado. we also heard about an air force base and gm plant are in the path of this storm. is that correct? that s right. that s over in the vicinity of tinker air force base where we have one of the largest maintenance and repair facilitieses in our nation for the air force. and the gm plant closed many years ago, but the building is still there and there are a lot of defense contractors that are in that building complex. and that s a major industrial area where you have a lot of the aerospace industry. so it s a very industrialized area, and that tornado is in the vicinity heading that direction. governor, we heard that there was barely 20 to 30 minutes from storm warning to tornado warning to touchdown of this tornado, this horrifically large tornado, ....