Pickup trucks and trailers. only thing you can do is start to separate what is trash from what you can salvage. you drive away with whatever you can at this point. that s what people here are doing today. you know, we have seen power line trucks going up and down, starting to replace the power lines. but at this point a small pocket of a neighborhood 20 miles west of downtown oklahoma city, and when you look around all of the wide open space, look around, you realize how unlucky these people were that they ended up in the path of the storm. ed, thank you very much. if your photographer can hear us, push in on those people as i talk about some folks behind you, ed. that is what happens now. it is a calamity. this is the resilience. that s the cleanup. if you survived it, it is probably the worst. if you ever moved in your life, you know how difficult and emotional it can be. imagine all of a sudden everything you own is blown away
And you don t know what you ll find. that s what s happening in oklahoma and across the midwest. thanks to ed and the entire team there. we are thinking about the fol effected by this. the midwest, they re not out of the woods. we are keeping an eye on rising flood waters. storms brought 8 to 11 inches of rain to oklahoma city. the rain soaked ground created a huge sinkhole, gigantic sinkhole causing a stretch of road to collapse. in missouri, more than two dozen roads are closed. arkansas, two people are missing after a high water rescue attempt yesterday. officer trying to save two women from a flooded home when the women and one officer disappeared. a fourth person, scott county sheriff cody carpenter was swept away in swift moving water and drowned. we will update that situation from southern texas to ohio. severe weather threat continues
Reported across the midwest. storm surveys are under way now. the storms knocked out power across four states, caused major flooding, too. we have live pictures from el reno in oklahoma. let s take a look at what s happening there. you can see the damage, that is from our affiliate koco. it is the aviation technology center there, a plane right in the entrance, what possibly was a window. you see emergency vehicles there inside those garage doors. the place, really a lot of it, just knocked to the ground, blown to smithereens from the twisters that hit oklahoma and missouri. unbelievable. now the threat after all of the wind and damage, flooding. flooding is probably the worst thing after the twinds and kill more people. union city one of the hardest-hit in yesterday s storms. ed laugh laugh endare a is
Are over there. and before all of this started in the tense morning hours, several protesters forcibly removed from the area just outside the assembly area and a lot of those people now being held from being up close to where the gallery windows are. all of these people and it s been extremely tense outside from where several hours this morning, people were not allowed to come inside the capitol building. that created quite a bit of tension outside where several thousand more protesters have been kept out throughout the day. ali? ed, we will come back to you if that vote starts to happen, the final pass and, let us know. we ll get the reaction from around there live when it s happening. ed laugh ven dare ra following the vote. the same storm system that slammed the south is moving up the east coast. it was heavy down here. is it petered out a little or giving them a lot of rain in the northeast in the. still severe weather possible, d.c., richmond, but
From just on east of the deep waterhorizon oil site to east of panama city. concern is not only unfound the droplets of oil, widespread, but where you found it. yeah. becoming now into these areas that are critical marine protected areas, critical habitats for commercial recreational fish. reporter: bp officials haven t seen the studies findings so far but tell us they want to know everything everyone wants to know about the conditions of the water that they are going $500 million to con to research, ongoing research in the years to come in the gulf waters. the university of south florida scientists will continue and we saw them there unloading the evidence and all of the equipment from that boat here in st. petersburg last night. they will continue an am sis of that in the coming weeks and planning another trip in the gulf waters in except. ed laugh dare a thanks.