states. yesterday, at least eight reported tornadoes swept from texas to kansas. some of the video just alarming. these images taken as the storm slammed seminole oklahoma, about 50 miles southeast of oklahoma city. flashes of light and power lines exploding near a storm chase vehicle. this gives you a sense of the power of that storm. i want to bring in cnn s lucy kafanov. si she s in seminole. tell us what damage you re seeing there. well, jim, the city is still assessing the full extent of the damage. we ve seen some repair vehicles trying to clean up some of the debris that s been spread across here. the governor saying no reported injuries, but this entire area taking a direct hit multiple tornado warnings overnight, multiple tornadoes touching down here. one local resident said that she had to take her family to a school to hide in the gun vault there, because her home didn t have a basement. take a listen. it sounded like a train and
broadcast it live to the world. and that school is plaza towers. it took a direct hit. seven children were killed in that school. but look at the damage that that school had. now on to el reno. i was there 11 days later. this is a 2.6 mile wide tornado that moved to the southeast for a while. but when it got very strong, almost 300 miles per hour with some mobile doppler radar units, it turned to the left, caught an awful lot of storm chasers out of where they should be in a very bad position. that s where the storm should have gone. it didn t do that. it turned to the left and the storm chasers were right there. in fact, even the weather channel was right there. their storm chase vehicle was hit by this tornado. but sadly, tim sa mayor russ and two other chasers were killed in that vehicle right there as the tornado overtook them. colorado flash floods. this is a once in a 1,000 year flood. 17 inches of rain in eight days.
oklahoma city, 210-mile-per-hour tornado, an ef-5 headed to moore, oklahoma. moore, oklahoma, right here, and it was coming in from the west. and we knew it was moving into a populated area. we watched it live on cnn from our local affiliates and broadcast it live to the world. and that school is plaza towers. it took a direct hit. seven children were killed in that school. but look at the damage that that school had. now, on to el ren oh. i was there 11 days later. this is a 2.6-mile wide tornado that moved to the southeast for a while. but when it got very strong, almost 300 miles per hour with some mobile doppler mobile units, it turned to the left. caught a lot of storm chasers out of where they thought they should be. in a very pad position. that white line is where it should have gone. but it didn t do that, it turned to the left. even the weather channel was right there. their storm chase vehicle was hit by this tornado.