plus it helps to optimize your network s performance. giving you the best coverage from attic to basement. so you can focus on streaming your favorites. not finding a signal. make the best wifi even better,with xfi advantage. simple, easy, awesome. brian: back with a fox news alert. twisters rip through iowa overnight. come here there is a tornado. look there is another one forming to the left over there. cleanup underway for the worst year in tornadoes alley since 1950. ellison barber joins us with the incredit stories of survival. hey, brian, yesterday morning i was telling new ohio officials with the national weather service had confirmed that 8 tornadoes touched down overnight on monday. now this morning they have updated that number. they say they have now
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weather. when they come through at night like this, janice, especially in a very populated area. twisters don t usually hit a populated area like that. janice: they can. rob: they can. janice: that s when it becomes a big news story. we have been warning of a severe weather outbreak for several days now and we have seen incredible footage of tornadoes in the distance that haven t affected heavily populated areas. this area no strirng tornadoes when you talk about joplin, missouri, the anniversary yesterday from that deadly tornadoes. this is tornadoes alley. these are the areas we typically see severe weather. but when you get into a heavily populated area like jefferson county, that s where it impacts the most, the most people. and added on top of that, it happened at night when people are sleeping. and that s why we always tell noaa weather ray roo on could save your life. people without power. we have had over two dozen reports of tornadoes and it
continues a flash flood warning. that is the issue. also power has been out in many areas across the city. and there could be downed power lines in that water as well. still very much, very dangerous situation here with the water and the rain you can see keeping on pouring down. thankfully, we have gotten rid of the lightning. that was quite scary earlier this morning. steve, brian, ainsley? steve: indeed. issuaishah, thankyou very much. she is in oklahoma city. janice is here in the weather center. when you look at the map can you see why they call it tornadoes alley. janice: right. this i is widespread. some cases we won t see the damage until tomorrow or next day because it s ongoing situation. storms are imminent. and we have had over 24 reports of tornadoes stretching from texas all the way up to missouri. we have thunderstorm watches. we have warnings. and a tornado watch in effect until noon for parts of oklahoma and arkansas. but as you can see in that pink, that is a tornadoes