chad meyers is in the severe weather center. let s get right to chad on oklahoma. chad? we have a line of weather from kansas to texas right across the red river. we have multiple i counted eight a little bit ago severe thunderstorms all rotating that could put down tornadoes at any time. we do know that big tornadoes have been on the ground, tornadoes in excess of 150 miles per hour to the west of oklahoma city. one just to the west of el reno into oklahoma. that s just a suburb of oklahoma city and on toward guthrie. tornado emergency down near norman, oklahoma and more with a big tornado on the ground and another one down near washington. that tornado has been on the ground for a while. it is going to be one long night, because it is certainly not over, and in fact, with the heat of the day just now being 6:00 central time, it is just getting going for places east of i-35 into tulsa and eventually, yes, that word joplin right there, as the weather just rakes across o
tonight. there are some planes flying around overhead and there s also some forklifts over here. a transmission grid right there, transformer grid, was destroyed in the storm. you can see the heavy equipment here for that. you can see as they debate to go to the recovery phase from search and rescue. that would allow heavy boulders to go on-site, but they worry that there are survivors underneath. we re also on top of breaking news in oklahoma. tornadoes reported on the ground in the oklahoma city area. the oklahoma governor mary fallon on the phone in oklahoma city. governor, what are you being told about any fatalities or significant damage so far? we re actually right in the middle of our storm. the fire engines just went off a few minutes ago here at the capital city a few minutes ago. we re still tracking all our storms. we don t have any counts right now of any fatalities, but we do know we ve had at least four tornadoes and there s still some