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CNN Live At Daybreak

Severe Weather in Midwest

Aired May 09, 2003 - 05:32   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.


THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.


DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Let's get more on the severe weather in the Midwest. It was a day of tornado fury from Oklahoma to Kansas, to Missouri and to Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee and on into the Virginia-Maryland border. Among the places hardest hit, Oklahoma. Homes and buildings there were flattened. Cars were tossed off roads and trees uprooted all the way from the suburbs of Oklahoma City northward to eastern Kansas.
Despite all that damage, no one was killed. At least seven tornadoes swirled across Kansas yesterday. This one that you're looking at is near Marion, Kansas. There were some injuries, but no fatalities.

CHAD MYERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Wow.

KAGAN: Amazing, Chad.

MYERS: It really is.

KAGAN: When you look at it, I mean 300 homes in one suburb and not a single person killed.

MYERS: You know why? Because those weather guys in Oklahoma City are so good.

KAGAN: They're on top of it.

MYERS: They got the warnings out.

KAGAN: And people were listening.

MYERS: And they're paying attention.

KAGAN: Yes, absolutely.

MYERS: Right. And it wasn't in the middle of the night, you know?

KAGAN: That helps.

MYERS: It was prime time, people were watching TV. I was watching it on the Weather Channel because they were simulcasting KOCO from Oklahoma City.

KAGAN: Oh, OK. Interesting.

MYERS: And I was watching that going, you know, that's just great coverage. So it's good stuff.

KAGAN: Good for them.

MYERS: Hey, good morning, Daryn.

Good morning, everyone.

We still have some strong weather moving into parts of Indianapolis right now and also into even Bell Fountain, Ohio. Big storms. I know there's not tornado warnings on this here, but you still can get damage with wind and with some hail, so you need to be careful here with these storms as they move into western Ohio all the way here from just south of Finley (ph) right on down not quite to Cincinnati yet, but you can see on this little tail here headed here with a couple of showers and thunderstorms heading into northern Kentucky, also southwestern Ohio.

So watch out here.

Also, an awful lot of rain coming down, as well, heavy rain. A lot of pounding on the roadways and it's still dark out there. If you have to head to work early, watch out for that pounding because you could really hydroplane this morning with a couple of inches coming down so quickly out there and these very heavy showers right now from Indianapolis and eastward, right through Chicago. And then as we fly you a little bit farther, there's more rain back out here to the north of Minneapolis, even into North Dakota -- Daryn, back to you.

KAGAN: Well, Chad, stay tuned because we have even more weather news in besides the tornadoes in the south. Of course, the problem has been flooding from a week of heavy downpours. Dozens of roads have been washed out in northern Alabama by flash flooding. Residents were forced to evacuate in Brookside as well as in the communities of Northwoods and Butler.

Let's check out Tennessee, the worst flooding there in nearly 30 years forced 1,600 people from their homes in Chattanooga. Twenty Tennessee counties have been declared disaster areas.

Get an up to the minute look at severe weather where you live by going to our Web site. You can just click on cnn.com/weather.

TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com






Aired May 9, 2003 - 05:32   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Let's get more on the severe weather in the Midwest. It was a day of tornado fury from Oklahoma to Kansas, to Missouri and to Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee and on into the Virginia-Maryland border. Among the places hardest hit, Oklahoma. Homes and buildings there were flattened. Cars were tossed off roads and trees uprooted all the way from the suburbs of Oklahoma City northward to eastern Kansas.
Despite all that damage, no one was killed. At least seven tornadoes swirled across Kansas yesterday. This one that you're looking at is near Marion, Kansas. There were some injuries, but no fatalities.

CHAD MYERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Wow.

KAGAN: Amazing, Chad.

MYERS: It really is.

KAGAN: When you look at it, I mean 300 homes in one suburb and not a single person killed.

MYERS: You know why? Because those weather guys in Oklahoma City are so good.

KAGAN: They're on top of it.

MYERS: They got the warnings out.

KAGAN: And people were listening.

MYERS: And they're paying attention.

KAGAN: Yes, absolutely.

MYERS: Right. And it wasn't in the middle of the night, you know?

KAGAN: That helps.

MYERS: It was prime time, people were watching TV. I was watching it on the Weather Channel because they were simulcasting KOCO from Oklahoma City.

KAGAN: Oh, OK. Interesting.

MYERS: And I was watching that going, you know, that's just great coverage. So it's good stuff.

KAGAN: Good for them.

MYERS: Hey, good morning, Daryn.

Good morning, everyone.

We still have some strong weather moving into parts of Indianapolis right now and also into even Bell Fountain, Ohio. Big storms. I know there's not tornado warnings on this here, but you still can get damage with wind and with some hail, so you need to be careful here with these storms as they move into western Ohio all the way here from just south of Finley (ph) right on down not quite to Cincinnati yet, but you can see on this little tail here headed here with a couple of showers and thunderstorms heading into northern Kentucky, also southwestern Ohio.

So watch out here.

Also, an awful lot of rain coming down, as well, heavy rain. A lot of pounding on the roadways and it's still dark out there. If you have to head to work early, watch out for that pounding because you could really hydroplane this morning with a couple of inches coming down so quickly out there and these very heavy showers right now from Indianapolis and eastward, right through Chicago. And then as we fly you a little bit farther, there's more rain back out here to the north of Minneapolis, even into North Dakota -- Daryn, back to you.

KAGAN: Well, Chad, stay tuned because we have even more weather news in besides the tornadoes in the south. Of course, the problem has been flooding from a week of heavy downpours. Dozens of roads have been washed out in northern Alabama by flash flooding. Residents were forced to evacuate in Brookside as well as in the communities of Northwoods and Butler.

Let's check out Tennessee, the worst flooding there in nearly 30 years forced 1,600 people from their homes in Chattanooga. Twenty Tennessee counties have been declared disaster areas.

Get an up to the minute look at severe weather where you live by going to our Web site. You can just click on cnn.com/weather.

TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com