Two people are dead in Oklahoma after a possible tornado struck on Wednesday night, authorities say.
that crews were responding to reports of injuries and people trapped in their shelters.
"Based on the damage and reports we're getting back, as significant as it is, reasonably there could be more injuries or deaths that we don't know about at this time," McClain County Sheriff’s Deputy Scott Gibbons told reporters earlier, when there was one confirmed death.Damage to a home in Cole, Okla., after a possible tornado hit the area Wednesday.
“We’re having to park and walk miles to get into a lot of these places, and so it will take us time to search that,” Foster said. “We do know that there are injuries. We do know that there is significant damage to properties.” In Pottawatomie County, the weather service warned of a storm with a tornado approaching Shawnee, a city of around 30,000. It wasn't immediately clear whether there were any injuries.
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