>>> a day after another round of deadly tornados in oklahoma the focus is on flooding. kfor says historic flooding is a serious concern for the area right now. and the aerial video's going to show how widespread it is. many drivers were caught off guard when the storms rolled through friday during rush hour. a lot of people had to be rescued.
>> power lines are down, trees in the middle of the road , flooded up to your waist. it's all bad.
>> a lot of trees down. just destruction everywhere.
>> well the twister killed at least nine people and hurt dozens more. more than 90,000 people in the state are without power now. and here's new video taking a short time ago. it shows some of the damage the area's dealing with in the aftermath of the tornados. look at those homes, businesses, damaged or destroyed. as the storm system moved west, missouri got slammed. here's new video of damaged homes in the st. louis area. missouri's governor has already declared a state of emergency .
>>> let's go to nbc's mark potter standing by in union city , an area hard hit by the storm. with a good day to you, mark, we are seeing devastating pictures coming in and we know there's a mother and baby killed in the suv found on a highway in union city . what do you know about that and what's going on the ground there?
>> reporter: a number of people killed in vehicles on the highway, right out that way, they got trapped on the road when the hurricane came tlur -- excuse me, the tornado came through. this is the same storm system that did this damage to. what we can tell, this is the neighborhood probably that was hardest hit by the outbreak of tornadoes yesterday. it's in union city , west of oklahoma city . off highway 81 . ten houses out here and all of them have been badly damaged. some of them have been flattened. it's just incredible to see what a tornado can do. and it's all right there with a trailer, motorcycle, home, all knocked down by that storm. it started around dinner time when warnings started to come in. most of the residents fled. they went south to get out of here. the tornado came through, pulverized the homes. residents tried to come back. and then chased away again by a second tornado that came through the area and then when they came back finally, later last night, this is what they saw and this is what sun up today revealed. a lot of sad stories here. there's a woman on the street off to my left who lost the home where she raised her kids. there's another family just around the corner that lost some of the horses that they're raising. another woman who is pregnant, lost her house, it was absolutely flattened. some friend there's today trying to pick up baby clothes, anything they could salvage. that woman is in the hospital, about to give birth. she's there for that reason. but also, for shelter. she just has no other -- certainly no home to go back to. the damage this time was not nearly as widespread and as dramatic as in the moore incident. but in this area, it's the same sort of thing for these families who are going to have to try to rebuild. cleanup is under way. but when you ask some of them what you're going to do next, they say we just don't know, it's too early, we have no idea.
>> yeah. and that woman, the one we reported about the mom and her baby killed in the suv, was that far from where you are in union city ?
>> reporter: i'm going to turn around and look. i think -- i'm not sure if i can see highway 40 out there, we came along it earlier today and we saw -- we saw some trucks that had been turned over. they were riding those trucks again. the problem that is people were out there on the road, they didn't know what was coming and got trapped. we've seen that in hurricanes in the past. it's happened here again. and a number of people killed, we're told, were killed in their vehicles. a vehicle doesn't stand a chance against a tornado.
>> it sure doesn't. you mentioned hurricanes. today is the official start of the hurricane season .
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