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SLIDESHOW: Day-After Devastation From Central Oklahoma Tornadoes, Flooding

KGOU's News Director Jacob McCleland spent the day surveying and reporting on the damage and recording his observations after Wednesday night's and Thursday morning's devastating tornadoes and flooding that killed one person and injured dozens more.

He started his day in Norman at one of the hardest-hit intersections, 36th Ave. NW and Tecumseh Road, where power lines were bent at 45-degree angles, and a local bank was heavily damaged. He traveled north to SE 44th Street and Interstate 35 in Oklahoma City, the site of some of the heaviest damage, and is on his way to Bridge Creek and Blanchard this afternoon.

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Brian Hardzinski is from Flower Mound, Texas and a graduate of the University of Oklahoma. He began his career at KGOU as a student intern, joining KGOU full time in 2009 as Operations and Public Service Announcement Director. He began regularly hosting Morning Edition in 2014, and became the station's first Digital News Editor in 2015-16. Brian’s work at KGOU has been honored by Public Radio News Directors Incorporated (PRNDI), the Oklahoma Association of Broadcasters, the Oklahoma Associated Press Broadcasters, and local and regional chapters of the Society of Professional Journalists. Brian enjoys competing in triathlons, distance running, playing tennis, and entertaining his rambunctious Boston Terrier, Bucky.
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