WATCH LIVE: Doug Ford speaks after touring tornado damage

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Posted Sep 23, 2018 02:31:25 PM.

Last Updated Sep 23, 2018 05:29:35 PM.

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Ontario Premier Doug Ford got a first hand look at the devastation in the Ottawa area which was hit by two tornadoes late Friday afternoon.

Environment Canada says a powerful EF-3 category twister, with winds that reached 265 kilometres per hour, ripped through the Ottawa neighbourhood Dunrobin and that at almost the same time a second, slightly less powerful twister, touched down in the south Ottawa neighbourhood of Arlington Woods.

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