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"ac 360" starts right now. good evening, everyone. tonight, wildfires burning in three states and the death toll rising in the latest oklahoma tornado. also, after 11 operations and 50 days, the final boston marathon bombing victim goes home from the hospital. his preschool teacher's recovery powered by care givers she now calls friends, and this. >> what did you want to tell her? >> i love you. >> what else did you tell me? you missed her? >> very much. bye! >> we will introduce you to one very special teacher who is also incredibly strong. later, did actor michael douglas get cancer from oral sex? dr. sanjay gupta has the likely answer and the likely suspect, a virus that you need to know about and guard against. we begin, though, with late developments out of oklahoma. authorities tonight recovered the body of an 8-year-old girl near a local river, bringing the death toll to 18 since friday's tornado. five people still missing and that number could climb. it already includes three professional storm chasers who suddenly found themselves far too close to a killer. >> this is the view storm chasers had trying to outrun the ef-3 tornado that hit oklahoma friday night. >> no, no time, no! get down! we're going to die! >> this is what it was like when the tornado took an unexpected turn and sped towards them. >> get down! duck down! duck down! >> close by, this storm chaser captured the power of winds of at least 136 miles an hour. flipping over this tractor trailer, pushing it along interstate 40. >> turn to my right, that's what it looks like in radar. it was tracking south of the i-40. tracking south. oh, god. >> both of these storm chasing teams survived. another team led by veteran storm chaser tim samaras, did not. samaras, along with his 24-year-old son paul and long-time chase partner carl young, were killed. >> whoa! it's getting bigger! okay. we better leave. >> samaras was a legend in the chasing community, featured on the discovery channel's "storm chasers" he was known for not only being one of the best but one of the safest. so how could this have happened? >> this tornado was a very large tornado and a very strong tornado, and it had an erratic path so this tornado was going east, then it went north, so i think that took people by surprise. >> this was the path the tornado was expected to take, continuing southeast. instead, it took a deadly turn to the north and headed straight for samaras and his team. just hours before he was killed, samaras gave what would be his last interview to msnbc. >> we are looking for the very special type of storm called a super cell. a super cell is a very violent storm that is very capable of large hail and pretty destructive tornadoes. right now, especially in central oklahoma, even along i-40, is kind of where we're currently targeting. >> this is what was left of samaras' mangled vehicle. the force of the tornado crumpled it into an unrecognizable heap of twisted metal. >> it's devastating to look at the car get pulled out. the engine of the car was three-quarters of a mile from where the body of the car ended up. >> while other storm chasers continue to grapple with losing three of their own, tim's brother takes comfort knowing his brother died doing what he loved. >> i just could never think it would ever happen to him because of his level of expertise, years of being able -- of doing this. if i had to have a way for my brother to die, it would be doing what he did. >> unlike the rest who died in the storm, those three storm chasers made the choice to get as close as possible. the question is why chase storms at all, beyond providing dramatic video, what purpose does it serve and what really motivates the people who do it. joining us tonight is josh warman, storm chaser for the center for severe weather research. i know tim was a friend of yours. i'm really sorry for your loss. tim was a guy who knew what he was doing. he was a pro at this. what do you think happened? >> well, it's really a mystery. tim was an excellent storm chaser. he was very experienced and more importantly, he was very conservative and careful on how he did his scientific missions. so he wasn't a daredevil and we're surprised that he was caught in this tornado. the tornado did turn, the tornado did get wrapped in rain, but those are things that tim has seen dozens of times. they're not that uncommon for tornadoes. >> i know you were in oklahoma on friday yourself. there are a lot of different kinds of storm chasers out there. i've met a bunch out in the field, you know, some as you say are daredevils, some kind of from a more scientific background. where do you come out on how all those people can handle storms like this? does something need to change? >> well, most all storm chasers are basically recreational and they're either thrill seeking or they're out there trying to appreciate nature. it's really not unlike white water rafters or bungee jumpers or hikers. people are out in nature for different reasons. but as with any of those things, understanding the risks are important and we have always had concern and still have concern that some storm chasers, either because they are daredevils which means they're constantly escalating the daredevil thing that makes them the top of the heap, someone gets into a tornado, the next person wants to get into a stronger one, and that only leaves one place. for us, a concern that sometimes less experienced storm chasers, people without training or experience doing storms or some kind of meteorological training may not understand the vagaries of how tornadoes might move and that tornadoes might exist behind a rain cloud even when the tornado's invisible. >> because there's no level of training required or anything, as you said. some people are just recreational and just go out on their own and do it. >> anybody with a car can storm chase. in fact, ben franklin did it with a horse back in the 1700s. but we encourage storm chasers to get some kind of training or to apprentice with some other storm chasers who know the risks and it's not just the tornado. there are lots of other hazardous things out there like traffic and hydroplaning and lightning and just horrendous lightning and hail and rainfall. >> do you think this may change the way some people chase storms or prevent some people from going out there? >> well, chasing either for recreational purposes or scientific like mine is very difficult, almost impossible in an urban area, because basically, everything breaks down. people are trying to evacuate, police are closing off the roads, trying to keep people from getting in, and it becomes quite chaotic. >> is there anything new to this season's outbreak that you haven't seen before? because there was a tornado drought up until a couple weeks ago, now we've seen a large number of tornadoes. >> the number of tornadoes is still well below average. this is one of the calmest tornado seasons in years. however, the tornadoes that have happened have recently been hitting major populated areas and that's what's unusual. that's probably just bad luck. if these kind of tornadoes, the el reno tornado or the moore tornado from several days before had hit rural areas, we wouldn't be hearing about them. that's more typical. so far, we've just had some very bad luck. hopefully future tornadoes which certainly will occur in june and into july will either be weaker or hitting rural areas. >> josh, i appreciate talking to you. thank you. >> good talking to you. >> i want to talk more now on the human cost of what at least seems like the right thing when tornado warnings go out. the trouble is with all the conflicting advice sometimes it's hard to know what is right. in tornado alley where the storms are so big and the number of basements and shelters so small, sometimes there are simply no good options with what to do in a storm. gary tuchman with an extended family who faced that horrible situation, what to do, and they did not make it. >> reporter: in disbelief, family and friends aid rescue workers as they search a muddy creek for a woman still missing after flash flooding that followed the oklahoma tornadoes on friday. three adults and four children in the same extended family were swept away in flood waters. the woman still missing is yolanda santos. the bodies of her three small children, leslie, christopher and brandon, have been recovered. so were the bodies of their cousins, samuel, his wife and son alex. the grief-stricken father whose wife is still missing says he's in a state of shock. jose santos says his children were all very smart and very loving. the way they became storm victims is heartbreaking. the four children and three adults were all staying in this house when they started seeing the tornado warnings on television. what's particularly sad about this story is that the tornadoes never struck here. there's not even any wind damage. but like many people in oklahoma, they grew quite panicked. they always heard that you should go into a low area if a tornado comes so the adults made a decision to come to this storm drain right next to the house. they took a table from inside the house, they put a table down here so the children and adults could jump on it. it's about a seven foot jump. they came down inside here and then they went inside this tunnel. they thought this would be a safe place to wait. but what happened next to this family is horrifying and sad. there was no tornado damage. but the rains kept coming down and this drain flooded. the waters were about eight feet deep and the seven people started getting swept through the waters into this dark tunnel. this tunnel goes on for a very long time. these people never had a chance. the water was too high, it was way too powerful and you can see in this tunnel there's nothing to grip on to. they were just hurled down the tunnel. our weather experts at cnn and other weather experts will tell you a storm drain like this could save your life, but, and this is a very important but, it should only be used as a last resort when you see the tornado coming. you should not come down into a storm drain in advance, because of the danger of flash floods, and that's what victimized this family. the location where the bodies were found is about five miles away from where the family got in the storm drain. this is the brother of the other woman whose body was found. >> translator: i have an emptiness in my heart because i've lost my sister. >> reporter: the emptiness and grief is intense. as the search for the missing woman goes on. gary tuchman, cnn, oklahoma city. >> it is just horrible to think about them in that storm drain. storm drains clearly can be deadly. the question is what about cars. the advice can be confusing. this is really important because on friday night, there were so many people trapped in their cars on i-35 and i-40 in bumper to bumper traffic. the national weather service in norman, oklahoma tweeted this on friday. flash flood threat is high right now for oklahoma city metro. most people who die in flood drown in their cars. earlier, before the storm, they tweeted tornado safety, if you wait until you see the tornado or hear the sirens it is too late to drive away. plan ahead. here's the dilemma. the tornado caused flash flooding which can be deadly in a car. at the same time, even people left early got stuck in commuter traffic. there you see the bumper to bumper traffic, that line of cars there as the night was coming. what about when the tornado itself is actually bearing down, is staying in the c a mistake? or is it a good choice? some answers from chad myers, who is on the ground in el reno, oklahoma. chad, i wasn't even sure what to do about this on friday. there were a lot of people don't know what to do when they're in the path of a tornado. do you stay in your car or drive away from it, do you get out of your car and try to take cover? you were about a half mile from one of the tornadoes in el reno friday night. what are you supposed to do? >> reporter: you know, americans want a black and white answer to that, especially people here in middle america, but in fact, every storm is slightly different. so it's a couple shades of gray. 99 point something percent of storms, maybe 99.99%, one out of 1,000 storms, would be unsurvivable. if you are in your house, you are absolutely safe, stay in your home, shelter at home, put as many walls between you and the outside as possible, get in a closet, get some place in the middle of your home, make sure there's not a bunch of bowling ball stuff above your head, get in a safe place, get a bunch of foam or pads or mattresses around you in that middle. if you get to an f-4 tornado, that middle of the house will still be there. now, f-5, which is 200 miles per hour or greater, then you may lose the whole house and that may be the unsurvivable storm. but out of 1,000 tornadoes we get a year, one might be an f-5. the odds of it hitting a major big city, you know, is pretty low. a car is never the safe place to be. when a tornado gets done with a car, there's no place left for you in it. the entire thing is smashed to bits. not an f-1, maybe not even an f-2, but anything greater than about 150 miles per hour, you have to get out of your car. now, the best place to do is to drive up to a store, drive up to somebody's house, and get in that house. not the ditch, because you can get hit by things getting to the ditch. but plan ahead. that's why there are tornado watches in the first place, so that you should have a plan before anything like this even happens. >> but bottom line, if you were stuck, and a lot of people faced this on friday and the police said on friday, if you are stuck in traffic and the tornado is coming toward you, get out of your vehicle, go to an embankment, and just lay low on the ground and just hope. >> reporter: get out of your car because there's no place left for you in it when the tornado is done. now, many times, especially in cities, the roadway is the lowest spot. it's actually lower than maybe the upper spot, kind of dig it down and it will run below most of the bridges above. that's fairly safe because you're down below. buckle yourself in the car if it's a small tornado and you can see it, buckle in, tighten up, and get down below, so you're below where the windshield might be and all the windows. that's one thing in a small tornado but if it's big, still, it will smash your car to bits. that's the gray. that's the part that you have to use your own judgment, you have to use your own common sense. if this is a big tornado, get out of the car. you will not survive it in a car. you have to get out. >> these days, there are so many folks out there who are calling themselves storm chasers, really unless you are a professional storm chaser, unless you have done this before and you are well equipped with an armored vehicle or scientists, you should not go out and try to capture video or pictures of a tornado no matter how interesting or fun or cool you think it's going to be. >> reporter: i think every professional chaser out there was once an amateur chaser. as it goes, you learn by experience. and if you have a radar in your car, because you can download them now on a wireless mifi, if you have that kind of equipment or someone at home you can call, someone back at the tv station, sure, you can chase, but it's just not safe. you can do everything right like tim did, and still get in trouble. >> yeah. you never know with some of these storms. appreciate it. let us know what you think. follow me on twitter tonight. just ahead, breaking news on the battles to contain raging wildfires out west. how much damage they've done and how close firefighters are to getting them under control. also, violent clashes in turkey between protesters and riot police are rocking the country. we're on 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>> reporter: well, thankfully, crews seem to be getting the upper hand on this wildfire. it's said to be about 40% contained officially but they expect those numbers to go up tonight. a couple of reasons for that. they have been fighting this fire very aggressively on the ground and by the air, as you saw in that story and also, the wind has died down for the most part. still kicks up now and then, but seems to be looking pretty good. the main concern, though, is the summer overall, the conditions are -- >> we lost his mike there, obviously. having transmission problems. dan simon reporting. let's go to raw politics. the investigation into alleged irs abuses is heating up and getting nastier. as you know, congressional investigators are looking into the targeting of conservative organizations by irs employees, at least in cincinnati. on cnn's "state of the union" yesterday, darrell issa, chairman of the house committee on oversight and government reform, accused the white house of misleading the public about its role in the alleged abuses. he said interviews with irs employees suggests they were getting direction from washington. so far his committee has only released excerpts some of those interviews and there's no smoking gun in any of those excerpts. when candy asked why all the interviews haven't been released, here's what issa said. >> can you not put the whole transcript out? >> the whole transcript will be put out. understand these are in realtime and the administration is still, their paid liar, their spokesperson, is still making up things about what happens and calling this local rogue. there is no indication -- the reason lois lerner tried to take the fifth is not because there's a rogue in cincinnati. it's because this is a problem that was coordinated in all likelihood right out of washington headquarters and we're getting to proving it. we have 18 more transcribed interviews. >> that's it, you don't have that direct link. >> my gut tells me that too many people knew that this wrongdoing was going on before the election, and at least by some sort of convenient benign neglect, allowed it to go on through the election, allowed these groups, these conservative groups, these, if you will, not friends of the president, to be disenfranchised through an election. now, i'm not making any allegations as to motive, that they set out to do it, but certainly people knew it was happening. they could have done something and would have done something, i'm sure, if these had been progressive groups or groups that supported the president. >> chief congressional correspondent dana bash joins me now. his remarks there got a lot of attention. congressman issa, he selectively is releasing parts of the transcript, as candy noted. the bottom line, do we know yet exactly who is responsible for this targeting? chairman issa makes it sound like he knows the answer, but when you listen closely he's saying my gut tells me, it was folks out of washington knew. does he know for sure? does anybody know for sure at this point? >> reporter: the answer is no, anderson. he doesn't know yet who came up with that strategy to single out or target tea party groups for extra or inappropriate scrutiny and as you said, when you listen carefully to him, he admits that's something he believes but hasn't yet proven. democratic sources i've talked to who are involved in this investigation say they still do have other interviews to do, very important ones with irs employees, likely this week, and that's going to help get to the bottom of why this broad policy was put in place. but they and other republican sources i've talked to say what they have found out is that it certainly was early involvement from washington, but when we're talking about washington, it's not the obama administration. it's other bureaucrats, tax attorneys in the washington office of the irs who are trying to help front line irs agents with something very real which is the question of whether tea party groups who admit to political activity, whether they should get tax-exempt status. those questions, you know, were legitimate but when and how that turned into a blanket targeting which was not legitimate and inappropriate, we still don't know the answer to that. >> you also don't often hear the word liar being used in politics and his use of the word liar against jay carney, the president's spokesman, is obviously getting a lot of attention. what do you make of it? politicians usually kind of dance around that word. >> reporter: they almost always do. issa's aides say that he called carney a liar because carney has said from the white house podium that tea party targeting was the work of cincinnati irs employees, but issa really believes that that's not true, that the washington irs employees as we heard him, they were involved. there's no love lost between issa and carney and the white house. we know that because of this and the benghazi controversy but anderson, it is unusual to use the "l" word and even more jarring in this case because republicans i'm told were given very clear directive from the republican leadership not to overplay their hand politically in this, not distract from fact-finding with over the top rhetoric and some republicans i'm talking to are a little bit worried that this is exactly what they were worried about. >> you first reported on friday on excessive spending in the past of the irs like the cupid shuffle dance video that was made, supposed to be educational, and then this is another one, kind of a take-off of gilligan's island. let's watch this. >> hey, everybody. i saw a ship. no, really. i saw a ship. take a look for yourself. >> how much did those two videos and there's another one looking like "star trek," how much did that cost and is that just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to kind of overspending? >> reporter: at least $50,000, maybe $60,000. we know watching that that it's pretty clear they didn't spend it on acting lessons. maybe the laugh track, but not acting lessons. we're expecting an inspector general report tomorrow that details some pretty egregious use of taxpayer dollars. $50 million for irs conferences, one alone in anaheim in 2010 where these videos were played, cost $4 million. they spent a lot of money at that conference on hotel suites that cost upwards of $3500 a night. this is taxpayer dollars. they hired outside speakers to come in that cost over $100,000 and one of those speakers apparently was an artist who led the session with something called leadership through art. by the way, he was paid $17,000 taxpayer dollars. >> pretty unbelievable. appreciate it. thanks. coming up, what started off as a simple sit-in from a handful of people has now erupted into anti-government protests in turkey. violent responses by the government. thousands of people have been injured in the clashes with security forces. we'll get a live update next. also, the last boston bombing victim finally leaving the hospital. we'll tell you about her story and hear about her long journey home more than a month and a half in the making. ready? 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