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Sure everyone was okay. both myself and my chase partner, were photojournalists as well so we also had to get the story out there so the world will mow what happened. we just arrived on site here so we dont know whats going on right now. it is our understanding that the town was evacuated last night. the storm is the one that encountered a family last night. >> tell us about that. these small towns often get hit even harder because they dont have the resources. its tougher to recover. what did y...

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, thats 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...

Chasers had trying to outrun the ef-3 tornado that hit oklahoma friday night. >> no, no time, no! get down! were 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, thats what it looks like in radar. it was tracking south of the i-4...

Flipping over this tractor trailer, pushing it along interstate 40. >> turn to my right, thats 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! its getting bigger! okay. we better leave. >> samaras was a legend in the chasing community, featur...

What was today like for you? >> well, i started my chase with my chase partner, richard rowe and, myself, headed south. we got halve way down and realized that the storm was going to go tornadic really quick. its when we actually saw the tornado coming through the western sides of moore, oklahoma. and we snapped a few pictures and made some reports and headed on further north closer to the tornado. thats when we could see that it was ablg chully doing major damage. we could see on the eye in the...