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And to be able to capture tornadoes and to be able to save lives through the technology he has developed. when we go out it is not just to thrill seek but also to collecting data. it is also, you know, when an area has been raked by a tornado. were almost the first-responders. martha: so chasers and their video have been featured on discovery channels "storm chasers". the network says it will put new safety rules in place for their people out there. mike tobin live in el reno, oklahoma. mike, do...

Have the element of surprise. >> i heard a bit of a shuffle from my right-hand side. i felt a punch. what i thought was a punch to the chest. >> i stabbed him in the chest. and the first thing out of his mouth was, "why?" thats the first thing out of anybodys mouth whenever theyre faced with their consequences. why? why did you do this? or why did you do that? well, if you stop back and think about the actions you took to bring you to this point, you wouldnt have to ask why. >> i was walking bac...

That was cell phone video taken from a fifth grade teacher. i revisited the school earlier today. take a look. >> this part, here, is where i was at. so while it was absolutely terrifying, we heard everything going on overhead. its nothing like what happened back there where it approached the building. >> so you took your kids out of the classroom to this hallway? >> right. >> so these are cinder block walls? >> yep. look around you. we dont have any glass in our classroom. we are safe. i know y...

Classroom. you are safe. i know you hear scary things about storms and we recently had bad storms where a lot of the students had taken shelter the sunday before -- saturday and sunday before. and i said, youre safe. youre in cinder block walls, you know? >> but the roof here -- its basically corrugated steel. >> right. but this was the building that sustained hardly any damage. >> so what part of the building is this? >> thats where my son was. >> right over there? >> yeah. with mrs. biddle. yo...

Students had taken shelter the saturday and sunday before. i said youre safe. youre in cinder block walls. >> but the roof here, its basically corrugated steel. >> right. but this was the building that sustained hardly any damage. >> so what part of the building is this? >> thats where my son was. with mrs. bidle. >> and thats about the only corner that survived? >> that is still existing. her desk was -- you see she painted the walls rain woe. bow. and there still is some standing over there. b...

Alive. bill: you can see she had a bad bruise on her face with a cinder block wall came down on her. two of her daughters came out well on this. one daughter has a problem with her ankle but she seems to be on the mend. martha: you have got to walk in the schools yourself. bill: i was taken into the bowels of the building and shown where he ran to. he was told that the second grade was trapped in a collapsed classroom. he jumped into that pit of all the collapsed cinder block walls. he found 18 ...

And we recently had very bad storms where a lot of our students had taken shelter the saturday and sunday before. i said youre safe. youre in cinder block walls. >> but the roof here, its basically corrugated steel. >> right. but this was the building that sustained hardly any damage. >> so what part of the building is this? >> thats where my son was. with mrs. bidle. >> and thats about the only corner that survived? >> that is still existing. her desk was -- you see she painted the walls rain w...

>> reporter: do you think they grasped what was going to happen? >> im not sure, they were all singing the national anthem. we were about to have a program in two days. we were going to perform the national anthem, so they were practicing. i mean, they were just trying to forget what was actually happening. >> reporter: for tammy, the horror seemed to never end. i just assumed that they would be quick, but it just stayed and stayed. and stuff was falling on us. we had books over our heads. and i...

I glanced up once and you could just see it. it was like brown. huge. never-ending. just all the way up to the heavens. and then i got back down, a cinder block fell on my neck. they decided to move those students in there at that very last second. the walls started caving in. this car blown into the side of the wall. if there had been students on the other side, it could have been devastating. >> despite what you see here, everyone at that school survived. the students were brave. >> i mean, th...

What was about to happen? >> im not really sure. they were all singing the national anthem. we were about to have a program in two days, we were going to perform the national anthem, so they were practicing. i mean, they were just -- trying to forget what was actually happening. >> for tammy, the horrors seemed to never end. >> i just assumed that they would be quick, but it just stayed and stayed and stuff was falling on us. we had books over our heads. and i looked, glanced up once, and you co...