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Tracked storm, that has preliminary a record-breaking track. that was over 250 miles. so quite insane to talk about that. because, the previous record was 1925. the tri-state tornado outbreak that impacted three separate states, that was a very impressive storm. but this traveled over 250 miles, preliminary. so now the national weather service goes skpand veinvestiga all of these particular individual spots. how much damage was there and how much wind can they associate with that. and we have a ...

Debris doing their best to find the survivors and anyone else thats in that, and its -- i dont even like walking over there. >> i understand. i appreciate you showing us. we want you to stay safe, and we know youre surrounded by debris, and i can hear the emotion in your voice. michael gordon there for us on the ground in mayfield, who also took some just incredible video of the tornado in southern missouri, video that i want to show meteorologist bill karins, so bill, youre back with us, and if...

They got little bit of hits over to the west coast. and the point is thats a relatively sophisticated radar environment. how do you elude that kind of radar? malaysia had quick response aircraft that could have intercepted that airplane which clearly shouldnt have been in that spot. so -- >> okay. hold it right there, arthur, because i want to continue this conversation with all three of you. a short break and when we come back, lets talk about why malaysias military didnt dispatch its f-18s and...

I had no fear up there. all love, nothing to be scared of at all. no fear. to be honest, i havent had my heart pumping that fast in a while. it was cool. we had a vietnam fighter pilot. he went super aggressive. >> i flew jets all my life, f-4s and f-5s. we had our own combat experiences and we see these fine young men and gals coming back from afghanistan and iraq, we have a passion for flying these planes and want to share it with these guys and get their adrenaline going and show them maybe t...

And the flying pilot that he was instructing had flown together. the relief first officer who was sitting in the jump seat reported to our investigators that he had 4,600 hours flight time. he estimated that he had 900 to 1,000 hours flying a 777. he flew f-5s and f-16s in the korean air force. he had flown to san francisco five or six times as the pilot monitoring. the fourth pilot who was serving as the relief captain was not in the cockpit for the approach. as i mentioned, he was seated in th...

Lane and we knew we had to take 0 cover really quickly. within about a half a mile we noticed a convenience store was there and that was the closest thing we could get into quickly. >> beverly, we know youve lived there your whole life so youve seen tornadoes. this is nothing knew from you. >> caller: no. >> we have been hearing from storm chasers what was new for them was the amount of people hitting the road usually told to hunker down, seek shelter, go downstairs into a storm basement. why th...

Wichita falls, springfield, not good news for you. that is going to be the bulls yim he eye here for potential strong weather and strong tornados as well. guys, that its the set of what we are dealing with right now as far as the rest of tonight heading into tomorrow. three days, maybe fourth one here. watch that closely of the worst kind of weather -- >> ivan, oklahoma, tornado alley its used to big, bad, deadly storms. this one steamed to be even by that standard, an enormous killer. how diffe...

Pine bluff to shreveport are the areas of concern. so the worst it looks like its over wrks but still some risk. >> when were describing this as potentially a historic storm, were keeping in mind including back in 1999. do we yet know if it is appropriate to call this a storm of historic proportions? >> anytime you get an ef 4, ef 5, its historic. an ef-5, its super historic. weve only had nine or ten of them since that one in 1999 in moore. thats the crazy thing i keep thinking about. the possi...

It seems like this is getting worse. am i right to think that or from a meteorological point of view is this kind of what happens every few years? >> reporter: well, we always expect this clash of air masses in spring and as the warm air wants to overtaken the cold air of winter. but this has been highly unusual. earlier in the broadcast we were talking about the number of ef-4s. since weve been keeping records since 1800s of storms and weather in this country, the number or the percentage of ef...

>> reporter: well, we always expect this clash of air masses in spring and as the warm air wants to overtaken the cold air of winter. but this has been highly unusual. earlier in the broadcast we were talking about the number of ef-4s. since weve been keeping records since 1800s of storms and weather in this country, the number or the percentage of ef-4 tornadoes is about 1% of all tornadoes and now here just within about two weeks of each other, we have ef-4s and ef-5s that are miles wide and l...