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So its about smarter technology. >> okay. lets bring in storm chaser reed timmer. extreme meteorologist, tbn, weather.com, near the texas/oklahoma border tonight and joins me on the phone. what is going on down where you are? >> there is a tornado warning just off to our east. and were on i-40 in west oklahoma. we just got stuck in the mud for the third day in a row. and were back on pavement. and heading east on i-40, and hail in 2 inches in diameter. will probably get up here in about 15 minut...

These tests? >> the fema guidelines require wind pressures for the storm come from a 250-mile-per-hour ground speed tornado and thats speed on the ground and that the typical debris generated by that storm would be a wooden 2x4 thats 15 pounds and propelled at 100 miles an hour. >> so you recreate those conditions in a lab using these commercially available buildings. do you feel like people who are marketing these -- obviously this is a public safety issue, also a business. when you are finding...

For being with us tonight. >> youre very welcome, rachel. >> you are an expert on these things and you work in this field and i do not. let me first ask you if in terms of explaining safe rooms and how they have functioned in the past and how towns rely on them, is that basically your understanding? >> safe rooms certainly will if theyre tested, safe rooms will certainly protect you from these kinds of storms no doubt. >> what kind of wind speeds can structures withstand? how do you test them an...

Mr. tanner, thank you very much for being with us tonight. >> youre very welcome, rachel. >> you are an expert on these things and you work in this field and i do not. let me first ask you if in terms of explaining safe rooms and how they have functioned in the past and how towns rely on them, is that basically your understanding? >> safe rooms certainly will if theyre tested, safe rooms will certainly protect you from these kinds of storms no doubt. >> what kind of wind speeds can structures wi...

heading back to washington, d.c. a day ahead of schedule. earlier he called irene a historic storm. >> i cannot stress this highly enough. if you are in the projected path of the hurricane, you have to take precautions now. dont wait. dont delay. we all hope for the best but have to be prepared for the worst. >> irene is on track to follow the northeast corridor right up to new england and beyond. cnn is there. reynold wolf is in new jersey, and athena jones is in annapolis, maryland. ...

And i found it to be an extremely good, reliable airplane. it has a very good, safe track record. and i think that what we know so far based on the very limited information that we have that the airport took off at sharm el sheikh for st. petersburg. it was just about reaching its cruise altitude of around 31,000 feet. we know that the air speed -- or the ground speed rather slowed down significantly as reported by a couple of sources and we know that the airplane ended up in a descent -- high d...

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Essentially indicate where the flight was stopped working about an hour after the flight which we think is possibly an hour before total contact was lost. does that give any indication to what happened or could that just be a separate mechanical failure? >> thats what investigators are going to look at. theyre going to want to see where that exact transponder failure occurred and whether or not there was actual radar coverage in that particular area. because the transponder provides a discreet c...