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effected in our thoughts and prayers, the biggest thing now is to help the community. reporter: the storm gathered in the afternoon. weather reporters became the town kriers. looking for not only tornados but 80 miles per hour wind and four inch hail. reporter: a storm predicted. then there it was, out the window, thick and black, swirling and unstoppable. tornados a mile wide. and the video record of it, images caught by frightened amateurs and storm chasing pros alike have given us a unique, jaw dropping, front row look at the relentless view of a tornado. dear god, be with us. reporter: twisters going through roads and fields in mississippi. starting to look like the end of the world in tuscaloosa, population upwards of 90,000. this is really an extraordinary event.
places for shelter. the question is, did they pick the right one? their story from josh mankiewicz. reports we re getting of massive damage here, particularly on the west and northwest sides of town. an unbelievable day across alabama. jeff morrow is a meteorologist for the weather channel. over a 20-year career, his mission has been covering destructive storms. yet nothing prepared him for this. we were setting up on the south side of birmingham. you watched it go right in front of us. it s this huge black seething mass of clouds. a lot of power flashes, a lot of transformers going. it was almost like looking at a movie. reporter: morrow reported live as the storm ravaged birmingham. large pieces of corrugated metal falling here. you guys do a great job of staying detached of something while reporting of it. was this unnerving, frightening? it was unnerving. knowing wherever it comes in there s going to be total
looked at me and the neighbors, said oh, my god, it is just coming down. could you feel a vacuum? feel it in the ears? you certainly could. it was just that incredible feeling of something approaching that was so huge. your whole world had changed by the time you went back outside? absolutely. when they emerged, they found this, a large oak tree had fallen on their home, but thankfully they were unhurt. and about the smoks they are wearing, they are both with the red cross. joe works for the red cross. she has been a volunteer for six years, traveling to help victims of other catastrophes. now there s one right here. your job now is comforting, helping, hearing of needs and filling them, right? yes. as long as it takes. the red cross chapter was damaged, that s why we re here, not at the chapter. he has been cleaning that out. we re here at the shelter trying to help everyone that s come here. who is taking care of you and the damage you suffered?
are leaving a storm zone, they are the men and women going in. the up side is, you ve seen their work and they ll leave us with the videotaped record of this storm and others. one such storm chaser story tonight from nbc s lester holt. reporter: eastern mississippi, wednesday afternoon. dark clouds gather. to the trained eye behind the camera, it s clear this could be very bad. it could produce right now. watch as the winds begin to swirl, and then something rarely caught on camera. out of thin air, a tornado is born. instead of seeking shelter, the cameraman guns it, racing torwards a storm that would eventually devastate parts of alabama later in the day. large tornado. 24-year-old andy gabrielson is a storm chaser.