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How people make a living in this country, and in all seriousness, tell me about the kinds of people who want to be tourists, if you will. who are really fascinated with this weather conditions known as a tornado. >> yeah, tornadoes are big news, obviously. this is just wall-to-wall news about tornadoes. but theyre very interesting to people in all walks of life. we have people from other countries coming to tour and see the tornadoes with us as well. you know, these people just are -- theyre wea...

When spoke to the president, she also made the request to fema. everything thats been requested by the state of oklahoma to the federal authority, to the president and to fema, every request has been granted and were receiving federal assistant at this time. >> so how does it work now, just so wed like to get a sense, i would, of how it works. you call washington, you call craig fugate, head of fema. how does it work state to government, in these kind of catastrophes? >> yesterday, shortly after...

Happened. it was alfredo and actually vivi, my daughter, that was there by herself at the house. and then alfredo got home. hes the one who got -- told her to go into the shelter because a tornado was close. but me being at work, i was really worried because there were no cell phone lines. there was no communication. i couldnt get ahold of them. so i was really worried about them. >> viviana, you just survived one of the biggest tornadoes ever to hit your area. what are you going to be able to t...

It hit so hard and so often. what caused all that. joining me now is an expert. the weather channels dr. greg forbes. dr. forbes, thank you for being with us tonight. you know, we always like to understand nature because maybe in some part of our brain we ning think, or our soul, we hope we can have some impact of protecting ourselves and understanding what gods plan is, if you will. this tornado went to an ef-5. what does that tell you? is this really the peak of what a tornado can be? >> yeah....

Its not just seasonal or that kind of thing? is there a cycle going on now? a trend going on? how would you describe it if there is one? >> the jury, so to speak, is out a little bit in terms of the climate relationship to tornadoes. my own thinking is that as the atmosphere is slowly warming, that has allowed in the cool months warm air to get farther north. weve seen over the past decade or so a lot of tornadoes at more northern latitudes in the middle of the winter months that in the past we ...

Like that. we would certainly view it from a far distance. then do what we could to help, you know, in the aftermath. when you deal with tornadoes this large, its -- like i said, its just incredible devastation. >> what were you able to do to help people yesterday? >> well, we were in a 15-passenger van and came down here to the movie theater which is just down here. and they had a triage unit set up. we asked if we could help with anything. we actually transported some people out of there that ...

This has been some 24 hours. lets listen to the voice of some of those who watched the tornado close up as it happened and others whose lives were upended in the storm. >> this thing is huge. keep going left, travis. keep going left. right there. boom. there it is. there it is, mike. on the ground. >> right down 19 approaching santa fe. we had to bail out because it was coming right at us. >> i have never seen anything like this in my 18 years covering tornadoes in oklahoma city. >> you see the ...

Up where i went to college. the idea of a tornado in massachusetts is just unnormal to me. anyway, dr. greg forbes, thank you so much for your expertise at this time. our coverage of the massive devastation from yesterdays tornado will continue after this. and what were you looking at -- what youre looking at right now is a time lapse video of yesterdays tornado. there it is. were getting the full pictures. it rips through moore, oklahoma, with wind speeds now clocked at over 200 miles an hour. ...

The only way to go especially when you have a tornado this big. you know, the news, the weathermen tell you all the time if its that big, if youre above ground, youre not going to survive it. so, i mean, really the only thing i can tell people is that, you know, the seriousness of having a storm cellar is at a ten. >> and people have told me in the last 24 hours that its hard to build because the ground is so hard down there. is it expensive or difficult to put a shelter in? to dig it in the gro...

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