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[ bleep ] [ bleep ]. >> are you okay? >> yeah. >> were fine. >> duck down. duck down. go forward if you can. youre good. drive. [ bleep ]. >> my goodness. think you had a hard day at the office with everything coming at you? not like that, literally. smashed windshields, debris flying everywhere. obviously its pretty scary stuff. brett wright joins me on the phone. reid timer on the phone shortly, as soon as we can get him. and chad myers, oklahoma city, too. chad first i want to go to brett. th...

And a smartphone... with an e-trade app. ♪ nobody knows... [ male announcer ] e-trade. investing unleashed. welcome back to "weekends with alex witt." 34 past the hour, after another round of deadly tornadoes, parts of oklahoma are dealing with severe flooding. heres new video from oklahoma city. it shows extent of the flooding across the region. many areas completely submerged. several drivers caught up in the floodwaters after the storm system unleashed heavy rains friday. some managed to ...

Meteorologist and storm chase who are captured this footage here. reid, with a good day to you, talk about what it was like driving through that storm yesterday. what was going through your mind? >> well, we have been doing this for 16 years and we have custom-built vehicles designed to get close to tornadoes for scientific purposes and document tornadoes from a unique perspective. when youre close, our goal is to measure the wind speed and pressure falls inside and vehicles have hydraulics and ...

everywhere. i thought it was a dream. >> a dream? more like a nightmare, if you want to be honest about it. this is what was left behind by a strong storm. total devastation. several tornadoes touched down. as many as 28 people are dead. in some areas, rescue crews worked deep into the night to find survivors and victims. national guard troops were called up to kentucky and indiana to the hardest hit communities. you can see tornado in tennessee. dozens of people were injured in the st...

Has been repaired since. and not just in this town, but in all the towns hit. is the status of where you are similar to other villages? >> it pretty much is. were slowly beginning to rebuild, and theres a lot of houses weve helped repair and are beginning to rebuild some. its slow and theres still a lot more to do. right here on the street where were at, were building two out of about six lots that there are still empty ones in between us. so weve still got a long way to go. >> reid, what are fo...

Discovery channels storm chasers. today they have returned to a very different scene in alabama. instead of rubble, cleanup and rebuilding with volunteers from all over the country helping residents in those areas get their lives back to normal. and joining us now, the host of discovery storm chasers, reid timer, along with habitat for humanitys johnny roberts, whos rebuild his own home that was destroyed in the tornadoes. its nice to see you guys. how many people are out working and whats the s...

Out is something that i think all storm chasers should do. because the damage is the dark side of storm chasing, but its also what were trying to solve out here, directly through helping out the warning process and indirectly through recording measurements inside and trying to better understand these things, to some day town the road increase warning lead times even further. >> what are warning lead times now, reid? >> well, for this storm -- for these tornadoes on april 27th, they are sometimes...

>> johnny, how has community life been since the disaster? are people more connected to each other, less connected to each other? have they left, have people come? whats going on? >> some have left and found houses elsewhere, but ill tell you, there is a bigger sense of community. i think weve noticed, weve talked more with our neighbors since the storm than we ever did before, just because you just have that bond of something youve been through together. >> and reid, does this give you a differ...

The storm chasing vehicle and sweat it out and try to help these people in the recovery effort. >> as folks learn about this ongoing effort this fall to repair the tragic damage done this spring, if they want to help, how can they be helpful? >> well, they can certainly get involved with habitat for humanity. also, unit wade here in central alabama is taking a leading role in helping a long-term disaster recovery. >> reid, why was it so important to you? your day job is chasing these things, not...

Irrelevant. an 80-mile-per-hour wind gust will take shards of glass and broken boards and send it on down and hurt a lot of people. we need everyone out of there before that happens. >> thank you, chad, for that not terribly happy report. all right. terrifying reports tonight from storm chasers taken as a tornado touches town in oklahoma. twisters are ripping apart homes and two are confirmed dead. joining me now is reid timer, host of discovery channels "storm chasers." where are you now and ...