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Powerful and destructive the tornadoes can be. thoughts and prayers go out to the people of oklahoma city metro area, i live in norman, three miles south of that ef-5 damage path, have friends that were effected by it. this area is getting hit hard this year. >> you have had some couple of weeks, i've got to tell you. i have been amazed by it myself. are you surprised considering the amount of warning how many people are still out on the road? >> yes, actually and we also were storm chasing, tracked that moving downtown. today, two to three feet of water in oklahoma city, cars under overpasses...

The path, drop hydraulics, put in spikes and take measurements inside the tornado. >> were you always very curious about this sort of thing? it is fascinating stuff. >> it is fascinating. what makes it so fulfilling is when you're storm chasing, providing that and saving lives. people know there's a violent tornado approaching oklahoma city, people are taking precautions. proactivity is key. a lot of people say when you post video of tornadoes doing damage how bad it is. but that could mean the difference. imagine somebody seeing that video on youtube of the potential power of a tornado destro...

Was pulling at it, pulling at it, the children were very frightened and scared, we huddled together, i put my arms around them, told them everything would be okay, please keep were your head down. some of them were saying their prayers. i was saying my prayers. the roof came off. >> i need to interrupt you a second. i want to continue to hear that story. i want to listen to some of the video just getting in from storm chasers. i need to point out they're driving backwards, you saw another car driving backwards to get pictures and stay out of the path. this is earlier in oklahoma. >> as tracker...

This school is completely gone. >> we are entering the damage path on the northwest side of moore. >> the storm chasers began surveying the damage. >> oh my god. this is the damage, the damage path right now. houses are completely leveled. >> it's unrecognizable. >> houses are leveled. >> we looked up the google street view images around that area and the first thing we did was go and look at the daycare. like they were saying, we thought it was a standalone building all by itself but we looked at the street view and it's a three or four business strip mall that was completely leveled. it was ...

Path on the northwest side of moore. >> the storm chasers began surveying the damage. >> oh my good. this is the damage, the damage path right now. houses are kplaetly leveled. >> it's unrecognizable. >> houses are leveled. >> we looked up the google street immans that are around that area. the first thing we did is go and look at the day care. we thought it was a stand alone building all by itself but we looked at the street view and it's a three or four business strip mall that was completely efld. it was unrecognizable at all. behind that where we thought was mostly open field because where...