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Roommate. he's always driving for me, his name's brett. we both go to school together for meteorology. the passenger is a friend from mississippi who was actually coming out to the plains for his first storm chasing trip and trying to see his first tornado. >> that was his first, this is his first one? >> well actually we got him to a big tornado in kansas earlier this week but he tells me that he has got his money's worth. >> yeah, because he is silent, jaw-dropped in the back seat the whole time. >> yeah, he was, he handled it much better than i anticipated, i will admit. >> how does this co...

Helmet, throw some mattresses or a blanket over you to protect the head. one place you can't hide from a tornado is in your car. tornado strength winds can pick up a one to two-ton vehicle like this one and toss it around like you or i would a basketball. you obviously don't want to be driving toward a tornado but it's also a bad idea to be driving away from a tornado. it's hard to gauge the distance. if you must be driving and the weather is clear, try driving at right angles to the tornado, perpendicular to get out of the path of the storm. another misconception, run underneath an overpass. ...

>> horizontal. >> south of i-40 it will be right here in front, coming down right now, very, very, very low to the ground, the entire vortex coming down to the ground, mike, i've got to back out of it. >> in oklahoma five people, including a mother and her child, are dead, and at least 71 others are hurt but the city of moore where a tornado last month killed 24 people was largely spared. >> oklahoma and missouri now under states of emergency and all the way to indiana, more than 200,000 people have no power, and after all that, another weather threat, heavy rain from the same system is causin...

Thinking not wearing your seat belt into the final moments of that video? >> well originally in between the video i had to jump back in the car as we filmed the tornado and i guess it slipped my mind to put my seat belt on, i was so focused on getting south but as we started getting really strong winds, i got worried that the car could blow over and at that time my consciousness caught up with me and i realized i wasn't buckled so that's when i immediately buckled up. >> brandon awe peer to be a pretty young guy. how long have you been doing this? >> i've actually been doing this since i was a...

We got the chance to talk to brandon about his experience and how and why he got so close, but first what was he thinking? >> to state the obvious i guess i was thinking we were a little too close, but the tornado strengthened really rapidly and kind of took a turn right at us and i was just hoping that we could get south in time. >> at some point in time did you really feel like your life is in danger? you do this often, don't you? >> yes, i've been doing this for quite a while, and yeah i mean definitely the most scared i've ever been in the tornado situation for sure. >> we see that at some...