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Reno friday night. samaras' son paul was also with them. this is from the discovery channel. they were on the show "storm chasers." chad meyers was in oklahoma after a monster storm hit two weeks ago. he shows us how dangerous it is to be in a car. >> reporter: just piles and piles of debris here in moore. ef-4, ef-5 damage. somewhere around 200 miles an hour. it is unimaginable what could cause a house to turn into that. if you think about a fender-bender at highway speeds of 30, 40, 50, 60 miles an hour, it gets bent up. i get it, it is fixable. we came across this car. i can't tell what y...

This is a serious rotating storm. brooke, the tops of the storms are up to about 50,000 feet tall. that's ten miles high. so, the severe hail that can come out, the wind that can come out, and, of course, the tornado damage, as well. sometimes hail and wind can do as much damage to a house, not ef-5 damage, but certainly significant damage to a home and, obviously, to your health, as well. you need to take cover. these storms mean business today. wouldn't be here if i didn't think that this could be a significant day here. this could be a day where we have big tornados again on the ground. tal...

More time. you have the two-story building. then the second after, that is not completely demolished. that's the reason it's an ef-3. i want you to look around. we had it as an ef-5 damage, but the winds are only 160 to 200 miles per hour. the winds are way stronger than that. the damage you are seeing, if you spin around, that is not ef-5. >> no, we do see walls standing here. some parts of the neighborhood where there's nothing left. there are walls where we are now. you are right. ef-5 is very, very strong in certain parts of the line of this storm. >> when you live through something like t...

Hasn't been able to make phone communications or -- a lot of people get scared, leave, think they are safe. contact your family, let them know you are safe. have you everybody else worried to death about where you are, did you leave? we don't know where you are. please contact your family if you haven't and let them know. >> we've been talking about lives lost 24 certainly too many. but when you walk through the damage, it's shocking it wasn't more lives lost. the injuries not as bad as you might expect. why is that do you think? >> moore is pretty resilient, and as you know, we've had several...

>> craig fugate, fema administrator, thank you for being with us. we know you are on the ground serving the damage here. the need is great. we are grateful you are helping provide those in need here. thank you so much. >> thank you. as we told you, the national weather service revised the strength of this twister. it's now an ef-5. winds topping 200 miles per hour making one of the strongest storms ever to hit the u.s. we are joined by meteorologist peterson. edra, spell it out for us, again. how do they determine the strength of a tornado? >> it's a big misconception. we have seen video ove...