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And pressure, we wanted to go out and measure just how strong the winds were at that point in time. we ended up measuring a 117-mile-per-hour wind gust with irma, but i can tell you right now that there were definitely winds much stronger than that right over us as well. >> justin, what does your family say about your chosen line of work? >> well, it's actually interesting you ask that because my mother, she was actually in the f-5 that hit topeka. so my family is no stranger to severe weather. they just know i have a passion for weather. i love chasing severe storms, tornadoes, hurricanes, an...

First hour and 1/2 inch an hour after that. we're dealing with 8 to 10 inches of rain in three hours. it cannot bump that in an hour. it will take a while for that to be done. the frustration is that we're in a different era, an era, where we have these rains every week, every month. >> residents are frustrated there. meanwhile in tulsa, oklahoma, earlier reports indicate that an f-1 tornado may have touched down at 1:25 this morning. that's the second weakest. the strongest is an f-5. we're talking about winds up to 110 miles per hour. there's significant damage, particularly by interstate 44...

Investors is not acceptable. >> that is something we said in the bush white house, don't let other people use your name to raise money for investments. some believe the connections are deliberate. he says that chinese investors, especially, look for projects they feel the u.s. government supports. >> having the president's son-in-law's name on a project, if i'm sitting in china i would perceive that as some level of security. >> what they want to make sure is that they get the green card, so if they see a public official associated with the project, that gives them the impression the project i...

But a strong tornado that is on the ground for a long period of time. long track tornado and typically those are the most deadly and destructive we have in the country. here's a map i don't show all that often. this is the tornado threat map. what we're looking at on this map here is the hatched areas. this is where we have the best possibility of significant tornadoes. this is the fujida scale. it goes from the ef-0 to ef-5. they devastate the landscape and only leave the foundations. the odds of the strongest tornadoes is greatest in the hatched areas. east of nashville, huntsville and georg...

Tossing cars like toys as it cut a path through all of these different neighborhoods, leaving them in just the state of disrepair. i've got the mayor of garlan on the phone with me right now. mayor, first of all, we all feel for you and what you and all texans are going through. describe what you're seeing in your town and what you're smelling. what is it like there? >> we're receiving offers of assistance and aid wand we appreciate that. we have search teams in the area that were affected. it was actually a very edge of garland where the tornado went across and then headed across the lake, tw...