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On hearing the news that a tornado is coming, american school kids in most places that get these kind of storms are still sent into the hallways to crouch and cover their heads. get as far inside the building as you can, stay away from big open areas like the gym or the cafeteria, get low to the ground, maybe pray. i'm not making light of this advice in this kind of plan. it really is better than nothing. and it really is the best you could do in a lot of places if and when a tornado is bearing down. drop and tuck or duck and cover, that was the plan 60 years ago, it is still the plan now in m...

>> willie, do you think mika is balanced? >> incredibly so. >> that was a correct answer! coming up on "morning joe," former white house press secretary robert gibbs. also nbc news political director chuck to do. >> and continuing the conversation, business leader karen fineerman will be here to navigate the challenges of balancing work at home and all of these really dumb men! >> later, tennis champion monica seles will be here. up next the top stories and the political playbook but, first, bill karins, with a check of the forecast. >> good morning. we found out the tornado on friday in okl...

Different. so it's a couple shades of gray. 99 point something percent of storms, maybe 99.99%, one out of 1,000 storms, would be unsurvivable. if you are in your house, you are absolutely safe, stay in your home, shelter at home, put as many walls between you and the outside as possible, get in a closet, get some place in e middle of your home, make sure there's not a bunch of bowling ball stuff above your head, get in a safe place, get a bunch of foam or pads or mattresses around you in that middle. if you get to an f-4 tornado, that middle of the house will still be there. now, f-5, which i...

Forced to evacuate because of the pictures we just showed you. just in to us at cnn, the national weather service now saying that friday's tornado in el reno, oklahoma, was the widest u.s. tornado on record. they have also upped the damage rating to an ef-5 maximum wind speeds well over 200 miles per hour. the national weather service released this updated graphic on the path and the area of destruction. so if you can see here with me in red, it shows the location of the maximum width and intensity. so at that max, 2.6 miles wide. that is when it officially became the widest tornado on recor...

There's not a bunch of bowling ball stuff above your head, get in a safe place, get a bunch of foam or pads or mattresses around you in that middle. if you get to an f-4 tornado, that middle of the house will still be there. now, f-5, which is 200 miles per hour or greater, then you may lose the whole house and that may be the unsurvivable storm. but out of 1,000 tornadoes we get a year, one might be an f-5. the odds of it hitting a major big city, you know, is pretty low. a car is never the safe place to be. when a tornado gets done with a car, there's no place left for you in it. the entire ...