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That area. another sign the violence could spill into neighboring countries. on "morning joe" we'll talk to senator john mccain who traveled to northern syria last week, you might recall, and met with opposition fighters in that country. i want to get back to the top stories. the weather channel's in union city right now. first of all, what is it looking like in terms of the damage? is this a lot like moore or different? >> reporter: this was an ef-3 tornado. the moore tornado was an ef-5, so two levels beyond this. look at the devastating destruction an ef-3 with can do to this home in unio...

>> look at the car getting knocked around there. thomas, you're right. they are trying to figure out panel. they are trying to figure out how it changes. the difference between hurricanes and tornadoes, think about this. hurricane sandy, they had five days. five days before hurricane sandy hit shore. they had predicted the path perfectly. >> right. >> and moore, oklahoma, with he went to moore, oklahoma, they had 16 minutes. >> when they look back at the collection of the three big storms and reference to the 1999 in moore, oklahoma, the may 3rd and you look at the trajtry of those two storm p...

And just caused all kinds of damage out here. you find that in different spots. when you compare what we see here today to what we saw two weeks ago with the ef-4 tornado that went through shawnee and the ef-5 that went through moore. both of those tornadoes caused significant damage especially in moore, the heavily populated area. the storm system, alison, we saw the other day was so big and so random. it was just as dangerous. >> but they're talking about the comparison between the two, aren't they? the folks you have been talking with. >> absolutely. because, you know, it has just been two ...

Weeks ago, the ef-4 tornado in shawnee that killed two, then the next day that ef-5 tornado in moore that killed 24 people in that storm system. those were stronger tornadoes, but this was just such a big storm that stayed parked over the oklahoma city area for such a long time, it was just as dangerous. >> george, between the tornadoes that blew through there friday and then the tornadoes two weeks ago in moore, i know that the people in oklahoma are resilient, but are they a little more weary today, or they still got that fire? >> well, they still have that fire. but i would say that people ...

Your car may be. >> chad meyers joins us live now in reno. chad, this storm surprised so many of those people who do this for a living. why? how could this have happened? >> reporter: you know, we were about seven miles south of this location, el reno. as the storm continued to develop, it was traveling just a little bit to the south and east. then it turned hard left and moved northeast, came across this area and turned south again. it was a wobbler and it was big. there is damage a mile wide here. it may not be the f-4, f-5 that moore was, but the damage is widespread. i'm standing in a tech...