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Great pictures on television. yes, that's where we want to be. this storm was different. this storm put down a tornado, a very large, multi-vortex and powerful tornado and lost that vortex and turned to the left and another tornado actually developed right behind us. we had driven another ten miles away from the storm and another tornado sat down not less than a mile. later on in the day, 15 minutes later, another tornado was on the ground 15 miles west of there that was heading back to us. >> just underscoring, just underscoring how dangerous these assignments can be and you're often in the m...

The car. he went and raced himself ahead of the tornado. so, he believes the weatherman saved his life. so, it plays a role. i mean, the media play a role in warnings. they play a role in assessing the damage because they fly the helicopters because then in turn s -- >> you were seven miles away from this killer storm. can you really be perfectly safe in that kind of situation? is it journalism and desire to be near the action that leads meteorologists and journalists and correspondents and weather channel people to try to get as close as possible or just really good television? >> we all know...

We were in a perfectly safe position and i'm sure tim was, too. he wanted to put the little probes out. what this multi-vortex means and how to better forecast a large tornado dropping straight out of the storm. not starting as a 70-mile-per-hour dust devil. >> let me turn, in 1999 it was a storm in moore, which was also recently hit. you interviewed people and talk about the media's role in this. >> it's like covering a war zone. there is an important role for the media and they're doing a public service. i went into the aftermath of the storm and an elderly gentleman took me into what was hi...

>> since samaras has an engineering background. what a tragedy he was killed with his son. >> there's no other -- tim, tim would never put himself in danger. certainly wouldn't put his son in danger and to get left turned by that storm or right turned. they don't know where he was. but that was a very dangerous storm to chase. we knew it. we saw chasers just in pickup trucks driving into the tornado. we were looking at him and we're on live tv and, where are these guys going? where are these people driving to because the tornado is forming right there and so many people got too close at times ...

Washington. chad myers, you face these questions all the time when extreme weather comes up. how much risk does a journalist take in order to get close to a storm that could be deadly? >> we all know this is difficult and dangerous and sometimes things go wrong, but i think people portray tim as a chaser out for thrills. it's just the wrong thing. you weren't. i just want people to know that tim was a scientist and he was out there to put probes out there and he was out there to learn and understand and to make science more understandable with this storm and a tornado itself and to get more da...