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How people make a living in this country, and in all seriousness, tell me about the kinds of people who want to be tourists, if you will. who are really fascinated with this weather conditions known as a tornado. >> yeah, tornadoes are big news, obviously. this is just wall-to-wall news about tornadoes. but they're very interesting to people in all walks of life. we have people from other countries coming to tour and see the tornadoes with us as well. you know, these people just are -- they're weather enthusiasts. they want to look more about it and they want to be a part of it. we try to help...

When spoke to the president, she also made the request to fema. everything that's been requested by the state of oklahoma to the federal authority, to the president and to fema, every request has been granted and we're receiving federal assistant at this time. >> so how does it work now, just so we'd like to get a sense, i would, of how it works. you call washington, you call craig fugate, head of fema. how does it work state to government, in these kind of catastrophes? >> yesterday, shortly after the tornado completed its devastation in moore, oklahoma, governor fallin called the regional di...

Happened. it was alfredo and actually vivi, my daughter, that was there by herself at the house. and then alfredo got home. he's the one who got -- told her to go into the shelter because a tornado was close. but me being at work, i was really worried because there were no cell phone lines. there was no communication. i couldn't get ahold of them. so i was really worried about them. >> viviana, you just survived one of the biggest tornadoes ever to hit your area. what are you going to be able to tell people what it was like, how you got the warning, how much time you had? what it was like raci...

It hit so hard and so often. what caused all that. joining me now is an expert. the weather channel's dr. greg forbes. dr. forbes, thank you for being with us tonight. you know, we always like to understand nature because maybe in some part of our brain we ning think, or our soul, we hope we can have some impact of protecting ourselves and understanding what god's plan is, if you will. this tornado went to an ef-5. what does that tell you? is this really the peak of what a tornado can be? >> yeah. the enhanced fujita scale, ef goes from 0 to 5. 5 is the highest. that means it had wind gusts at...

It's not just seasonal or that kind of thing? is there a cycle going on now? a trend going on? how would you describe it if there is one? >> the jury, so to speak, is out a little bit in terms of the climate relationship to tornadoes. my own thinking is that as the atmosphere is slowly warming, that has allowed in the cool months warm air to get farther north. we've seen over the past decade or so a lot of tornadoes at more northern latitudes in the middle of the winter months that in the past we were having snowstorms. so that is my own take that we can have tornadoes in bigger parts of the c...