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There's a circulation. the technology can predict a tornado between 10 and 15 minutes before it hits the ground. 1880. what was the dissemination? a newspaper. would you really print a newspaper on wednesday predicting tornados on thursday when you didn't have a satellite? didn't have any kind of information at all. certainly, they weren't qualified to predict tornados in 1880, but by 1950, they were much better with the doppler technology. >> so, carl, explain this. you have this technology and yet you have these deadly tornados. why? >> part of the reason chad mentioned is you're still looki...

It's more difficult to secure americans when they're traveling around the world. so frankly, because of their ability to travel, particularly from north africa into europe, you saw in the summer of 2010, the european al-qaeda threat. so in the nearer term, i worry about american interests in the region in places like pakistan and afghanistan, but also americans traveling over the summer holidays in a place like europe. >> all right. thank you very much. want to go beyond the headlines for more on the tornados. carl azuz and chad myers are with us. i want to begin with you, carl. it sounds st...

The dark rather than incite mass hysteria in the public. the 1880s. that is when the u.s. army signal corp. officially commissioned a study into tornados. shortly after that is when they banned the use of the word, tornado, in weather forecasts. for reasons of fears of panic, lack of tools to accurately predict weather patterns. that ban was essentially in place until 1950 and it was by that time in 1950, radar had been firmly established as the accurate predictor of weather patter patterns. >> we know it saves lives. you can get these warnings far in advance of folks on the ground. can you ex...

Series of thunderstorms rolling through the region and some intense ones just came through chicago. we're looking at very wet roads across michigan avenue. the roads are a little wet. some lengthy airport delays up to two hours or more. all this is part of an area we're watching today with the most intense highest risk for tornados here. southwest missouri, southern illinois, western kentucky and west tennessee, so memphis is in that area for high risk today. that means we could see the likelihood of tornados, strong winds and very damaging hail break out in this region. here is this stubborn ...

Storm. we are going to have tornados again on the ground. the pictures yesterday, tornados on the ground all day from oklahoma into kansas and missouri and so on. even a warning for joplin last night. you could hardly here anderson cooper because the sirens were going off. but we will have at least 50 on the ground today. we had killer tornados yesterday all day long. this one is south of the city. we will keep watching it. there are new watches from ohio to memphis and it's going to be a busy day today. >> chad, for people just listening to you now hearing this news, what should they do? >> i...