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Discovery channel's storm chasers. today they have returned to a very different scene in alabama. instead of rubble, cleanup and rebuilding with volunteers from all over the country helping residents in those areas get their lives back to normal. and joining us now, the host of discovery storm chasers, reid timer, along with habitat for humanity's johnny roberts, who's rebuild his own home that was destroyed in the tornadoes. it's nice to see you guys. how many people are out working and what's the state of repair? >> well, there's probably 150 people out here working right now. and we've put ...

Out is something that i think all storm chasers should do. because the damage is the dark side of storm chasing, but it's also what we're trying to solve out here, directly through helping out the warning process and indirectly through recording measurements inside and trying to better understand these things, to some day town the road increase warning lead times even further. >> what are warning lead times now, reid? >> well, for this storm -- for these tornadoes on april 27th, they are sometimes over a half an hour. and we need to increase those further. and i think if we better understand t...

>> johnny, how has community life been since the disaster? are people more connected to each other, less connected to each other? have they left, have people come? what's going on? >> some have left and found houses elsewhere, but i'll tell you, there is a bigger sense of community. i think we've noticed, we've talked more with our neighbors since the storm than we ever did before, just because you just have that bond of something you've been through together. >> and reid, does this give you a different perspective? storm chasing's kind of an adrenaline-driven activity. this is a different exp...

The storm chasing vehicle and sweat it out and try to help these people in the recovery effort. >> as folks learn about this ongoing effort this fall to repair the tragic damage done this spring, if they want to help, how can they be helpful? >> well, they can certainly get involved with habitat for humanity. also, unit wade here in central alabama is taking a leading role in helping a long-term disaster recovery. >> reid, why was it so important to you? your day job is chasing these things, not chasing their aftermath. why did you make the decision to do follow-up work like this? >> well, i a...

Irrelevant. an 80-mile-per-hour wind gust will take shards of glass and broken boards and send it on down and hurt a lot of people. we need everyone out of there before that happens. >> thank you, chad, for that not terribly happy report. all right. terrifying reports tonight from storm chasers taken as a tornado touches town in oklahoma. twisters are ripping apart homes and two are confirmed dead. joining me now is reid timer, host of discovery channel's "storm chasers." where are you now and what did you experience in the center of the storm? >> reporter: right now we are due east of shawn...