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For taking time to meet us tonight. >> thank you very much. keep us in your prayers. >> 24 tornado shot outside philadelphia, mississippi, already has 1.5 million youtube views. joining me now is the guy who heads the team that braved the storm to make it. reed timmer, author of into the storm. welcome, reed. >> thanks for having me. >> i've got to say, you are either one crazy dude or else you're way ahead of us. you go right into the heart of these storms and you take this foota footage. when i look at it, it's terrifying. you get right next to these. how does it feel?

Have a hook on the back. this is the part of the storm that is the tornado. so let's say you're right there. first of all, this sell moves this way, it rains, then it hails on you and then you get into this. it stops. i know you've heard it. it's the calm before the storm. but it really means the calm before the tornado. but if it's hailing, it stops and there's still weather to the west, there's a tornado about to hit you. >> i'm just intrigued. it sounds like it's a hurricane but rotating at 250 miles an hour, unbelievable stuff. this is amazing. all right, chad, thanks so much. we'll be rig...

It literally has its own vacuum cleaner on the southwest side of the storm. we don't yet know whether this was an ef-4 or an ef-5. but it was close. somewhere around 200 miles an hour. the spin, 200 miles an hour as it rolled over tuscaloosa. that's how it happens. the strek instructiucture is so different. some of these storms were 60,000 feet tall. in an airplane you could not fly over it. you would have to fly around it. reed was also talking about debris falling out of the sky. how does that happen ten miles away? the suction of the tornado sucks up d ebree, shingles, paper, insulation, ta...

Specifically designed. it has bullet proof glass and preventive measure and you think you're reasonably safe inside that car? >> yes, but tornadoes like yesterday, that mass i have tornado outbreak, we weren't going to mess with those. it doesn't matter if you have a bullet proof tank, a tornado like that is going to lift it off the ground. we've been storm chasing for 13 years and know how to do this safety. a -- safely. if people don't know what they're doing, they can easily get themselves killed if they try to storm chase. >> i hope that's imminently clear after the stories we've described...

So two different homes, two different scenario, but very much everything that played out in this community in a very short period of time last evening, elliot. >> it makes your blood run cold to think of that have old woman and what happened to her. you see the power of the tornadoes and understand visually and emotionally what havoc and damage it can do. also the important of getting a heads up. the first couple, watching tv. they took preventive action. how important was that to this community? >> well, i mean, it was very important. the thing was everybody knew these storms were likely to c...