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Has been repaired since. and not just in this town, but in all the towns hit. is the status of where you are similar to other villages? >> it pretty much is. we're slowly beginning to rebuild, and there's a lot of houses we've helped repair and are beginning to rebuild some. it's slow and there's still a lot more to do. right here on the street where we're at, we're building two out of about six lots that there are still empty ones in between us. so we've still got a long way to go. >> reid, what are folks doing in the interim who obviously are without homes? >> well, i'm not sure right now, b...

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...

We've got a prty good chance of seeinging severe weather, tennessee valley to huntsville, north georgia. these aren't severe yet. as the sun heats up the ground again and the cold front starts to push off to the east, that's when we'll see the threat for severe weather start to get more intense later on today. here you go, we're starting to elongate this system and push it off towards the east. as it makes its way over the appalachians, it will lose its punch. a severe risk of thunderstorms. we do have delays to talk about. if you are traveling, 30-minute delays or 40-minute delays i think in ...

That and the oklahoma twister two days later. >> we asked jeff and his wife katherine to drop by from tulsa to explain to us about this quest to see these storms and what you saw in particular. jeff, let's talk about joplin first. you said right away you knew that this storm, this tornado was unique. tell me what you saw forming over joplin. >> you know, sunny afternoon we're in southeast kansas and southwest missouri here storm chasing. one of the things that we recognized right off the beginning is when the storm developed southwest of joplin we had sophisticated software that we use to trac...