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On a prairie and if you don't get to safety quick enough, the tornado eats you. in a way tornado chasers are like big game hunters and there is a risk that happens when you are hunting. more people probably die climbing mt. everest than storm chasing. the storm chasers at least get information that helps people. >> that's the real question, do they? things have been invented so they don't have to do that. some is for tv outlets who want it. it is exciting. i want to know do they add a percentage that helps people save lives or do they not? >> i tweeted this last night. i threw the question out...

>> they really did. this was actually the storm that took that path, developed west of el reno, oklahoma, it traveled along i-40 that caused that road to be shut down. took that right turn to the south, then moved back to the northeast towards the airport and oklahoma city. that created all of the initial alarm. the other two stayed in a straight line, just northwest to southeast, but it was, i don't know if this is the actual tornado they were driving through, there were so many different tornadoes in the bigger system. the path of it, for the tornado chasers themselves who have a full carloa...

Storm, we watched almost four storms. just take you back. there were four storms that developed west of oklahoma city and then they all fought for power, and then they all decided they'll all get together. when they all got together, the storm that's on the bottom, the southwestern storm, got a rotation on it and put down a tornado, and put down a very large tornado. without a doubt, this was an ef-3, i won't go farther than that because that's normal size large wedge tornado, ef-3. don't go out there and look for something else later. that's irrelevant. then this ef-3 tornado was on the groun...

They have a website, twisterchasers .com. >> good morning. >> we were watching you on the fox news channel. it seemed to be terrifying. have you seen stuff like this before? how is this different and do we expect anything else today of this type? >> the tornado woke so unexpected. there was advance notification. what was unusual about yesterday is as the tornado started occurring is how you rapid the tornado was moving after it formed. it really was chasing us. you couldn't drive fast enough to get out of the path of it. there was tornado chasers that got hit by the tornado that you will hear ...

The weakest on the scale of 0 to 5, touched down in moore yesterday afternoon during all of this mayhem with the storms moving through the region. now, it was a weak tornado compared to ef5 that they just saw a little more than a week ago. this storm yesterday moved across moore, oklahoma, for a brief time, the path was half a mile and the width of the tornado only 500 yards compared to the ef5 tornado almost two miles wide. so it was a very small tornado, minimal damage from that one in moore. however, the tornado that touched down near el reno, that was the one that also made that right turn...