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Is. >> for sure. it is like that invisible hand trying to grab at them. these are folks that live in the area, this is tornado alley, an area where you see tornadoes quite often, and that's where storm chasers ideally want to be to find the storms. when even they get spooked and realize the storm is taking a sharp turn, which these storms did today, taking sharp right turns and left turns, and it goes to show you how powerful mother nature is. she has a mind of her own. >> it is important to note they keep a distance, they are not irresponsible, they're quite the opposite. people who watch and...

Was part of the news crews that would go out on days like this and storm chase. you guys are experts at this. you're good at reading the sky and staying a comfortable distance away from a tornado so that you can get the pictures of it, let people know they're on the ground. but really stay out of danger, which you know, today this was just so unpredictable. >> it really was. like i said, tornado took an unexpected turn, caught a lot of people off guard, even people that are very experienced doing this. it got to be quite dangerous. i am glad to know most of what i am hearing is people are okay...

Would be some language in video like that when they're running for their lives and frightened. you can hear the power of the wind and the panic in the voices of the people in that car as they try to outrun this storm. it just took a very violent, unexpected turn and headed right their direction. i can't emphasize to you enough that these people all know what they're doing, they're highly trained. for them to be caught by surprise like this says a lot. this is union city, oklahoma. you can just really see the size of this debris, you can see a hay bail, it looks like it is on fire. the car to t...

There wasn't one point we felt in danger from the tornado, anticipated a left-hand turn. however, there were a bunch of storm chasers in the path of the tornado as it grew, we stayed behind the tornado at that point. that's why we have the armored vehicles in case you get in situations where you also don't have an escape route. gives us an opportunity to be up close to the tornadoes, assess how strong they are. our number one priority is to warn people in the path of the storms and the last thing you want to do is be victims. our goal is to save lives, through research and building vehicles, t...

We want you to be safe. right now i'll check in with samantha mohr tracking these storms live in the cnn weather center. obviously we've been focused on just oklahoma. but this is a big storm system. >> absolutely. millions of people could be affected this afternoon and evening as the whole line of thunderstorms moves to the east and we'll show you those watches in a second that are going to affect throughout the evening hours. we need to talk about this area that's of most immediate concern and that is for high tornado danger, the national weather service office out of norman, the local offic...