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Very well, starred on the discovery channel show with them and remained very close with tim after the show ended. thanks for being here. i'm sure this is not an easy morning for all of you in your professi profession. >> yeah. it seems like it is just a big nightmare. of all people, i never thought it would be tim samaras, someone i've looked up to my whole entire life. he's a genius, a pioneer in our field of science and pressure probes measuring the world record pressure fall inside a tornado and i'm going to miss our random roadside gas station discussions of tornado science. he was always ...

Here. this is part of the danger that people like you do. sometimes every day, reed. and i don't know how this affected you yet or taken it in just yet. perhaps you can share with us and our viewers. >> yeah. this seems like a never-ending nightmare honestly. i woke up yesterday morning and heard the news. i thought it must have been some kind of a hoax. i had seen him on the road. i always see him on the side of the road at random gas stations. we talk about the science of tornadoes. i will always miss those conversations with he, carl and paul. he was a pioneer in meteorology. a pioneer in o...

Pioneered our field and has saved countless lives with data he's collected through reporting storms and even just calling in right there gives people a heads-up that a tornado's coming and he's definitely a hero and all three, i know him very, very well. great people, too. i'm going to miss talking tornado science on the side of the road at random gas stations with carl, tim and paul and it's just a tragedy. >> these deaths, they've certainly shined a spotlight on the hazards of people when they place themselves in the path of lethal storms like we saw over the weekend. literally, thousands of...

>> yes, it is. when you talk about the information, scientific information you're trying to gather. is the only way to do that by getting that close with the car? >> if you're far away from the data, only data you can collect is high up in the tornado. the mystery behind tornado science, this is what happened what happens here the ground, it's inside the vortices that you see and that's when the vortex interactions with friction. vortex breakdown, there are theorys that show wind speeds could be 400, 500 miles per hour. our goal is high resolution radar and air system and pressure sensor to ge...