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This morning where the sun has just risen. i want to to go chad myers, establishing contact with one area, one interior minister. but the scale of death and destruction here could be catastrophic. you've seen horrifically powerful storms. this one sort of made them all pale in comparison. how bad is the situation? >> the only way i can describe what happened in this hurricane is comparing to it a tornado. but considering the tornado to be 20 miles wide. that's the swath of this destruction. the same wind force of an ef-4 tornado, when a tornado come by your house, it is there for 20 seconds an...

There is a desperate hope people listened and people in low lying areas moved inland and those who live on the coast moved away, because we've seen footage of the storm surge and we've seen houses being carried away. so we certainly hope that people listened to those warnings and of course, some of these houses are flimsy, poor structure houses. typhoon haiyan is still on the move and still deadly. chad myers tracking the storm. put it in perspective, how devastating and big is it? >> it's bigger than anything we've seen in america, anderson. it's the wind force of 195 mile per hour storm, k...

Here, there was residents, a group of young men that were looking for their friends. they couldn't find their house. their house was blown away. we tried to talk to them but they were very emotional at the time. we have spoken to other residents as well, anderson, who are also missing loved ones. right now we know that first responders are fanning across the debris here and i just want you to take a look at the images behind me. this was a neighborhood. this was a working class neighborhood in moore, oklahoma. mixture of immigrants, latinos, working class people all around, and it's been reduc...

Shelter, were advised to get in their cars and drive as fast as they could that seems incredibly violent and the fear around the path of the destruction. >> as you see, the fears are well warranted. particularly when it comes to tornadoes. which has been said several times this morning. bring the strongest winds to the surface of the earth known to in all of history. hurricanes, huge, but in terms of wind force, not what tornadoes are. so those fears, while justified. the following things strike me. number one, despite all the television newspaper and magazine coverage, unless you're there, an...

They're so wide and have so much power and have thrown so much debris within them that it's not just the wind force. it's the force of all the objects that are being thrown and those are hitting the next house down and adding even more force to it. these strongest of tornadoes, ordinary homes are no match for them. the only really safe place to be in the core of this tornado was underground storm shelters. fortunately there were a number of those including the home we're at right now. >> yeah, we were with a family that survived because of that. again, the question of climate. and climate chan...