chris mcbee, simon brewer, thank you so much. mon will have a show this evening on the weather channel at 9:00. watch that. we'll check in with our mike bettes from the weather channel. we're trying to talk to mike before. he's at the staging area in the target parking lot not too far from here. what's the update there? we await more firm numbers about the fatality and what the injury toll is? >> yeah, and i think what happens when these situations arise, thomas, is they are very well prepared. so we're at a dick's sporting goods. next door is a target, next to that is a home depot. the reason the emergency managers picked these areas is because they're big box stores and they have huge parking lots. one parking lot is for media to set up, media, then a tire hnj changing center for police officers' cars, then behind that, the command post including oklahoma bureau of investigation, u.s. marshals are here setting up their command post, national guard, and feeding stations for the first responders and beyond that at the home depot c

you might know simon brewer from the weather channel series "storm riders," he's actively chasing these us on the phone. let's start with chris. this one turns out to be one of the big ones. ef-5. tell me how that differs from -- when you get up to 200 miles an hour, what that's capable of doing to property, human, animal, life, whatever, buildings. >> just as you can see, it's just utter destruction everywhere you look. there are houses completely ripped off their foundations. it's an awful scene here, as you can plainly see. when you get up into the ef-5 range, that's incredible damage. that's how they categorize that. and it's just awful, as is obvious on the ground here in moore. >> we're looking at kind of a snaking, it's a little bit wider than a snaking twister. it's one of those that sort of to me is iconic. an iconic twister. how close can you get to watching that when you take people to go look at it and hopefully are safe when they do it? >> well, we do everything safely, my storm tour company. a tornado that large, we would not get very close to with a tour company -- with,

joining me now on the phone are storm chasers simon brewer and juston drake from the weather channel's caught it all on video. juston, let me start with you. i know that you had a home damaged by a tornado. tell me about, as you were following through and you were following this tornado, what exactly, as you were seeing it develop and what about it made it seem different to you. >> well, this tornado was significantly more violent than most of the tornados that simon brewer and i have ever chased. we first were able to see the moore tornado. you could see that not only was it being slightly obscured by the rain that was wrapping around it, but the significant amount of damage was obscuring some of the view of the tornado, that let us know how violent it was, baa the stuff it was destroying and wrapping around the intense tornado. >> simon, how long were you guys following this storm? like, when were you able to catch it and how long were you able to track it as it made its way across? >> we began just north of the storm. several minutes before the tornado developed. and we became stuck