. >> tanya brown on the hail engineering team designing the world's first hailstorms. >> we may not have huge fire or things like that, but we have hail every year. >> what do you use to simulate hail. >> we use water and fresh ice and create spheres and create ice stones that we can shoot with our canons. >> something like this would be 70 mph or so. >> that's hard. >> yes, they can cause a lot of damage, especially if you have a lot of these guys on your house. >> on the other side of the spectrum, wildfire. 2014 was a brutal season fueled by one of the worst droughts on record in the west and southwest. it's a major concern to the insurance industry because one out of every three homes is now built close enough to be devoured by flames. >> we're looking at the embers that travel a mile or more beyond the perimeter of the fire and land some place where there is no one watching, and then there is flame generation, flame contact and structures are lost. >> more fire retardant building materials and fewer openings for embers to fly in. >> some of the research conducted shows tiny design t

brown's younger sister tanya believes simpson was guilty but says she has forgiven him. >> i had to. i had to. it doesn't mean i forgive you here's a hug. i think it's more like, i cut the ball and chain you no longer own me. >> simpson is currently in prison for an armed robbery in which he took memorabilia that he said had been stolen from him. >>> we are going to press the restart button. >> we can try. >> back to lonnie quinn who is now micked and we can hear him with our forecast. >> weathercast is no good without a microphone. outside we have rain falling. it's a raw 48 because the wind is blowing at over 20 miles per hour in gusts around town. here's what you should be planning on. i want to go through this one more time. it's an extended period of rough weather. the toughest time is at the coast worst of it during the high tide. that water gets pushed onshore. it's already high with the high tide. now the winds push it onshore. some of those winds up to 50 miles per hour and the rain that you are getting is chilly and raw, there's your wind advisory for the jersey shore but w