>> storm chaser james reynolds actually captured that rescue on tape and took astounding pictures of the destruction in tacloban. earlier i talked with him about what he saw in that typhoon as the typhoon ripped through. >> reporter: absolute chaos during the height of the typhoon. we were in a solid concrete building which we could feel shaking as massive bits of debris went crashing into it. rain traveling at over 100 miles an hour. the water was just coming in from every direction into the hotel. you could see the water cascading down the stairs into all the rooms. the windows were blowing out. giant shards of glass everywhere, pieces of metal flying through the air. it was just an extremely harrowing situation. then the water started rising and the storm surge came in flooding the entire ground floor level of the hotel and trapped