we were in a perfectly safe position and i'm sure tim was, too. he wanted to put the little probes out. what this multi-vortex means and how to better forecast a large tornado dropping straight out of the storm. not starting as a 70-mile-per-hour dust devil. >> let me turn, in 1999 it was a storm in moore, which was also recently hit. you interviewed people and talk about the media's role in this. >> it's like covering a war zone. there is an important role for the media and they're doing a public service. i went into the aftermath of the storm and an elderly gentleman took me into what was his home and it was completely torn down and he showed me his ez chair which was maybe 50 yards away and he was telling me how he was sitting in his condominium watching the radar from all the weather channels when all of a sudden he realized the thing was getting really close. he said, oops, i better get in