dangerous situation. occasionally, conditions are so dangerous for tornados that they elevate the watch to a pds watch, that is what we have here tonight. that is when you see not just kind of run of the mill or maybe smaller tornadoes, but you have the likelihood of very large maybe ef-3, ef-4, 5 tornados and some of them that can stay on the line for a very long time. ten, 20, 50, 100 miles. the photo is coming from a storm chaser vehicle. i cannot see what is happening when there are boxes all over the place. this is something from the storm chaser, which one is this, kim? tv and weather.com. it now appears that there are multiple ones. this is around the oklahoma city area and the other picture that is live from our friends at sky news 9 or if we go to the other one. the live pictures of the storm coming in, i guess we can t. sometimes you just want to give
so it s about smarter technology. okay. let s bring in storm chaser reed timmer. extreme meteorologist, tbn, weather.com, near the texas/oklahoma border tonight and joins me on the phone. what is going on down where you are? there is a tornado warning just off to our east. and we re on i-40 in west oklahoma. we just got stuck in the mud for the third day in a row. and we re back on pavement. and heading east on i-40, and hail in 2 inches in diameter. will probably get up here in about 15 minutes, and i don t think there is a confirmed tornado yet. but it does have rotation. we re just trying to get in front of it. and provide that ground speed so people know what s coming. reid, thank you very much indeed for calling in, and thank you to born and bill nye for an interesting debate. it is an interesting debate, one i think a lot of people are pursuing as each of the storms comes and goes. what are we doing with our planet. thank you very much for joining me. libertarian wayne al
powers everything we light. it pulls 600 million people out of poverty in china. so what we need to do, is to find a way to make green energy so cheap, everyone wants to buy it. that s not buy subsidizing it. that s by innovating smarter, green energy in the long run. so it s about smarter technology. okay. let s bring in storm chaser reid timer. extreme meteorologist, tbn, weather.com, near the texas/oklahoma border tonight and joins me on the phone. what is going on down where you are? there is a tornado warning just off to our east. and we re on i-40 in west okay he can. we just got stuck in the mud for the third day in a row. and we re back on pavement. and heading east on i-40, and hail in 2 inches in diameter. will probably get up here in about 15 minutes, and i don t think there is a confirmed tornado yet. but it does have rotation. we re just trying to get in front of it. and provide that ground speed so people know what s coming. reid, thank you very much
saw the read area. that s the part that was circling. the point is this whole cloud formation is moving to the east and slightly to the south. mostly to the east. and the lower level winds are stronger in the area where it s heeded, and they re concerned is that their concern is when the surface winds are stronger, you can have this the rove tating clouds, which are up there, come down to the ground and create a funnel cloud and then a tornado. that s the concern. they talk about it like it s a problem, that isn t happening. you know what they mean. they re not being callous, they re like can on behalf of the storm, the problem of not being able to dip down are these conditions. conner is from tv and weather.com, a storm chaser, it is your sense, conner, the lower level winds are not strong enough and that might give us a break? i domestic think that s quite
reed timmer. reed we want to call you back if we can if you get more information and if something happens, can we do that? yes. definitely, definitely can and also live streaming video weather.com. [inaudible] comes through. we appreciate the information. reed timmer one of those courageous and some would say crazy storm spotters. reed, check in with you later. insurance companies may be paying out less money to victims in wake of recent disasters. not only that costing people more to get the same coverage. gerri willis with more live from our new york city newsroom. gerri? what we saw in new jersey in the wake of sandy, well, a bit disappointing for some folks out there. 450,000 private insurance claims were filed in the wake of that storm. the good news, 95% of those