politics. we are learning more about last week s deadly tornado in el reno. we are learning it is the widest ever recorded. friday s tornado was a record 2.6 miles wide. to put that into perspective the island of manhattan is 2.3 miles at its wieftd point it has been upgraded with winds that reached 295 miles her hour. 19 deaths were blamed on the storm. for more on the weather now, we are joined by nbc s bill kerry. we saw an ef-4 and one so close together. bill karins. now, we are realizing why they got caught. why lives were lost of those storm chasers. they were actually putting probes down to measure the tornado. it was the main one and there were satellite tornado rotating around. most likely those caught them