you know, i loved it. and john, what added to the chaos friday night here in the oklahoma city area, this tornado didn t just touch the ground and carve a straight path through the countryside in oklahoma city, it touched down and made several unpredictable moves and changing directions several times and that added to the chaos and made it a much more life threatening situation which we saw on full display friday night. a deadly storm, ed lavandera in oklahoma, thanks, ed. as ed explained three well known storm chasers are among the victims. tim samaras and his twistx team appeared regularly on the discovery channel. they chased science, thrill, but these are scientists who lost their lives doing this. it has been an incredibly hard weekend for the science community. still a lot we don t know about tornadoes and these guys were doing ground-breaking research to help us learn to save your
steven seagal has spent time here but in seagal s words he says he is friends with many the s in many countries but didn t explain why. phil black in moscow, thanks for that story. dennis rodman in north korea but that s a different situation. the irs scandal widening this morning and we could see fireworks today. because this afternoon acting irs commissioner daniel warfell appears before a committee over the investigation of targeting of tea party groups. we ll hear tomorrow from the groups who claim they were victimized. a top republican adding fuel to the fire. darrell issa alleging the calls for the irs to target conservative groups may have come directly from washington. here s cnn s dan lothian. reporter: for the first time we re hearing what irs workers in cincinnati are telling congressional investigators about why they targeted conservative groups.
rise above and it there s another storm system bringing rain and snow over the rockies. that strong jet stream in the higher levels of the atmosphere, thosel very strongly at a different angle than the winds at the surface. so it s that changing of the wind direction and speed. if you took a column of air in height and you change the direction in speed direction and speed, as you goç down, tht causes all of that rotation, and eventually that rotation tiltsç down towards the ground. i ve never heard it explaineç so well. rick, one other thing. i ve been meaning to ask you since last week. it was clear in the aftermath that this tornado didn t just touch at the bottom of the cone. that it looked as if it was being pushed into the ground. so that almost the middle of the tornado cone was on the ground. it felt like that s why it;hu(j so wide there and that s why the
we re pretty close to tinker air force base. oklahoma city has also been rated nationwide as one of the top ten cities for retirees and veterans to live in here in the state of oklahoma, our service connected veterans are exempt from you re doing great work. i know it is greatly appreciated by so many. danny oliver of the disabled american veterans, thanks so much for joining us from moore around all the best. thank you for helping us get the word out. absolutely. all right. take care. that oklahoma tornado didn t just claim the lives of people. hundreds of horses were killed and injured in that storm. we ll take a look at how horse owners are coping with their losses and what veterinarians are doing to help save those that did survive. and a florida teen is
all right. thank you so much. it doesn t get much lower than this. usually when disaster strikes as it did in moore, oklahoma, you can be sure that the scammers will follow. trying to take advantage of your desire to do good, take away whatever the tornado didn t steal from the victims. one of these brilliant con artists was disflagged when a robo call claiming to be from the red cross called the local red cross. erin mcpike is live in oklahoma city with more on the warning from the feds. first tell us about the community, how they re doing, how are they rebounding? reporter: well, jake, i m actually at an elementary school in oklahoma city where there is a press conference going on right now with officials from moore public schools. and the principal of plaza towers elementary school, the school that was leveled on monday, amy simpson is the principal s name, she was just inside and spoke for a long time about what it was like on monday to be in school when a tornado went throug