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YOU'RE CARL'S FATHER, WHEN DID
YOU HEAR ABOUT WHAT HAD
HAPPENED?
>> CARL WAS KILLED FRIDAY
AFTERNOON AND I DIDN'T HEAR
ABOUT IT UNTIL SUNDAY MORNING.
>> WOW.
YOU OBVIOUSLY KNEW THERE WERE
THESE STORMS GOING ON, YOU KNEW
THAT HE WAS A REGULAR SEASONED
AND EXPERIENCED STORM CHASER.
DID YOU FEAR --
>> ABSOLUTELY.
>> -- THIS MAY HAPPEN ONE DAY?
>> I WAS ALWAYS CONCERNED.
BECAUSE NOT ONLY DID THEY WANT
TO GET PICTURES OF THE TORNADO
FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, THEY
WANTED TO PUT PROBES THAT COULD
MEASURE ALL OF THE DIFFERENT
THINGS WITH TORNADOES WHICH
MEANT THAT THEY HAD TO PLACE
THESE PROBES IN THE PATH OF THE
TORNADO AND GET OUT OF THERE
BEFORE THE TORNADO HIT.
>> SAL, YOU WERE CARL'S
STEPFATHER.
BOTH OF YOU MEN KNEW HIM A VERY,
VERY LONG TIME.
WHAT IS YOUR REACTION TO WHAT'S
HAPPENED?
BECAUSE MANY PEOPLE ARE SAYING
LOOK, IT'S JUST TOO DANGEROUS
FOR PEOPLE TO DO THIS.
OTHERS ARE SAYING THE WORK THEY
DO IS SO IMPORTANT, IT MUST BE
ALLOWED TO CONTINUE.
>> THE WORK MUST CONTINUE AND OF
COURSE AS PARENTS, WE WERE
HORRIFIED OF THIS ACCIDENT BUT
WE DO ALSO WANT PEOPLE TO
UNDERSTAND, FOR US AS PARENTS,
TO HAVE OUR SON GO OUT ON THIS
IS LIKE SENDING YOUR SON OR
DAUGHTER OUT TO WAR, AND THIS
TOOK PLACE EVERY YEAR, BUT THIS
WAS CARL'S PASSION AND TIM'S
PASSION, AND THEY WERE
PROFESSIONALS, AND WE RESPECTED
THAT.
BUT WE FEEL AS ANY PARENT WOULD,
THEIR SON OR DAUGHTER GOING OUT
TO WAR.
>> BOB, TELL ME ABOUT CARL.
WHAT KIND OF MAN WAS HE?
>> HE WAS A VERY GENTLE, VERY
CARING SON, AND I WAS VERY CLOSE
TO HIM, AND HIS PASSION WAS
DOING THIS RESEARCH, HIS PASSION
FOR MANY YEARS WAS THE WEATHER
PHENOMENON, AND HE STARTED
CHASING WITH TIM 11 YEARS AGO,
AND HE LOVED IT.
THEY WORKED WELL TOGETHER AND HE
LOOKED FORWARD TO IT.
HE KNEW IT WAS DANGEROUS.
I KNEW IT WAS DANGEROUS.
AND WE JUST HOPED THAT
EVERYTHING WOULD BE OKAY AND