Eye on the storm: Air Force's 'Hurricane Hunters' track threats before they hit the U.S. coast

The mission that day for Teal 53, part of the "Hurricane Hunters" of the Air Force Reserve's 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, was to find some bad weather out over the Atlantic, the kind of bad weather most pilots spend their lives trying to avoid. Not only are the Hurricane Hunters the only such unit in the Air Force, they're the only ones in the world doing their particular mission.