looking at, and what about this storm that has wrecked this little town? >> well, this is sedalia, missouri. it is along highway 65, about a mile southeast of downtown se is dalia, and the tornado was on the ground about an hour ago and we saw it rotating and put the warning out. plenty of warning on the storm. the hook echo showed a 120-mile-an-hour potential, and that does not mean it gets all of the way down to the ground, but as we look at the damage here, the houses made of 2x4s have lost the roof which is typical of ef-2 tornado, and 100 to 120 miles per hour, but what we have seen is that mobile homes are demolished and that will happen, because the 1x2s are made inside of a mobile home and not 2x4s, so there are damages to the right of the picture, and they will be moving back and forth and zooming in and out where the mobile home park is in shambles. >> help give me the lay of land, here, because you said om of so the storms were headed to st. louis, and how far is this from joplin? >> this is 65 to 100 miles from where the storms are now to joplin and not moving to joplin, but away from joplin, and moving to st. louis, and on the completely other side of the state. >> this is one of those days where you and i have a conversation and see what pops up and you jump over here. >> i said yesterday, 15 to 40 tornados and the number was 48. and my estimate is the same, the humidity and the pressure is in place, and the wind is shifting in elevation that you are going up. if you were a hot air balloon, you would go this way for a while and the wind would shift which allows the storm to twist, and when they twist, they put down tornadoes. >> okay. chad myers standby. i know you are here talking to anderson cooper live on our air and called n. anderson cooper has been in joplin, missouri, for the better p eter part of a of days. anderson, bring me up to speed where things stand here, and curious about the number of 1,500 people unaccounted for, and the el me what that means. >> well, it is not clear what it means. it is certainly not to be read that 1,500 people have perished. that does not seem to be the case. you know, the communication is really difficult. there is a lot of people who just haven't been able to get in touch with their loved ones. they are starting to work out the systems out, and now a place for people to go to try to make contact with people online with loved ones, and other people may have left the state in advance of the storm, and family members don't know where they are, so a lot of that is the confusion that we always see after a disaster like this, but there are a number of people that we know of who are missing. and you know, i spent part of the day with the family of will norton who is the young man who had just graduated from high school and driving home with his dad in the h3 in the hummer, when the storm hit. and the father is badly injured, and he's in the hospital. and when the father came to, the son was gone, and he was holding on the will according to his family, and will was sucked out through the sunroof of the vehicle by the force of the tornado. they have not found him, and what is so, you know, it has been a roller coaster for the family, because monday night when i first talked to will's aunt and sister -- >> i was watching. >> and they had the report that will's name was at freeman hospital inhe triage area, and sent to another hospital, and they learned that initial report was false. will has never been at that triage unit at freeman hospital, but we frankly don't know where he is. and now, they are searching the lakes, and searching the debris fields to do what they can. >> and help me to understand, because i will be speaking to the grandmother later on who they cannot find her 16-month-old grandson and going to the makeshift morgue and looking at pieces of paper that are on some wall of folks who have been found and people going from hospital to hospital, and if you are in the area and looking for a loved one, what is the best chance of getting any indication of where that individual may be? >> well, the red cross has now set up a center that people here know about they can go to get information and try to track down a loved one. but, it is still that there is a lot of conflicting information and a story for instance that a lot of of the red cross center, there was a sign saying that will norton had been found and in a hospital in springfield, and that is not true. this family have heard the report on twitter and online and the facebook page, and people say he is in a hospital in pringfieprin springfield. he is not. they went to look at the young man there, and as of yesterday, he was unidentified and whose basically a john doet a th at t point, but he is alive and treated in springfield, but it is not will norton though. there is a lot of conflicting information and it takes time to work it out, but, you know, you can only imagine what it is like for all of the families. as we were out, there were police officers and divers in the lake. you know, going through thesear. and i cannot pretend to know what this is like for will norton's aunt and sister and other family members who don't know where their children, husbands and wives are. anderson, i appreciate your calling in, and of course, we will be tuning in tonight to see you live 10:00 eastern time right back there in the thick of things in joplin, missouri, and thank you for calling in and keeping us all apprised. i have chad myers also standing by, because i want to show you more video. it is coming in, and we want to pass it on to you. this is video i want to share from chickashay, oklahoma. let's listen to this for a moment. >> slow down. >> get it out of the window. >> i am. >> it is going to take that shed. >> what's behind us? >> you're good. >> oh, my god. back up. oh, no. stop. oh, no, what it destroyed. it is a trailer house. slow down, brendan. no, slow down here. the debris. look at that. the some sort of building or structure just entirely obliterated and keep in mind that these are professional tornado chasers, and i will be speaking with the guy who shot that video or chased that tornado down in chick cachickas sat at my desk watching this video, and they were backing up. >> yes, and that storm got bigger. that storm was up to 240-mile-an-hour and up to the ef-3 video, and starting out, that was the beginning of the tornado. and they may not have seen it, because it was a dust devil and not attached to the cloud above it and it got bigger and bigger and it got twice as big as what you see here. i lived in oklahoma and nebraska and places, and i will tell you that i stand here and see it, and first time i have heard the audio and the hair on my arms was standing up. i could not stop it, and help but going, oh, my -- these guys are right here. i understand that they are in th there, but there may have been somebody in the building. >> this is a rural area chickasaw. >> and this is not rural oklahoma. it was just running up there, and this is the kind of path that the more oklahoma, and ef-5 tornado happened in 1999, in moore, and i am wondering if that is what we are going to go through, and right when it got to irg-35, it lost the punch, a rotation. how did it know to do that? >> well, you are seeing other storms popping up. >> many of them. >> we have a busy two hours ahead of us, friend. stand by for that, and i want to talk to the guy who chased that thing down in the next hour, and we will do that. in terms of numbers yesterday 16 people were killed, two in arkansas, ten in oklahoma and two in kansas. i want you to hear this oklahoma city. >> it is making a left-hand turn and i'm stopping, because it is coming up to i-40. i'm stopping, because it is coming up i-40 right now. unbelievable. a killer tornado. an absolutely killer tornado now crossing. >> okay. watch this. you see this? see all of the debris? that was a semi truck near sh n shawnee, oklahoma. it is a truck ripped to pieces. again, pieces of the truck tossed around like errant scraps of paper. but i want to show you what was left of that thing. let's go to that picture. you see -- there it is. the red one there. the driver was sucked from the cab. he survived. can you believe it. his name is jeremy morrison, and he in fact saw a car nearby and walked over to the car and found the two passengers hiding underneath it. he said, folks, don't know how often you drive through oklahoma, but that is not how you survive a tornado. how about that. here is another survivor. >> so, we went to the cellar, and we were in there probably 15, 20, 30 minutes, and i told her, i said, there's one coming. i said it is real close by. i heard it hit something back southwest of here, and i don't know exactly what, and then we heard it hitting the going across the top of us. i thank god that we went to the cellar when we did. >> thank god is right. as for the 1,500 unaccounted for that anderson and i were talking about, i want to speak to a city official there in joplin who can explain why that number is so high. that is next. also, just a couple of weeks after the destructive twisters ripped through alabama, joplin, missouri, meets the same fate. coincidence? 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>> well, we had done some flood relief with the church in nashville. that's aftfiliated with the church in alabama, and they called and asked if we could send a team down to help. that is something that we have done in the past. we went down to do that? >> i know, matt, you are in tornado alley and you know tornadoes, but when you were down there in alabama helping the folks down, there did you in a million years think this could happen in my own hometown? >> no, not at all. not like this. things in alabama were bad. we were in a more rural area, and it didn't look like this. it was not this bad. >> how is your own home? how is your family? is your home still standing there in joplin? >> my home is safe. my family is safe. actually we watched the storm from the carport, and it was a rainstorm at my house, but i knew that something had gone terribly wrong when debris started to fall from the sky in my front pasture. we have medical records from st. john's hospital we is nearby where we are at now doing the interview in my front yard which is six miles from here. >> and wow, talking about paying it forward. and now, the folks who you helped in alabama are reaching out what to your friends in nashville to come help you in joplin, am i getting that right? >> that is right. they are waiting to see what they can do for us. as we call the needs out to them. they are standing in ready to resciprocat reciprocate. >> what does that say to you about the hearts of the alabamians who were hit by tragedy a couple of weeks ago and already thinking about you guys? >> well, actually, the first phone call i got from anyone from the initial onset of the tornado was from the pastor i worked with at the church in alabama. it says a lot about the church, that it is more than a group of people showing up at a building, but it is a church is a group of people. >> and what is that message not just to alabama and missouri, but everyone else hearing your story? >> well, i just hope it shows the power that the church has that god works through terrible tragedies and when bad things happen that he is still in control of his people. >> matt harenza, i thank you for standing by live with me. i am glad that honking car behind you stopped. i want to stay in joplin here, because this city is remaining in a state of shock today, three days after the monster tornado killed at least 125 people which is the latest number we have here at cnn. teams of rescuers out there, and dogs as well combing through the block after block of destruction and a huge source of concern is this number we are talking about, and the fact that 1,500 residents remain unaccounted for. who are they? to help me out with that, lynn who is the city public information officer, and help me understand this number. 1,500 -- who is among that 1,500? >> well, unfortunately, that number is not true, but some of the media folks, no offense are running with the number, but that number does not mean that people are injured or deceased, but that number is an original egs ma estimate of people who may be unaccounted for. we know that people had traveled out of the area for the weekend and may not have returned home for the storm or left immediately after the storm, and with that said, loved ones were definitely trying to call in, and loved ones were calling in a and, you know, locate their loved ones. >> well, lynn, that is is precisely why we wanted you on, because here at cnn we thought that 1,500 is a mightily large number as well. a lot of the folks may be perhaps within that number, and could be people who were out of town or could be people who are simply okay and just can't be located. >> correct. and thank you so much for understanding that we have a number that we are asking people across the country to broadcast for us, because we know that people travel, you know, and in all sorts of places that we want people who have been in the joplin area, and may be unaccounted for so to speak, and people are looking for them, they need to call this number and let us know where they are, so we can say, yeah, we are glad you are safe. >> lynn, do it live on cnn. what is that number? >> it is 417-659-5464. >> one more time. >> 417-659-5464. >> lynn, since i have you, i want to ask you about this entire area because joplin is a disaster area, and so rescue crews in there trying to find the survivors amidst the rubble, and in the meantime, people who wanted to go check out their houses had to file for a permit to get back into the disaster zone, and that has been temporary limited? >> yes, it has. ideally, we were trying to help those in the disaster areas to get to their homes quickly, and you know, try to keep the people who weren't supposed to be in there to moved away, and if they didn't have a permit, they could not get in there, and those who needed the permit clogged the system as well. so we lifted that. immediately we saw that would not work as we saw it, so we have just again have our police force out, and really patrolling and making sure that people who need to get to their homes get to their businesses and are able to do so. you know, i know that people are curious, and it has been a devastation for joplin, but we are asking if, you know, we have a great news crew from all sorts of people streaming videos and pictures and watch it on the web or the tv, and that is where they need to get the pictures. >> okay. lynn, anything else here that you need to pass along? any other message to folks in joplin or elsewhere? >> we just really want to thank the country and worldwide. we are getting well wishes from everyone, and prayers and support. we have had a vast number of volunteers and donations, and things that just keep coming in, and we can't say thank you enough. obviously, no one has ever truly prepared for this. we have an emergency operation center running quite efficiently, but there is an outpouring of support, and we want to say thank you. >> our hearts are with you, joplin, and that is the case. lynn onstat, thank you for calling in from joplin, missouri. and now, this the former golden boy of the democratic party. and now he is looking a little blue. the justice department is gearing up for a possible indictment. we will tell you what he is accused of and how he grot ot i the sticky situation in the first place. and now more on the jeremy loughner case, and he is ruled incompetent and unfit to stand trial on the deadly shooting ram paging in tucson, arizona. some outburst and this guy was dragged away by two u.s. marshals. stay right here. the count on chevy event is here. your ticket to a cruze eco. 42 mpg and over 500 highway miles a tank. one of our 9 models over 30 mpg highway. fuel up, rock on. very well qualified lessees can get a low mileage lease on a chevy cruze eco for around $159 a month. or qualified buyers can get no monthly payments for 3 months. fuel economy based on epa estimates. deferred payments offer ends may 31st. he has been mostly out of sight and out of mind since the failed presidential bid in 2008 publicly speak, but behind the scene, john edwards has been in the narrow side of a federal grand jury and today after a intense two-year investigation, cnn has learned that the justice department may be prepared to indict him. it is al dlleging misuse of campaign funds and a mistress and an attempt to cover it up. here is joe johns. >> reporter: john edwards the politician. remember him? >> we have much work to do, because the truth is that we still live in a country where there are two different americas. >> reporter: but as it turned out mr. two americas here had two different faces himself and one of them wasn't very pretty. people close to him said that it was the face of betrayal, betrayal of the people closest to him, his late wife, elizabeth, and the supporters and staffers and contributors. granted, edwards was a successful politician first, and democratic senator from the south, and rich trial lawyer, but a spokesman for the poor, and smart but homegrown and talked such a good game he got picked up as john kerry's running mate in 2004. >> i have chosen a man who understands and defends the values of america. >> reporter: but it didn't work out. so next election cycle, edwards jumped into the race for the white house once again, and by early 2008 -- >> it is time for me to step aside. >> reporter: he was out, but not before getting entangled in a messy relationship with a woman named rheal hunter. she eventually gave birth to edwards' child. edwards denied having the affair and then denied being the father, but last year, he finally admitted it. the story reached a sleazy low point that is reported to show hunter and edwards having sex which ended up in the hands of former staffer and he turned it over. it took eight months before elizabeth edwards who was suffering from terminal cancer learned the extent of the affair. before she died last year she went public with the feelings in a book and numerous tv appearances. >> maybe it was the 30-year investment i had in the marriage and maybe i could not separate the flawed man before me with the boy i fell in love with in 1975. it does not matter now. >> reporter: the death of elizabeth edwards might have been the end of the story, except that there is a full public accounting. edwards raised $43.9 million in campaign money in the bid for the white house. where some of it came from and where it went has been carefully scrutinized. rheal hunter worked for the campaign and got paid as a videographer, and questions are raised whether any of the federal campaign funds donated to support edwards might have been used improperly and misreported or not reported at all or used to keep the affair quiet. andrew young says he was persuaded to claim that rheal hunter's child was his own and he went to great links as edward's aide to conceal it. >> this was john edwards' idea from the beginning. >> reporter: and that brings us back to the golden boy, a rising politician with so much promise, and something like this could have never been part of the plan. >> joe johns live in d.c. joe, the wording here is important, because we know that the justice department may, may be ready to prosecute, but there could also be a plea deal. how likely is that? >> well, it is a good question. i mean, first there's the guilt or innocence question. number one, john edwards has always said he didn't break any laws, and then beyond that, there's the personal concerns. you know, he was a very successful trial lawyer, and he apparently has intimated to some people that he would like to go back to starting some type of perhaps a public service law firm, but the problem with that is that if he were to plead guilty to a felony, it would be difficult for him to start the public service law firm, because he would have to give up the law license, so there are a lot of questions in there beyond the simple guilt or innocence question. and also, we don't really know what crime may or could be alleged here. you know, are we talking about just campaign finance or is there something else more to it? these are things up in the air. >> we don't know that. so what about some of the other key players in the case, namely andrew young, who is the prosecution's star witness and he is key in the case, is he not? >> yes. he worked closely with john edwards for a long time and so closely in fact, that he says that john edwards asked him to falsely take responsibility for rheal edwards' child. he did that, and then he says that john edwards sort of threw him under the bus as it were. later he came out and wrote a book and said he told the whole story, and also said it is john edwards' idea to do this. this is a guy who would be very important in any case presumably against john edwards. >> also, joe, also important is edwards' finance chair fred barron who paid for hunter's homes, private jet, but he denied edwards ever knew anything about it. now, he died, but this all happened right before he died. could the testimony be key to the defense? >> well, it is obviously relevant, but the question is whether you can get something like that in, simply because he may have been defending john edwards, but he is deceased now. it is not like he could be asked to come into court and answer questions about the veracity of the statements back in the day. so, that's kind of a big issue, but he's not really the only contributor. there is another contributor out there, a philanthropist who gave a bunch of money who has said that she had no idea where that money was going. a lot of pieces to this story. >> final question, and this is and if. if there is no plea deal, and john edwards is found guilty and goes to jail, how much time are we talking about here? 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both of to medical professionals say no, he is not, and he is consiste consistent, and he, himself, says he is not insane or mentally ill, and he takes offense to the idea he is mentally ill, according to both of the medical evaluators and the judge who watched the tapes of the interviews. >> we have reached out to congresswoman gabrielle giffords' office and we have not heard from them yet, and when we do, we will pass it along. thank you, ted rowlands, and as ted said, he goes to the mental facility and whole thing is put to a grinding halt, and we will be checking in with his status in months from now. the other breaking story, back to the midwest. more severe storms, around tornadoes across the midsection of the country. this is new pictures. this is sedalia, missouri, and pictures fresh into cnn within the last hour. we will not go far from the developing story on the ground in missouri and several other surrounding states as well. i do want to get this in after 25 years on air, ms. oprah winfrey is saying good-bye today. one of the legacies is paying for 64,000 students to go to school and including hundreds in atlanta's morehouse college, and the top morehouse man is here in the studio to explain oprah's own impact on his school, and why it brought oprah winfrey to tears and how his own grads plan to pay it forward. we will be right back. but dimes, nickels, even pennies have power now. because the volt charges for about a buck fifty a day. making most commutes gas-free for just a handful of change. so we're taking it back. all of it. we have some driving to do. the 2011 chevrolet volt. it's more car than electric. i want to get you a little bit of reaction on the breaking news here that the judge has ruled that jared lee loughner has been deemed incompetent to strand trial. we go to our legal analyst jeffrey toobin from new york. what is your reaction, jeffrey, that this man is not fit to stand trial? >> not really. i mean, you know, this is something that the legal system has struggled with literally for centuries. what do you do with someone who is crazy? what do you do with someone who is obviously not mentally fully there? do you go ahead and try them anyway? do you punish them as if they were the same as any other defendant? the same as a hit man who was simply doing it for money? and frankly the legal system has not successfully figured out what to do? we have had john hinkley who almost killed president reagan in 1981. that was a very con trtroversia use of the insanity densfense. it is important the recognize that this is not the last word of the loughner case, because all the judge has said is that at the moment he is not competent to stand trial, and i will check back in september. that conclusion could be changed come september. >> well, let me ask you about that, right. and now jared lee loughner goes to mental facilitfacility, and undergo more psychological evaluation, and what if the they come back to the word crazy, and what happens to congresswoman giffords and her husband who is up in space right now with the "endeavour" crew who wants some expedient trial, and what if he is crazy? >> well, the iportant thing to point out is that he doesn't go free. that is not one of the options on the table. but what will happen is that he will be sent to some sort of prison psychiatric facility to be held indefinitely, so there will be no formal resolution of the case, and no judgment that he will remain there forever, but the legale p lprocess will continue in this unresolved state for perhaps months or years. you cannot have a trial in defense off what the judge is doing, if the defendant actually has no idea what is going on, and is incapable of participating in the trial or understanding it or participating in the defense, it is a judge's obligation not to let the trial go forward. now i know that a lot of people feel like that is gaming the system, and some sort of gift to the defense, and that is an understandable reaction, but those are the rules of the game, and the judge is doing what he is supposed to do. >> and again, we are awaiting reaction gabrielle giffords, the office at least. and now this. after two decades on air, the queen of daytime tv says farewell to all of her fans around the world. oprah's philanthropy has never been a secret, but did you know that she has funded a scholarship program in atlanta, and she has helped more than 2,500 men obtain a higher education. watch this. >> oh, there was an audio issue, but i can tell you, because i was there, and it was tyler perry introducing this whole montage of morehouse men who were saying thank you to oprah. and then yesterday, if you watched her show, here they are one after another, 300 of these men appeared moving oprah to tears. here is the audio, and let's listen. ♪ we will never meet again in this lifetime so let me say ♪ ♪ before we part ♪ so much of me is made ♪ of what i learned from you ♪ you bear witness to the ♪ hand print on our hearts >> it is going to give me goosebumps when i watched it and goosebumps here, and dr. franklin is here, the president of morehouse college who happened to be on the flight with me from the big night in chicago, and it is so nice to have you here in the studio, sir. that was the show stopper. >> yes, it was an emotional high point. >> and it was not in the television version, but in the commercial break in the united center, when she said, that is it. i'm done. >> take me out. and the other thing she declared is that this is news worthy to see 300 young men to come back to say thank you to a great donor, but also to pledge their own money to continue to pay forward. >> i want to get to that, but first, explain to me, let's explain to me how you pulled this off? these are men as i was, you know, asking you all kinds of questions on the plane last week, it took months of planning to pull this off and to get these men, and how many men came to chicago? >> 300. >> 300 men. how did you pull it off? >> we learned early on that the producers were thinking of the final shows and my communications team pitched an idea that since oprah has helped over 400 morehouse men, why not bring a large number of them. they had a bigger idea than we did. we thought maybe 100, and they wanted 300. they began over a three-month period to contact the morehouse men all over the globe, and they showed up. >> i don't think that people fully realized that oprah had helped so many men in the college educations, and she has at morehouse and beyond and explain to me this paying it forward and that is what oprah teaches and your morehouse men are paying it forward and talk about it. >> well, central to the morehouse ethos is lifting others as you climb. and so, oprah really believes that it is cheaper to educate than to incarcerate. and when young people go to school, stay in school, and graduate and become productive citizens, they don't and don't cost the taxpayers more. so our young men appreciate that message of investing, making a good invest maniment in the lives of others and we're seeing the terrific investment. >> it's now more than $380,000 and growing since the show has aired we're getting phone calls, people who want to contribute, more young people that want to attend the college. >> that is amazing. it thank you. it's such a pleasure to get to sit next to you on the plane and then have you here in atlanta. now back to more breaking news. tornadoes across the midwest today. these are pictures. this is missouri. this is storm damage just within the past hour. look at this. we are not going to take you too far from this. chad myers, our weather team, looking at the live pictures, what you need to know next. stay here. in 2011, at&t is at , building up our wireless network all across america. we're adding new cell sites... increasing network capacity, and investing billions of dollars to improve your wireless network experience. from a single phone call to the most advanced data download, we're covering more people in more places than ever before in an effort to give you the best network possible. at&t. rethink possible. from "i like you." 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>> 200 miles per hour. ef-4, ef-5. if you get a 5, you are above 200. joplin was just considered a 5. tuscaloosa was a 4, just below a 200 miles per hour. >> your theories? >> it's been very cold in the rockies, record snow pack. ask any ski resort in the rockies. they've had a lot of snow. it even snowed last week in colorado. that's cold air. the jet stream is a little bit stronger this year, dying la nina in the pacific. but also the cold air and the warm air, it wants to be warm in the south. the gulf of mexico is warmer. so you have something warmer in the south and colder in the north, jet stream in between goes faster. a faster jet stream makes bigger tornadoes. also, there's been a drought in oklahoma, also a drought in texas. not as many tornadoes out there because it hasn't rained in oklahoma and texas. it's a drought. when the sun comes out, there's not extra evaporation. it makes more humidity and more storms. if there's not the evaporation, you don't get more storms. where has the rain been? the mississippi river valley. there's humidity everywhere. where do the storms go? tuscaloosa, joplin. >> that's a multifaceted answer. and then you try to wrap your head around the numbers. something we've also seen this year, tornadoes hitting good size cities like tuscaloosa, birmingham, raleigh, joplin, missouri. this is something that we have talked about off air. >> guess where those tornadoes should have been. miles north of rotonga, oklahoma. but when you get east of the mississippi river, when you start pushing farther and farther to the east, the population center is better. >> this is just bad luck? >> and a chance of hitting something bigger. >> which they have over and over and over. >> we're going to hit hour two in a few minutes. stand close to the story. thank you, sir. wrapped in his mother's arms one minute, the next, gone. the grandmother of 16-month-old skyular logsdon joins us with their real life tornado nightmare. we'll be right back. we have just gotten some incredible new video of this monster tornado that has ripped through oklahoma. i'm going to speak live with the guy who chased this thing down. i'm brooke baldwin. the news is now. one father says his daughters were driving behind him when the twister rolled the cars. >> we thought we lost them. we didn't know. >> you'll hear what happened to his family. plus, more emotional stories from the disaster zone. also, the death toll in oklahoma rising after a monster tornado rips through several states. >> it's another killer tornado. plus, as gadhafi bombs his own people, parents and kids taking shelter in secret places. >> we're told that families have been hiding here from the shelling. >> cnn takes you inside. >> this is quite incredible. look at here. and did john edwards use campaign funds to pay off his mistress? he could soon face criminal charges. >> i'm brooke baldwin. breaking right now, we are keeping a close eye on the severe weather crossing the united states. this is not going away. look at this with me. damaging storms moving across several states. folks bracing for even more possible tornadoes. here's a picture of some of the aftermath that we've gotten in this afternoon. at least one twister has touched down east of missouri in kansas city. we have live pictures in several skies across the midwest and of course more of this damage that continues. but, first, i want to take you to joplin where we are now seeing a last-minute dash to the back of the store that saved the customers at a joplin yogurt shop. the whole thing was caught on the store's surveillance cameras. watch this with me. >> reporter: just nine days after opening joplin's new yogurt shop was reduced to this. surveillance tape shows a normal sunday. when warning sirens went off, they were ignored. >> no one really took it serious. we didn't think it was an actual tornado. >> reporter: but when employees and customers looked outside and saw it bearing down, they were hustled to the back of the store. >> it was you, you, you in the office, in the bathroom. >> reporter: the furniture was flying and then camera after camera goes black. when the group emerged after the tornado, they found the store and the city all around it chewed up and spit out. they were all safe, they thought. but when the owners viewed the surveillance tape for the first time on monday, they saw a hand reaching to pull a table into place. they realized a family tried to protect themselves. they found nothing. eyewitnesss then were called and they had seen the family after the tornado, safe. >> i don't know who they are. i would love to hug them and praise god that they made it, too. >> reporter: jeanne meserve, joplin, missouri. it was right about this time yesterday that a new round of tornadoes started swirling through the middle of the country leaving another round of destruction and death there as well. twisters killed two people in kansas, four in arkansas, ten in oklahoma. we have new video. this is of a twister in oklahoma. i want you to watch this thing just rip a path. watch. >> it's crossing the road. >> slow down. >> get it out your window. get it out your window. >> i am. >> watch behind us. >> we're good. >> oh, my god. back up. oh, no. oh, no. what it destroyed. it's a trailer house. slow down. slow down. >> imagine being that close to that tornado. precariously close. jeremy wilson was one of the guys that shot that storm. he's on the phone from gainesville, texas. jeremy, i learned a new term. the zero meter club. how close were you to this one? >> a little too close. it got a little hairy. we didn't think it was going to get that strong and it intensified very quickly as it approached us, which is what all of the tornadoes seemed to be doing yesterday. >> how long were you on the road? you can see where it cross the street in front of your car. how long were you chasing it before it turned into the funnel? >> we had just arrived 25 minutes earlier. with we saw the funnel and noticed it was right over chickashay. it was about a five-minute period. >> it's not clear you can hear your voice, i don't know if it's brandon, your partner's voice, oh, god, oh, god, it destroyed something. what did the funnel just smack through? >> well, right after you see the house get destroyed, you see a trailer house get tossed out of the back of the tornado. we went to where -- we saw the house hit to see if we could render aid or any kind of assistance. >> you did? >> and there were a couple of houses completely leveled. it looked like maybe a two-story brick house that had half of it destroyed. it went through a small little subdivision there of six or seven houses and a couple of trailer houses. >> jeremy, i have never, thankfully, been this close to a tornado and i know you guys rolled down your window to try to get a better shot. be descriptive. what does the air feel like, smell like, sound like? >> it's different from anything you'll ever experience. you can literally feel the pressure drop in your head, in your ears, sometimes it feels like the breath is getting sucked out of you. it sounds like a large waterfallout side of your window. it's a very frightening experience. >> tell me about your experience and how you do it and why you have a pickup truck and a noaa radio shouldn't? >> a lot of locals decide that they are going to be storm chasers for the day. the difference between us and them, we have been -- i have personally been chasing for ten years. there's a big difference at. >> we have a laptop, a couple of cameras, try pods and we get constant radar. so we're pretty aware of what is going on around us. >> not every road goes the direction thaw want to. you'll find yourself sometimes on a dirt road that is no longer dirt, that is turned into mud. that's when people get in trouble. have you had any trouble like that? >> absolutely. a cyclone was heading right at us and we started sliding around on the road like it was ice. it was a very scary situation. luckily the wall cloud missed us. but we run into a situation like that all the time. the roads in western oklahoma are not necessarily all maintained. >> jeremy, final question to you, you said that you've been doing this for ten years. i imagine your tone would have changed had you been near a larger city where the damage could have been horrendous. >> oh, absolutely. and unfortunately, we've been -- my partner and i have been in two towns or watched two towns basically get destroyed this year, tuscaloosa and mapleton, iowa. it's something that i never want to see again. unfortunately, i've seen it more this year than i have ever seen it and it's a very disheartening feeling and we immediately stop and go into search and rescue mode when something like this happens. it's the only thing that you can do. >> like you said, you went to the home to see if you could help out. jeremy, wilson, thank you so much. i just can't imagine being that close to a tornado. >> the information that they give to the national weather service is invaluable. the tornado chasers that are out there in contact with the weather service, they give eyes on a ground. the eyes on the ground are these men and women out there that put their lives literally in jeopardy to give that information to the national weather service so the warnings can be better and save lives. >> you occasionally show live streaming video from guys like jeremy? >> yes. i'm just concerned for the guys that don't have the radar in their car, a laptop in their car and have no idea what is mesocyclone is. >> we are waiting for governor jay nixon to speak in joplin. you can see folks around a podium. we're going to take that live when it happens. quickly, joplin, weather-wise, are they in the clear? >> they are in the clear although this storm system that is over eastern kansas is almost like a pin wheel. it looks like a hurricane going around and around and around and there may be more cells to the west that will come out of pittsburgh, kansas, and roll out of joplin later in the day. probably not tornadic but a 45-mile-per-hour wind can send it flying. that whole town, south part of that town is in shambles. nothing is attached. nothing is glued to anything else anymore and small winds can make a lot of people in danger, put people in danger by throwing things around. >> let's get ready to listen. thank you, chad. this is missouri governor nixon. >> we just completed a meeting with local and regional clergy leaders. we feel it's extremely important on a number of fronts first of all to get the direct -- the direct feedback from them and their members and their losses of what we can do to help them and connect them to services. plus connect all of us at a significant level to forces that we are going to need to respond to not only the short haul but the long haul. a couple of quick housekeeping things. and then i'll be glad to take any questions. there will be a community response meeting and they will be able to bring you down an entire team from the government and that will start at 4:00 and have tents set up and folks will be able to sign up for assistance and they will be able to get things done there and we are asking folks that have any questions to be tomorrow at 4:00 p.m. at taylor performing arts center. after talking with the clergy, we will be holding a memorial service on sunday at 1:00 p.m. that memorial service, we're working out the exact details of where they will be and what we're going to do in that time. but we feel it's extremely important for everybody to come together to recognize the significance of the loss here but also be prepared to move forward together. we'll have more details as the week goes on about the setting, about that. but it is important, i think that on memorial day weekend, on sunday, a loss such as this that we all come together and seek the higher power assistance to move forward. there will also be a city and state press conference at 5:00 p.m. that will be at cunningham park at 26th and maiden. that's at 5:00 at 26th and maiden at that setting. there will be additional information about missing persons and notification process and others who have been injured or lost. they will begin that press conference at 5:00. let me conclude my initial remarks and take any questions. you know, i was moved by the anonymity of the various faith leaders who are with us today. they were -- they are the ones that are sitting across the table from great losses. some of the folks behind us have lost their entire churches. the fabric of our community, of our nation and world lies on ways that sometimes we don't know and can't really define what causes significant disasters. but we certainly can define what the character of an area is and what we can do to recover. that includes moving out debris and building back buildings but we are committed to being here for the folks that have suffered those losses and making sure that this faith community, which is extremely strong in this area, is backed up 100% by all of us through this process to move forward. with that, i'll be glad to take any questions that the press may have. >> governor, obviously there is tremendous loss and a significant environmental problem. would you talk about the steps that you are taking with regard to cleanup, removal, and hazardous material? >> right. we will be going through the specific details tomorrow but i think we have a massive cleanup process once the rescue and recovery is over. i would state that as we sit here, we have hundreds of first responders out working to rescue and or recover folks still in the debris field. once that is completed, once there is an all clear, then we will begin a process. we'll be working to make sure that we bring in significant levels of resources to get the area cleaned up and over the coming weeks and months and rebuild. but there are a number of concerns. we will begin the process of waving some of the regulations that make that difficult for the period of the cleanup and i'll be laying those out as the days and weeks move forward. yep? >> have you seen the disaster response so far, what is the when it comes to leadership? >> you've got a lot of agencies working together here. i mean, when you pull up to one stop and say, can't see a police officer and then see a county officer, the fellow that was struck by lightning is still in icu from riverside up near kansas city, you see neighbor helping neighbor. you know, this i have been heartened once again about the organized efforts and i barely have time to answer the phone with the number of people that are reaching out to help us and once again we have folks that can contribute, whether it's the large contributions or the little ones, the 5 and $10 ones and that folks from all over the country are seeing missouri at a time in which people can be divided and instead they are united and three specific things. one is to rescue folks that are alive. two is to recover people if they are not alive and get them back and then three is to rebuild. but i've just been impressed by the privates working next to colonels and firemen are working next to police officers and everybody is backing up and letting them do their work. i think the people of our state are stepping forward in a strong and resourceful way. >> missouri governor jay nixon speaking. clearly flanked by the tightly-knit faith-based community. these are pictures -- this is st. louis. he was in joplin, death toll there, 125. now we're hearing for st. louis county, chad myers, tornado warnings? >> that's why this helicopter is flying from kmov, a tornado warning has just been issued. the storm is very close and north of kirkwood. if you live in st. louis, you know where that is. that is traveling north into st. charles as well. nothing on the ground but trained weather spotters report a funnel cloud not touching the ground yet. this storm just passed up within the past 20 minutes which means it is still increasing and could at any time turn into a tornado on the ground there in st. louis county, kirkwood, and then points northward from there. >> missouri cannot catch a break. >> one storm after the next. >> this is not over. >> this is not over at all. chad, thank you. all of these stories coming out of joplin. some optimistic, some not. i'm going to speak with a woman who is missing her 16-month-old grandson. the tornado ripped the baby straight out of her mother's arms. they are frantically searching for this little one. the grandmother will share her story live with me. coming up next, a developing news story out of arizona where a judge has decided whether jared lee loughner is competent to stand trial. but before that loughner had to be dragged out of court. we'll take you there live next. let me tell you about a very important phone call i made. when i got my medicare card, i realized i needed an aarp... medicare supplement insurance card, too. medicare is one of the great things about turning 65, but it doesn't cover everything. in fact, it only pays up to 80% of your part b expenses. if you're already on or eligible for medicare, call now to find out how an aarp... medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company, helps cover some of the medical expenses... not paid by medicare part b. that can save you from paying up to thousands of dollars... out of your own pocket. these are the only medicare supplement insurance plans... exclusively endorsed by aarp. when you call now, you'll get this free information kit... with all you need to enroll. put their trust in aarp medicare supplement insurance. plus you'll get this free guide to understanding medicare. the prices are competitive. i can keep my own doctor. and i don't need a referral to see a specialist. call now to get a free information kit. plus you'll get this free guide to understanding medicare. and the advantages don't end there. choose from a range of medicare supplement plans... that are all competitively priced. we have a plan for almost everyone, so you can find one that fits your needs and budget. with all medicare supplement plans, there are virtually no claim forms to fill out. plus you can keep your own doctor and hospital that accepts medicare. and best of all, these plans are... the only medicare supplement plans endorsed by aarp. when they told me these plans were endorsed by aarp... i had only one thing to say... sign me up. call the number on your screen now... and find out about an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan. you'll get this free information kit... and guide to understanding medicare, to help you choose the plan that's right for you. as with all medicare supplement plans, you can keep your own doctor and hospital that accepts medicare, get help paying for what medicare doesn't... and save up to thousands of dollars. call this toll-free number now. a tornado warning for st. louis county in missouri, not too far from joplin, missouri, where 125 people died because of the tornado on sunday. we're going to continue to follow this on the other side of the break. but i want to move on to arizona. big, big drama happening in the competency hearing of jared lee loughner. a judge says that the tucson shooting suspect is not mentally fit to stand trial and also today inside this courtroom, u.s. marshals had to drag loughner out there after he made a loud outburst. i want to begin with the headline that the judge ruled him incompetent to stand trial based on what? >> reporter: based on two very long evaluations. he was sent to springfield, missouri, for a number of weeks and two separate medical professionals spent time with him and did separate medical evaluations. they also videotaped the interactions and both of those medical professionals concluded he was not competent to stand trial at this point. and he also said he watched the videotapes and in his mind there was no doubt in his mind that at this point he's not competent. what's going to happen now? loughner is going to a medical facility, he will be evaluated over the next few months and he could be given medication and treated and at that point they will see if he can be competent to stand trial. prosecutors are hoping that that will be the case. at this point the federal case has been halted against him. >> that's one part of the story. what happened in the courtroom? describe the outburst for me. >> reporter: well, the judge was talking and loughner all of a sudden just blurted something out. it sounded to me like he said, thank you for the freak show and then something else. immediately two deputies who were right on him, two marshals were staring at him the whole time, they got on him, threw him down on the ground and dragged him out. loughner was still yelling at the judge. the judge took a ten-minute recess. they brought loughner back in and the judge asked if he would rather watch the proceedings on a television monitor and loughner said, yes, i would like to watch it on tv. so they took him out of the courtroom and they moved ahead with the competency hearing. it was very dramatic and it's always shocking when there's an outburst in the courtroom. i was sitting behind loughner's parents and they were in tears because it was so unnerving to hear it, see it, and see this young man, no matter what you think of him, see him dragged out. it was unnerving for everybody in the courtroom, including the victim's family who was there in force. >> we have not gotten any kind of reaction from gabrielle's office. >> reporter: brooke, we did reach out to the congresswoman's office. they said they are not going to comment. they haven't commented on loughner from the beginning and they are sure not going to start commenting now. we heard from judge roll's family attorney, the judge who was murdered and worked out of this building behind me, they said they didn't have any issues with the ruling made today, that it seemed like a good ruling. >> thank you for the update. thank you for making those phone calls. ted rowlands, live, thank you. and now this. >> i had my arms locked around my husband and i said, please dear god in heaven, just let us all get out of this alive. >> one woman walks us through what is left in her home in joplin. what saved her and her families' lives. that is next. also, elizabeth smart expected to come face-to-face with her kidnapper. it could happen any minute now as a judge sentences brian david mitchell. we're told that she will be speaking very, very soon. we'll have an update. stay right here. building up our wireless network all across america. we're adding new cell sites... increasing network capacity, and investing billions of dollars to improve your wireless network experience. from a single phone call to the most advanced data download, we're covering more people in more places than ever before in an effort to give you the best network possible. at&t. rethink possible. thing under the gas cap, thing... do you even have a name? 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>> well, i think it is. if you say to republicans, they say not so fast, not so fast. but as you know very well, paul ryan of wisconsin proposed in his budget that house republicans voted on all -- all of the six house republicans voted for it which would effectively turn medicare into a voucher program sometime down the road. the democrats have jumped on that and this candidate was a complete underdog until this medicare issue came up and people in politics were reminded, you know what? this medicare issue is pretty pot tent. when they polled that district, medicare was the number one issue that people were concerned about just above jobs. so when you think of what you're going to do to deal with the deficit, the question is, do you have to take medicare off the table because it's such a political hot pot state toe. >> it's such a huge word. >> absolutely. you know, i think only half a dozen voted against it, this plan, and the democrats are going to be talking about this until the next election. don't forget, republicans used the issue of medicare against the democrats in the midterm elections last time around and the democrats will use it again. look, i think the deficit is clearly a huge issue to people in both parties and particularly to independent voters but you have to figure out a way if you're going to reform medicare in any way, the question the democrats can now ask is, okay, you want to reform medicare, then you need to put the question of tax increases on the wealthy back on the table. you can't do one without the other and that's the debate we're going to be hearing heading into the next election. >> gloria borger, live for me in washington, appreciate the update, gloria. >> sure. coming up next, it's going to be a tough one. i'm going to speak with a woman who is missing, searching for this little one who is 16-month-old grandson in joplin. the tornado on sunday ripped this little baby out of his mother's arms. you're going to hear her emotional story live and where they are on their frantic search. be right back. what's this option? that's new. personal pricing now on brakes. tell us what you want to pay. we do our best to make that work. deal! my money. my choice. my meineke. you have seen the pictures, we have been showing the pictures, rescuer after rescuer looking for anyone who might be buried underneath. they are poking into twisted remnants of people's lives hoping to find some sign of life. some are joined by relatives of people that haven't been heard from since the tornado hit on sunday. thus far, 125 people are confirmed dead in joplin alone. nine people have been rescued since monday but hundreds have not been heard from. few have touched our team. as many hearts also around the world, a search for 16-month-old skyular logsdon. look at that. he's so cute. they were huddled outside of the home and then the twister hit. one minute he was wrapped in her arms and the next he's gone. skyular's grandmother is with us. melissa, do you have some kind of news on skyular, any update this afternoon? >> no update this afternoon. just waiting on the officials that were going to get back with me. >> tell me what exactly happened. i just explained he was in his mother's arms and then what does she recall happening? he was just, poof, blown away? >> she remembers -- bowing down in the hallway, holding him. she remembers flying around the house and hitting things and then her arm breaking and she was knocked out and doesn't remember much after that. >> she's in the hospital, yes? >> yes. >> she's in the hospital so this search has really been left up to you, your close family there in joplin. just walk me through what you've been doing. to what lengths have you been going? where have you been looking for skyular? >> we have searched where the house was, we have called hospitals, social services, the peds unit and any lead that somebody gives us we check on. >> if you have been searching for skyular in the rubble and remains, just describe your mind set to me as you're looking for him. >> i'm terrified. i don't know where to look next. >> did i read that skyular's great aunt went to go look for him at this makeshift morgue? >> yes. >> and he was not found there? >> he was not found there. >> i mean, i'm sure you're not wanting to leave any kind of stone unturned but at what point -- do you just continue looking every minute, every hour, every day? >> yes. i won't stop until i find him. >> we have a picture of him. i read that he was born premature so he's 16 months old but we're sitting here trying to help you on national tv. do we a favor and describe what size he is, obviously hair color brown. what more? help us help you? >> brown eyes. he was wearing a blue t-shirt with red writing, blue jean shorts, little boy sandals, the foamy kind. he was maybe 20 pounds at the most. he's little. >> how hopeful are you right now? >> i'm in between hopeful and devastated. i don't know which way to go yet. >> we want to stay on this story with you. we are all going to send our prayers your way and hopefully you find little skyular alive and well. >> thank you. >> what a story. so many stories coming out of the midwest. i just want to remind you, it's not over. it's continuing. look at this picture. watches. see these watch boxes, these big cities. indianapolis, st. louis, we've seen the ominous skies over st. louis. there is a destruction of what can only be a tornado and one of these states earlier today, we are going to stay on this. chad myers. also want to pass this along to you. entirely related to weather. elizabeth mart is expected to come face-to-face with her kidnapper at any moment as a judge is sentencing brian david mitchell. we're told that she will be speaking very soon. we'll be right back. can be a huge project. but not for cascade complete pacs. with 70% more tough food cleaning ingredients, it's cascade's ultimate power tool for day old stuck-on food. ♪ [ jackhammer rattles ] [ male announcer ] cascade complete pacs. beyond your wildest clean. more news unfolding right now. rapid fire. let's go. starting in dallas, storms there last night caused american airlines and american eagle to pull 65 aircraft from service because of hail damage alone. the airport has already had at least 95 flights canceled today. dallas ft. worth, approximately 10,000 passengers were forced to sleep at the airport because of that severe weather. also, as we've been mentioning, elizabeth smart is expected to speak at any moment in front of the man who kidnapped and raped her. he faces a chance of life in prison. we'll bring you the sentence the second that it's handed down. to chicago where jesse jackson and rahm emanuel testified in the trial of rod blagojevich. both denied any deal for president obama's old senate seat. bla blagojevich denies any wrongdoing. jackson and emanuel are not accused of any wrongdoing. >> we finally looked up and just could not stop hugging them and being grateful for them and the blessings that they are to us. >> this man and his wife were driving back from their daughter's high school graduation when the joplin tornado came straight for them. he couldn't get in touch with the kids but at last second, the last second warning he sent may have actually saved their live. we're going to hear his emotional story next. ♪ intellichoice proclaims that lexus has the best overall value of any brand. ♪ and j.d. power and associates ranks lexus the highest in customer satisfaction. no wonder more people have chosen lexus over any other luxury brand 11 years in a row. see your lexus dealer. we're going to take you to the midwest for a moment because we have to share this picture with you. take a look at this. you can really sort of just wrap wrur head around thick black smoke. this is philadelphia. this is near the betsy ross bridge, if you're familiar with this area. here's what we know. it's not a lot. it's a multialarm fire. one, two, maybe three streams from firefighters clearly trying to fight this thing on the ground. we were told they had a tough time getting there, still having a tough time getting water there. thanks to live pictures, from wpvi, we will make phone calls and pass it along to you. in the meantime, let's go back to joplin, missouri, where many families are still searching for loved ones. in one case, a father had been driving back home with his wife from his daughter's high school graduation and his daughters driving behind him and then the twister came. take a listen. >> we just sat there this the car and rocked and rumbled and rolled and just trying to text or call our girls and the calls wouldn't go through. my last text message to them was, tornado with exclamation point and i was worried that they were driving right into it. so we couldn't hear, we couldn't get through for the next hour and a half. we thought we lost them. weapon didn't know. finally i got a text that came through from my oldest daughter that said, we're okay. i text back and said, so are we. where are you? can't go home. it's gone. we eventually -- we stopped right there and just had a good cry, my wife and i, just so grateful that what was important we still had. we didn't care about anything else. president obama hosting the queen for dinner right now in london. what is happening behind closed doors? we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] with amazing innovation, driven by relentless competition, wireless puts the world at your command. ♪ yet an instant classic." with sports car styling and power, plus the refinement and space of a luxury sedan, the jaguar xf is a timeless blend of performance and craftsmanship. see how jaguar outperforms the competition at jaguarperforms.com or visit your local jaguar dealer. happening right now, president obama, the first lady hosting a dinner in london honoring queen elizabeth, ii. we brought you live pictures around this time yesterday. earlier today, a warm welcome from mr. obama as he addressed members in both houses of britain ds parliament and a bit of history making as well. today marked the first time u.s. president has spoken from -- this is westminster hall. the president is in the midst of his six day four-nation trip to europe that includes stops in both france and poland. coming up, bombshells in the casey anthony murder trial. we're going to find out why one neighbor says what casey anthony borrowed. sunny hostin is all over the case for us again. she's going to break it down. that is next. we're adding new cell sites... increasing network capacity, and investing billions of dollars to improve your wireless network experience. from a single phone call to the most advanced data download, we're covering more people in more places than ever before in an effort to give you the best network possible. at&t. rethink possible. even if you think your mattress is just fine... ask me what it's like to get your best night's sleep every night. why not talk to someone who's sleeping on the most highly recommended bed in america... it's not a sealy... or a simmons... or a serta... ask me about my tempur-pedic. ask me how fast i fall asleep. ask me about staying asleep. these are actual tempur-pedic owners! ask someone you know---check out twitter. try your friends on facebook. you'll hear it all...un-edited. ask me how it feels after 10 years. ask me if it's a good value. just ask me. there are 4 million tempur-pedic owners! and they're more satisfied than owners of any traditional mattress brand. ask me why i feel better every morning. ask me why someone who's never had an ache or a pain is in love with this bed. start asking real owners. ask me how we took the first step... take the first step right now! call or click today for your free information kit with dvd. call the number on your screen or visit tempurpedic.com. tempur-pedic. the most highly recommended bed in america. we are watching the casey anthony trial. sunny hostin is here. what is the family alleging that the team did or didn't do? the dodgers and frank mccort and they say that the dodgers' stadium was a place where attacks were known to occur and that it happened many, many incidents had been occurring and there was a no gang presence there and they did nothing about it and in fact they started lessening the security force because of frank mccort's problems. interestingly enough, the lawsuit says the lack of security and inadequate lighting presented a perfect opportunity to krit a variety of crimes. unfortunately for bryan stow, this is exactly what happened. they are certainly placing the blame squarely on the soldiers of the stadium and stadium management. >> we're going to have to see if they win that one. we'll stay on it. but i have less than a minute left and i want to get along to the bombshell yesterday during the casey anthony murder trial. any new fireworks today, sunny? >> well, there are fireworks right on the stand right now. her ex-boyfriend is on the witness stand discusses their relationship and discussing their behavior during those 31 days that caylee anthony was missing. i will tell you this, the fireworks really have been subdued and i think it's in large part because the defense theory is the reason she behaved so oddly is because she was the victim of sexual abuse. it really has taken the steam out of the prosecution's case and i don't know what is going to happen tomorrow but we're hoping that we're going to see more and more into the lives of this family. again, more live pictures.
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