buildings sustaining significant damage. that includes one of the city s main hospitals. the national guard on patrol with a state of emergency in effect. andres cue teams they keep searching today, this afternoon, all through the day for survivors. joplin, missouri, the latest victim of a volatile wave of turbulent springtime weather. brian todd in the thick of it. reporter: drew, rescue teams are combing through grid by grid, house by house in this city. the houses that are left are severely damaged, but frankly in this part of the city not many houses are left. you mentioned about 1/3 of the houses in this downtown area were severely damaged. by that you can take to mean flattened. behind me you can see the wreckage of some of them that is left. now the weather is complicating things as these teams go through the grids of this city on foot mostly and pick through this. the lightning has been rolling in. thunder, rain, all day long. it has made their job, much, much diffi
and mexican border, speedy made us promise not to raise our camera, not to raise any suspicion and told us there s no doubt how jet skiers would look following this same path, like drug smugglers. only people with jet skis are involved with dope. right. reporter: clearly nervous, colette barely slowed down as we approach the church tiffany and david hartley visited on september 230 30th. he turned the boat and gavs us 30 seconds to take the pictures at the exact spot tiffany hartley said he stopped. this is the last place they came to at the old guerrero church. they too many pictures on the steps and then set out down this clan to head back and it was about five minutes into their voyage when they were approached by the boats. in an instant, the man who told us this lake was safe was again speeding away from mexico 70 miles an hour. the same path the hartleys were
camera, not to raise any suspicion, and told us there s no doubt how jet skiers would look following this same path, like drug smugglers. only people with jet skis are involved with dope. right. clearly nervous, collette barely slowed down as we approached the church tiffany and david hartley visited on september 30th. he turned the boat and gave us 30 seconds to take these pictures at the exact spot where tiffany hartley said they had stopped. so this is the last place that they came to, the old guerro church. they took pictures on the front step of tiffany hartley and then set out down this channel to head back. and it was about five minutes into their voyage when they were approached by the boats. in an instant, the man who told us this lake was safe was again speeding away from mexico 70 miles an hour, the same path the hartleys were on when tiffany
time. that information, as everybody said, i have relayed on federal officials, state and local officials. we re all aware that that area is used as an area. so based on your sources and your intelligence, when they began to encroach on what would be a drug deal, they were looked upon as potentially threats. as threats. and that is why they were given the instructions to go ahead and shoot at them. the sheriff now tells cnn that eyewitnesses have come forward to him, witnesses he says who claim to know what happened here that day. they describe a military-style attack. three boats, several shooters, and hundreds of rounds being fired at two jet skiers. the shot that killed david hartley was an unlucky shot. the sheriff now believes the killers were instructed to kill tiffany hartley, too. what happens next, he says, is a scenario he has put together
us promise not to raise our camera, not to raise any suspicion and told us there s no doubt how jet skiers would look following this same path, like drug smugglers. only people with jet skis are involved with dope. right. reporter: clearly nervous, colette barely slowed down as we approach the church tiffany and david hartley visited on september 230 30th. he turned the boat and gavs us 30 seconds to take the pictures at the exact spot tiffany hartley said he stopped. this is the last place they came to at the old guerrero church. they too many pictures on the steps and then set out down this clan to head back and it was about five minutes into their voyage when they were approached by the boats. in an instant, the man who told us this lake was safe was again speeding away from mexico 70 miles an hour. the same path the hartleys were