mattresses. some senators agree. they re ought to be a law. our current toxics law allows too many untested chemicals on the market. why should parents who would be left to wonder if the chemicals used in their baby s bottles, pacifiers, cribs are safe? the status quo is dangerous and unacceptable. cnn s dana bash joins me now with, dare i say, this rolling coverage. so what are these moms hoping to accomplish? reporter: what they want is basically information, and the backstory, the background, i should tell you, something that certainly i didn t realize as a new mom and many others might not is that chemicals simply are not regulated, and we don t know a lot about the chemicals that are out there. as you mention in everything. at this press conference these lawmakers and activists made clear that there are 80,000 known chemicals, martin. only 200 have been tested and only 4 have been taken off the market. i want to bring in a couple of the moms who came here from far
earlier i spoke with sergeant roger biven with the police department about the investigation. at this point we still have been unable to identify the individual. we do believe he s a hispanic male, probably in his 30s or 40s. and that is all the information we have on his identity. we do have a few leads coming in. and we ll certainly be following up on that. after an autopsy is conducted in the morning, we ll have a better indication of cause of death. it was located by the workers in the barn area this morning. track security called the police to the scene. police say around 400 people were near the crime scene last night, and they re trying to talk to as many of them as they can. a manhunt is under way right now after a mother and her three daughters disappeared. in mississippi, police say they have found two bodies at a home associated with adam mayes. he s the man suspected in the disappearance of jo ann bain, the tennessee mother and her daughters. the four were r
the longtime host of american bandstand and one of the founding icons of rock n roll. also, a cnn exclusive. wolf interviews the secretary of state and defense. hillary clinton sends a tough new message directly at north korea s young leader and we ll very hear blunt talk on syria, iran and afghanistan. wolf blitzer is on assignment. i m candy crowley and you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com we are following the breaking news this hour, the death of the longtime television personality dick clark. for decades he was the host of the iconic music show he created american bandstand and later he became to be a fixture on new years eve broadcasts. we ll go to cnn entertainment correspondent kareen wynter in hollywood. what are you hearing there? reporter: candy, not a lot of details we re getting in at this hour. we re trying to find out what happened with dick clark. there are reports that clark suffered a heart attack. we are still trying
that is a monster tornado. reporter: battle hardened storm chasers in awe of nature s power. oh, my gosh. this is awful. dude, the trees. the trees are debarked! reporter: residents running for cover anywhere they could. in a crowded convenience store some 20 people hunkering down in a darkened commercial refrigerator. can we go in the cooler? [ screaming ] go! oh, dear heaven. god! reporter: at the same time a security camera in a nearby frozen yogurt shop catches the chaos. workers moving customers to the back and then everything goes flying. the massive tornado mowing down everything in its path. people s lives churned up and spewed out. here s the gas station that we were at. reporter: this is the convenience store now. this would have been where we walked in. reporter: all across the city, thousands and thousands of people in shock, taking the first steps on the long road to recovery. make no mistake, joplin, missouri, will rebuild, but it will
reporter: battle hardened storm chasers in awe of nature s power. oh, my gosh. this is awful. dude, the trees. the trees are debarked! reporter: residents running for cover anywhere they could. in a crowded convenience store some 20 people hunkering down in a darkened commercial refrigerator. can we go in the cooler? [ screaming ] go! oh, dear heaven. god! reporter: at the same time a security camera in a nearby frozen yogurt shop catches the chaos. workers moving customers to the back and then everything goes flying. the massive tornado mowing down everything in its path. people s lives churned up and spewed out. here s the gas station that we were at. reporter: this is the convenience store now. this would have been where we walked in. reporter: all across the city, thousands and thousands of people in shock, taking the first steps on the long road to recovery. make no mistake, joplin, missouri, will rebuild, but it will never be the same. hello an