jim avila, abc news, new york. here s a look at your friday weather. stormy again in the pacific northwest today. dry in the southern california region. and the southwest. more rain in the upper plains states and areas west of minneapolis. and more severe storms in the nation s midsection today. 52 in seattle. 72 in sacramento. upper 50s in salt lake city and colorado springs. 58 in boise. 57 in billings and also 57 degrees here in new york. 43 in boston and 80s along the gulf coast. well, peggy, there are cops who rise horses, cops who ride bikes, maybe a few that ride some trikes. i ve been chased by them all. really? well what about one on a kayak? this is new. brian michaels is not only cleaning up crime he s cleaning up the bayou on his way to work. michaels says at first the bayou was like a land fill so he started to pull out bags and bags of trash. it is a good idea because he says some days he paddles all wait to work without seeing one
bay. they created this land by throwing, land fill, mountains and rocks out here. so we, this land could just could just go potentially, i don t know. unbelievable. brent, wanted to till you to step back there. thank you for that, brent. incredible footage right there. and those are just some of the chilling accounts recorded on mobile phones, uploaded by iwitnesses to share the immediate happenings during and after the quake struck. now man of the videos were from tokyo, fukushima, sendai, but not in areas affected by the tsunami. the devastation in some of the northern fishing towns was so complete, few who witnessed it were able to actually record the catastrophe. thousands certainly did not live to tell about it. but cnns reporter has the story of one american who managed to document the horror as it happened.
rockets launched at southern israel earlier in the day. a major general in the taiwanese military is accused of spying, handing over classified military intelligence to the chinese government over a six-year period. government plans to turn part of a town in athens into a land fill. that is not going well with greece. they hurled molotov cocktails and set fire to trash bins. in this country we are drowning. one in four american home owners is underwater, owes more on their mortgage than their home is worth. 16 million homeowners have negative equity. personal finance expert carmen wong ullrich is in the studio now. are you surprised by the numbers? in some cities it is especially shocking, las vegas where 81% are underwater. it is about county and
that is an interesting event. i did read his cell phone was found in that vacant house. the owners of the house or people who have anything to do with that house would have to be, from an investigative perspective, be on your radar screen. you want to bring those persons in and interview them until you re able to say they have nothing to do with the case at all. and his body was found in a garbage truck being dumped into a land fill, does that include or exclude any certain kind of killer? i think the person was trying to send a message. i don t think it was just a random thing necessarily at this point. dwayne stanton, i m sure we ll talk again about this. it s a puzzling case. thank you so much. thank you. the biggest storm of the season is stretching over 1/3 of the country. live picture of the weather channel s jeff morrow in oklahoma city. we ll go to him in a moment. and the white house debate what to do about the unrest in egypt.
there are more than 4,000 words in the u.s. constitution and, today, congress will read every single one of them. the new republican majority in the house is trying to send a message by reading the document out loud that s scheduled to start just a few minutes from now. we are following new clues, also, into the bizarre and final moments of the former pentagon aide, john wheeler. take a look at this new surveillance video. the 66-year-old looks confused, he looks disoriented just hours before his body was discovered in a landfill. now, a day earlier he had been seen limping. he was asking strangers where he had parked his car. he was kind of wandering around a parking garage. in the words of one witness, something wasn t right. and then it was just a short time after he was last seen that his body was found dumped in a land fill. it is a big mystery in