guarding the house to prevent people stealing stuff from it to try and sell on ebay. reporter: incredible. i checked with the city and there s now going to be city police car and a sheriff s department car at the scene 24/7. they already have a tall fence up. they already have the house boarded up. they re still going to have police car and a sheriff s car out there. they did this once before. we had a serial killer here a few years ago that did the exact same thing, big fence, board up the place, have a police car out there, because i talked to a city official, in this case, there s been some talk we ought to burn that place down. and they don t want something like that to happen. after the sowell case, the serial killer case, what they did in fact was they preserved the crime scene, then when there was a trial, there was in fact a trial for that, the prosecutors actually took the jury into that home that had been boarded up for so long, on a jury view so they could see it and feel
ago as sandy came ashore just a few miles south of where we are. the winds have kicked up again, but the rain has stopped. the tide, which the high tide came in at 8:00 p.m. and almost breached these dunes over here, the tide has gone back out. but it s just an eerie scene looking that s chris live on the scene at atlantic city, which is near where the storm made landfall. we lost the shot. that happens a lot in circumstances like this. and we ll try to get wcau back tonight if we can. do we have him back? chris, i think we lost you for a second, but you were explaining about the eeriness of the calm where you are right now. telling us what you re looking at down that road behind you. reporter: yeah the boardwalk, everyone knows the boardwalk, it took a et beating in this storm. earlier today a 50-foot section on the north end collapsed after
bachmann have to do? this week has been dominated by newt versus mitt. what are they have to do is make an overt play for the social conservatives in iowa who formed a large percentage of the voting block and can sway the caucuses and have problems with each of the front-runners with romney. there is leeriness about his mormon faith and gingrich has weariness about his past infidelity and ron paul who focused on fiscal issues. there questions about him. if one of these second tier candidates can do something to cast doubt on and take advantage of the vulnerabilities of the front-runners with evangelicals, i think they have a chance to make noise in the iowa caucus and if one of them has a strong showing, it can throw the race into further chaos and put the potential out for a long primary fight. let s see ken s whole strategy was hammer the
primary electorate such as nevada and florida. in these states, there is leeriness that some have about mormonism and will hurt mitt romney. professor, your point just now is well made that when these candidates choose to use religion in that central way it becomes detrimental for some of them. absolutely. if you play with that explosion, you might get blown up yourself. you will be in defense of people being able to express their religion as they believe or we believe that all of us should be equal in the expression of our respect. in that case it just backfires on them. crystal ball, professor thank you all for joining us. thanks, martin. next, putin blames america for russia s woes. really? we will take you live to moscow. stay with us. great prices. i just wish you could guarantee me
the debris field behind me here stretches as far as the eye can see. this car right here is one of dozens in the area which is absolutely mangled as a result of sunday s twister. the death toll right now stands at 116 in joplin. though that number sadly is likely to rise. this is what is left of john degraf s house after a deadly tornado struck sunday before dinner time. i m going to salvage what i can. reporter: still he considers himself lucky. i am alive. you know? my whole my family s good. everybody is good. reporter: his 73-year-old neighbor is still missing. they re searching for him in this rubble. doing our best to find out if he is in there. reporter: winds up to 200 miles an hour tore apart more than 2,000 homes here, turning neighborhoods into what resembles a post-nuclear strike. natural gas fires added to the eeriness of the scenery. there it is. tornado coming into the city!