there. i believe there was three there ahead of me, and then there was more sirens, lights, u you could hear them coming. that s a pretty fast response. very fast. and this bit of news was going around fast too. this was a sheriff s employee, a jail employee. it s not that that should matter, the effort then was save ashley fallis s life. this was recorded by a police body camera, shows the paramedics arriving. chaotic? the scene, very. frantic, the officers located ashley fallis somewhere in the home. reporter: the local police took charge. they asked brian spencer to watch the front of the property. that s when from the post on the front porch he saw tom. that s him in the white t-shirt. he was pacing around the front yard, front sidewalk area, frantic screaming. screaming what? i heard him say she was dead, a lot of mumbled stuff. he put his hands up over her
that first meeting when he came to your house, did you take the freezer off the the front porch? the good news was, because mcgraw likes to flop tires over for exercise, he could do that in the front yard. so it was like a gym and a house. usually that s what happens because he doesn t let me in. that s true. so he came over. did you guys started talking about it. how did it what was the genesis of the project? honestly, it hate to give tim credit. it was tim s idea. the soul of the country, the soul of america and it felt like this, mccarthy, wallace, all the way back to reconstruction. and tim said, have you ever thought about the role music played in these moments? and honestly, i hadn t. like a lot of great questions, it led to wanting to answer it. david halpersan once say agreed nonfiction should be like a
had bat beaten him there. i believe there was three there ahead of me and then there was more sirens, lights, you could see them coming. a very fast response. this was a jail employee. not that that should matter. the effort was to save her life. this was recorded by a police body camera. shows the paramedics arriving. the scene chaotic. frantic, the officers located ashley somewhere in the home. the local police took charge. they asked spencer to watch the front of the property and that s when from his post on the front porch he saw tom. that s him in the background in the white t-shirt. he was pacing around in the front yard and front sidewalk area frantic, screaming. screaming what? do you remember? i heard him say she s dead.
he got out of the hospital last night. we re thankful he s alive. he saw the porch fly up, the front porch was a like a patio. he seen that fly up and he said he had just enough time to dive to the couch, which the couch is about a foot away from the screen door and just held on to the couch for dear life. reporter: wolf, he rode that couch through the tornado. they looked for that couch today. they couldn t find it. that s how bad the damage is. he is fine. the death toll is at 23 and thankfully, it is holding there. we did see dogs out, going through all the debris, looking for anymore potential victims out there. apparently, they didn t find any today. they have kind of reconciled the missing list, so this may be contained to 23, although the sheriff said, don t be surprised if the body count doesn t go up a few because of people we don t know about. but right now, people just reeling in this county from this, as you said, 170-mile-per-hour tornado that just ripped through here
front porch? and they caught it on camera. don t do bad things on people s porches. here is some big news. the attorneys general of d.c. and virginia have opened up investigations into the clergy sex abuse crisis in the catholic church. of course it s a global phenomenon. as of tonight there are 14 investigations. i sat down with cardinal gearhart mueller, the second most powerful man in rome, and mueller was fired last week. he removed you according to reports because you were too tough, to insistence insistents and penalties for the offenders. is there any truth to that? he gave no explanation but some of his friends around him, they attacked me to be a