his father took him down. got to hear b.b. king in the studio at that time. and givens said that he could do more with a guitar string than most could do with the alpha bet combined. he came up with a unique style that couple up with his physical limitations and just one of these great examples of where you know somebody made lemonade out of lemons that life dealt them. his fingers, he said were too chunk oo. they couldn t find into the guitar slide that most blues guitar players were playing that time so he today figure out a way to do what the other guys were doing without the slide. he did that with his fingers. by vibrating his fingers and it became known as the finger
scott walker! all right. could we get a drum roll! come on! how about the audience, can i get a drum roll from you? show us the slide. the winner of the cpac 2015 presidential straw poll is rand paul. all right! way to go! wasn t cpac awesome?
now it goes straight down. it is just gone. it makes me sick to my stomach, having to get up and go through this. that s the first news i got. really nervous. this is all we have. miguelal almaguer is on the phone. reporter: investigators and geologists have been down at the site and have reevaluated how deep and wide it is. they say it is 900 feet wide and about a mile deep. the coastline has forever been changed. one home has been completely destroyed. they now say 18 other homes are either threatened or cut off by the slide. of course, shifting soil remains the biggest concern here today. we were over near the edge of the cliff earlier today with some of the firefighters that have responded here. they say they have seen less
injuries this morning. what about the homes? have any been destroyed? how many are in danger? well, there is one home that was severely damaged and pushed off its foundation by the slide. we have two homes significantly threaten threaten threatened above the slide and we ve evacuated 34 homes that are in danger either down below the area of the landslide or up above where the slide keeps sloufing or the bluff keeps sluffing off. you ve evacuated 34 homes. how many people is that? well, there were 12 from the area down below the slide and then we re still in the process of determining the exact account of the number of individuals in the 17 homes above the slide. and lastly, do you have any idea what could have caused this? well, this is an area that has unstable soil and slides have occurred in this area
two of them were my good friends. reporter: joel hammond was part of the group, described what they saw before the snow cut loose. right when he crossed over the hill, we noticed about a three to four foot fracture, about 30 yards to his right. hammond says he watched as the skiers, including a pro, were carried up by the slide. this is about where the slide starts. and it would have carried the victims down to here. at one point after the avalanche, they re all buried in the snow. they manage to dig themselves out of the snow. at that point, they realize that three of them are in distress, three of the skiers are in distress. they begin cpr. reporter: but it was too late for the skiers. three men, age 30, 35, and 45, were pronounced dead on the mountainside. the three men were reportedly well known to the local community, and especially to the ski patrol. a sad day. i mean, tough when you have a