in what s been a dismal season, both professionally and of course personally. the question is can he drown out all the hoopla surrounding his ex-wife s comments in people magazine. t.j. winick has details. good morning, t.j. reporter: good morning, rob and vinita the peopleview place in four p elin may ha but she says she has no intention of spubl about this again. for t, we hearing elin nordeg exclusive interview about the first time she discovered her now ex-husband, tiger woods, was being unfaithful. absolute shock and disbelief. i felt stupid as more things were revealed. how could i have not known anything? the 30-year-old mother of two opened up for the first time about the past nine months and dithat finalized o initiay i ght chance and we tried really ardsays but she deced and l it t w everything. it s a sad time in our lives.
intense rhetoric surrounding the proposed islamic community center at ground zero. aaron katersky, abc news, new york. a man wanted for killing four people in buffalo, new york, has turned himself in at a local tv station. ricardo mccray was charged with four counts of second degree murder. he s expected to make a court appearance later today. the shooting two weeks ago took place outside a restaurant. one victim was a texas man celebrating his wedding anniversary. it could be days or even longer before the close race for alaska s republican senate nomination is finalized. right now incumbent lisa murkowski is trailing challenger joe miller by less than 2,000 votes. murkowski hopes several thousand uncounted absentee ballots will turn the tables in her favor. miller, a political newcomer, is backed by sarah palin and members of the tea party movement. rescuers in chile say they re concerned about how the 33 trapped miners will cope. they ve been told it could take three more mont
to emerge in that group. it will add civility and a more normal feeling if they have that kind of structure while they re in the mine. reporter: meanwhile, rescue efforts are moving ahead. that giant drill that s meant to bore a 26-inch wide, half-mile long hole into the ground is now in place. they are preparing to begin. work is expected to begin saturday. they just don t know how long it will take to reach the men so far down because the ground here is so fragile. jeffrey kofman, abc news, copiapo, chile. police in a small north carolina town are trying to figure out how a woman s body went unnoticed in a hearse for nine days. they say complaints about a foul odor led them to the body. police say the funeral home picked up a woman s body from her apartment and left it in the hearse. while no criminal charges are likely, the funeral home could lose its license. in other news now, tiger woods hits the links this morning at the barclays tournament in new jersey. he s looking for
let you down? they abandoned us. reporter: and where vera once lay, a shrine now remains. to john lee, vera s memorial is an emblem of lingering grief. a memento of neglect. i love you. love you too. reporter: a close friend of vera smith helped john bury vera that day. then, like so many others, she left new orleans for good, returning to visit this week for the first time since the storm. we ll never forget you, miss vera, no matter how many storms, no matter how many years. we ll never forget you, miss vera. we love you. rest in peace. amen. rest in peace. reporter: it s a small reminder of what should never have happened five years ago. you should know the head of fema says the agency has learned so much from katrina that they ve actually revamped almost everything. they also have plans to get emergency personnel and supplies in place in case there is another disaster. i m bob woodruff, abc news, in
in place in case there is another disaster. i m bob woodruff, abc news, in new orleans. it is painful to watch those images five years later. it s hard to believe that much time has gone by. things that never should have happened in this country, did there. it still gets sends chills through you. i ve gone on tours. i know you re from that area, obviously. but going on tours post-katrina. the most amazing, i guess impressive thing is to see how people have rebuilt. people putting their houses on high cinderblocks, making sure that should this come again they re really prepared for another flood. a lot of activity down there. don t let the images give a wrong impression of new orleans and the gulf coast. it s all coming back. a long way to go but a lot of progress in five years. when we return it is time for the skinny. we re talking about the truth or maybe not the truth about the