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How close the lightning strike was to where they were just standing. they wait until the storm ends and head out beyond their back yard in search of the site of impact. >> we couldnt find anything that burned or charred. >> we went back into the office and i looked over that film and i found the exact angle that she was standing at and pointed right to this beautiful tree. >> and my husband said my gosh, it was way closer than we imagined. he said look how obvious this is. its right here. >> so ...

Gotten the day before. so i was on all fours, i fixed the downspout and i had just gotten up and was walking back to the garage when i seen an emergency vehicle going west on our county road and i peeked around the tree to see the emergency vehicle. and the next thing i knew i was lay on my driveway in a lot of pain. i apparently was hit. >> you said you had trouble breathing, you were disoriented and out for a second in. >> yes, i was out. when i woke up i couldnt breathe, having problems breat...

But if he was indeed caught and captured in that residential area quite a difference than the situation with richard matt. >> reporter: right. and again, we are having a difficult time partly because of the distance and also because of the thick tree cover, these big trees that weve seen everywhere as weve been covering the story for the last three weeks. but it does appear like this is a residential poplar road here in covington -- is that the neighborhood where we are right now? i think its co...

Tell you is extremists of all kinds are dangerous. right, left i dont care if theyre from mars. extremists are dangerous. it wasnt crazy white guys that perpetrated 9/11. >> what do you think of the first level of defense being law enforcement? do we need to get them with more resources? look i see these issues i see france kuwait. the ones that scare me are the ones where theyre picking people up in brooklyn and colorado. theyre right here home. back yard. >> any of us could be victims. somebod...

Tell you is extremists of all kinds are dangerous. right, left i dont care if theyre from mars. extremists are dangerous. it wasnt crazy white guys that perpetrated 9/11. >> what do you think of the first level of defense being law enforcement? do we need to get them with more resources? look i see these issues i see france kuwait. the ones that scare me are the ones where theyre picking people up in brooklyn and colorado. theyre right here home. back yard. >> any of us could be victims. somebod...

Rivers are going down. some people say they cannot believe their eyes. >> never seen water in my back yard. i could see it before but never coming into the water. so this is the highest its ever been. >> jenny from kdfw is joining us live in texas. lots of sunshine this morning but what else is going on? >> yeah and that is what is so peculer. the lakes that overflowed are 15-20 miles where i am and the water is making its way over here. this is a golf course. look in the danceistance. you see t...

Permits. she did her research and i researched in the background to make sure for safety reasons. everything we read everywhere that we read there was nothing that said that -- especially in the building codes on the website of the township nothing was said about a tree house. no zoning issues and no building permits on the building permits site. after reading those she proceeded. >> it sounded like the jargon that was in the ordinance that they cited in the note to you was a bit confusing in th...

It, the reason they took it upon themselves is because they were apparently horrified that it needed to be done and it wasnt being done. at least not for a long while. its not like this was some stunt either. its not that they were showing off, trying to help. look at what they did. these pictures are from the santa barbara independent, a local newspaper which has been doing really great work covering this very large oil spill that has taken place in their back yard. this oil spill, honestly has...

This very large oil spill that has taken place in their back yard. this oil spill, honestly has been really downplayed from the very beginning when we first discovered it on tuesday, including these reports that no wild life was affected even after we started getting in pictures of wild life that was definitely affected. >> that is not a black pelican. even after we were told by all official-dom and told the pipeline burst that everything was under control t. cleanup was well under way t. cleanu...

Organized in anyway, turning up on their own terms with their garden tools to try to shovel this stuff up themselves. because it wasnt getting cleaned up otherwise. this is not how an oil spill clean-up effort is supposed to look in this country. i mean, god bless these folks, but, no, this is not supposed to happen and, yes, the stuff they are shoveling up is really toxic. but the reason these folks did it. the reason they took it upon themselves is bus they were rently horrified that it needed...