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Plus $1,500 purchase allowance on a 2023 xt5 and xt6 when you finance through cadillac financial. ♪ reporter: this morning, police searched gacys home. they became suspicious when 15-year-old robert piest disappeared after he allegedly was last seen with gacy. they started tearing up the flooring and working that way in the crawl space. albrecht: it was probably like a lot of other crawl spaces that people have. it was just dirt and clay. hachmeister: and the very first dig with the shovel, th...

To see that inventories are going to build as quickly as we would like. >> reporter: experts blaming a perfect storm of factors. low supplies of diesel, heating oil and natural gas. a massive refinery shortage. and a global supply crunch, due to the war in ukraine. >> we didnt turn the heat on as early as we usually do. just to save a couple of bucks. >> reporter: homeowners joe and roseanne tripodo say the soaring costs are already forcing them to cut back. >> so things like going out to dinner...

Street. >> reporter: yeah, jose, thats right. this street where i am right now, this is the epicenter of the death toll here in bowling green. and you can see why. i mean, take a look at this damage and this devastation. cars lifted up, thrown back down, demolished. this right here, this entire house was lifted up out of its foundation. you know, jose, we were talking yesterday about how people were hiding in crawl spaces, in bathrooms, in closets. none of that would help you here in this situat...

You can see why. i mean, look at this destruction. whole vans lifted, dropped, blown out. this right here is, looks to be an attic just sitting here right now. you can come over this way. were going to walk very slowly, me and my photographer, david, because the debris is still quite dangerous. a lot of nails and debris on the ground. take a look at this. the entire home lifted out of its foundation, completely demolished. there is a car sitting inside this house now. we were talking yesterday h...

This neighborhood werent. thank you so much. the death toll here like i said 11 people on this street and when you look at the numbers and the people, the ages from an infant to a 77-year-old. when you look around here, i mean this home right here, you can just see the foundation. the entire home was lifted up and destroyed. we talked to people who described hiding in crawl spaces and booth bathrooms and closets. if you were in a home like this there was nowhere to hide. what we know from the co...

Flattened to the ground. behind me here that used to be an auto parts store, used to be a restaurant in that lot there. you can see its just rubble now. and where im standing here at this moment, this right here used to be the inside of a garage. you can see were clearly not inside anymore. this whole thing was torn up from the ground. this belongs to merlina. she is a mother of four. she said this was filled with her childrens toys, and now theyre scattered all across this neighborhood. you see...

Dasha burns, what can you tell us. >> reporter: good morning, its 30 degrees right now so you can imagine what its like for the people at home right now. getting here from our crew is difficult. its pitch black and there is so many debris. i would walk around to show you but its not safe right now of the condition here. every corner you turn there is more devastations and destructions and harrowing stories of residents here. stories of people hiding in crawl spaces and door ways, people told me ...

Speaking with have been accounting just harrowing stories of hiding in crawl spaces. hiding in closets with their children. the woman whose garage was destroyed said she called her mom in bosnia and hear the kids screaming on the other line and wanted one more word with her mother. hear from another resident we talked to. she was hiding in a crawl space with her disabled daughter. take a listen. >> i thought we were going to die. >> reporter: oh my god. >> i thought this was it. it was so fast. ...