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Nearly one year after one of the worst tornado outbreaks to ever hit the United States, parts of the town of Mayfield, Kentucky, still appear much as they did just days after an EF4 tornado.

Mayfield officials say there are safety concerns and have several streets blocked off because historic buildings could fall.

The death toll has reached 74 in Kentucky, three nights after a swarm of tornadoes struck. At least 14 people died in Arkansas, Illinois, Missouri and Tennessee, but the worst was in Mayfield, in far southwestern Kentucky. William Brangham reports.

And celebrity culture and paparazzi, nell harper lee comes from the inside out and therefore she can live there in some kind of contentment, some kind of peace with herself. >> reporter: for decades, harper lee vowed never to publish another book, content with one masterpiece. thats why many believe the elderly write has been manipulated by someone into releasing this book. this author spent nearly two years with harper lee and her sister alice who died last november. >> alice was not only her b...

Novel "go set a watchman" started with a midnight party in the writers hometown of monroeville, alabama. sher caldwell is an english schoolteacher who drove nine hours from kentucky to be here. shes mystified by the transformation of atticus finch in the "watchman" novel, the beloved character whos now a racist. >> he represents everything good in the moral compass of the book. and if im wrong, its embarrassing. >> reporter: as thousands have flocked to lees hometown the reclusive writer who is ...

Flint says lee wrote the book in the 1970s written in the style of "in cold blood". >> her sister said it was better than "to kill a mockingbird" and better than "in cold blood". >> reporter: you know youre teasing the whole world. >> i know. >> reporter: wayne flint says no one knows where the manuscript is and if it will ever be published, another wrinkle to monroevilles "mockingbird." throughout the day here in monroeville, thousands of people coming through wanting tomonoroemonroeville. here...

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destroy peoples lives. >> what did you say to her? also tonight, she has given us the iconic photographs of our time, shes chronicled our lives. annie leibovitz is here in the studio. and if youre overseas in uniform and need a meal, mre. if you dont know about them, you will after this. all that and more on "rock center" starting now. captions paid for by nbc-universal television good evening and welcome to this weeks broadcast of "rock center." tonight as the human damage from ...

>> thank you, sir. >> how are you doing? >> did you vote for him? >> yeah, i voted for him. >> how do you feel about that vote now, jerry? >> bad. real bad. >> why couldnt he at least come and say what it was all about before you sign a bill and destroy peoples lives. >> what did you say to her? also tonight, she has given us the iconic photographs of our time, shes chronicled our lives. annie leibovitz is here in the studio. and if youre overseas in uniform and need a meal, mre. i...