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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. that's 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 big sister but her protector, her adviser. she said harper will sign anything put in front of her by...
Novel "go set a watchman" started with a midnight party in the writer's hometown of monroeville, alabama. sher caldwell is an english schoolteacher who drove nine hours from kentucky to be here. she's mystified by the transformation of atticus finch in the "watchman" novel, the beloved character who's now a racist. >> he represents everything good in the moral compass of the book. and if i'm wrong, it's embarrassing. >> reporter: as thousands have flocked to lee's hometown the reclusive writer who is known around here simply as nell spent the day in this assisted living center security guards ...