bitter things you get in the chains. it is a beautiful thing. >> like you must have known, somebody must have told you the right stand to go there. >> the guy has an iron stomach. you can catch parts unknown sunday on cnn, it is a great show. beef up its military. >> it is disturbing and perhaps criminal that these documents, the documents like these were hidden by the obama administration from congress and the public alike. >> republicans taking aim at the obama administration after they say new information reveals details about the 2012 attack on

benghazi. my dna, any trace of me is not there. >> insistent on her innocence in an exclusive interview, amanda knox reacts to a new italian court that says she's guilty of murder. you're watching "cnn newsroom." i'm errol barnett. we begin with reports of a large military operation in the eastern ukrainian city of sloviensk. there's a special military operation there. one pro russian separatist has been killed and another wounded. cnn confirms at least one military helicopter in this area and people there say they've heard gunfire and explosions in the distance, but for the moment

the town seems mostly quiet. sloviensk is one of several locations recently seized and occupied by pro russia separatists. we have nick payton walsh on the line now. he's north of slovavyansk. if you can give us what information you have, especially the death that's been confirmed. >> reporter: let me tell you what we've seen. to the north of slavyansk, it's a pro russian checkpoint. now in quite reasonable number though not particularly effectively, ukraine iian troop seem pretty well organized some of them and others say they're from the national guard who are traveling around. a military helicopter flying

along that highway. we can hear in the distance what may have been two rocket propelled explosions. the interior minister of the ukraine says that nine check points around slavyansk have been taken. they have made statements in the past in and around slavyansk to be slightly exaggerated or inaccurate. we've seen a new phase around slavyansk. those on the ground say things have been come parativelily quiet this morning. in town they have heard some shooting. things were apparently quiet. there were also reports confirmed from the interior minister that a helicopter was being shot down and the pilot killed. clearly a new phase in the

operation here but one that you've seen in the past, haven't had immediate resounding success against the pro russian militants. they are while not themselves being particularly well trained, they are organized. they are assisting them in what they are doing. we saw last night this may have been coming, we saw the withdrawal at the checkpoint which had been approached one time and another time. they pulled back 200 meters further down the road. perhaps they were aware this may have been coming. all of that simply a precaution for the region's history. we're seeing a different phase of the ukrainian operation certainly moving in and around the town. a lot of that done by pro russian militants who it seems are beefing up the checkpoints.

errol. >> senior international correspondent nick payton walsh just north of slavyansk on the continuing escalation of tenses there. in slavyansk there are seven oscd military observers being detained. we'll continue to contact our correspondents there and bring you updates throughout the day. now it could take another 8 to 12 months but they will find the plane, that's what officials from malaysia, australia and france promised people a short while ago. it's being broadcast from kuala lumpur. cnn has lurnd malaysian, australian and chinese officials will meet to discuss the next steps of the search.

cnn's will riply joins us from kuala lumpur. will, if we look at the overall situation we know we're not looking for debris on the surface. they're no longer holding daily briefings for the relatives of passengers. what else did they say at this press conference that gives us a sense of what will happen next? >> reporter: what we saw today is really what we've been expecting to see. the search now transitioning into this new phase. that's what this tri lateral meeting on monday is all about. it's about china, malaysia and australia getting together and taking a look at what resources are available and coming up with a game plan, a blue print for how the search will continue in the 8 to 12 months to come. this is estimated to be a very costly move. $60 million. we know that private contractors with technology beyond the blue fin 21 will likely be brought in, something that will take weeks if not months to get them

situated and in place. this is something people have been asking for, errol, wondering if there's anything out there to search deeper and search a wider area to do a more thorough search of the area where based on mathematics, physics, a team of experts in kuala lumpur strongly believe mh-370 is sitting here. listen to what the acting transport minister has to say about the process that lies ahead. >> i'm quietly confident that we are on the right track but the challenges ahead is huge. we're getting more experts to make sure we remain focused often what we're doing, i believe that we will find mh-370. >> hussein hishammuddin.

and the lead investigator from air france, they're asking him to be brought onto the investigation. he was part of the massive searches and knows what the crews will be up against, errol. >> good to see the next steps and officials believe they will eventually find flight 370. will riply live from kuala lumpur. thanks, will. as i was mentioning a few moments ago, families of flight 370 passengers will no longer have a central location in beijing to meet with malaysian officials. later in the program we'll take you live to beijing to get more on that perspective of this part of the story. now nearly a week of heavy storms that claimed 38 lives across the u.s. are still taking a toll. take a look at this incredible video.

>> oh, my god. >> the screams there, but you're watching what they witnessed. an entire line of cars parked along the street. just swallowed up in moments. the cars slid down to train tracks below. it's unclear what caused the collapse. this area had been hammered and inundated earlier in the day. shocking stuff. all right. you're watching "cnn newsroom." coming up for you, an empassioned defense of mayor rob ford who says he's seeking help for alcohol abuse. also, an exclusive interview with an american woman accused of killing her college roommate. amanda knox says prosecutors don't have the evidence to back up their case. also, huge crowds march in nigeria's biggest cities. what they say police should be doing instead of watching over protests like this. stay with us.

at least nine people are dead, almost a dozen injured after a bus station bombing in nigeria. this happened in the capital just as workers were returning home from the may day holiday. no one's claimed responsibility but the attack happened 100 meters from where another blast killed 71 people last month. the islamist group said it was behind that bombing. the bombing comes as nigerians demand action in the kidnapping of 230 school girls more than two weeks ago. huge crowds like the ones you're seeing here marched through the streets of lagos all demannig that they do more. the school principal said 43 have escaped from their kidnappeders but 187 is still missing. one of the protestors says the government has to step up. >> it's very disheartening to know that young girls like you,

like us are being held captive somewhere and just because of the idea that western education is wrong. the situation is very critical and it's getting worse by the day and because they know that nothing is being done, more things are being done just so that they can scare people. we can do better, like we are the future generations, the voices of tomorrow. our voices need to be heard. i feel like everybody needs to say something. >> i'm not sure if you've noticed this online, but protesters around the world are also turning to social media to try to get help and answers. you're looking at twitter now where people are using #bringbackourgirls and #bringbackourdaughters. on facebook they're raising attention. we've also been goating eye reports around the world of

people speaking out on behalf of the abducted girls. you can check out those if you like and contribute your own at cnn.com/ireport. now an attorney for embattled mayor rob ford says his client is in chicago although he won't say why. ford announced he was taking a break from his re-election campaign to seek help for alcohol abuse. the toronto globe says two reporters have seen new video that allegedly shows ford smoking crack cocaine. ford's brother doug spoke with the media thursday. >> i am relieved that rob has faced his problems and has decided to seek professional help. rob is very emotional when he told me the hardest thing about this is he knows he let people down.

i love my brother. i'll continue to stand by my brother and his family throughout this difficult journey. >> tough to watch there. toronto city council stripped ford of most of his powers, you may remember, back in november. now, this week we learned more about why an italian court again convicted amanda noiks and her then boyfriend for the 2007 murder of meredith kircher. kircher was a british student who shared a home with knox when the killing took place. they convicted her for a second time in january. just days ago the italian court released a 300 page explanation. the court says the evidence showed more than one person killed kircher. knox insists there's no forensic

evidence tying her to the crime. >> my dna, any trace of me, is not there. when you're talking about traces of me that they attribute to the crime scene, they're talking about my dna in my own bathroom or my footsteps that tested negative for blood that had my dna and meredith's dna on the floor between our bedrooms and the bathroom. well, of course our dna was there. we lived there for a month. it was there. it tested negative for blood so it wasn't blood and so it's irrelevant to the crime, but we're talking about the crime that happened in meredith's bedroom and there is no trace of us. if rudy goudea committed this crime, which he did, we know that because his dna is there on meredith's body, around meredith's body. his handprints and footprints in her blood. none of that exists for me. if i were there, i would have

had traces of meredith's broken body on me, and i would have left traces of myself around -- around meredith's corps, and i am not there and that proves my innocence. >> now we will have much more of chris cuomo's interview of amanda knox in the next half hour. you want to see what else amanda knox told us at cnn. authorities have just announced they've brought down what they call a sextorsion ring. investigators from the u.s., u.k. and hong kong, they say they've arrested 58 people. authorities say they lured victims into online sex chats and black mailed them from exposing them to friends and family. this was triggered after a british teenager killed himself last year because of the black

mail. trading blame over benghazi, republicans accuse the obama administration of trying to cover up the cause of an attack that killed a u.s. ambassador and three other americans. we'll bring you the details on this after the break.

welcome back, everyone. two of america's big three automakers reported good news. chrysler reported 14% increase year on year. that's its best april performance since 2007. gm or general motors, the biggest of the three, finished the month with a 7% gain. number two ford saw an unexpected 1% drop.

traes interesting because it came on the same day that an announcement from the top came. as he explained to richard quest, he did it without a government bailout. >> reporter: did you ever for a moment consider taking government money? >> richard, we did not, and that was one of the most important decisions that we made, but in addition to that as you well remember and reported, we decided to actually testify on behalf of our competitors that were bankrupt and we did that which is very strange in itself. we did that because of the importance of the industry to the u.s. economy but also the u.s. economy and the world economy. we knew that they were in free fall, we could have taken the united states into a depression. even though they are our competitors, we absolutely believed it was the right thing to do even though we didn't need

the money because we were welling along on our plan to transform ford. >> mulally will retire july 1st. mark fields will move up from chief operating officer to take his place. if you think back to this time last week samantha moore was warning of a tornado system about to approach the plains in the south and the u.s. it all came true. we saw big storms. that storm has gone on to do more damage. it's a mess out there in the states. >> it really is. there's going to be cleanup for weeks and even months to come in some areas because of the tornadoes and the epic flooding we have seen. finally the really heavy rain is pushing off the coast line, thank goodness, because the last couple of days have been incredible. the fourth highest rainfall amounts we have ever seen in new york city, in laguardia.

newark. jfk seeing some of the highest rainfall amounts that they have ever seen. incredible. that stretch down into the middle atlantic as well. check out these months. more than a month of rain in less than two days here in washington, d.c., where in nearby baltimore we ended up seeing this landslide, this hillside gave way. you saw the video just a little bit earlier. it actually slid down towards this train tunnel here taking some of the cars into the tunnel, taking down the trees like they were toys on a life game and then also lamp posts and cars upside down. what a mess. and, you know, this follows an incredibly cold winter in the u.s. here in lake superior there was still 60% ice cover and that ice being some 22 centimeters thick. i wanted to show you some pictures of the ice waves that came on shore on lake superior. you can see just how this ice is being piled up by the lake

itself. these are homes along the lake shore. one of the residents is calling it almost a tsunami of ice pushing towards their home. just incredible as this cold, cold winter, they saw more ice than they ever have on that lake. the flooding across the deep south that we are still going to be cleaning up with for a long, long time. look at this arrow. it's incredible. pensacola picking up 395 millimeters in just 24 hours' time. that's almost four times what they get in a normal month. this is a wet place normally. >> not good for a state that sits relatively at sea level either. >> no kidding. >> thanks very much. >> you bet. the fallout from the deadly 2012 attack in benghazi, libya, is seizing the spotlight once again at congressional hearings in washington. the attack on a diplomatic compound you may remember killed a u.s. ambassador and three

other americans. they accuse the government of a coverup. dana bash has more. >> reporter: new ammunition for republicans and what they call a white house coverup surrounding the 2012 deadly attack in be benghazi, libya. >> it is disturbing and almost criminal that these documents were held by the obama administration from congress and the public. >> reporter: newly released documents, an e-mail from ben rhodes giving what the gop calls political advice to then u.n. ambassador susesan rice ahead o her press conferences. the e-mail urged rice to underscore that these protests are rooted in an internet video and not a broader failure of

policy. >> this is the closest thing to a smoking gun that i've seen. >> republicans call this proof that the white house quashed the real reason for the attack, terrorism, because that would have contradicted the press's tough on terrorism image. >> this was trying to shake the story away from what would have been a damaging admission of failure of foreign policy seven weeks before an election. >> reporter: republicans also want to know why the e-mail was left out of documents from last year's subpoena. it's public now only through a freedom of information request from a conservative group. house speaker john boehner is demanding secretary of state john kerry about why this administration hid these documents and tell the american people what else is being concealed. the white house says this rhodes e-mail wasn't about bens but broader regional issues and that spirited white house briefing they dismissed it as political. >> this is hours after the

attack beginning with a statement by the republican nominee for president as an attempt by republicans to polite size a tragedy. >> reporter: also on capitol hill, testimony from a retired general who served in the region during the benghazi attack, calling it a mistake not to scramble military help. >> the point is we should have tried. as another saying goes, always move to the sound of the guns. >> he was emotional on his commander's decision not to go in. >> four individuals died. they did not respond in time to get there. >> could we have? >> the gentleman's time has expired. go ahead. >> we may have been able to, but we'll never know. >> reporter: there was some forceful push back on that from an unusual source, a republican and an influential one.

the gop house armed services chairman. they've done dozens of interviews and there's no evidence that they delayed deploying help for u.s. citizens under fire at benghazi. he criticized the general saying he did not serve in a capacity that gave him reliable insight into operational options. dana bash, cnn, washington. distressing news for families of malaysia airlines flight 370 passengers. their main meeting facility in beijing is shutting down. we'll take you live to the chinese capital next for reaction. plus, the untold story of the murder that now has one of northern ireland's leading politicians under arrest. probably about five times.i trit it was different than the other times i tried to quit. [ male announcer ] along with support, chantix varenicline is proven to help people quit smoking. it's a non-nicotine pill. chantix reduced my urge to smoke. that helped me quit smoking. [ male announcer ] some people had changes in behavior, thinking, or mood,

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you're watching "cnn newsroom." we want to welcome our viewers in the u.s. and around the world. i'm errol barnett. here are the headlines. ukraine says an antiterrorist operation in the eastern city of slavyansk has cleared three check points. they say a ukrainian helicopter has been shot down and the pilot killed. russian state media report one separatist killed in the operation so far. at least nine people are dead in a bus station bombing in nigeria. this happened as workers returned home from the may day

activities. it was near the bombing last month. the head of the flight 370 search effort says it could take 8 to 12 months to find the plane. angus houston spoke at a news conference in kuala lumpur not too long ago. this comes a day after malaysia released its preliminary report on the plane's disappearance. the plareport indicates they wad four hours after discovering it was missing before calling a search. they're discussing the next part of the search with their counterparts from china and malaysia. passengers will no longer be briefed at the central location. to say they're not happy is an extreme understatement. david has our report. i would imagine the relatives were not happy. how did they react when they were told the updates would no

longer happen? >> reporter: errol, they reacted very emotionally. there were scenes of great anguish. so many weeks after this plane vanished when they were told that they were going into a new search phase and they were stopping briefings and they have to leave the hotel. it's unclear that they're upset the briefings would end or they were upset that they sense there's no resolution in their plight. the people who are shouting and screaming and sometimes wailing uncontrollably, such terrible scenes. they are saying, where are my loved ones. please help find them. find them now. yes, there are many family members who wanted to stay in their hotel and get some strength in numbers. others i've spoken to over recent weeks have said they wanted to leave, that there's no real reason for them to stay. they want to get on with their lives. certainly a complex situation for the families and a very

difficult one as the time stretches on. the latest we're hearing is that chinese government officials want them out today, out of their hotel. as one man put it, they don't really have a choice. these are individual people with individual opinions and many of them just want to get home. errol? >> david, any indication of what these relatives will now do? >> well, some of them will go to their home. of course an international flooit coming from kuala lumpur with more than 150 passengers from china, those chinese citizens were from all over the country, not just here in beijing. the family members will as it appears to be go back to their home in provinces far from the capital here in china. they will have a variety of ways of keeping in contact. they will set up a command center as it were to take phone

calls, messages and e-mails from the family members to answer their questions. the family members have made a committee to be the leaders of them and significantly, they say, that the chinese government has offered legal representation free of charge to the family members in their discussions or any action against malaysian airlines or with malaysian airlines towards the government. there will be continued communications. this isn't of course the last we've heard from families that have taken such a public role in this terrible saga but for now it seems in the coming hours and perhaps days they will be leaving their hotels that have been their home for nearly two months. errol? >> so challenging for all of them almost two months from their losses. david mckenzie, thank you. we're getting information just in to cnn. i want to bring that to you now. this is coming to us from south

korea and these are not positive developments. reuters news agency is reporting a crash on soule's subway. it says two trains collided, one car derailed. you're seeing some of the first pictures to come into cnn since this incident took place. we're being told about 40 passengers have been injured. that is a subway collision in soule, south korea. we're working to get more information for you. 40 passengers injured so far. we'll continue to bring you updates as soon as they become available. now police in northern ireland have until tonight to bring charges against jerry adams or they must release him. the sinn fein leader turned himself in for questioning on wednesday in the 1972 murder investigation. they accused her of being a spy for the british army. adam denies any involvement. they say this, the dark side of

northern ireland, policing has flexed its muscles in the past couple of days. he called the arrest a deliberate attempt to influence the elections that are due to take place in three weeks' time. in a recent edition nic robertson looked back. he talked at length with jean's daughter about her mother's death. here's an excerpt. >> for helen mckendry, the tapes in boston may hold the truth about her mother. the key she needs to unlock her few tear. her mother was jean mcconville, who was born a protestant, married arthur a catholic, a mixed marriage. her killing one of the most notorious of the troubles. >> the troubles, we were put out of our home. we lived in east bell fast, which is mostly protestant.

my parents had a mixed marriage so we had to leave. they threatened to kill my father. >> reporter: helen had nine brothers and sisters. they found refuge in a catholic neighborhood. not long after their father died leaving jean to bring them up alo alone. >> a cup of tea and toast. going to bed every night, mom was doing whatever a mother does. she was a happy go lucky person. she would have done whatever to help anyone. >> reporter: outside their home all hell was breaking loose. protestant against catholic. houses burned, communities divided. >> every day our hearts shaking

on someone being injured and bombs were killing around us. >> reporter: northern ireland is part of brittain. protestant fighters known as loyalist s were fighting to kee the status quo. they were fighting to kick out the british and reunify all island with the irish republican army, the ira, the forefront. >> you just got used to it waking up. >> reporter: but that changed the day the ira took her mother away. >> they came by tea time and they dragged her out of the bathroom and dragged her out. >> reporter: it was december 1972. the last time helen would see her and the beginning of her

quest for the truth. >> that was an excerpt from nic robertson's documentary, secrets of the bell fast project from world's untold stories. coming up from "cnn newsroom", more of the exclusive interview from amanda knox. we'll hear about the plans in the future if she loses her appeal with the italian court. plus, new details about that botched execution in oklahoma including an altercation that happened hours before it began. don't go anywhere.

welcome back. we want to bring you an update on the breaking news that we brought to you moments ago. the number of injured in that soule subway collision has climbed significantly. you may remember it was at 40 when we last reported this. it's now at 170. it says two trains collided there in the subway system of soule, south korea. one of those trains derailed.

you're seeing the first pictures that we're getting in from this breaking development and we are working to get more information on this as we check our watches. it's approaching 5:00 p.m. in soule. this would have timed with rush hour as people are trying to get home. many people are using the system and on the trains. at this moment, train collision in soule, south korea. also, 55 u.s. colleges and universities are under investigation for how they handle sexual violence, harassment and assault complaints. thattest according to the u.s. department of education. this is the first time the department has released such a list. it says it wants to increase transparency and public awareness of civil rights. the probe is looking at whether the schools violated a federal antidiscrimination law in their handling of the complaints. the pentagon says reports of sexual assault in the military rose 50% in 2013 from the previous year. why such a jump? well, defense secretary chuck

hagel says this increase follows efforts by the armed services to encourage victims to come forward. he says the best way to combat such attacks is to prevent them. >> we believe victims are growing more confident in tharp system. because these crimes are underreported, we took steps to increase reporting and that's what we're still seeing. however, we also believe these crimes are still under reported. so we must keep up the pressure and intensify our efforts to improve victim's confidence as we work towards the sexual assault in the military. >> there's no question that the spike in reports has related to an increase in incidents. amanda knox says there's no evidence to tie her to the murder. she and her boyfriend were convicted in 2009. that conviction was tossed out, but the two were convicted once

again this past january. they have one final appeal left in this case. knocks spoke about that in an exclusive interview. >> reporter: amanda it was almost a year ago that we did our last interview. at that time your book had just come out and you were facing the prospect of this trial, the ruling of which we just received. i want to remind you of what you said then about the prospect of having to return and face this fight again. >> i'm afraid to go back there. i don't want to go back into prison. i mean, i was there for four years. i just -- i have no choice but to confront this and i don't know. i -- i'm afraid. i'm so afraid. >> then you had the anticipation of what will this ruling be. what was worse, the anticipation of it or now knowing where it stands with the judges?

>> oh, i think it's knowing now where it stands with the judges because i -- i had truly believed that this court was going to find me innocent. no new evidence had been present presented. i did not expect this. i -- i'm incredibly hurt and disappointed to read what they -- what they're -- what they're saying is true but is so clearly not, and i guess my only hope is that people are going to see all of the flaws that are throughout the entire document that justifies this verdict. this whole theory that i might somehow be involved in some way with mer did's murder is wrong. >> you whether appeal? >> yes. >> you will stay here in the

united states for the pendency of the appeal? >> yes. >> what happens if the supreme court confirms this ruling and the case is closed and you are guilty? >> you know, from this whole experience, especially in prison where you have to take everything day by day, right now i'm having to take everything step by step, and if i think about everything that i could possibly be facing, it's way too overwhelming for me to even conceive. >> this started in 2007. it is now 2014. for you and your life, is it present day? are you able to be present in this day or are you still trapped in 2007? >> it's definitely a limbo. my entire adult life has been weighed down and taken over by

this tremendous mess, this -- i mean, on the one hand i have my life in seattle. i get to go to school. i get to be with my family, my friends. and i'm so dpratful to have them. they really help me to get through this, and to know there are people who believe me. and then on the other hand there's this huge weight and there's this huge struggle and trying to learn each step of the way what is so wrong and how i can fix it, and i guess i'm just -- i guess i'm just one of the lucky ones. >> how so? >> well, because i'm actually -- i'm actually supported by people and people have looked into my case as opposed to have

forgotten me. >> if the case is affirmed by the supreme court, if you are found guilty in final fashion but the united states decides not to extra diet, your life goes on, you can live here, be in the united states. will you ever be free? >> no. absolutely not. that's not a livable -- that's not -- especially since right now me and rafael together are fighting for our innocence, and i -- like i said, i truly believe that can happen. it's only speculation that convicts us. it's evidence that acquits us. and i'm holding -- i'm holding firm to that in hopes that what you're suggesting might happen doesn't. >> you're holding out hope.

>> yeah. now a third suspect in the case, rudy goodea was convicted and is serving a term in prison. all three had a part but knox is the one that stabbed care chen to death. the botched execution in oklahoma. clayton lockett was on death row for shooting a woman and watching as two others buried her alive. jesse wells of cnn affiliate kfor showed us the state's time line leading up to the botched execution and lockett's eventual death. >> reporter: what went wrong on clayton lockett in the execution chamber tuesday night. they called for an independent review to answer that question. >> department of corrections welcomes an outside review. >> reporter: the doc welcomed a

time line of lockett's last dye at 5:06 in the morning. he appears to be restrained for a search. a taser was used. 5:53 they found lockett with a self-inflicted watch. he was placed under continuous observation the rest of the day. at 5:22 lockett finally laid down on the execution table. an hour later a phlebotomist struggled to find a vein. at 6:23 the execution began where the attending doctor reported a vein collapsed at 6:44. at 6:56 the execution was officially halted but lockett died ten minutes later at 7:06. the report does not confirm whether lockett died from a massive heart attack as first reported. >> we look forward to a further review and a rewrite for the

protocols in the state of oklahoma for carrying out executions. >> reporter: the boc director refused to answer any questions about the execution. >> i'll be glad to answer questions about anything else other than executions. >> that was jesse wells reporting there. it should be noted the state's time line of events doesn't provide details to back up witnesses claims that lodge ket was writhing in pain and appeared to be conscious before prison officials lowered the blinds in the chamber. stay with us here on "cnn newsroom." we'll have more for you after this short break.

we want to update you now on the news outside of korea. the number of injured has climbed again. it's now 172 people injured. this number is coming to us from cnn affiliate itn. we're seeing the first pictures that we're getting this hour of this collision. ytn says most of those injuries

are not serious. so a bit of positive news there. it's still early though. two trains apparently collided in a soule subway station. no word yet on what may have caused that crash. we will bring you updates as it becomes available. residents along the u.s. gulf coast are struggling with the aftermath of torrential rains. pensacola, florida, got over 15 inches. that's the most in a single day there after recordkeeping began in 1979. for the people who live there, it's nothing but a disaster. >> reporter: you were inside when all of this happened? >> yes. >> reporter: what was that -- >> i was here all night. >> reporter: in the 22 years jamess ray has lived in this house, he's never seen this kind of damage. >> reporter: how difficult is it for you to be standing here in this living room? >> very difficult. this was my life. it's gone. >> reporter: ray lives in one of the hardest hit neighborhoods in pensacola where more than 17

inches fell in a matter of hours. how did you know something was wrong? >> i went back in this hall closet and i saw water coming out of the door. i knew the carpet was wet. >> i didn't realize water was coming down the hill. i saw water bubbling. that's when i realized it was like a river out there. >> reporter: must have been terrifying to be inside not knowing what was going to happen. >> i'm a little worried. i kept seeing that. i could climb that tree if i have to. >> reporter: this is what's left of his garage. you can see it portionly collapsed. it's being held up by a neighbor's boat. what's interesting if you looked inside the garage, there are still tools hanging on the walls. also untouched, the picture of

ray and making this house their home. >> reporter: how do you move on? >> i don't know. i'm 80 years old almost. i don't have too long to worry about it. >> i guess i'll rent and settle down. rn elena mu chad doe, cnn. thanks for watching "cnn newsroom" and ending your week with me. i'm errol barnett. for viewers in the u.s., early today is next. stay with us.

breaking news overnight. investigators on the record for the first time since releasing their controversial report on what happened to missing malaysia airlines flight 370, explaining what comes next in the search for the vanished jetliner. and this morning, promising to answer questions about the report. family members of those on board say it raises more questions than it answers. we have live, team coverage, coming up. breaking news this morning. pro-russian protesters and ukrainian troops battling it out in the streets as the fight over eastern ukraine intensifies, this as president obama prepares for a high-stakes meeting on how involved the west should get. we