dolezal is really white. erin o'hearn is live at the big board. erin the phrase hot mess is overused but it real does seem to apply to this situation. >> reporter: the story keeps getting stranger and stranger tam. this is 37-year-old rachel dolezal appeals to have carefully constructed a life as a black civil rights activist in the last decade but that world is falling apart following a shocking revelation by her parents that dolezal is actually a white woman who has posed for years as african-american. her parents produced this picture of her as a young girl with fair skin and straight blond hair. her mother saying rachel began disguising herself as black after they adopted four black children years ago. dolezal has resigned as president of the local branch of the naacp lost her position as a part time african studies instructor at a local university as well as her job as a freelance newspaper columnist is that now the subject of a probe by the city's ethics commission. dolezal has...