jason, i know you don't know anything about this because you're miles away from where this man lives that i just talked about. thomasw these two men jump over her parents' back fence and take off into the woods. there's increased personnel where he lives. just tell me how often police hear about reports like and how often they investigate and it turns out to be nothing. >> reporter: couple things. it's several miles from where we are. i've not seen an up tick from our vantage point. the public is doing its job. law enforcement has repeatedly said they're asking the public to be vigilant, to be on the lookout for anything at all that might be suspicious. the public has to be the eyes and ears on the ground. they're following um on inging up on hundreds of leads. hundreds more across the state and nationally. they have to follow up on every lead as if that might be the lead that eventually takes them where they need to go. so we are going to hear throughout this entire ordeal as we've heard throughout the past few days of possible leads. you remember we were not too far from him about a possible tip. we're hearing abo