litch believes it was all a figment of his imagination. >> quite frankly his paranoia fed that to the that i think that's a factor -- a huge factor in why he committed the crime. >> on the day of the murders, earl bramblett had plans to go fishing with the hodges' family. he probably used some ruse to speak with blaine alone inside the house and then shot blaine to make it look like suicide. bramblett then went outside, telling teresa and the girls that blaine had decided to stay home to do some chores instead, so bramblett took them fishing alone. a park ranger said he saw bramblett, teresa and the two girls at the lake that day. when they returned home, bramblett may have wanted teresa or one of the girls to discover blaine's body, confirming it as a suicide rather than murder. but something went wrong. teresa may have found blaine's body and believed it was murder, not suicide. as she came downstairs, a struggle ensued on the staircase where teresa's hair was left on the railing. bramblett strangled teresa to death. he then went upstairs, retrieved the gun, went into the children's

his father happened -- they litched -- and just passed where the corner with her. where the car wreck was. and i recognized his father. but i didn't understand that that was mike that was there. and i think because i prayed over and over and over for him to be ok and then he wasn't. i thought, well, that -- nobody listened. god was not listening. my prayer wasn't answered. and so i went through really a very long time of not believing. and not believing that prayers could be answered. and it took me a long time really and a lot of growing up to come back to faith. >> the car wreck shaped her in what way? >> well, i think what she has said about it and what she mentioned to me about it was that we do grow up. and when you're young, and you expect that the world is going to be a certain way. and she would have attained that maturity but it came to her pretty quickly. i think that she is an empathetic person by nature. and i think it probably made her less judgmental about other people. in a way that we don't often see in washington. i think she is much more given to

my lower litch was quivering a little bit, just a great scene and a real honor for julie chu to carrynd i think a spectacular move by the u.s. olympic committee for the closing ceremonies after what was certainly a heartbreaking defeat silver or no. >> a lot of raw emotion in that segment and certainly a moment that she and programs you will remember for a very long time. thanks for bringing that to us. >> sure. >>> meanwhile, elsewhere in the u.s. this winter has been so cold that the great lakes are literally freezing over. in fact, the freezing is the worst we've seen in two decades. scott cohn has more and he's live on a ship in the st. clair river in michigan, scott? >> reporter: i'm scott cohn aboard the u.s. coast guard cutter "holly hock." and take a look the great lakes are clogged with ice. it's the worst season in more than 20 years. the economic impact potentially huge. and so is the effort to clear the ice. we're going to show you coming up. the frozenomics of the great lakes. cme group can help you navigate risks and capture opportunities. we enable you to reach global m