i'm neal karlinsky for "nightline," near churchill, manitoba. >> certainly nice to watch from a warm place. a different kind of mother's day tribute. >>> well, mother's day is, of course, sunday, which got us to thinking about the state of moth motherhood around here. and what we found out made us want to take a look at mother's day by the numbers. ♪ [ male announcer ] an everyday moment can turn romantic anytime. and when it does, men with erectile dysfunction

neal karlinsky braved the elements for our series, "into the wild." >> reporter: we've joined up withmall group of some of the world's leading wildlife photographers for the privilege of receiving something so rare, only a few hundred people on earth are believed to have ever experienced it up close. polar bear mothers taking their newborn cubs out into the world for the very first time. getting here isn't easy. a flight to winnipeg, followed by a small plane to churchill, manitoba, then a 2 1/2-hour train ride near the arctic, which ends nowhere near a station. here goes the train. we're in the middle of nowhere in the tundra, middle of the night and the train's leaving us here. another hour later, we're at a place called the wachee lodge. only open six weeks a year. there is no running water and space is extremely limited. inside, hard core wildlife photographers from every corner of the globe. in the morning, they pile into vans converted with tank treads, hoping to find white bears hidden in white snow caves in conditions that can kill a person in minutes. >> got the tracks headin

here's neal karlinsky. >> reporter: watch closely.impossibly cute stuffed animal-like polar bear cub leaving its mother's den and pokes his head out into the world. >> this is the first time they're seeing the sky. >> they're emerging from the den. she is introducing them to the world. >> reporter: we've come to one of the most remote places on earth to see polar bear mothers taking their newborns out from the snow cave they've dug to give birth to begin the long trek to canada's hudson bay and first solid food. we are with a group of elite photographers outside of manitoba. it's more than 40 below zero. these mothers do it all on their own, giving birth and taking care of their young totally alone. world wildlife fund official says mothers with two cubs used to be the norm. but now they're generally found with one. >> how are they doing? >> these are the best studied bears on the planet. the answer to that is accurate and they are in decline. >> reporter: sea ice is melting and making it hard to reach their only food. as they make th

neal karlinsky, abc news near churchill, manitoba. >> proof that everyone needs their mom.py mother's day. we hope to see you back here tomorrow.

neal karlinsky, abc news near churchill, manitoba. >> proof that everyone needs their mom.py mother's day. we hope to see you back here tomorrow. >> developing news in fairfield where police are on the scene of a shooting that killed three people, including the suspected gunman. osama bin laden's death may be raising the stakes for troops in afghanistan. we'll hear what one soldier there is telling his bay area family. and it's music to her ears. the local woman who has been reunited with her stolen violin. join us at 4:00 o'clock. >>> good afternoon, everyone. welcome to a special edition of abc 7 news at 44:30. we're following developing news out of fairfield are three people are dead. the incident happened at a home on venus drive near interstate 80 in green valley road where neighbors heard gun shots around noon and abc 7's

neal karlinsky is in tuscaloosa, alabama, tonight. neal, good evening. >> reporter: david, good evening. even four days into this, the damage is as fresh as if it just happened. pieces of metal and steel, twisted about like sheets of paper. across this region tonight, people are only just beginning to assess what they'll do next. ♪ across the south today, there was a lot to pray for. and nowhere was that more evident than the tiny phil campbell church of god in alabama. >> the sun will rise tomorrow. >> reporter: never mind the fact that everything but a slab of foundation was ripped away. these deeply religious people soldiered on amid nothing but rubble. >> i am confident that phil campbell, hackleburg, all the other places across alabama and the southeast will rise out and we will be stronger. >> reporter: new images from weather teams show the remarkable before and after of one neighborhood, swept clean of everything that stood more than an inch off the ground. nearby, winds were strong enough to twist metal around a pole like it w

neal karlinsky made his way to smithville and he's live this morning with us. neal, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. it's fair to say that there has not been an inch of this town that's not been affected. take a look at this building. i don't know if you see the angle but it's leaning heavily. tornadoes normally hopscotch around, destroying some building, leaving others unaffected, but not here. this town is a near total loss. while the people of tiny smithville, mississippi, sift through the remnants of their lives, this pastor carries a burden few can imagine. he's already begun presiding over the funerals of friends and neighbors, including one he was with when rescuers pulled her from the wreckage of her home. >> she was alive. i actually called her by name and spoke with her. as we were running her towards triage, i was praying with her. >> reporter: he buried her saturday. but there are incredible stories of survival too. >> she was in the hallway when the tornado hit. >> reporter: 79 yield maxine was rip from her home. they found her 50 yar

neal karlinsky is in mississippi tonight to lead off our coverage. >> reporter: good evening. of all the tornado strikes, the one to hit this tiny town was by far the strongest. an ef-5. it obliterated 70% of the homes around here. cars have been tossed about like children's toys are commonplace. it's the stories from the people who live here that are unlike anything we have heard so far. to understand what the people of smithville, mississippi went through, you need to listen to shelley brown. she found her father amidst the rubble minutes after the tornado obliterated his house. >> he looked at me. he said she's gone. i can't find her anywhere. then he passed out. >> reporter: he was having a heart attack. his wife of 43 years was nowhere to be seen. >> he said that the tornado ripped her out of his arms as she went into the air. >> reporter: her mother's battered body was found 20 feet away. she didn't make it. her father devastated that he couldn't hold on to his wife died at the hospital. this town of over 800 people suffered unimaginable loss. the post office is a pile o

neal karlinsky has the story. >> reporter: a pet, allegedly murdered.banded. this isn't just a neighborhood spat. this is an all-out war. on one side of the fence, the harveys. on the other, the pepperells. >> it's been scary. she is -- she's terrorized us for six years. >> reporter: gail harvey says it began when her neighbor's son stole and then crashed one of her family's motorcycles. she wanted the pepperels to pay for damages, says they wouldn't. and she called police. that's when what could have been a simple dispute turned so nasty, it became life-altering. >> my dogs were drugged. >> reporter: it's a drug used to euthanize animals. toxicology tests on toys in her backyard prove that two of the dogs were poisoned. the harveys were enraged. they spent $60,000 to put up this surveillance system. and they learned that their neighbor would have been familiar with the poison, since she had been fired from the job of an animal control officer. she now worked for the local sultan police department. and had used a police computer to look into them. you t

neal karlinsky joins us with more. >> reporter: good morning, george.ion has been going on for nearly a year now. i can tell you it's an extremely seek reactive inquiry here at home and throughout europe. this morning, we're beginning to hear some of what investigators are allegedly finding. floyd landis, tyler hamilton, and george hincappy once teammates with lance armstrong, all three of them now telling investigators that the seven-time champion is a cheater. >> yes, he doped himself, like everybody else. >> reporter: a former armstrong ally, tyler hamilton, tells "60 minutes" the same thing he told the panel. he saw armstrong use performance-enhancing drugs when they raced together. >> i saw a blood transfusion. >> reporter: it matches the story another former armstrong teammate, floyd an dis, told abc news last year. it was landis who put authorities on the trail of armstrong. did you see lance getting transfusions? >> yes. >> reporter: more than once? is. >> yes, multiple times. >> reporter: armstrong denies ever using performance-enhancing drugs.