[Lemon:] All right. I couldn't believe this one. This next story mirrors the plot of that movie remember "Weekend at Bernie's"? With characters straight out of "Dumb and Dumber." Two guys, allegedly trying to cash their late friend's Social Security check, wheel his body with them through the streets of New York and leave it outside the check-cashing store. Reporter Nina Pineda of our affiliate WABC is here with details. Nina, I'm sure New Yorkers thought they had seen everything, but not quite anything like this before.
[Nina Pineda, Wabc Correspondent:] You know, Don, exactly. That's what police are saying, too. And you can see some strange things in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan often, but a dead body on a chair, an office chair, fully dressed at 3:45 in the afternoon? I mean, that's pretty strange, even for New York. I'm waiting for the suspect to come out of the police precinct. You just can't wait to ask them, whose idea was it after they discovered their roommate was dead to say, "Hey, let's go cash in on the corpse"?
[Unidentified Male:] It could happen anywhere, but it's typical of that comment, only in New York. You never know what you could see.
[Pineda:] New Yorkers think they've seen it all, but a dead body slumped in an office chair, that's something new.
[Raphael Reyndsa, Eyewitness:] And I see these guys pulling this body in a chair, in a computer chair.
[Pineda:] What this witness saw was Virgilio Cintron. He's been wheeled down 9th Avenue on a rolling office chair, parked in front of this check-cashing store while two men tried to steal his Social Security check by attempting to convince the Pay-O-Matic cashier their buddy was alive.
[Reyndsa:] He wasn't breathing at all.
[Unidentified Male:] He was clearly dead to you.
[Reyndsa:] He was clearly dead to me, yes.
[Pineda:] An off-duty police officer saw the whole sick shenanigan and questioned the men.
[Reyndsa:] The officer said, "What are you guys doing?" And he was trying to take the body inside the cashier, so he the officer stopped them.
[Pineda:] One might be a roommate of the 66-year-old. Cintron died of natural causes before he was so unnaturally treated in the hours after he passed away.
[Unidentified Male:] I wouldn't believe my eyes. They should definitely be charged with something. Where did they get the dead body?
[Pineda:] And that's the question. I mean, what do you really charge these guys with? Police are saying illegally transporting a corpse is usually reserved if somebody kills someone and then tries to move their body. These guys may only just be charged with check fraud. But we're waiting to see. I think the D.A.'s office is struggling. And Don, as you were saying when you came to me, this check, just $355 for what they did to this poor soul. Nina Pineda for WABC. Back to you in the studio.
[Lemon:] Three hundred Nina, $355. And as we said in our tease, and no sense S-E-N-S-E. So you're saying just check fraud. They're in court now. Any time they're expected to get out? Do you know?
[Pineda:] Actually, Don, we were expecting them to be taken to the arraignment. But I think that, as we said, the D.A.'s office might be struggling with it, because they're still talking to them inside this police precinct. They did find out that the man died of natural causes.
[Lemon:] Yes.
[Pineda:] So they don't think they'll be charging them with anything to do with his death.
[Lemon:] All right, Nina, if you get an update for us, please check back in and let us know. Thank you for very much joining us today.
[Pineda:] Will do.
[Phillips:] Our affiliate out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, WTMJ, just brought this videotape in to us out of Kenosha. This is the aftermath of that tornado that our Chad Myers had been talking about. What we saw this morning. Chad Myers, you first told us about it, that it was happening yesterday afternoon, tore through various areas. And this is the the end game that we do not like to see.
[Myers:] Yes. This is the one that it started in Illinois, moved across the Illinois-Wisconsin border, and then right on up into this area here. It's to the west of Racine and to Kenosha. We're watching these pictures, and we do know now that this was an EF-3 tornado, an F-3. The enhanced Fujita scale. What that means is about 140 miles per hour. We do know that 15 people with this tornado were injured. Also, many of the homes that were hit were, in fact, completely taken off their foundation completely. And in this picture, I think that's that's clear. You can see, though, the randomness of the tornado. And that's just how we one of the ways that they figure out how wide the tornado is, and also to make sure that it was a tornado and not just wind damage. It would take one heck of a wind gust to knock homes down like that. But it has happened, especially in a mobile home that's not tied down well; 100-mile-per-hour wind gusts can do this type of damage. But with the house next to you still standing, with just a blue tarp on the roof, obviously lost a few shingles many people lost most what of what was left of their lives there. They're picking up the pieces now. No one killed in this tornado, though, only 15 injuries. I guess and one of the real the meteorologists up there said I can't believe that because they had 15 minutes' warning, that was great news. But he still can't believe that everybody survived this.
[Phillips:] Yes. Good news. The best news out of that. Chad Myers, thanks.
[Myers:] You're welcome.
[Phillips:] Well, at the nation's high court today, it's Democrats versus Republicans. Justices are considering a challenge to an Indiana law that requires voters to show photo IDs before they can cast their ballots. One party likes that idea. The other doesn't. Our justice correspondent Kelli Arena joins us now from Washington. Kelli, who brought the case before the Supreme Court?
[Kelli Arena, Cnn Correspondent:] Well, Kyra, it was the Democratic Party and the NAACP. They're basically leading this fight. And as you said, this law was originally passed by a Republican state legislature. The Democrats argue that the law, which does require people to get government-issued IDs before they vote, is just an effort by Republicans to discourage the elderly, the poor, minority voters who tend to vote for Democrats, Kyra.
[Phillips:] So what does the state say?
[Arena:] Well, Indiana argues, "Look, this is just one of many steps that we've taken to make sure that the elections are fraud- free." The opposing side, they say, hasn't brought forward anyone who's actually been harmed by the law. So this is all based on a hypothetical situation.
[Phillips:] Well, do you have any predictions?
[Arena:] You know...
[Phillips:] Do I dare ask that question?
[Arena:] You know, the justices seem to me, in all my wisdom, to be reluctant to completely strike down the law. The key swing vote, Justice Anthony Kennedy, seems to suggest that the vote the law could be upheld, with possibly some changes down the road. But the case definitely broke along ideological lines. You know, the court's four liberal justices, much more critical than the conservatives. But it's all going to come down to, Kyra, is a sense of balance: weighing the voter fraud issues versus the voters who are inconvenienced. And it may it may set a precedent for that, at least.
[Phillips:] OK, oh, wise one. When do we expect a ruling?
[Arena:] That I could tell you.
[Phillips:] OK, good.
[Arena:] We're expecting a ruling in June, which is going to be well before the presidential election, which of course, is the big concern here, Kyra.
[Phillips:] Kelli Arena, we'll watch it. Thanks.
[Lemon:] Confrontation from the U.S. Navy's point of view. Video of this week's high-seas run-in with Iran.