the state's ban on gay marriage was unconstitutional. an appeals court suspended that ruling. those are the the headlines. "america tonight" with joie chen is up next. >> >> on "america tonight", the weight, as rescuers power through the mud that buried a community alive leaving behind only pieces of life. >> with each passing hour more on the devastation that levelled oso washington, and how much was lost. >> also, what happened to alicia

rudd, a desperate search for a child put in the hands of this man. how we protect our most vulnerable. >> the minx, the cotton pickers... >> it's a good conversation starter. >> a long history of offensive names in sport. a new play washington's franchise might want to consider. >> good evening, thanks for joining us, i'm joie chen. in the foothills of washington's cascades, five days after the mud slide the news is not getting better. searchers, rescuers, and volunteers are going through a thick blue.

there is little doubt that the death toll will go higher. micha michael oku is there. >> on the fifth day, with no end in site, rescue crews are fighting exhaustion and the mud. >> they are literally getting sucked. >> that in display in this video, shot hours after the mud slide hit. first responders sink as they lift a 4-year-old boy to safety. reality is hitting the community hard. >> it is very hum bling, and we are respectfully very grateful. >> more newly released images show how the land swallowed dozens of homes, erasing a square mile in minutes.

officials are not certain what caused the slide, but they say there were warning signs. >> people knew that this is a landslide prone area. sometimes big events just happen. sometimes large events that nobody sees happens, and i want to find out why. i want to understand why. >> the list of the missing includes young children and married couples - locals and some, in a shocking twist of bad timing, were just passing through. like summer rafo, driving along highway 530, when what one called a tsunami of mud crashed down on oso. >> my sister is out there. she's in a car driving by. until she has gone or the last person, i'm out there. >> professional crew us and volunteers are turning to heavy machinery to cyst through the debris, now 15 feet deep in some places. there's an army of bulldozers,

search dogs and hover crafts, and black dog helicopters. plenty of equipment in mann power. >> it's something very personal, a whole group of toys that belonged to a little child today, in a basket. i thought, "god, that was a killer.". >> that's "america tonight"'s michael oku, reporting. he'll continue to follow up. allen schauffler joins us from derrington, where the waiting goes on. we see the tear, it must be crushing for folks. >> absolutely. really hard on the folks here. i think the first couple of days there was a certain amount of shock involved, you can feel it from people, see it on their faces as they came to realise the extent of the natural and human disaster as the number of dead rose, and the realisation

that there are so many more people missing, to be accounted for. so this is a small community, it's a logging community, an out doors community. they are tough folks, and say they support each other. that's what they are doing in this case. we have seen that as well. this community coming together with food drives, with bingo nights, with all the proceeds going to support the families, with local corporations donating cash cards to the agencies involved, all of that thing. people doing their best to keep their chin up and moving forward. it's difficult, and the firefighters at district 44, just over here, who have been out on the piles for the last five days, and are getting their first break say it's difficult. they are out there, and their victories, successors, when they find vick -- victims, when they

find bodies, they can come back and give a family answers about where the loved ones are. the big questions - how and why, they are spinning around everyone's head in this community, and perhaps best left to answer individually a little later op. >> allen schauffler for us in derrington, washington. thanks. >> big question area, and what will happen next. david montgomery from the university of washington joins us, and is the author of "dirt", the erosion of civilisation. we talk about what is happening here. it is hard for us to understand why the search and rescue and recovery effort is so difficult, as laymen. this stuff - it's mud, it's quick sand at this point. >> imagine trying to move through a slurry of wet

concrete. it's difficult to move, hard to get your footing, difficult conditions to work in, and that wall of mud that came though the up to was incredibly violent. there's all kinds of debris, it's a horrible nightmare of a situation, and we are in washington praying for further miracles that someone may be found. >> absolutely, hope that there is someone alive this just needs rescuing. i heard one of the people involved in the rescue saying that his surprise was, you know, when you found a vehicle that had been overrun by the mud flow, there was little left of the vehicle, it had been shredded by the power of the flow. >> yes, if you imagine the hillside giving way and lik qidiing into a mobile slurry, that's an incredible sandblasting force that could rip things to shreds as that individual saw.

the amount of force behind an event like this, the kata stropic slope failure is unimaginable. >> can you give me an indication of how strong the force is? can you measure is it speed, a flow like this? >> i don't know details for the slide that can be measured. there'll be an attempt to work that out in hindside. the rab iedly moving landslide can go quite fast, 20-30 miles per hour, and be devastating. >> looking at the early pictures, you can read something in what happened here, how the earth shifted. >> yes, you can see the way that that slope failed is that it was a 600-700 foot slope. the toe of it liquified into the river and across the valley bottom. what caused it to fail, of course, we had a wet winter,

200-300% rain fall, but the hill slope was made out of unstable materials, and had failed in the recent past, previously. large areas of valley wall failed remotely in time. we don't know when. the site was a known area of instability, and this most recent slide is bigger than anything that this happened there before. >> certainly the questions will continue about whether people knew enough, had enough warping about what was going to happen. we appreciate you being with us, professor, university of washington, geomore follow gift. >> when we return, a search of the indian ocean, dramatic images and what may have happened. how much can investigators

expect to learn, if little of the doomed jet is found. later, in the shadow of the nation's capital. some of its most vulnerable. the case of a missing 8-year-old exposes washington d.c.'s failed efforts to protect homeless kids.

>> friday will mark three weeks since malaysia airlines flight mh370 disappeared and tonight authorities say we could be a

couple of steps closer to solving one of the greatest mysteries in aviation history. here is why - the federal bureau of investigation says its analysis from computer files of the co-pilot and pilot are almost complete. more than 100 objects have been revealed floating in the southern indian ocean. the multinational search from the sea and air is underway in the region, where it is already thursday morning. "america tonight"'s sara hoy hol follows up with details. >> a week ago the fbi announced it would be able to retrieve and examine material delated from pilot zaharie ahmed shah's simulator. >> if it's deleted you can recover the program. what you are trying to do is recover the thoughts, communication of the pilot. what flights was he loading in.

>> agents are analysing computer files from the pilot and co-pilot fariq abdul hamid as well. the federal bureau of investigation hopes to have an analysis shortly. the fbi told congress on wednesday. u.s. secretary of defense chuck hagel says we can't rule anything out, not even terrorism. >> i don't think at this point we can rule anything in or out. we have to continue to search, as we are, and the united states continues to stay committed. we have aircraft in the area working out of the malaysia and perth. as you know, we moved two of our most sophisticated locators to the perth area. >> more than a dozen ships and planes are scouring an area roughly 1500 miles south-west of perth australia. there's where more than 120

objects bobbing on the ocean were spotted in images. the objects vary in size from three feet to 75 feet in length. malaysia's acting transport minister, called it the most credible lead so far. >> it's not far from the objects sited by the chinese government, which is over here and the australian government, which is over there. so this is still the most credible lead that we have. and consistent that if we can use all the technology that is available, the radar that is available, what we can deploy to this area, it seems to corroborate some form of object and debris, and it is confirmed to be mh370, at least then we can move to the next phase of deep sea surveillance search and rescue probably.

>> moving into the next phase of the sea search may prove diff. teams are racing against the clock. the black boxes have 11 days of battery life left, and the pinging sound will fade. >> "america tonight" sara hoy rejoins us. why is this search so difficult. >> there's a number of obstacles in the way. this is far off the coast. they need to get a number of ships and planes into the area. a four-hour flight. there's currents, rough seas, bad weather, there's a number of things in the way. this is not an easy mission. >> as they do this, there has been - the u.s. navy was sending in assistance to locating the black box, which has a few days left to keep pinging. >> so the u.s. navy is sending out the toed pinger locator, the sting ray looking item that is

toed along to find it. it will take several days to get out this. we are on the clock. we have 11 days left. it could take 10 days for the locator device to get to the region. we are on a tight deadline. >> investigators are as well. thank you very much. >> following up, joining us is former ntsb chairman jim holme. appreciate you being here. at this point they say multiple leads are narrowing it down, but we are still talking about 150 square miles plus. it's a big area to search, and a debris field that is moving. >> it's huge. i did six underwater accidents whilst chairman and it's amazing me to get out on the ocean and see how difficult it is for any type of recovery.

>> it would be worth it. the conditions that we are talking about out there, incredibly deep water, great waves, very cold, very difficult to follow what is going on. the rescuers have been turned back already. it's worth it to be able to map out a field here? >> well, they may be like air france, where they had to bait for better weather, and then return. of course, that took several years to locate that aircraft, but, yes, it's important to international aviation, and the security, because, you know, aviation ties this world together, and we don't want to see that not untied. >> in this case the type of debris they are talking about now, they are saying 122 pieces, give or take, that have been

identified at this point. if it's nothing more than seats, luggage, could it help investigators? does that kind of evidence really help. >> well, i mean right now we haven't had a human being physically identify that this is an object from that flight. until that's done, there'll be a question in many individual's minds, and a nagging question for the families, you know, is that plane - is that really the aircraft, and is that where my loved ones are located. >> if the black boxes are not found, will you still be able to understand the secure or that an investigation can be complete and give you a full understanding of what happened? >> no, no. i think you need the black boxes to have a full understanding of what causes tragedy.

>> you really would have to have that. >> yes >> the black boxes, there's about 11 days left this it will continue to ping. this will be difficult. >> that's rough estimate. i mean the black boxes - what we are looking for is the emergency location transmitter which is not crash resistant. getting the ping and identifying where the wreckage is is extremely important. those recorders should have the information of the conversations in the cockpit, as well as with this advanced technology, probably 100 streaming pieces on the operation of the aircraft. former national transportation safety board chairman jim hulme, thank you for being here. ahead - a little girl lost. how the disappearance of

8-year-old alicia rudd in the capital raises questions about whether we do enough to protect homeless children.

>> a snapshot of stories making headlines. osama bin laden's son-in-law has been found guilty of conspiring to kill americans. the al qaeda spokesman and architect behind the videos faces life in prison. the t.s.a. wants more mann power

airport security checkpoints prompted by the deadly shooting killing the first t.s.a. officer. the agency is calling for active shooter training and more police at airports native wide. congress will consider the recommendations. germany's bishop of bling has resigned. the pope moved from his diocese after investigations into his lifestyle reveals $43 million in living arrangements. the vatican will secure another position for him in due time. >> a disturbing story about a little girl vulnerable living with her family in a homeless shelter. now there's fear that she's at risk. ralisha rudd disappeared in the company of a shelter employee wanted for killing his wife. the fbi has added to the reward fund at $70,000.

it adds to the question of safety in homeless shelters. here is lori jane gli ha. >> these are the last images at a holiday express. the man is a jan or at the d.c. homeless shelter where she stayed with her family. according to the washington d.c. police report he was allowed to take her with him in february. the little girl never came home. >> it's surreal, heart breaking. we are trying to be as hopeful as possible this we'll find her and bring her back safely. it's been an emotional roller-coaster because so much is going on. at the same time there's awful feelings about how this co have happened. what - where she is, what she's doing, whether or not she stays.

it's extremely difficult. >> danielle knows ralisha well, she runs a play area. for more than a year the 8-year-old thrived on art projects and dream of being a model or cheerleader. this is a place she felt safe. >> she was trusting, loving, the first kid who was outside when we arrived and runs up to you. it's play time. and throws her arms around you. and children living here need to be kept safe. it's unspeakable to me that there's someone who families trusted with their safety and children's safety. shelter's managers and leaders at the department of human services which overseas the homeless shelter are not saying much about why an employee are

permitted to enact. according to the fiscal policy, more than 400 families stayed in the shelters. this year it's more than 700. with a growing homeless population, homeless advocates say it's understandable why families might be vulnerable to situations like ralishas. >> parents may not be as sensitive to boundaries or red nothings. it's - there are a lot of people who prey on vulnerable people. not everyone has the distrgs say who is sincere and safe. >> this woman founded the homeless children project and says families like ralishas are crowded into small rooms and see why the jan tore's offer may have been appealing.

>> imagine if you and your family of five were packed in a room like rats and someone offered to help take care of some of your kids from time to time. >> the surge in homelessness is not only putting pressure on homeless families but pushing the city to cut corners. to better under the problem, we spent time with janique. she had been in a cot like this in benning tonne rech center that the family used because of the cold. >> when i came in there was a lot of noise. we were a little antsy. i wasn't able to sleep. i thought "is this where we are going to be at?", i didn't know what i was in a stall for. the guy showed me how i was supposed to close it. there's no lock, no key. thinking - my first thought was

somebody could come in. >> d.c. law is more progressive than some, requiring the district to provide housing for the homeless and severe weather conditions. the makeshift cots and walls provided didn't give enough application or privacy for families with kids. >> what was the thing you worried about the most that night. >> that somebody would try to cause harm to me or my child. when i was there at the shelter. >> thanks to a ruling by a d.c. judge who ordered the city to provide rooms for families like hers, she qualifies for a city of paid hotel room. on this cold night after waiting for hours with the temperatures hovering in the 30s, jan eke and little kaly were at the holiday inn expressed. > i was relieved we had piece and quiet. no one would bother us, my

daughter and i are safe. she's comfortable. [ sings ] >> jan eke and her little one cuddle in for comfort. the worry continues for another little one in the hallway of this hotel where ralisha rudd was seen one month ago. >> it's not clear why ralisha and kalil were at the holiday express. it's a place that some homeless families are sent. the hotel told us it is cooperating with police in the investigation. the government by the way responded to the ruling requiring them to offer private rooms to families, and this is what they said: they are

planning to appeal. >> this case has drawn a bit of attention locally. there's developments now, more than a month since she disappeared. >> they'll look for the little girl, but we have been learning about who knew what and when. that's something to be investigated. she was missing for weeks before a police report was filed. she was not showing up to school deputy mahar of health and community services said the grandmother or mother would say and dr tatum would confirm that the girl was take. tatu m is not a doctor. that will be something they are looking into. >> confusing information in the background. the folks at the play time

shelter trying to help the children. this is weighing heavily on their minds. we've had other incidents where children disappeared. >> they told us this is of concern. there was another girl that went missing, a 14-year-old. that was found in california. they testified in front of an oversight committee. this was concerning to them or anybody, whether you work there or not and knew the girl or not. >> a vulnerable population. thanks, "america tonight", lori jane glooe ha. >> coming up next - another view of the struggle too many children face to protect themselves. far away from big city streets, there are many homeless kids in the other america. >> looking ahead - a bishop boycott. >> i would like the see the archbishop dismissed. he's disgraceful for the catholic church, for this matter and other things he has done.

in reality, this is our church as much as the archbishop. we have a stake in this. >> the bishop and the backlash. "america tonight"s in new jersey on the spending fuelling anger at the catholic church. that story on thursday on "america tonight".

>> before the break we heard the story of a missing little homeless girl in washington d.c. where homelessness is a significant problem, it is also true in suburban and rural communities as well. even in maine. tonight we meet sabrina gill patrick a homeless teen with an unstable home life since a toddler, and has been homeless since is a. "america tonight" spends the day with sabrina as she works towards her future in "the other america." >> maine is cold. this is transitional living. it's not meant for long term. some people here are basically a stray dog, coming in long enough to get the wounds healed and then leave. or people like me, who have been here for three months.

the first time i lived in new beginnings, i was 15. >> a lot of people are homeless because of family conflict, and are asked to leave their homes, or are asked to run away. >> my mum is not a parent, she's an unset mother who should never have had custody of me let alone keep custody of my sisters. they pick me up in the morning and i go to school. i put whatever they have on and read. there's no other way to get to school. my school set it up so i have transportation because i qualify as a homeless look. i did a full year of school last year. i moved around too much. i didn't want to go to school. it was frustrating having to do all this stuff, and worry about where i was going to live the next day. nobody at my school knew what my

situation was and kept it that way. i didn't want them to know. >> can we talk about that? >> yes. >> and this one. >> okay. >> i'm ready when you are. >> i have teachers that understand, that are the biggest part, especially when you are homeless, you need people to understand, and the school supports that more. >> can you estimate what the log of three would be. >> as soon as i come here, i got along well. i released that this woman helps. >> before sabrina was withdrawn. she'd sit and read, the hair would be down, and isolated because she'd been to so many schools and didn't have roots. now that she's in here, it's - she's laughing, smiling, jobinging. doing great in her classes, passing - i mean, a traditional student gets six credits a year. last year she got 10.

knowing that sabrina was going through issues at home before she was ready to move out, it allows me to be more understanding, so when a student walks in the door. instead of saying "you're late for class", i can say "did you have a rough night at home." >> this is considered a world school. there's 504 students in the high school. poland is the biggest up to, there's 4,000 people in it. there's no street light. no stop lights. flashing red lights. no stop lights. >> there are places like boston, new york, and bigger cities - people are aware there's issues with homeless youth. as you go into the rural areas, there's less awareness. >> how high does it have to be? >> i believe it says 350. >> 450. everybody takes turns doing different chores. everybody rotates. right now sabrina has the

cooking duty. she'll cook the dinner. >> i am sure i'll be fine moving in on my own. i know how to, because they are reminding me. it's not a big difference to me. i had to grow up faster when i moved out. the world doesn't owe you anything. for some reason a lot of people think the world owes you something, like you deserve this, you deserve that. you don't. >> many times the youth are victims, victims of multiple types of abuse. if it happened at a younger age, it may have happened 10 years ago. >> that will stay with you. i moved in with my dad and stepmum. lots of times it affects the teen years. and the guardians don't know where it came from. they are not able to deal with the young person.

>> that's pretty good. >> my dad wouldn't be willing to try living with him again. i made sure of that. nothing my dad or stepmum did. >> i was a good kid. i didn't listen, i didn't care. >> these kids care. they need someone to pay attention to them. it's important have programs that are available to youth, because it gives them time and a safe place to be. they know they are safe. any more than trying to help them move forward. >> i learn that the people are trying to help. you should let them help you because they really want to help. i love this. i love this area. such a good author. >> i'm excited to graduate.

i will be away from everything. >> definitely it will be odd, but worth it. it will open every opportunity. we'll do more than we can with that one, be able to get a job easier, go to college, all that. these doors will be open with the one piece. >> we'll graduate from high school, and go into the military at some point. it will be next year. there'll be rules. i'll figure it out. >> sabrina left the new beginnings youth shelter in mid february and lives in an apartment with support from the main department of health and human services and we are happy to hear she's on track to graduate from highly this spring. it's difficult for other children. we are join bid gerry johns,

director for the national coalition for the homeless. people will be struck by the young people to young teenagers who are homeless, and have to find a way to fend for them. what are the numbers? >> the center for american progress released figures estimating 2.4 million and 2.7 million. >> that's a big gap. >> we don't have big numbers, in part because they are couch surfing, staying out of view. it's dangerous to be a young person. not only are they difficult to find and count, but they have it from a safety standpoint on interest in being hidden. this strikes me that there are not that many resources this young woman sabrina was fortunate to find a resource in may. this is not typical for homeless

teenagers and younger. what is there? >> your viewers would be surprised to know there are so few beds available in terms of emergency kilter for homeless youth. there's 4,000 beds nationally. given the second of numbers we were discussing, that's inadequate. >> 2.5 million homeless youth, but not as many beds. >> many more young people are on the street than there are shelters. >> some communities have tape dramatic action to deal with the problem. you mentioned that law enforcement in some communicate yes have taken incompre rensible steps to deal with homeless deanagers. in minnesota teenagers have been

taken to a bus stop, believing they need to be in a larger city. >> a solution is to put them in a truck stop. >> which is a venue where prostitution happens. >> why would they do that? >> it's indefensible, it's the response we find when there are no shelter beds, no appropriate interventions for kids on the streets. >> the resources - we'll send you to the truck stop hoping you'll find another city to go to. >> it's called greyhound therapy. many do this with adult homeless, using bus tickets to pass off the problem of the lack of shelter in their community to a larger city. >> the occasion we had, we talked about the homeless and homeless children in washington d.c., but then we looked to maine. suburban, world, we see high levels of homelessness among

young people. >> we do, it's a national crisis. there are folks who are homeless. i have seen homeless people in afghanistan lunt community, in -- aff luent communities, in rural and poor areas, where folks live in poverty and on the brink of homelessness. there's problems there. >> jerry johns is national director for the national coalition for the homeless. >> stay tuned for special coverage of our series "homeless in america." >> ahead in final thoughts - schooli school ties. how would you feel if you played for the cotton pickers. we look at stereotypes.

>> the name on the front of the jersey is what matters, not the back. it's a heated issue from varsity to pros. washington red skin's owner is not changing the name of his team, but will support native americans with a new foundation. as al jazeera's michael sure reports, actions fail to speak

louder than words sometimes. >> washington red scenes, cleveland indians, two team nicknames and mascots under fire. imagine rooting for these. the orafina idaho main maniacs or the shanks or others. would you be offended? >> we looked at all kinds of nicknames, the ones that get people's ire are the native american names, and we are talking warriors, red skips, indians, tribe, anything with a native american connotations seem to be the one that gets people upset. we are appealing to the nobility, native american culture and wror spirit. that strikes a lot of people as being race. . >> it's what every team calls

its own. instead of creating harmony, it stirs controversy. with that in mind we travel the country to talk to people about what is in a name. 2.5 hours east of los angeles sits the valley, an hear marked by date trees and space, and largely populated by hispanic family, it's home to a nickname lasting 90 years, and one under security last year. >> the arab american defamation committee - the idea that this mascot is offensive to them is not so far fetched. >> they are unhappy with the depiction of the mascot and felt it was appalling to them and they felt it was stereo typing arab culture and people. that's why i called them. it was never the intent from the

community, and not something that my board or i would be not sensitive to and ready to resolve. >> the high was nicknamed the arab because of its connection to the middle east because of the vibrant date industry. these are the logos through the year, through the 30s, the 50s, and this went from the '80s, to the present. you see the hooked nose, the fez taken away. >> the last thing we want to do is hurt someone's feelings. >> not everyone agrees. >> it's a mascot. >> it's what shows us, you know, we want to be angry, strong, powerful. >> i disagree with, like, the whole issue. i don't see why they are getting offended by the mascot. >> there's a facebook page to save the mascot with 3,000

members. 90 plus per cent feels that we should not give in to pressure from washington to resurface the gym floor, which is a gym mascot. re paint. thousands better spent on educating the students, instead of this controversy. >> community and board meetings have been ongoing, and a 5-person community will make their recommendations, involving a compromise and change. >> i have heard more from arab americans than i have heard from others asking for the change. >> in the end everybody has been open to having a discussion, and say consider it. >> separated by 1200 miles of road, but perhaps tens of thousands of miles of history is robs town texas, a rural farming community from corpus christi, the home of the cotton pictures.

cotton pictures con jurs up images of slaves during the war. it's one we may not have considered until we visited there. >> what do you think of your mascot, the cotton pickers. >> it's a super name. five years ago we rap a survey asking the members of the community though the newspaper - they wanted to change the name. 99% did not want to change the mascot name. it's named after the cotton picking of the area. everyone is proud of it. >> another prominent attendee is former congressman solomon ortize and lives in corpus christi. you attended the high school. >> yes, sir. >> what did you think now, and then of the nickname the cotton pickers. >> i'm proud that i was a real cotton picker, and when i went to high school, i was a cotton

picker. it's a good name. it represents or identifies the hard-working people. >> what if a segment of the african american community said that they heard about the team in robs town texas calling themselves the cotton pickers. that offends us, our ancestors were brought over as slaves and put to work in the cotton fields. should they be able to air their experience? >> i can understand where they come from. pickers my age are proud to be a pickers, they were hard workers, honest workers, paid their bills and taxes and took care of their families. >> if you heard there was a team that used an enny that the - known that it's an epithat, but it's a caricature, a bad part of the history using that about mexican americans or hispanic

americans. >> i am sure i would be offended. i can see where people come from. it merits us speaking about it. it's a couple of black athletes. it will be good to visit that, get to the heart of that. it's shame on us for not being more sensitive to the issue, but it's a good conversation starter. >> if you woke up and got a letter from the texas department of education saying we decided to change the name of the cotton pickers to the red raiders, how do you feel about that. >> i would have mixed emotions i would see where they are coming from. i would maybe argue that this is pat of our heritage, not using it as a racial slur, but a source of pride. >> the inner child in the south and ancestors were slaves and

picked cotton. to us that african american name - hearing you say cotton picking that is okay. it raises concern on my part. i know some people see it as derogatory. while they may not, consider the fact and have the conversation to try to resolve it. in the spring of 2014 while daniel schneider and the redskins are mulling over the nickname, superintendent adams and his board will be enacting what decision is appropriate. we have a knew mascot. the team is called the arabians. >> the notion that the mascot has changed and maybe the name of the mascot has named. what do you expect the backlash to that to be if that happens. i don't think there'll be a backlash. in a year from now.

people will look it up and say 20,000 students in the hot desert of southern california made the right decision, and we can model off of that. we can do it too. >> the report from michael sure. that's it from us here on "america tonight". goodnight. more of "america tonight" tomorrow. >> good evening, everyone. welcome to al jazeera america. i'm john seigenthaler in new york, and here are the top stories. washington state official say 90 are missing from the saturday landslide, down from 176.

the death toll remains at 16. the search for victims is in its fifth day, those waiting for news took comfort in the video showing the rescue of a 4-year-old hours after the mud slide hit. controversy in new mexico with another officer involved in a fatal shooting. police opened fire on a man in albuquerque. cops say the man shot at him. relatives and forehands say he was unarmed. he's the 24th person to be killed in an albuquerque police shooting. >> it could be the most tantalizing search. satellites followed 122 objects floating in the ocean. it could be debris from the plane, but nothing has been picked up yet. transportation, security administration wants more security and airports. the t.s.a. releases a list of recommendation, including armed personnel, panic buttons and

training. congress will review the recommendations. those are the headlines for this hour. see you back here at 11 eastern. coming up, lights out. it's called one of the scariest short films ever. "consider this" with antonio mora is next. >> the death toll climbs in a grim day for rescuers in washington state's massive mud slide. how many are missing. also an attempted congress to force action on immigration as a cpo report says reform will save the country hundreds of billions. plus, more than 500 people sentenced to death as egypt's military leader resigns to run for president. >> will high schoolers be better students and healthier i