hey, good evening. thanks for joining us. we have breaking news and sadly a rising death toll in the wake of the massive weather system that has devastated parts of texas, oklahoma, and new mexico. nearly a foot of rain seemingly in places all at once. sections of houston underwater. rivers and streams hitting flood level in a matter of hours overnight, and then rising even further. also rising as we mentioned, the number of lives lost. at least 13 people have now died in this country, 13 more in mexico. in addition 15 people are missing, including a mom and two children who were in a vacation cabin when it was swept into a local river and carried downstream. we'll speak to the woman's sister who was on the phone with her as the house was being swept away. we'll also talk with one of the many first responders who have flown themselveses into the floodwaters to pull others out. first, let's get the latest from rosa flores. >> oh, my god! stop stop stop stop! you need to get out!

>> reporter: dozens of counties throughout texas were under emergency disaster declarations while thousands evacuated in oklahoma. in densely populated houston, over 11 inches of rain turning many streams into rivers. flooding residential areas and leaving over 80,000 residents without power. >> i kept calling them over and over and i was like, are you okay, are you okay? >> reporter: in the tourpwn of we rememberly southwest of austin over 400 homes is swept away. >> we have roadways like i just described, are just a roadful of slabs now. we don't have any structures on them at all anymore. >> reporter: the blanco river surging to a record 44 feet. >> we saw an increase, a rise of the river within a 30-minute period of 12 to 14 feet. >> reporter: today in houston, rescuers used semis and boats to sift through debris searching for those still stranded. at least three in houston are

confirmed dead and at least 12 more missing. >> she was a good person. she was always competitive. >> reporter: elisa ramirez was one of the victims. at just 18 the student council president and homecoming queen was driving home from prom when her car stalled. she called for help but her car was swept away before it could arrive. >> she did the right things. you know she called 911, she called her father but it was just too much and too quick. >> and now we also have more breaking news. cnn confirming from the fire department here in houston that there was an overturned rescue boat earlier today. three people inside. one person accounted for. and of course they are telling us now that some of those people who are missing from that boat could be part of that rescue team. anderson? >> it's just horrific what's happening. rosa flores appreciate the

update. more now on the dangerous work that so many rescuers have been doing, as rosa just said. we saw this photo in the "wall street journal" of jay horton a captain and swiftwater rescue with the fire department in san marcos texas. the rescue began at 4:00 in the morning, when his crew decided to shine a light to see how high the water was, and they spotted an arm. captain horton joins us now to tell the rest of the story. captain, thank you for what you've been doing, after being with us tonight. the word that we've just gotten about the death of a first responder on that capsized rescue boat in houston. it really underscores the risk that you and other first responders are taking in weather like this. >> correct, it's a shame. and i hate to here that kind of stuff. we also lost a brother first responder in oklahoma, who got suck sbaded into a storm drain. it's a shame, and i hope we could do something to prevent. >> the woman that we saw you rescuing in that photo, what happened after you saw her in

the water? how'd you get her out? >> i actually didn't see her. kurt shuttle and brad mason, two coworkers of mine happened to shine a light to see how high the river was getting, and they saw nothing but a hand waving. i said did you see that? they stopped, backed up and lit up the screen and they could hear her screaming. she spoke only spanish, they didn't know what she was saying but they knew she needed to get out of there quickly, she was in the water. it took a while, because the town was sectorized being cut off by deep water, even i-35 was shut down and closed. so we couldn't get personnel in there. we try a boat attempt, the water was too big, but the new braunfels fire department who was up there helping us we couldn't get the boat in we did a shore-based walk and found out that we could access her position from the river right side but we couldn't get the boat around there. and that's when i figured, i had some makeshift throw bags that i'd made and i happened to be

wearing them and that's all the gear that we had, was pfd, my flotation device and these little throw bags and we hooked them together and it was just enough length to make it to the tree to where i couldn't put a pfd or a life jacket on her, and then my short crew pulled me in. so they helped affect the rescue by -- yeah it was pretty harrowing. >> this is probably a dumb question but what's it like to be in water like that? i mean you know people i've talked to say, no one ever expects it to be as strong as it is there's the current you've got to deal there's objects in the water, you can't even see. how tough is it? >> i teach with water rescue and have since the mid-80s. and i like to liken it to a crash course in physics. because if you're standing in three-mile-per-hour water, which is about up to your pockets, you'll get about 20 pounds force on your legs. if you double that speed to six,

you don't have double the force on your legs you have quadruple the force on your legs and now that's 6 miles an hour and that's like a jog. that's still not fast water. you start getting up to 15, 20 30-mile-an-hour, like you can get in fast water, and you have exponential pressures and people don't understand the force and you can see what it does by some of the debris behind me by ripping trees, floating houses away and it's unbelievable the force. and people can't really grasp the force of the water at that point. >> and as you said you teach water rescue. some of the biggest mistakes that people mistake, even firefighters i mean it's very easy to get, to get killed out there. if you're a firefighter, you're wearing a lot of firefighter gear people don't take that into account sometimes. >> well actually it's appalling to see your newscast other newscasts with agencies trying to do their best to cross the country, they'll be standing on a boat or close to the shore

or bank of the river in their turnout gear. that's the gear we use to fight fires. protects us from extreme heat. do not use that to go into swift water. because once you fall in it floats you at first, but once you absorb the water, it's ten times heavier than it is to begin with. once the water absorbs it all the insulation like this is a fire helmet you see the brim it has on it. you take that in the water, that can snap your neck in quick and fast and powerful water. you need a helmet that's like a kayaker's helmet that's got holes on it. i've got a brim on this, but this will peel away in the force of the water. that's a whole different section. >> you're telling me if a firefighter -- if the brim of the firefighter hat gets underthe water, it can snap their neck? >> when you're talking about water this fast and powerful you donate want anything that catches the current. so you want to have like gear -- like here's the fins that we use when we're in water.

they're not scuba fins they're shorter, because the current would peel you off a rock if you had those long scuba fins. you have to have a flotation device to keep your face above water in 25 to 30-mile-an-hour water. if i could do anything to beg with my brothers and sisters out there, ems, firefighters take a course in swift water rescue. they don't usually teach it in fire academies. you need to learn the power of water under a condition to where your instructors can keep you safe while you're learning what the force of water is all about and get the gear and the training and get prepared for it. because it's too late to do it on a whim at the last minute. >> we've been seeing some of the results of that. captain horton i appreciate your training and you helping others and you being with us tonight. thank you so much. i really appreciate all you do. just incredible what so many first responders are trying to do right now in texas, oklahoma

down in mexico. we've just learned that a fifth person has now been confirmed dead in houston. that brings the total number of confirmed fatalities to 14. we're talking about in texas and in oklahoma. and as we said despite the best efforts of a lot of emergency crews, the force of nation was simply too much for some places. you saw in rosa flores' reports lisa ramirez lost her life a couple of miles from her home in texas. returning from the prom when floodwaters overtook her car. she was able to call 911 and call her dad but no one was able to get to her in time. she was homecoming queen, student body president, yearbook editor, her future could not have been brighter. joining us tonight is her aunt roberta ramirez. >> what do you want people to know about your niece? what kind of person was she? >> she was just -- in a way, your typical 18-year-old young lady. she was beautiful, full of life ready to take on the world, a

cheerleader, volleyball tennis and on the other side of it she had a really deep-rooted faith and a belief that there was a higher being that she answered to and that her desire was to just show people more love and to be able to bring that message to the people around her. >> on saturday night, did she have any idea the weather was going to be that bad? >> no anderson i just don't think anybody really expected it. >> sure. >> texas is kind of tumultuous that way. one minute the sun is shining and the next minute you've got torrential rains. and these kids had met, about 50 of them at her house, before all dressed up and beautiful and ready to go to prom and celebrate and the storm hit while they were inside so i'm not sure that they really understood the depth of it. >> and she was nearly home. >> yes, in fact where the accident happened you could --

from her house, you could see where it happened. their home is on a hill on some acreage, so it's about, excuse me two miles away from where it happened. so you know, she did everything that she knew how, that anybody could do. she found herself in distress called 911, called her dad and said, dad, i'm stuck, what do i do? i've already called 911. he said sit tight, i'll be right there, and within the 10 12 minutes it took him to get there, the waters were just raging and it was just it was just too late unfortunately. >> it's just so awful and just so i mean so stunning how quickly life can change and everything everything changes. >> yes, it is. you know her father their family is very very strong in their faith and her father is an practicing attorney but he also devotes a lot of his time to the church and he had the opportunity to speak to the senior class the week before and he was talking to them about how important the decisions that

they made in life were going to be for them and that they needed to you know, get themselves a good bible and get themselves in the word and read and make sure they were making the right choices, because they were not guaranteed another tomorrow. like all of us you know we don't know if tomorrow is going to come. and ironically his daughter was listening in the front row and listening to that very same message, and here we are a week later having to go through this very terrible tragedy of losing a loved one and one so young and beautiful as elissa was. >> i'm so sorry for your loss and your family's loss. and i appreciate you sharing elissa with us tonight. >> thank you so much anderson. we really appreciate that and appreciate the prayers and condolences. >> we're obviously going to be following the weather throughout the hour and night tonight. coming up next more on a family that was trapped inside a cabin as the water rose picked it up carried the cabin downstream. it hit a bridge, split in half. a mother and father and two children were inside. the mother was on the phone with

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the breaking news tonight, the floodwaters are receding but the human toll is risings in texas and oklahoma an additional fatality just confirmed now in houston. some of the worst devastation happened along a river that rose to three times flood level in just a few hours. and once it did, there was simply no stopping it. anything and anyone in the way found themselves in grave danger including a cabin in wimberly texas. inside there was a family of four. the mother in touch by cell phone with her sister who joins us shortly. but first, some background from gary tuchman. >> reporter: along the banks of the blanco river in hays county texas, a sad and solemn sight. members of the military searching for people who are missing, after last being seen swept into the river. the river flooding catastrophic after huge amounts of rain and

there is still a violent and dangerous current. >> our community have been devastated by a tsunami of water, an historic tsunami of water, that came down the blanco river, very quickly, in a very powerful way. >> reporter: and in this small county people have lost their lives and many are missing. among the missing, a mother and her two children. laura mccomb, her 6-year-old son, andrew and 4-year-old daughter layton. her husband, the children's father john survived but was seriously hurt and is in the hospital. joe mccomb is john's father. >> well it's difficult for him right now, obviously. he's heavily sedated in the hospital. >> reporter: john was tossed in the river with his family. >> we really don't know how long he was in that water, being tossed around and slammed up against trees and rocks and things. >> john's wife actually called her sister when the house was uprooted and started floating on the river. >> from what i understand and just basically said the house

is floating i just wanted to tell y'all i love you. i don't know what's going to happen but, i just wanted you to know i love you and i'm with my kids and my husband. and that was the last of the phone call. >> reporter: so far, no signs at all of the mother and children. about 70 homes have been destroyed in this county. some 1,400 houses damaged. this home owned by a woman, who says in 40 years of coming here she has never even had minor flooding. could you ever have imagined this much destruction from this river? >> no. but i respect it now, i'll tell you that. the fury of these waters tossed vehicles like they were toys. this was a volkswagen jetta. police and emergency officials say they are still hoping for miracles. they still consider this a search and rescue mission.

>> gary what's the river level right now? i mean is it still high? still dangerous? >> yeah it's still well wof flood stage, anderson it's a great concern, particularly considering the forecast a few days from now of more heavy rain but also concerning is this current. this is normally a very placid river, the blanco. i want to show you and i can illustrate this by walking in up to my shins, and once i get to this point i really have to hold on to a tree to avoid going eastbound in the river. that's the way it's floating from the west to the east the searchers are all behind me and one can only imagine the terror that these people went through saturday night, sunday morning in the dark as they ended up in this river. i can tell you, the flood stage is normally 13 feet. the record before this weekend was back in 1926 89 years ago, when the level was 32 feet and this weekend, anderson not 32 feet it was 44.5 feet demolishing the old record from 89 years ago. >> and to be swept away in the dark and all that stuff in the water, just awful. gary appreciate the reporting. a short time ago, i spoke with

lauren mccomb's sister with julie shields. i was struck by someone who's experiencing such profound loss can show the kind of poise and strength and love that she is showing tonight. and as you listen to our conversation i think you'll agree. julie julie, i cannot imagine how difficult this must be for you and for your family. if you can, walk me through what happened. i understand you were on the phone with your sister laura, when the house was floating down the river. what did she say? >> she called me and she said okay we're in wimberly we're in a house, and we've got water coming in. and i said okay. i said, well, where exactly -- then she starts to look outside and see how high the water is getting. i told her to call 911. and she was really surprised -- she didn't really fathom that 911 was what she was supposed to call. and so she called them and they told her that help was on the way. and then a little after 1:00 in the morning, she called me and said i just want you to know

the ceiling has caved in and the boat -- the house is floating down the water and tell mom and dad that i love them. i love you, and pray. >> i'm trying to imagine what was going through your mind while she's telling you all these things. it must have been just been terrifying. >> it was surreal, but the strangest thing about it is she was so incredibly calm. which you don't -- you're not calm in these types of situations. and i had been calm with her that evening. and i would say that it's -- it was a sign of her faith in god and god and her faith were just so incredibly important to her. >> she has deep faith. >> she has deep faith. and i think she was, at that moment where she knew that she needed to be there for her family. she knew what was coming. and she was ready to accept

that. >> and i understand that the cabin actually split apart and separating your brother-in-law jonathan from your sister as well as your niece and nephew. i think your brother-in-law is being treated in the hospital. have you been able to speak to him? how is he doing? >> he is not -- he as you can imagine, if you're the one person that's not left behind you don't know how to process. he lost everything. he lost everything when my sister and his two children disappeared. and i don't know how you live with that type of grief. he did everything he possibly could to save him. hi mom my mom talked to him yesterday when he was in the hospital and he told her that a wall of water separated him from my sister and that was around the time that the house -- the house hit the bridge. and the house then split in two.

>> what do you want people to know about your sister -- >> she was loved. she was loved. she had a very big personality. she was a good wife. she was a loving mother. and her kids were her life. >> and her kids are so beautiful. you know i don't know if there is any consolation in this but, that they were together has got to be some source of strength right now. >> that is a source of strength and it is -- it is somewhat comforting because she would never leave her babies. and the fact that they are together is very very important. and something that -- i don't know. i don't know what to say. >> julie, i'm just so sorry for what you're going through and our thoughts everybody here are with you and your family,

and i just wish you peace in the days ahead. >> thank you. thank you. >> there's a lot of people in need right now. texas, oklahoma and down in mexico. just ahead, we have new questions in that quadruple homicide in d.c. new details involving an assistant. text messages and a lot of money. r card you can now use freeze it to prevent new purchases on your account in seconds. and once you find it you can switch it right on again. you're back! freeze it, only from discover. get it at discover.com.

disturbing new questions tonight in the investigation into the murder of a wealthy washington, d.c. couple their 10-year-old son, and housekeeper. one suspect has been arrested as you know and police say the investigation into others is still very active. pamela brown reports. >> reporter: cnn has learned two of the five people with darren wint during his arrest cashed money orders for $2,500 each, money believed by investigators to be from the $40,000 dropped off at the savopoulos family home while they were held hostage, according to a law enforcement official. >> when you release them you've identified all their information. we know where they work we know their cell phone numbers, we know where they live we know where the family is. so the police officers probably felt pretty confident that they can release them. all right? and let them know listen you know you're still under investigation and there might be some charges to come in this case. >> this as we're learning police

continue to investigate, an individual described in police records as an assistant and driver of savvas is asavopoulos. according to court documents, the assistant changed his story about when his boss contacted him to pick up the $40,000. revised details about the car he left the money in at the mansion, and admit head lied by not initially telling police the cash was in a red bag. >> there's no reason for somebody like that to lie. the detectives are taking a very close look at him, to find out whether or not that money was dropped off or not, going through all his records to see if in any way he was somehow connected to wint at all in this case. >> so far, no one else besides daron wint has been named as a suspect in the case. >> cnn has learned after the murders in washington, d.c. wint allegedly took a bus to new york to stay with his girlfriend and once he was publicly named as a suspect, wint paid an uber car service to take him back to d.c. according to a law enforcement source.

and the two women who allegedly purchased those money orders were released from police custody in less than 24 hours. but we are told the investigation into them is still very active. authorities have been looking at possibly bringing charges, such as accessory after a crime. though a law enforcement official says charges against them are not eminent. anderson it is clear d.c. police do not belief the suspect daron wint committed this quadruple suicide alone. >> a lot more to find out. pamela brown, thank you. let's get the latest on some of the other stories we're following tonight. >> iraqi forces have started a major military operation to free areas from isis including anbar province. the counterstrike comes a little after a week after isis took over the city of ramadi. a u.s. airmen shot two walmart employees before killing himself early this morning. 21-year-old marcel willis was stationed at grand forks air base. police say there is no obvious connection between willis and the victims, but an

investigation is underway. two daughters of late blues legend b.b. king are saying he was murdered by two of his close associates claiming they gave him investigation to induce diabetic shock. an attorney for king tease business manager call the charges ridiculous. king died earlier this month at the age of 89. and a volcano on one of the galapagos islands has erupted for the first too many in 33 years. there are concerns that the eruption will damage the ecosystem near the wolf volcano on isabella island and threaten species, including the only population of pink iguanas in the world. anderson? >> amazing pictures. amarah thank you very much. just ahead, new fallout tonight for the duggars and there are growing calls for tlc to cancel the popular series "19 kids and counting" over molestation claims. collect killer whales from the wild. and haven't for 35 years. with the hightest standard of animal care in the world our whales are healthy. they're thriving. i wouldn't work here if they weren't. and government research shows they live just as long as whales in the wild.

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police. no charges were ever filed. duggar when's now 27 has resigned his position with the lobbying arm of the family research counsel. as for the future of the top-rated showing featuring the devoutly christian supersized family that's still a big question. alexandra field tonight has the latest. >> for years, america watched their family grow. >> we're the duggars and our children. >> reporter: duggar life documented in the hit series "19 kids and counting" and in a book "growing up duggar," co-authored by the four oldest duggar daughters. but they are staying quiet as the family's darkest chapter continues to play out in public. claims that josh duggar molested five children including some of his sisters, when he was a teen. late last week the 27-year-old issued an apology, saying 12 years ago, as a young teenager i acted inexcusably, for which i am extremely sorry and deeply regret. now, newly resurfaced video shows josh in 2008 making an

apparent joke about his siblings and incest. >> we just jan and john david. we thought, why not have a double date? we are from arkansas! no. >> reporter: the duggars, a conservative christian family shared their home with cameras for ten seasons. tlc made the family famous but it's taking heat airing a marathon of old supposed, only hours after the allegations were published. a day later, executives reversed course announcing the network would take all supposed off the air, at least temporarily. but there's no word on whether the show will go on. >> it's sort of an open question and some of it depends on how willing tlc is to be transparent and how willing duggars are to participate in the process of addressing this on the screen. the show certainly can't continue without some sort of acknowledgement or some sort of conversation here. >> reporter: general mills, payless shoes, and choice hotels all show sponsors are

now pulling their ads. and a petition on change.org to cancel "19 kids and counting," started nine months ago, has now racked up 193,000 signatures. a rival petition to keep the show has garnered more than 212,000 signatures. online a sign of support for the embattled duggar and the entire clan. a blog post from josh's sister's father-in-law, who writes it pains me to see that they are now having to re-live the nightmare that had been laid to rest well over a decade ago, with josh's repentance and reformation. his wife pregnant with the couple's fourth child, is standing by his side. the audience waiting to see if the duggar family gets another chapter. alexandra field, cnn, new york. >> there are so many unanswered questions in this story. lots to talk about with dr. drew pinsky host of hln's "dr.

drew." he joins me tonight. dr. drew the fact that josh duggar hasn't received as far as we know any sort of professional treatment or assessment other than a so-called christian counseling program, which according to "in touch" magazine was really just a family friend who had a construction business does that make any sense to you? >> no. it's actually -- frightens me. the fact that this man is with his own children amongst his siblings who remain at an age which he had targeted in the past with no assessment whatso whatsoever. we have no idea what this potential could be. whether he's continuing to do it or whether he's even treatable. we have no idea. the fact that there was no assessment we can't even discuss treatment, because we don't know what we're dealing. but i can tell you for sure we're not dealing with something that couldn't be associated with profound profound disaster. >> if this is some sort of

predilection for children -- >> yes! yes! >> -- this kind of thing, this doesn't just go away. we all know this. >> no it does not. and the fact that -- you read about the family's interventions. we've taken care of this. we've taught him the difference between right and wrong. are you kidding me? if all we had to do with child molesters, they know right from wrong. they can't control their impulses their urges, their drives. and by the way, even after this kid confessed to what he had done he did it again very shortly tlafhereafter. and the family intervenes by telling a trooper who he himself, is doing time for child pornography. >> this guy who gave him a stern talking to whatever that means -- >> this is unbelievable! it's -- anderson it's just unbelievable to me that people in this day and age can contemplate, particularly somebody in law enforcement, can contemplate that all you need to do is rationalize or talk or be

stern with or teach somebody who has this problem. no! oh my goodness no. this is something far more serious. >> also, you think about the victims in all of this who have not only not had any justice, but as far as we know we don't know what sort of counseling they've had or if anybody's even listened or cared about what happened to them. it seems like the focus was on well well we gave a stern talking to this young man at the time what about the victims in all of this? >> what about the victims? have they even been identified yet? sometimes people that engage in these kinds of activities don't even really understand the extent to which they've perpetrated. and one of the thinlgsgs that victims do is wall it off. brains grow in sort of ways to unwire that memory that piece of the emotional machinery that is associated with the trauma. so the victim doesn't come forth and doesn't want to talk about it or think about it. and it has effects that are often lifelong. >> dr. drew pinsky appreciate

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tonight, new developments in a murder mystery that has stunned and stumped a lot of people. a body recovered over the weekend has been identified as the man that prosecutors say was killed by his fiancee last month, while they were kayaking in the hudson river, north of new york city. body could yield crucial clues about what actually happened on the water that day. the case that prosecutors are building it is deeply disturbing. randi kaye reports. >> reporter: an evening kayak trip for a couple that appeared very much in love. but before it was over angelica grassfield's fiancee had disappeared, presumed dead. police say the couple was kayaking here on the hudson river, before plum point and bannersman island. investigators say around 7:40 that evening, grasswald called 911 from the river to report that her fiancee's kayak had capsized in the choppy water. she told police she couldn't

find him. it was april, after an especially cold winter so the water was only about 40 degrees. rescue crews searched the river. no luck. grasswald, who is a u.s. permanent resident, but a lat latvian citizen, described the scene to a reporter. >> i saw him struggling a little bit. he was trying to figure out how to paddle the waves, because they were getting crazy. and then i just saw him flip. zpr but the police don't believe that story. grasswald is charged with second-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. >> the indictment alleges that as viofor reached for his paddle to save his own life, grasswald pulled it away. richard is angelica's defense lawyer. >> did your client try to save her fiancee that night on the river? >> i think she did, but even if she could have gotten to him, she didn't have the physical

ability to save him. >> reporter: prosecutors also suggest grasswald may have actually set him up to drown by tampering with his kayak's plug so the boat would fill with party. >> so your client didn't remove the plug from the victim's kayak? >> she did not. vincent left in his kayak on april 19th without the plug knowingly, has he had done several times in the past. >> reporter: in the days following the tragedy, grasswald posted this video of herself on facebook doing a cartwheel, along with smiling selfies, all of it raising eyebrows. she even showed up on stage at a local pub, singing "hotel california." a friend of the couple's described her performance as strange. mike coal vin issing an jellka grasswald's ex-boyfriend. >> did she have a temper? >> the temper would come out on occasion. as i told people there was no indication she was ever capable of anything like this. >> when they broke up in 2010 coal vin said grasswald made a

desperate and dangerous attempt to take the couple's cat. >> she threatened to break into the house if i didn't give her the cat. finally i relented and i did give her the cat and i literally got an alarm installed on the house the next day >> reporter: she later moved into this town house with vincent. why, if she did do this would she want to harm her fiancee? the prosecutor says grasswald stood to inherit $250,000 from life insurance policies and talked about what she could do with the money after his death. >> was she aware of those insurance policies? >> i'm not aware that she was. >> reporter: what about her diary? grasswald told a reporter that she complained in her diary about her fiancee wanting a sexual threesome. >> what partner hasn't requested a threesome? this is not craziness, right? this is not anything that's out of the ordinary. but it's not a motive for murder. >> motive or not, investigators now have a body.

>> it's an interesting sound bite there from that gentleman. >> yes. >> randi kaye joins me now, is there any evidence that this woman made an effort to get help for her fiancee? >> well anderson the state police are handling this investigation and they say she did call 911 at 7:40. and they also say she said the kayak capsized at 7:14. so did she way and why did she wait? we asked her attorney that and she said she was in shock and freezing from that water and maybe she didn't have her times straight. i also want to mention that plug that kayak plug the police say she tampered with. the lawyer says that she did not tamper with that of course. and we spoke with a guide who works on the river and says that would not have caused a kayak to fill up with water. what you're more worried about is the cockpit, which is where a person sits in the kayak. >> fascinating stuff. up next marking a milestone here at cnn, 35 years of cnn. that's our wolf blitzer back in

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we're celebrating a milestone. the world's first 24-hour news network was launched on june 1st 1980. in just a few minutes, the special report "breaking news: 35 years of cnn" will be hosted by our wolf blitzer. >> i dedicate a cable news network. >> shots were fired at the president. >> for 35 years, we've been everywhere. >> skies over baghdad have been illuminated. >> there's nothing subtle about the horrors of this war. >> o.j. simpson is in that car. >> in danger covering the devastation. >> he's got a big laceration. >> the terror. >> there has been a second explosion. >> possible suspects in the boston bombing.

>> and triumph. >> direct helman can you talk to us? >> making news and breaking news. >> what is going on in ferguson missouri. >> and wolf blitzer joins me now. wolf 35 years, i mean it's amazing to believe, it's hard to believe, you've been here now 25 years, i've been here about 13 years or so. what stands out to you in all the years, all the stories you've covered? >> all these stories, at least the 25 i've been here so many of them have been amazing stories, whether the first gulf war that really put cnn on the map, when we were covering what was going on in baghdad. we had three journalists, three reporters there. plus our photographers, our producers who were there, peter arnette, bernie shah john holman. they were literally risking their lives. i was at the pentagon reporting on what was going on. >> you had just started. >> i started on may 8th 1980 and saddam hussein invaded

kuwait a few months later. so tv was a whole new world. and at that time you remember anderson the whole world literally was watching cnn, because we were the only 24/7 cable network. we were the only one reporting live from baghdad. it was really an amazing story that we were covering. and as i said it really put cnn on the map. >> it's also incredible how a seemingly ordinary day, i mean not that there's any ordinary day, but everything can change in a matter of seconds. a story just comes out of nowhere, sometimes. a us airways jet down in the hudson river, a well-known person michael jackson, dying. something happens somewhere in the world, and the whole network kicks into high gear. >> that's really what i love about cnn. i'm sure you love it too. that we have incredible news gathering capabilities. obviously, here in the united states but around the world. i don't think anyone has the region that we have around the world. when there's a tsunami in japan, we were all over that.

you were there. it was really amazing. any big story that happens, and it's been like that for me ever since i started in 1990. you know whether it was the first gulf war, the murrah federal office building in oklahoma city 9/11 which all of us covered. these were stories that not some impacted the world, but impacted us so much as well. a lot of times, we're professional journalists, but we're also human beings. and as you know, covering katrina, and as i know covering other really poignant stories, it has a powerful impact on all of us as people as well. >> and now we're all mandated to wear the same glasses. >> i like your glasses. they make you look a lot younger, anderson. i knew you 13 years ago when we were getting ready to cover the iraq war. we went to doha qatar when the u.s. military was having those military games there. and you were much younger looking there. >> i was. you had a fancy room and i think had a closet to sleep in. >> you were new to cnn.

>> i think they were like why did they hire this guy? >> we had total confidence. >> wolf it's an honor to work with you, thank you. >> wolf blitzer, that does it for us. here's "breaking news: 35 years of cnn" with wolf. >> the following is a cnn special report. >> i dedicate a cable news net work. >> good evening, i'm david walker. >> and i'm lois hart. now here is the news. >> this is cnn breaking news. >> approximately four shots were fired at the president. >> the massacre of hundreds of thousands. >> president reagan has endorsed german reunification. >> for 35 years we've been there every year. >> the skies over baghdad has been illuminated. >> this is one pocket of turmoil in the egyptian capital.