if i had a dollar for every one of those blond joke is wouldn't have to work anymore, could just stand up and leave. right? i'm gretchen. have a fantastic day. hearings shep. >> tear gas, stun grenades and a city on edge as folks in ferguson, missouri, brace for another night of danger. prosecutors beginning to present evidence to a grand jury. will the officer who shot and killed 18-year-old michael brown face charges? inside the police tactics. cops rushing into the crowd, guns drawn, arresting protesters. we'll look at their security strategy on a very busy news day. let's get to it. good tuesday afternoon from the deck. we're learning today more about the protesters police arrested during another night of chaos in ferguson. this after the captain of the highway patrol said that outsiders, outside agitators, as many are calling them, or blame

for whipping up the violent crowds. according to arrest reports we have, police actually arrested 78 people last night. mostly for failing to leave areas that the police were clearing. they have that no more standing rule. you must keep moving. that's what the arriveds were about. we have a breakdown. how many of them actually live in ferguson, missouri? of them people arrested, four police in ferguson. 48 others live in the greater st. louis area. nearby, but not in ferguson. five others live outside the st. louis area but in the state of missouri, and 18 of the 78 arrived are from out of state. places including new york, california, and texas. according to police. theon straighters started win an officer shot and killed an 18-year-old black man who was unarmed. [shouting] >> for a tenth consecutive night

the demonstrations turned violin, with one exception in the middle, but it's been going on for a while. police say somebody shot two people as police fired tear gas and flash bangs to break up the clouds. officials in ferguson lifted the curfew last night, but they have asked people to protest only during the daylight hours, but no curfew. the violence has broken out only at night, and many of the people who are speaking to fox news say, they want their city back. last night, we watched as a line of people joined arms to hold back people who were looking to whip up the crowd. the people on your screen right now, these are not people causing harm. these are ones working with the police to control the rowdy crowds. locals trying to take back their city. early this morning after the tear gas had cleared, the head of the highway patrol spoke to reporters, his voice shaking. >> i'm telling you, we're going to make this neighborhood whole. we are going to make this community whole, and we're going

to do it together, and i am not going to let these criminals that have come out here from across the country, to define this neighborhood and define what we're going to do to make it right. have a great day. >> now a state troopers and the national guard gear up for another night of potential chaos, prosecutors say a grand jury could start hearing evidence as soon as tomorrow to decide where the officer who called michael brown should face charges. also tomorrow, the u.s. attorney general, eric holder, is set to visit fergusun, missouri, as the justice department conducts its own investigation. the federal autopsy, the third of three answer sunday is complete but they have not released details of the findings. we have team fox coverage again today. wendell is live at the white house on the federal government's involvement here. first, let's get to steve harrigan on the streets in ferguson. steve?

>> reporter: shepard, this is pretty much the scene right here at 3:00 in the afternoon. some protesters marching, as they were yesterday afternoon. the numbers, probably 70 or 80 of them. the scene changes dramatically as we go through the course of the day. also traffic running through the city. that was closed down yesterday as well. it's a very much different scene at nighttime, especially around midnight. here's what that looked like last night. >> shots fired. shots fired. shots fired. now they're firing the tear gas. see it? this is what the smoke -- the smoke has tear gas in it. that's in my eyes. man, a lot of tear gas. my face is on fire. >> the dignified protesters -- -- jeer we are getting new the funeral for michael brown will be monday. no further details yet. >> steve, last night, by the

time we went off the air at midnight central time, the crowded were down to just a few people, and if any of them were ones who were upset about michael brown and wanted to take their city back, it was hard to spot them. >> you're right. the crowd really changes over the course of the day. it's really -- peaks around 6:00 or 7:00 at night when there are perhaps as many as a thousand people here marching. we have really seen different strategies by the police as well. yesterday, for a long time, they had people intentionally walk. they had to walk or else they could get arrested. that changed around midnight when we had 200 or 300 people left, when we saul the violent standoffs. then after the tear gas it dwindled done to 100. and a generational shift. a lot of older people are upset about what they're seeing and the college dawn, but the younger prosters out at night, there's a real sense of furry,

angry about being told to march or stay on the sidewalk, and they say they're going to be back out again tonight, despite calls from a number of groups to end the protest when the sun goes down. >> thank you very much. as reported this attorney general eric holder set to visit ferguson, missouri. part of the fed's own investigation into the police shooting that started this. wendell tech feds are not taking over the investigation? >> both the missouri senators, one a republican, one a democrat, call it's parallel investigation, after speaking with the president. but the two seem to differ on how aggressive the feds should be. republican senator roy blunt says the feds can assist but should not assume local government responsibilities, and wisconsin republican congressman paul ryan agrees. >> i believe local officials are clearly the boots on the ground. that's the jurisdiction, but there's no problem with the federal government having a

role, but in all of these things, local control, local government, local authorities, who have the jurisdiction, should be in the lead. >> claire mccaskill wants an aggressive federal probe, duplicating forensic work and re-interviewing witnesses. the civil rights groups say they're already finding the witnesses more forthcoming than to local police. mccaskill says historically the federal got has fostered more progress on civil rights issues than state and local issues. both she and senator blunt will immediate with attorney general holder tomorrow. >> for foes who missed, ann comptoned a her final question of the president, are you going to ferguson? can you be of any help? the president d. answer the question. what's the thinking there. will he go? >> the aides are suggesting not anytime soon and it makes sense.

most of ferguson's police, working long hours, little sleep. that would be the worst time to divert many of them to the security demands of a presidential visit. also, it's unclear if mr. obama's presence would actually reduce the violence. he has been more cautious in his comments about this than he was after she shooting of trayvon martin, saying young black men are too often involved in crime but that police can do more to foster trust. here's a bit of what he said. >> this is not an argument that there isn't real crime out there and law enforcement doesn't have a difficult job. but what is also true that given the history of this country, where we can make progress in building up more confidence, more trust, making sure that our criminal justice system is acutely aware of the possibilities of desspirits in does disparities in treatment.

>> wendell, thank you very much. as we reported here, grand jury will -- could start hearing the evidence in this case as soon as tomorrow. that is according to a local prosecutor. let's bring in evangeline gomez, defense attorney and frequent guest on the program. i'm telling you, grand jury this fast, almost unheard of. and often grand juries to return anything take months and months and months. >> you're absolutely right. that's the issue here. but you have a community that put pressure and said, this is moving too show. we need to go quicker. so many people feel that the prosecutor is under this pressure from the community to speed things up. >> the prosecutors tradition yale -- correct me if i'm wrong but prosecutors can present whatever amount of evidence they want and the burden -- the bar for getting an indictment is frankly very low commonly. >> it's probable cause, which is less than beyond a reasonable doubt, which is the standard when it comes to criminal convictions. but the issue here is that under the scotus opinion, they can

also consider hearsay. the grand jury can consider hearsay, some forms. >> for example, in this case. >> yes, for the indictment. so, that can happen. >> like, for instance, what sort of hearsay -- things we have heard, i heard this one say this, or this one told -- >> i heard one call into radio show and say this, i saw this video, this surveillance of the strong-armed robbery. those are examples of ha hear sai that can be considered. >> we heard so much from eye witnesses, people who gave detailed statements, varying in detail, which is normal for witnesses of a crime, in interviewing people who saw crimes for 25 years this, accounts so often wrong, not necessarily intentionally. then we get this woman calling into a radio show and we're treating it as, in many cases, as the testimony of the officer. it's baffling. >> it is. so what you have are a lot of different accounts. we don't have any evidence

that's going to trial at this point because the legal situation, the proceeding, is going to essentially begin tomorrow. but what you're going to see with the grand jury is they are going to subpoena witnesses they think are going to be critical in this situation. grand jurors can ask questions of these witnesses, which typical jurors cannot in a trial. they can also investigate evidence, and this is all very critical, and remember, these proceedings are secret. >> quickly, could you get an indictment based on what we know? >> i'm not there. so, it's going to be based on what the grand jury hears, what is presented. the witnesses, the evidence, autopsy reports, and other things that we, and the public, don't know about. they that will be privy to. >> evangeline, nice to see you. >> nice to see you. >> an update on the story we have been following, the st. louis police say they shot and killed a would-be robber after he refused to put down a knife. is this city of st. louis or

st. louis county police. doesn't say here. city or county? this information i do not have and i will getit for you, because -- get it for you because there's two completely different jurisdictions. this is new information to me. it happened outside a market in north st. louis. cops -- i don't know if that's county or city. cop says the store owner says he got into a fight with the man when he tried to rob him at knifepoint. the suspect would not drop his weapon, even after the cops arrived. he tried to attack police, and cops shot and killed him. this is from the city of st. louis, metro police department, not the county police, who have been involved in this case. how that is relevant to what is going on here is beyond me? but there you have it. armored vehicles and military agreed weapons in ferguson. we've seen then. the pentagon has been shifting its surplus to local police departments and now the secretary of defense is looking

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the u.s. defense secretary, chuck hagel, wants to reportedly, quote, get smart about the federal program that

supplies police with surplus military equipment. the pentagon spokesman, rear admiral john kirby explained. >> secretary haig. has asked for more information so he can have a more informed opinion about it. >> according to the pentagon that program distributes hundreds of millions of dollars in military equipment to police forces across the united states, surplus equipment. roughly half a billion dollars worth of equipment changed hands from pistols to automatic rifles to heavy armored vehicles our military used in iraq and afghanistan. the defense official tells us secretary hagel wants to, quote, learn more about the program because president obama expressed interest in it, which bring us to us our slide show. some of the equipment you may have seen in the coverage. did they get all these from surplus military equipment? i don't think they did. just got from the department of defense what they gave.

the ferguson police department in 2007. two humvees, a cargo trailer and that is it. nothing else. hearings a member of the missouri highway patrol inside an armored personnel carrier, as you can see, with weapons in hands. this is a cover of the st. loud post-smash newspaper which has handvery good coverage of this. stl today.com. and we use it around here. showing us an photographer firing a tear gas canister. this is police in their riot gear last night, gas masks and reed -- riot gear in a standoff. here cops are detaining this suspect right here. see him? one of the protesters, the left side of the photo, while the police on the right side huddle together, and protesters and journalists who do not wear gas masks, make -- you can see

somebody pouring what appears to be milk or water on his face. milk seems to neutralize the effect. going to lea gabrielle. explain the tactics. >> a former law enforcement officer i spoke with developed these tactics for the nypd and the point is to disburse a crowd if people within the crowd are committing crimes. your hearing one of the pieces of equipment that they're using. this is called a long-range acoustic device and can emit a sound that is loud enough to be pantoufle those who are in range. also seeing police form lines and then charge into crowds in a wedge formation, this to pull out people and make arrests. the former law enforcement officer i spoke with explained this tactic. listen. >> if you're going to make arrests you form into v formation, try to separate the crowd into smaller groups, that smaller group will then disburse

to smaller groups, where you have mobile arrest teams now. it's manageable. >> he said police should only remove someone from a crowd when the person is actually committing a crime, and as for those other weapons that are being used, things like tear gas that we're going to show you here in this video, pepper spray, i asked why police would make the decision to use them to breck up a crowd. listen. >> the crowd decides to become an entity of themselves, where there is no rhyme or reason to why they're there, and it's contagious, and they just start going into stores, looting, or they're starting to assault other people, nonparticipants. that is when as a police commander you have to make this decision. >> he said even with all the weapons and tactics being used, the point for police being there is really to allow people to peacefully demonstrate. >> thank you. we're watching other major stories today, including gaza, where the latest cease fire is

now effectively over after a new round of strikes. the details and what it means for the talks aimed at reaching a long-term deal. peace, elusive peace in the middle east. that's next. virtually all your important legal matters in just minutes. now it's quicker and easier for you to start your business, protect your family, and launch your dreams. at legalzoom.com we put the law on your side.

23 minutes past the hour. another cease fire broken. the fighting back on and the peace talks done for now in gaza, or regarding gaza. the israeli military reports they carried out a series of air strikeness the gaza today after official says somebody fired rockets into southern israel from hamas controlled territory. hamas claims it has no information on today's rocket attacks and its spokesman is accusing israel of trying to, quote, foil the peace talks.

yesterday both side agreed too stepped the cease fire another day to give the negotiators in egypt more time. now time is up, and israeli officials have walked out of the talks in cairo and the palestinians say they're leaving as well. rick leventhal is live in gaza city. rick? >> reporter: there are more heavy strikes in the air. palestinian media report a little girl killed and 15 others injured when they're house was hit, and today we saw rockets fired from a neighborhood in east gaza, breaking the cease fire, and then watched people scramble for cover for fear of retaliatory strikes, and of course there was payback. the israeli military promise third would be. 25 airstrikes earlier today, including many within sight and sound of our location in northern gaza, and at least ten injuries reported as well. one stunning thing is some people are staying in their homes even after their

destroyed. >> this neighborhood in east georgia says on the border with israel. shattered by the israeli military but not abandoned. these brothers and friends spend a day under a tent on top of the roundtable of their house, saying they prefer this to the shelter. >> he says he lost more than $100,000 worth of electronics when his store was smashed in an airstrike. now he and his family share tea and meals in the shell of the building they once called home. >> this is baghdad street in east gaza. thousands of people were displaced from the neighborhood but many have been coming back during the day to take advantage of the shade, go through possessions, and they say because this is where they're most comfortable. suddenly, it was time to go. after two rockets were launched by militants close by, ending the cease fire them locals have

seen what the israelis can do so they head for cover before retaliatory strikes again. so, the israeli delegation has returned from cairo, no word on when the peace talks might resume. we're hearing there are people who believe that neither side really wantsf these full-blown hostilities so there could be a limited agreement between the two side, maybe limiting of the black okayed, maybe an extension of the fishing boundaries. the palestinians submitted a paper they hope the israelis will sign off on but no word on when the two side mate get back -- side might get back together. >> great day in the life there thank you. bringing in michael singh, former special assistant to secretaries of state condoleezza rice and colin powell. the one thing we talk about all the time and never seems to get better. >> that's right. obviously this is the third such conflict in the past few years

and this is the 11th cease fire that hamas has either broken or violated, and the israelis have made clear whenever there's rocket fire they're going to respond and made clear they're not going to continue to negotiate while rockets are being fired. that doesn't mean they won't come back to negotiations or the cease fire talks won't resume once calm returns, but also possible we won't see a formal cease fire here. in 2009 we didn't have a formal cease fire, just0s of ended and then you had talks about reconstruction rather than political accommodation. >> the talks, though, -- there seems to be a need for the outside world, at least, for these talks to bring about some sort of resolution, so that maybe the palestinians and the israelis get a modicum of -- i don't know -- something they want. >> well, that's right, and i think there are solutions that are in the palestinian and the israeli and the egyptian interests but not in hamas'

interest. hamas brought devastation through its actions on to gaza and wants to show it has -- can accomplish something out of that, it has eased it's elation or boosted is standing but turns out neither the israel or palestinian authority want to happen and have come together behind a plan to restore the palestinian authority to gaza, which was of course kicked out by ham whereas in 2007. >> -- hamas in 2007. >> that's something the united states doesn't oppose and might be the better. >> absolutely. a good solution for i think all parties involved again, except for hamas. the problem is hamas is the one that has the weapons, has the force on the ground there in gaza, and ham mass has shown the willingness to not only to fire rockets at israel but atech the border crossings which it's demanding be open to attack even palestinian authority forces as it did in 2007. and so if hamas ultimately won't sign on, it's possible you could

have some sort of grandma between israel and the p.a. to strengthen their own relations but it's hard to do anything on ground in gaza if hamas opposes it. >> good to see you. >> then there's iraq. first we had panel on the ground to protect our embassy. then we took in -- sent in more people to help with the humanitarian crisis. then we started shelling the isis troops from the air. then we were up to almost a thousand people there. and the pentagon spokesman today says there is no mission creep in iraq. but he is not ruling out more u.s. airstrikes. a live report from the pentagon coming up as we approach the bottom of the hour and the top of the news.

>> more headlines. the american woman's body that turned up inside a suitcase in

bali will be returned to the united states tomorrow. that's according to a hospital official there. last week police arrested the woman's daughter and that daughter's boyfriend. each now faces murder charges. >> in pennsylvania, middle school teacher's husband took the stand in court and described the moment of five pound rock smashed through his car windshield and hit his wife in the face. he says she will survive but the doctors will have to remove her right eye. four teenagers now face criminal charges for throwing those rocks off an overpass northwest of philly. and construction of new homes jumped almost 16% in july. to its fastest pace in eight months. that's according to the commerce department. anallies say it's a clear sign the united states housing market is now picking up steam.

more on the situation now in ferguson, missouri, where officials are gearing up once again for that they believe could be another night of

violence. fires, looting and vandalism over the last ten days have destroyed parts of ferguson but with school out for the rest of the week, some teachers, along with church groups and others, are vowing to clean up and move forward. mike tobin witnessed this first hand last night and is live with us today. very different scene in the daytime. crowds come out to pick up the mess now, huh? >> something that is sad and humble that happens in the quiet just before daybreak you. zoo see people emerge with trash bags. sometimes on their own, sometimes organized by church groups or teachers organizations, but they clean up. not only clean up on the street but cleaning up the stores that have been looted. the family of mike background showed up inside of sam's meat market after that was broken into and looted up there. and we heard one of the volunteers say, just today, that this has nothing to do with mike

brown in reference to the looting. >> speaking of things that have nothing to do with mike brown or this case, as happens in cities across america every day of our lives there was a shooting and robbery today at a store in the city of st. louis. what more on that? >> well, as far as what is going on in ferguson, word did reach the demonstrators here, and not only did word reach the demonstrators, a lot of misinformation has got ton them and they decided the shooting was not just and they're very angry. what we haven't seen is a big electric reaction to this latest incident. >> i had no idea. a minute ago i'm reading the teleprompter. i had no idea why this completely unrelated thing in another jurisdiction was even being mentioned now. i get it's. it's inflammed the people out there. >> there you go. >> all right. >> so far they're angry. i think later tonight we'll see what the real reaction is.

>> well you know, there's some in that crowd looking for any excuse to be upset, and there's no doubt in that. mike tobin, nice work. did you get a gas mask yet? >> so far -- i've seen e-mails i have a gas mask. >> i hear you're already supposed to have one or one is on the way, and flak jackets as well. >> there go you. >> that's the least we can do. mike tobin amid all the crap out there. >> iraq forces say they launched attacks against islamic state militants in areas around tikrit. it is about 80 miles north of baghdad. you he can site on the big map. the militants have controlled that city since june. meantime, kurdish fighters tell the reuters news agency they secured two towns irbil and northern iraq. and militants still have a presence outside the towns but their far away and too far away to reach them with mortars or machine gun fire.

all this camps u.s. officials say they launched a barrage of airstrikes to help the government and kurdish troops. president obama said the strikes helped iraqi and kurdish forces take a major step forward by recaptures iraq's largest dam and that was a big deal because analyst says the militants could have destroyed the dam, but made no sense they've would do that. it would unleash a 65-foot high wall of water and even flood parts of baghdad, according to a pentagon report. a pentagon spokesman says just minutes ago the u.s. may construct more airstrikes in iraq if needed for humanitarian assistance or protecting americans. jennifer griffin at the pentagon. what else did the spokesman have to say -- the assertion there is no mission creep? >> well, that's the thing, shepard. he tackled repeated questions from journalists moments ago, about mission creep. he took it head on through the press conference, at the white house yesterday the president

went out of his way to say the u.s. is not going to serve as iraq's air force. >> mission creep refers to the growing and expansion or the golden objectives of a military operation. the golden objectives change. morph into something bigger than they were at the outset. nothing has changed about the mission, the missions we're conducting inside iraq. >> the pentagon says they are only authorized by the from carry out airstrikes for humanitarian reasons or when u.s. property or personneles threatened. the u.s. carried out one more airstrike today around the mosul dam to help the iraqi ground forces create a buffer sewn around the dam. >> do we know anything else about the latest iraqi military operations? >> just hours after securing the mosul dam, retaking it from isis fighters, iraqi forces moved on to another isis stronghold, saddam hussein's home town of tikrit. an iraqi spokesman says they're moving slowly and gradually.

no word of u.s. air sport for -- air support for that mission. doesn't fall under the category of humanitarian assistance or u.s. personnel threatened. isis put out a propaganda video in which they threatened america and americans, quote in any place, and i was issued in english, which is unusual, and went on to say we will drown all of you in blood. this came after the state department designated the isis spokesman to its terror list. >> jennifer, thank you very much. we're just getting new information in. look at this, water rescue is underway in phoenix, arizona. in the valley of the sun they rarely have water, rarely get rain. but when they do, it can be a harrowinger experience and thats today. there have been water rescues in rivers,ed inned freeways, the

interstate 17, a river of mud and trapped motorists as authorities respond to multiple water rescues this morning. the meteorologists say the heaviest storms of the season have passed now, but the rain is expected to fall interest the early afternoon. right now 41 minutes past noon and residents of black canyon city, north of phoenix, are advised to prepare for evacuations from rising water. there's a mandatory evacuation order for a trail park in one area. rockslides reported in the area. much of this information from az central.com and so much from our local station,ksaz. this rescue right here, man, what a job. trace gallagher is in the west coast news hope and watching with us. i don't think a lot of people on the east coast realize these storms were going on. what a bear. >> specially in phoenix, where they had inches and inches of rain. when the happens is it all comes down from the mountains and

fills up the dry ravines and the water -- it is raining heavily in the mountains and it's rushing down. this house has been pummeled for 45 minutes. you saw there are people inside. the question is oh, do you get them out from the roof or out from inside the house up on to the roof so they can pull them up on the police helicopter. i mean, the water right now, as you can see, is kind of eating away at the foundation, and the concern here is that if it keeps pounding underneath the foundation it's know kind of jammed up against the tree, you see. but the worry is that if you push it away from the foundation, this whole house just kind of starts floating down the river with people inside. so, right now, you have police trying to maintain a plan, get these people up on the roof and out. look at the water rushing underneath his house. and it's unclear if this house was actually up a little higher. we believe it was up about

30 feet higher, and twisted the other way next whole thing just kind of went down and toward that tree, and now that tree is about the only thing that is holding it from the rushing water. and again, it comes flying down the mountains in a flashflood type of scenario, and then just hits whatever it is in its path and it could stop at any minute but right now it's still raining heavily in the superstitious mountains and all the water has come flooding down the hill. >> thousands of homes without power, we now have report, in some areas of the valley of the sun. three inches of rain, and, trace, for people who don't understand that part of the world, three inches is like a couple of feet back east. >> they're getting -- this is a place that gets four to five inches of rain per year. when you get three inches at once in a dry area, that ground is very hard. if you pulled out on this camera, you would notice just behind that house, it is still bone dry. this water is all coming right through one certain area.

so, if this picture was to pan out, you would see just nothing but desert. but then you have the water and the mountains that comes down, picks certain areas. you can see the police officer, the rescue team, talking to this person, saying, i'm going to try to get you out. here's a life vest. have to get on the roof. it's unclear how many people might be inside here. but they really are working against the clock because this thing is being held up by a tree right now. it looks like the water level has lowered in the or five minutes, but on the other side of the house, it is still undermining it and just beating the daylights out of the top side of the house, and they're just hoping it doesn't twist and move away from the tree that is holing it back. >> the flood waters from i-17 have spilled into the main central arizona canal and contaminating it, all kind stuff, bugs and snakes and mud and just a complete disaster for folks in that area. a lot of cities have been

notified that they can direct their water treatment plants to process the dirty water if they want. at any rate there's said to be no danger drinking water in the phoenix metropolitan area. sky harbor airport which serves phoenix in and the sounding area had delays this morning because of the rain. but right now they're reporting normal operations. if this -- this rain is not scheduled to continue throughout the day. in fact, maricopa county has a flashflood warning in effect until 1:00 this afternoon. trace, i guess they go months and months and months with no rain at all. flight. >> yeah. and then you have these things call the monsoon season, with the humidity levels go up and then get downpours and this it what -- this is what happens. we talk about the danger of flashflooding and it's hard to illustrate what they mean. when you talk about flashflooding and how many cars and trucks and people we have

seen drown over the years because their cars have gotten caught in these types of flood, where normally it's a dry road or dry ravine and the next thing you know the water comes robbing down off the mountain. this is a very good illustration of exactly what happens and how dangerous it can be, because once the water starts rushing -- i can't give you a miles per hour thing but that's a pretty good force of current right there if it's able to actually twist that house around, knock it off the foundation, and push it up against the tree, you can imagine the force of the water coming down off the mountains. now you have finally one of the rescue teams are police officers appears to be on top, and it's unclear if that's another officer down in the window, shep, or they gave somebody a life jacket and they're trying to figure out how to get him or her out of there but you can imagine that the helicopter is kind of hovering above because at any moment this thing budges, these people end up in the water, and god knows where they end up downstream. but this is a very precarious

situation right now for this house, and you have spots of these all up and down the desert. we have seen highways that become rivers, because of flashflooding that comes out of the mountains, and it's only a matter of the forecasters and how much rain they get in the mountains before they can tell how long this will last. right now it shows very little sign of letting up at all. >> for viewers just tuning in, this is not videotape. these are live pictures and a live rescue that is underway before our eyes. trace, when you don't know what the water is going to do, and you have no way to know whether the structural integrity of this home will hold, and whether those trees, which appear to be blocking at the moment are going to hold, these people are putting themselves in a great deal of danger here. >> we haven't seen rescues like this -- the great floods in the midwest and dallas, texas, and hurricane katrina in new orleans, but if you look back, the helicopter is giving us a

bert vantage point. looks like the foundation was up a was, and again, this is a concentrated area because if you panned out a little more, about 20 yards on the back half side of this house, it's bone dry. there's nothing up there. but right in this area, you can see they're kind of pulling back allege bit here. our friends outs ksaz, right in this area you have a river, dry ravine that very seldom has water it in, but when it does they're designed to do this to kind of dissipate the water coming down oust the mountains. but, man, oh, man, there's a -- there's another house right there that is not affected. this appears to be some kind of a mobile home or a structure that was kind of in the offing that got picked up by the first torrent of water and has now been twisted and turned toward the tree or bush, as you can kind of pan downstream you can see the water seems to be letting up a little bit now. once its twists away, you go down the hill and into the mud,

that house will break up in a matter of seconds and the people inside could be in very grave danger, shep. >> imagine being in your house and all of a sudden it is headed downstream, and then the impact into those trees -- you can see on the left-hand side of the screen, the house is ripped over there, and clearly those trees stopped the house's forward progress down the hill, in this enormous mud and water slide, created by theser torrential downpours, and then these rescue workers have to figure out a way up there to try to save whoever must have been in there. incredible. >> by the way, just to let you know, there are two people inside the house, we have just been notified. so, two people inside the house are trying to get out, which doubles the danger and the timing of this, because you need get them up on the roof so the helicopter can pluck them off. so i guess they're working two separate window situations here, trying to figure out which is the best place to get them out. so, if this house does turn, and

go downstream, they want these people to be on the back half of that property to give them the most time to be able to get up on the roof and out. i mean, the last thing you want to do is to be in this structure when it goes down. you're better off actually being on the far end of the house and trying to jump out that way, away from the debris, and away from the water, than being down where all that water is kind of undermining what remains of that structure there. you don't want to be in there you want to be upstream, as it were, toward the dry part of the area, which is only about 10 yards on the other side of the house. >> looking at the long-range forecast, highs in the way upper 90s for the next few days. the very low 100's's in the days after that. they have slight chance of rain on a number of days. it's a beautiful place to live, that phoenix area. when you're not having a sand storm that will choke you, or a river coming through your house, washing you down the ravine. >> and it's rare. it is rare.

you'll go months and months and months without getting any rain at all, and you can get a sandstorm that kicks up, and visibility is zero on the highways, and in around arizona. the same thing in utah, nevada, a lot of sandstorms. bus these types of situations, i've never seen it. never seen a house ripped off its foundation, jammed up against the tree, because of the flashflood, and this is one of those areas, those ravines that gets water every once in a while. i'm not sure anybody expected this amount of water to come rushing down those mountains and into this ravine or this dry gully as it did in the past 45 minutes to an hour. >> least of all the people ned house. when he house started moving. i can see rescue workers, one -- looks like they pushed the air conditioner out of the way and someone has put on a life jacket, and then someone up on top of the roof is trying to affect this rescue. while we continue to watch these pictures, janice dean in the fox

weather center, the threat for these flashfloods is supposed to end in ten minutes but doesn't look like the threat is over. >> the damage has been done. obviously the radar is showing that the skies are clearing up in and around the new river, arizona, region but we have flashflood warnings right now in place, and that means unfortunately the flooding is going to continue, but as far as rainfall, in the area, that is shifted more to the north and east. this is monsoon season i'm heard you and trace talk about this. a shift in the winds that brings these potential showers and thunderstorms that could bring life-threatening flooding. have been talking about this for weeks. when you seive it in action and all of these rescue workers trying to save people, that's when it really hits home this is potentially a life-changing situation. so, flashflood warnings in effect. looks like the was worst of the cells have moved to the north

and east, but the flashflooding continues for the area, for the next couple of days. we still have the monsoonal flow that's going to remain in effect, really for the next couple of days, even for the next couple of weeks. >> i've been reading the local newspaper there online. az central.com. they have extensive coverage of this. you can see them -- if you good to their web site you can see them rescuing people from cars. all of a sudden were overcome. interstate 17 flooded. interactive maps about whether your property is in the flood plain, and an explanation for why the flooding is happening there. janice, the long and short of why the flooding is happening is they got pa whole lot of rain. >> in a very short period of time. you have to realize this is the desert so a couple of inches of rain in the northeast is not going produce flooding like this, but because the ground is solid and there is no way for this -- all of this moisture to sink into the ground, it just

acts as runoff because it's a desert and they get a couple of inches in a very short period of time. this is potentially what they see out there. when they see the most of their rainfall throughout the season, but because of the region they're insuring the climatology, couple of inches of rain can do damage like this. >> they're seeing things in the valley they have never seen before according to the locals. this one area of interstate 17 had been widened in recent areas, but it didn't appear that to have contributed to the mess, and yet interstate 17 flooded in ways today that people have never seen. they said it was just a buildup of water in an area that is unusual. and you can see here, this atrailer park, and the waters have just come in and washed so many things away. some of these appear to be trailers that hook on to the back of vehicles, like a back of a big truck. i don't have any reason to

believe anyone was living in these-but look at that wall of water coming down the hill. trace was mentioning the mountains a short time ago. how the mountains are dry as a bone, and because they're dry and that hot desert sun has baked them, we're talk 1:05, 110, 115 degrees. no water in there, and the ground becomes hard and crispy like a rock even, like pace of shale, and when the water hits it, none of it sink in. just glides right off the earth as if on glass, and the water just seeks the lowest level, as water does, and away it is good. this wide shot is incredible to see. with the water just moving to area after area after area. now, the flashflood -- they call it flashflooding because it happens quickly and then goes away quickly. >> it does, and again, if you want to -- our producers want to show the radar. i can show where the heavy band of rain moved through the phoenix area, and is quick log

moving north and east. but i see the oranges and the reds on the radar, and that is an indication of very heavy rain in a short period of time. you can see it on the radar satellite -- >> back to the live pictures. they're leaving -- here's the behind the scenes truth of all of this. fox 10 -- fox 10 arizona morning -- their chopper has been up to are so long they're running out of gas, chris a normal thing. they know how much the have. so they're going to get more fuel, and these are the pictures on the way back. and they got to go refuel. but what an absolutely gorgeous day with those cloudness the distance, and as you look around, one after another, now we have an access to another chopper -- actually this is video. excuse me. this is video from an earlier water rescue. a gorgeous day there if you

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