this morning we are looking at deadly conditions in western washington. rain showers scattered across the northern portion of western washington, and we had a mud slide come through. video of this mud slide. it swept across washington , near the squamish river, the mud slam k into the river, wiping out eight houses and killed three people that we know of and injured eight. this story will develop as we get through overnight into sunday. we'll see a drier day for western washington. the temperatures are warm and snow levels higher. snow in the mountains melts and is coming down the river, and pressure is building up in that automatic-made mud dam sitting in the squamish river. one hour after the mud slide we saw the river at the guage at arlington, it dropped about three feet in an hour. at last check it was reported 0.3 feet at arlington. the danger grows as we are waiting to see the potential of water bursting through the dam. be warned, in western washington, you want to stay away from the river system. seattle, looking at your march rain, your total fo

it hit north western washington. allen schauffler is there. what is the latest? >> it's not unusual in this part of the country, at this time of year to have massive mudslides like this, especially in the foothills of the north cascades. what is unusual is the human cost east of i-5, in oso in washington. four dead. 18 more missing. take a look at the latest video. news crews were allowed in. it was complete devastation. half a mile of a state highway alongside the river, north fork, inundated. and in the mud and the trees mixed in you see the remains of houses. there's reports of as many as 30 different structures wipeded out. a dramatic scope, devastation. the governor called it that as he flew over it with other officials. we see these things, but not like this, with this sort of effect. people in the area trying to come to grips with it all today. >> it's been rough for the community. a lot of lives lost. it's tough. >> it's been surreal. the tragedy is unthinkable. the community, as stated before many times, comes together. friend helps friend and family hel

garrett county, extreme western washington county for the overnight and into the early morning hours of tomorrow. showers sticking around for tonight into the day tomorrow. we will see winds that are going to pick up so it will feel a little cooler than her actual the time i -- our actual daytime high. the rain and showers and clouds out of here by monday and are temperatures will also warm up. 45 to 53 degrees and then for the day tomorrow, temperatures in the 50 to 55 degree range. we may see slightly cooler temperatures off to the west. the windchill factors will make it feel more like the 40's. we haven't seen something like this in quite some time. talking upper 60's to around 70 tuesday, wednesday, and thursday. >> we knew we would eventually get here. uva's brush ing the ncaa turn it -- tournament would go on. >> you would hear from the cavaliers after last night's ncaa sweet 16 game. >> and now the toyota sports desk. last line may have been a big disappointment for virginia basketball but they having gone this far in years. the cavaliers have gotten back into the national pi

. >> a dangerous and deadly situation happened in western washington. we have pictures and videos that have wiped out part of the county, you see where it slid and damaged and destroyed eight homes. it's killed three people, and has injured eight. the mud slide has blocked the squamish river and the damning of the mud created flood conditions in western washington. that'll be a concern as we watch the potential of the water pressure busting through the mud, sliding to arlington. we'll monitor the situation overnight tonight for you and keep you updated on the latest. coming up now is your news. >> it's that time of year. spring is here, the flowers are booming and we are talking march madness. >> that tees we showed before, a little basketball, a little bit different. we are telling a story about the basketball. kids on the other side of the world are using the sport as a pathway to the dream. we are shown how basketball is changing the lives of an african team. >> it's september 25th, 2013. 16-year-old koby is preparing to go to the american embassy. w

we have been watching a story that's been happening in western washington. it's north of seattle. tting rain showers across the northern washington state in the last 12 hours. now, what's happening is we have had a very large debris flow t ultimate ultimately. it's a mud slide that came in across the city of oso and them picture here is showing the damage of the mud slide right across the highway here i believe it's 530. this is difficult for folks in this area. the problem is that two people have died in this mud slide. we have five injured so far. this is something that's still unfolding as we go along. now, that mud has slid down into the siliguami is. h river. it's damned it up. we have a flood warning that will impact the city of arlington. of the flood warning, the landslide. still estimating those ptosis as this unfolds. the usgs has something called the landslide index. it factors in how much rainfall you have had in the last 16 days and how much the moisture is already in the soil. as we look at the washington map indicating those orange areas along the coast line and also

. >>> the official death toll from last weekend's landslide in western washington state still stands18. in a news conference just about an hour ago authorities said they want to let medical examiners do their work before updating that figure with 90 people still missing. dan springer now on the latest challenges facing the search effort. >> up to an inch of rain is forecast for the area: complicating the search for victims of last week's mud slide. >> the rain and weather is working against us. 100% chance of rain. wind at 20-miles-an-hour at places on the site that's going to further complicate things for our responders that are up there at the site. >> reporter: dozens are reported missing and at least 17 deaths have been confirmed. the numbers expected to rise once the medical examiner gives an update. it's an agonizing wait for relatives and friends missing. there are a few amazing stories coming up now from survivors. robert young blood reporting a huge wall of mud as it raised toward her home. >> i think it must have been going 150-miles-an-hour. all i could say is oh my god t

it shows you western washington, a lot of the rain doesn't necessarily fall down in the seattle areaf the sound. a lot of it comes through because there is nothing to stop it to the north. so there is an exceptional amount of rain in that particular area we have been seeing come do you know, in fact, for seattle, five inches over your normal amount of rainfall this time of year. manual even more than that is where the land slide occurred. more facts about this area and the trend to slides coming up. jo be than? >> difficult conditions and the weather is not cooperating. thanks, rebecca. turkey has shot down a syrian fighter jet. it came down along the country's border. you can see plumes of smoke. turkey's prime minister congratulated the military. syria said the plane was within its own territory. omar al sali has more. >> the strategic border crossing between syria and turkey now involves turkey's military. as jubilant syrian rebels cheered, the remains burn in the mountains off syria's province. it was shot down by turkish f-16s after turkey said the jet had crossed into its air s

very strange situation, a very tense situation for the people in these small towns up here in western washingtonlan reporting live from arlington, washington, alan, thank you very much. and that rain not being good news. >>> mean while, families of the passengers on board missing malaysia airlines flight 370 taking to the streets today in beijing, their outrage coming a day after malaysia officials concluded that the boeing triple seven crashed in to the ocean. >> reporter: taking their anger to the streets these relatives of passengers of mh370 seo visuals deliberately concealed information, wasted resources and delayed any possible rescue operations. >> translator: can the government understand, can they understand how we feel? if they could understand our feelings then it wouldn't have come to this. does the malaysian government understand us? they dare criticize us, but look at what they have done. >> translator: if the 154 of our relatives have lost their lives, then malaysia airlines the government of malaysia and the military are really the executers. >> reporter: two weeks they waited fo

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northern california, up to 180 millimeters of rain is likely which is not good news for especially western washington state because the massive landslide occurred on the weekend. so that could hamper the recovery efforts and rescue efforts as well. temperatures are mild across los angeles, 20 degrees and rising to more typical levels across the northeast. 9 degrees in washington, d.c. and rising to the double digits finally on your friday. across europe, quite messy picture for the southern areas, severe weather is likely to happen. that will be affecting the southern parts of the balkan peninsula and turkey on friday. nasty weather for the western areas but quiet in other areas. temperatures are in the mid teens in many places. it will stay almost the same into the weekend. enjoy the warm weather. over asia looking quite settled over most of japan, some drizzle is falling over the tokyo area, but by tomorrow clear skies will come back. clear weather across the korean peninsula and rain for the beijing area that is good in terms of air pollution. however, winds will be picking up. that will carry yel

mudslide even more complic cate cauguirai >>> rain is expected straight through saturday in western washington making the search for victims of last weekend's deadly mud slide more complicated. cate caugiran has the latest. >> reporter: right now they are focused on the more than 100 people still missing as the families hold out hope they're still alive. meanwhile washington state officials are giving conflicting answers as to whether or not they knew that area was at risk. you're taking a look at new video from saturday. you can see a rescue team lifting a 4-year-old boy to safety. now, john pennington the director of snohomish county emergency management says they knew about the dangers and risks of this area. however, earlier this week, pennington said this was, quote, unforeseen and came out of nowhere. pennington also claimed not to be aware of the u.s. army corps of engineers report issued 15 years ago warning them of a potential catastrophe. meanwhile, the desperate search continues. now dogs specifically trained to search for bodies after disaster are making their way through the squar

to the north and that's what heavy rain and anemia and ongoing prolonged event again across western washington when a landslide occurred to me like he could see the rain into two weekends seattle green and pork and fourteen degrees for the height of fashion and twenty two degrees that's where we need that precipitation are not really getting any with the dryness and sunshine indeed the new york on to the supreme court on friday i'm in the rich and the asian continent but looking at said very messy picture with isolated thunderstorms and moderate rainfall and thump against the beverage into this rain band was formed. this is going to be pulling away from that area bumping into south korea and into western japan the clip we need to get some severe thunderstorms along with it like aspirin now we have high pressured the concrete dominant over the area. terry boss and the thing is here. we have this in mind living on the way up and then click for the weekend forecast. i could conclude the night. although we defend and temperatures will be riding in the twenties took a liking and twenty degrees toda

that search continues and very difficult, very shifting terrain in the cascade mountains of western washingtont a good scene here, del, no miracles so far in the last 36 hours. >> and, there are concerns about the searchers and heard the mud being described as like quick sand. >> reporter: absolutely. this stuff came down and it was a rain-soak eed shoulder of a mountain that came down and the river of course just seeping down through it. so very soggy, very difficult to walk through and work through. of course it's just piled high with debris from the homes it destroyed and from the trees brought down in that slide. so very difficult, very dangerous terrain. the water will be seeping out and the river levels downstream from that earth and dam are about back to normal and the water is finding a way through the blockage and the moisture in the material will be sinking down as well. so we do expect that through today it might be a little bit easier for crews to move around and operate in there but on the other hand we have rain, possibility of showers in the nine of the next ten days and it will

a desperate and dangerous search and rescue operation is continuing at this hour in western washington for more than a dozen people still missing after a massive mudslide buried parts of a residential community. several lives were lost when a debris field washed out a rain-soaked mountain on saturday, unleashing a torrent of mud on to homes below. today, after surveying the scene from the air, washington's governor described it as a square mile of total devastation. making matters worse, the quicksand-like ground has created perilous conditions for rescuers. nbc's miguel almaguer is near oso, washington, 55 miles outside seattle. miguel, what's the latest? >> reporter: lester, good evening. the road behind me leads to oso, the road behind me leads to oso, the small community demolished by mudslides. while some residents are being allowed into the area, responders are searching the mountainside for survivors and victims who may still be trapped in the mud. the wave of mud tore through everything in its path. the torrent of rocks and trees swept across homes and washed out roads. >> this

washington state was given actually the western washington epa was told you have to live under the storm water manual to derive their power from the clean water act. this and that my largest county you cannot wash your car in the driveway. but the manual says that if you develop something or build a road you have to have a permit york mitigation has to be equal to pre-lewis and clark water runoff. we have no idea how to do that and it continues to be the up bedrock for the western washington and manual. the rest of us have to develop to the standard for diaster predecessor if he was aware of this rule. they all played back to you. i i actually believe it is the state but they say they derived it from the clean water act that they have to do when i say i have not found that. i would like clarification from your office to the committee specifically whether or not they have the authority based on your interpretation or is it the state choosing to do this or are they accurate you give the authority? you don't have to answer that years. >> i apologize with no response we will take care of tha

now, it is all rain and it's very, very soggy for record-breaking rain for western washington, moving to northern california. we'll see another hit of rain into north california, and western oregon overnight tonight. then finally we'll get a break for the west. in the meantime there's a lot going on. in the east coast there's light snow showers. now, a lot of forecasts have been hinting at a chance of a little snow tracking across the east coast. it looks like most all this will be light hit and miss showers, mainly from upstate new york and across new hampshire and parts of maine. otherwise we'll stay on the comfortable side on the east coast. we are cooler than what we have for saturday, and temperatures on the cooler side for the next several days. record totals for seattle and out on the coast for faurks and further south, these are the impressive totals in a 24 hour period. this is from the atmospheric river. a lot call them the pineapple express because it taps into hawaii pressures, and shoots up the east coast. north california, and western oregon is where we'll see the rain.

it is absolutely miserable in this corner of western washington in the cascade mountain foothills. heavy rain, very chilly, wind at times and that's the kind of conditions that makes the debris field that search and rescue crews operating in miserable. we've been saying it for days. any additional liquid makes the soupy part of that slide more soupy and more like quick sand, it's more dangerous. here's the fire chief in charge of the operations talking about handling the weather. >> areas that have dried out are going to become even more saturated of water. areas that have water will have additional water and that will make things slower and more complicated. we have a hard day ahead of us. >> reporter: we talked to a woman whose property was missed by the landslide by 100 yards. we had a great interview with her today. we'll hear more from her tonight. >> well, alan, looking heads to tonight, we're expecting more news about more victims? >> we were expecting that this morning. not exactly promised that this morning, but every indication from the official sources hear saying that w

there's a lot of heartache here, a difficult scene in western washington. >> the scenes are unbelievable. what about federal assistance for washington state. >> federal assistance has been come missing it, there has been an emergency declaration, and fema is on-site. and as you said, the national guard has been called out, so for search and rescue and logistics, we're getting help. the president spoke from europe and he spoke about what happened fromoso and the federal government. >> i just spoke to the governor. and i just signed the declaration to make sure that he has all that he needs. the army corp of engineers has been on-site and offered assistance and expertise. so i would and all americans to send their thoughts and prayers to washington state. and the community of oso and the family and friends who continue to be missing. we hope for the best. but we recognize that it's a tough situation. >> so john, more bodies have been found, and we should find out tonight how many. >> allen schauffler, thank you. >>> survivors describe their homes shatter when they were shoved down the hill

most of the region, especially western washington, 150% of what they would normally see. up here where the landslide happened, that was more. normally this area in the last 30 case sees 2.1 inches of rain, we saw 5.5, 5.6 inches in this area here, so, of course, this area is susceptible to land slides. when you add in the rain it makes it unstable. we have flood warnings in effect for the region. the problem is, if you saw the video of allen schauffler, there were blue skies. that will not last for long. we are looking at better weather. we are looking at a storm sting slowly to the east, bringing heavy rain showers across the region, starting tomorrow over the next 2-3 days we'll see 1.5-2 inches of rain. >> kevin corriveau, thank you so much. coming up on al jazeera america - two ships collide sending nearly 170,000 gallons of oil into the water of texas. a live update. >> and a city that is too expensive for the middle class. we look at san francisco, and why first responders can't live in the city they protect and serve. >> clean-up crews are on the scene of an oil sp

but flood concerns going away for west, western washington, and the storm systems are finally comingan end and colder air coming in, bringing snow levels coming in. so if we do get storms it will come down to snow in the mountains and not just rain which will go right into the river systems. so the other part of our story is warm temperatures. boy, the east is going to be celebrating when you start out near 40° for new york. get ready, it's going to feel even better as warm air is surging to the south. it is cooling for the west. here is our flood watches that will be slowly diminishing as we get through the course of the day monday. high temperatures will be 50s and 60s off to the west, definitely much warmer for phoenix at 80. but look at the temperatures for the south and southeast. 60 for washington, d.c. and atlanta at 75. al jazeera news is continuing after the break. >> the allman brothers band apparently have no one to run with anymore. the group will call it quits at the end of this year. two long time members, guitar is are leaving and there are rumors greg allman himself w

now it's rain showers, but you can see it getting a ground of heavy ones once more in the western washington, where we had the wettest march. we have three days left - actually, two days left. and then we'll see some rain just pile up in the gage, adding in to - making it difficult to break the all-time record for wettest march. now, as we look at the radar, north carolina, i want you to look at the virginia boarder. you can see the storm crossing up into virginia now. we are watching this one for the potential of increasing strong gusty winds. we've been getting wind gusts 40 to 50 miles per hour. heavy rain, causing flash flood watches in a number of places. definitely getting concerns in the north-east. where the rain totals. over an inch for places like new york, boston, and d.c. the rain conditions tonight and through the day. we'll get a bit of a break briefly on sunday afternoon before the rain picks up again. >> more rain there. ross is here. an inspiring story of a w n.b.a. star. >> yes, she's opening up depression, she was the best women's basketball player on planet earth. she sta

we had records set, all in western washington. from seattle closer inland, 1.27 inches of rainfall. the timing of the records is centring. the last record set 1957. a lot of rain 2-3 inches was falling, and temperatures worming up. that's -- warming up. that's why we had rivers running. and flood watches staying in effect for north-east oregon. we have another round of rain on the way in the morning hours. we have a bit of a break. due to ice jams causing water to accumulate. a little snow melt. that's adding to the flood concern for riccardo montolivo. as we go -- for montana. i want to show you how the shower activity has dropped down. we are note getting a big impact from the rain in north carolina. a little bit of snow. overnight and in the morning hours it will skip to the north-east. it will be mainly north of manhattan, parts of northern new york, over to connecticut may get a bit of light snow. low temperatures cool for a lot of us. as we get into the day, we can still get up to 50. we are getting the cold air outbreaks, we are warming with the longer days and changing seaso

you can see where we'll get the rain, western washington and oregon and north idaho and parts of canada. it is the storm moving through the south-east. it's brought severe thunder storms in parts of south-east texas, reports coming down from kansas all the way through. wind gusts tracking. they are dying out. we'll continue with the rain, but in the afternoon the threat picks up. it's a risk of thunder storms stretching across louisiana, mississippi, alabama and the florida panhandle. note that it's mainly rain for the south-east, but you head north. there's the collision. cold air coming down from the north, meeting up with the storm moving through the east. the temperatures in the below zero area, like minus four, it's definitely cold in canada. this is exactly where the winds are pulling the air from, from the north-east. it will meet up crass west vij and vij. washington d.c. gets another monday morning commute with the snow and ice. we'll see the snow stretch from kentucky into west vij. it will be a developing situation through the day, and note that new york, you may avoid the sn

a lot of rain fell in western washington in the last week. we look at the river gauge, it almost came up to the flood stage, but dropped. it's the north river, the north fork that we are seeing. it is near the town of oso. what's happened is all that mud came into the river, blocked it and backed up the water. as we do downstream, you could see in one hour, after the slide happened, from 3.1 feet the river dropped rapidly. we know the water is building up behind the mud slide dam. looking at the march rainfall, it's above normal. for march we have 5 inches. we look at the highs, and temperatures, it's normal for seattle. we don't have raging rivers at this time, but it's a concern to work in the days ahead. it's the opposite story for the east coast where temperatures soared. '60s, and 70s. we'll have a polar front coming through as we get through the day into sunday, and all the cold air will rush eastward dropping temperatures for the north-east. another storm coming through that will threaten a little bit of snow from d.c. all the way to t

. >>> we have some breaking news tonight from western washington state, snohomish county. where recovery operations are still ongoing. just in the last few minutes, authorities have announced a new death toll in this disaster. they're announcing a new death toll and some bad news about what they expect to happen to that death toll in coming days. this is new information from just moments ago. watch. >> we continued our search and recovery operation on the entire slide area. unfortunately, we didn't find any signs of life. we didn't locate anybody alive. and so that's the disappointing part. our condolences go out to the families who have lost people here. i say that on behalf of every single person that is working this scene and putting in a tremendous amount of time and effort and hours and they're doing a great job. >> before this announcement today, the death toll was 14. they say they covered to more bodies which brings the total death toll to 16. the true terrible news, though, is they believe they have located an additional eight bodies. eight additional bodies that

in part of montana, you can see the light greens indicating flood warnings and in western washington, we are looking at flood warnings. saturday into sunday. temperature-wise though seattle 55° is what we expect to see. boise at 59 and billings add 55. now where we're seeing some very cold air still in place is up here towards parts of north dakota, minnesota, right now temperatures are into the teens and when you factor in that wind chill, fargo feels more like minus 4°. hopefully we'll see a slow improvement as we go especially towards next week. chicago is going to feel more like 27°. here across the northeast, a very nice weekend and those temperatures are warming up. that rain you see is going to stay off the coast. that's a look at your national weather, news is up next. >> every friday we take time to appreciate the arts in our friday arts segment. and tonight, one of the art world's most prestigious shows opens to the public. the whitney biennial. it is home to the country's most famous modern art collections. this is the grand opening of the whitney biennial, which showcases

other areas around western washington, friendships, hoquiliam is coming in as the third wettest march. it's soggy, but the break comes in tomorrow. >> four objects have been found in the hunt for malaysia airlines flight mh370, it's been three weeks sips the plane disappeared. 100,000 square miles north of previous areas were scoured for signs of debris. objects retrieved from the indian ocean turned out to be fishing equipment unconnected to the plane. the australian team dropped gps buoys so ships can vet. >> we can't confirm the origin of the objects. however, the details of these in association with a gps buoy have been passed on to our rescue coordination centre. from our perspective this was the most visibility of anyone objects in the water, giving us the most promising leads. until something is found fam lip members are clinging to hope. others are angry as weeks passed by without signs of loved ones. several relatives arrived in malaysia demanding answers. >> people attached name cards of missing passengers and balloons releasing them into the sky. some said it was an effort

rumbling livestock traipse not so delicately through the doors of this mom and pop shop in western washingtono you never know exactly what's going to happen. >> puyallup, washington, home to the puyallup fair. it's washington state's largest, drawing more than 1 million visitors over its two-week run. the fair has all the stuff great fairs are made of -- food, rides, games, and cattle. the western parade is part of a cattle herding tradition around these parts. a 12-block drive down puyallup's main drag that's rich in local history. >> the western parade, which features a cattle drive, really had its origin from the days when the train would stop in town and they would herd the livestock down the main street to get to the fair. >> but times have changed. these more modern 2009 cows say, herding tradition, i don't think so. >> we had a situation where a number of the steers decided to take a right-hand turn when they should have gone straight. and unfortunately, that right-hand turn took them into the parking lot of a gas station and convenience store. >> dean kepler is a photographer for the

shows we could understood up with another one to one and a half inches of rainfall in parts of western washington into eugene, oregon and especially down into the sierras in california as well. we are looking for heavier rain to move into the carolinas. the rain in virginia and north carolina and south carolina will take a break, then the next round of rain in the panhandle of florida. it makes its way into the northeast. we are going to be damp all day long up and down the east coast. severe thunderstorms in the southeast later on this afternoon. temperatures will be in the 50s. we cool off quite a bit through chicago at 41 degrees today and 44 in minneapolis. look at the flip side of that. by the time we get to sunday, 60 in chicago, 73 in kansas city. it clears out in the southeast. it stays damp in the northeast. we could see snow in the ski resorts in central new england. >> thank you. in the news now, the massive recall by general motors of compact cars. gm is expanding the recall to 2.6 million cars globally with most in the u.s. a glitch can cause the cars to stall knocking out power from

washington state was given the epa -- thehington western washington epa was told -- they deride theirower -- their power from the clean water act. during a governor's race. the manualnto it says the development, if you are --ng to develop something you have to get a permit. you are going to do that, your mitigation has to be equal to pre-lewis and clarke water runoff. do thatno idea how to and it continues to be the bedrock foundation for the western washington store manual. you did sound has exempted itself but the rest of us have to develop to the standard. i asked your predecessor if he was aware for this rule. and i believe it is the state. they derive ite from the clean water act the federal regulations has to do it. i have not and say found that here, i would like clarification from your office to the committee, specifically whether or not they have the authority to do that. or i need to know if it is the state choosing to do this or are they accurate in saying you get the authority. you don't have to answer that. i just need to know whose authority is it. with that, thank you.

so it's more of that oregon mist, heading up to oregon and western washington through the weekend. but the bigger changes coming up. you can look at the bottom of the screen. your seven-day forecast shows things beginning to change by tuesday of next week. so the weekend not much change. coastal clouds and inland sunshine, by the time we head toward let's say tuesday and wednesday now, you got one system coming in, that should toss showers their way, another into the weekend tossing a few more showers, mainly across the north bay so. early estimate on how much rain we're going to see over let's say three days time from tuesday afternoon through wednesday and thursday next week. doesn't look like a lot. we'll take anything we can get. at this point 24 to 36 hour rain totals wednesday through thursday next week, a third of an inch of rain in the north bay, less than a quarter for the south bay. today, once the clouds clear, pretty nice, we should see highs in the low 70s in san jose. look out for the pollen count, extremely high with the breezy conditions this weekend. and lack of ra

know, i was surprised, too, the crabs weren't -- >> reporter: ben is a biology professor at western washington university. he studies how environmental changes affect marine life. today, his team is collecting sea stars just north of seattle. >> the population of sea stars is -- they're quite abundant at that site so, on the pylons, there were healthy sea stars, but we were also coming across arms and piles of deteriorated sea stars and individuals that were twisted. >> reporter: the divers are searching for stars showing symptoms, as well as the ones that appear healthy. >> the experiments are where we take individuals who have signs of the syndrome and put them in tanks with individuals that don't have signs. >> reporter: then they closely watch the progress to hav of the disease. first the stars twist arms into knots and sometimes lesions form on their skin. >> one of them was very sick and the other two individuals started ripping themselves apart. the arms just crawl away from the particular body. >> reporter: you heard that right. the arms crawl in opposite directions until they tear awa

most are scum of the fluff from western leaders washington pulled no punches as for the moment maybe korea russia is facing political and economic isolation. george has drawn becca says the us is not on the position to tell mr what to do that. given that washington's support for the revolution. i actually expected a booming voice to come on again and say the empire has spoken president to whom in all other political leaders within earshot biology enuf let them do as instructed on on the ukrainian for president obama to say it would be a profile and interference in ukraine's internal affairs for russia to know anything in the crimea is so hypocritical when you think that the united states and the eu leaders to lead germany had interfered over and over and over again into the internal affairs of the ukraine just because the west by using semi fascist and fascist forces in kiev to overthrow the elected government is now not does not now give the west the right to tell dr show that they have no rights in the crimea when by force of law which the treaty as the russians clearly have our ri

the armed forces and then general harry lee took command of the force that one out to western pennsylvania. washington turned back from carlisle and went back to philadelphia. the troops did go out there and by the time they got back there the rebel camp had broken up and they found about 20 drunks. it was rather disgraceful. they put the drunks in open cards and march them down the streets in philadelphia. they were tried for treason and all were acquitted except for two and washington pardon the other two. yes, maam? [inaudible] >> that is in the constitution. it's not a law. it's in the constitution. >> yes, i have a question. i have a question. in my mind the question is is the president duly elected and violating the letter of the law usurped the very freedoms which we as citizens are provided by the government just to save the republic? >> you cerp is a very strong word. usurp means taking someone else's powers and using someone else's power. i think we have to say he assumed or asserted those powers because after all congress was not here. here are the president is charged with running the gove

massive landslide that swept through small riverside qut on saturday in the us is north western states of washington schools of the riots were claimed by the foss knitting a lot of the goodness of our lives but some violence to grab you from that and that. and everything was gone. like three seconds. boucher weekend of searching through difficult terrain county officials say more than a hundred people remain unaccounted for we've got a technical rescue teams are to be on electronic equipment that they can use to probe the ground if necessary in order to be working very very hard. also the washer states army transportation to have heavy equipment out there to clear mud of the way so that we can continue to search search so serious authorities say the landslide happened off the days of heavy rain embankment alongside the highway gave way on saturday morning looking at nice to come over to the right emotional eight hundred and eight. rescue teams were forced to suspend operations on sunday nights due to the quicksand nature of the month. several had to be rescued off the becoming stop. as the search co

to the mid west possibly rain showers here, mostly on the western part of washington oregon. it's looking clear. washington seattle we see the in and out showers. heavier rains. sunday things will be getting a little brighter as we go towards the beginning of the week. towards california, a few clouds pushing through. snow in the higher elevations. temperatures - look at this. we expect to see a high temperature of 90 degrees. that drops how far. tuesday, much different. a high at 73. quickly to texas, we see - expect to see rainy conditions, especially for the eastern part of texas, continuing through louisville. and dallas, your forecast is thunderstorm , temperatures dropping to 55 and rainy on sunday. >> farmers have tried everything to get water during what may be the worst drought in california history. some are using what men consider strange magic to get it. >> sharon hates it when people call her a witch. a water witch. she's not a water witch, no, she's a professional douser, a member of the american society of dousers, and her work serious business for a serious ma

western university. they have until april 9th to file an appeal with the nlrb office in washington d.c. this is the first move for the players to be paid, seek better coverage, and opportunities as a student athlete. >> what will it cost north western and will there be an impact felt at public schools. the impact is down the road. the nlrb does not govern unionization of public schools. they are state regulated. you'll have to go state by state by state for public schools. as for what it will cost, it's hard to put a dollar amount on it. the implications of unionizing are huge. they may be forced to doll out cash beyond the scholarships. >> what is driving the effort by not only north western, but maybe others. >> the movement is driven by money. in 1984 trfs a court case showing individual schools having the right to the broadcast. college sports became a mul multi million, hundred billion. student athletes are looking at the benefits, realising, "hey, someone is wanting to make money, and it's not me." >> as mentioned, there's an appeals process, and as expected north western, should f

now across the americas, we have been talking about a deadly landslide over western areas of washington state. well, unfortunately stormy weather has been happening from tuesday. that will be continuing in to early next week. as a series of low pressure systems move in to this area, we're talking about heavy rainfall in coastal areas and lots of heavy snow showers for the inland locations, of the northern rockies as well as cascades, may get up to 60 centimeters of snowfall. and on the flip side of the continent, another heavy snowmaker is affecting the northeastern u.s. and in fact, has dropped about 10 centimeters of snow for the u.s. capital. about 20 centimeters in north carolina. the system is now located here. still packing a lot of energy to cause very strong winds. probably up to 180 kilometers per hour which is as strong as a hurricane, and wiaves are going to be up to six meters at most. it's now affecting the new england states and atlantic canada with blizzard conditions, as well. within the next 24 hours things will be clearing up in the northeastern u.s., and temperatures

area, and a little bit of mountain snow in the highest elevations right across north and western portions of washington state. we could see anywhere from 6 to 12 inches in the northern portions of the washington cascades, but overall it's going to be a beautiful couple of days coming up as we push into the new week. a couple of lingering showers on monday, but by tuesday and wednesday temperatures in the mid-50s and also pushing 60. pushing into the north-central plains, temperatures have certainly increased over the last 24 hours. in minneapolis we've gained 10 degrees between yesterday and today. in fargo, 24 degrees warmer than yesterday. look at the daytime highs for sunday. fargo will be 41, and most happy about minneapolis because yesterday they were at 25. so we've nearly doubled by the end of the day. it's a little cooler across southern portions of texas. we have moisture pushing in across the mountains of mexico, and i think we will see a couple of showers down towards corpus christi and brownsville. further towards the east, it's nice and warm and comfortable across southern portions -- acro

made a decision yet on whether to send troops to crimea moscow has come under fire from western leaders washington pulled no punches as president obama made it clear russia is facing political and economic isolation but antiwar activist brian becker says the u.s. is not in a position to tell moscow what to do given washington support for the revolution i actually expected a booming voice to come out at the end and say the empire has spoken president putin and all other political leaders within earshot genuflecting do is instructed on on the ukrainian for president obama to say it would be a profound interference in ukraine's internal affairs for russia to do anything in the crimea is so hypocritical when you think that the united states and the e.u. leaders particularly germany have interfered over and over and over again into the internal affairs of the ukraine just because the west using so many fascist and fascist forces in kiev could overthrow the elected government there is now an hour there's not now give the west the rate to tell russia that they have no rights in the crimea when by force o

in the northwest, we are continuing to get the rain around western washington and oregon. heavy rounds of rain moving in. that will be the trend into the overnight hours and thursday, things very unsettled as the next storm system moves in. snow in chicago, we've seen it all morning long, it's still in place. conditions will taper from north to south into the late morning hours and by lunch time, we'll be done with the snow. notice back here across nebraska and kansas, snow will be heavy at times, but quick bursts across western areas of kansas is what we're expecting and light snow showers falling in new england. freezing rain in north carolina, now transitioning to all rain. it's wet and stormy across the east and again for thursday. >> the coast guard trying to get the great lakes ready for spring, sending ice cutters into the water to prepare for the shipping season that starts near the end of march. 90% of the great lakes now covered in ice. lake superior even worse, 95%. that is the most ice it has seen in almost two decades. >> a university students in bangladesh ar

temperatures, now into the mid 30s shenandoah valley and in the mountains of western maryland and west virginia. closer to washington, our western suburbs in the mid to upper 30s. it's in the upper 30s in downtown washington and around the bay and eastern shore. prince george's, montgomery, fairfax counties, mid 30s with the cloud cover. the cloud cover is producing a little bit of light rain that may be with us coming in to the metro area by around 9:00 to 10:00 this morning. during the afternoon, sprinkles of light rain. maybe a little drizzle as temperatures climb into the mid 40s. and initially, it may be causing some icing on some of the higher elevations off it the west. i'll have the ice accumulation forecast for you coming up in the next weather & traffic on the 1s at 5:31. spring arrives tomorrow. highs reaching near 60 degrees. a bit of a blustery wind. partly cloudy on thursday. then on friday, up near 60 degrees, partly sunny. even milder for your weekend. good weather for outdoor recreation on saturday. afternoon highs on saturday should climb into the upper 60s and partly sunny. on sunday, a bit cooler

flooding has been a problem, especially along the western parts of the washington. we'll see flooding across parts of idaho, and montana over the next few days. >> temperatures on saturday, seattle. we think on monday we'll get a break in the rain and the sun will shine. towards los angeles, the temperatures will be coming up. no rain in the forecast. you need to go to north california. 84 degrees will be the high as we go towards saturday. that will continue until we get to monday. it will drop down, back into the '70s. across texas, we have clouds going through over towards new mexico. rain in the forecast. it will be a problem. down towards townsville. corpus kristi. and maybe we'll see a bit of that rain. the high temperature of 60 degrees. going through the rest of the week it will rise to 78. >> a jumbo jet bound for beijing disappears with 239 on board. four were americans. we'll have more on those latest developments. >> we return to the top story. a malaysia airlines jet vanishes en route to beijing. it was carrying 237 passengers. the plane has crashed off

is ready to deliver change and its prime minister has been seeking financial aid from western donors and washingtonmists say the problems run deep in the country. and it is still dealing with the legacy of its soviet past as it tries to embrace trade opportunities beyond russia. the mission to gather data was due to end today and has now been extended to march the 21st. well, they are expected to call for reforms as a condition of any long-term aid. president barack obama has promised $1 billion in loans to ukraine. but that's not expected to be approved for quite some time as well. republicans are pushing their own aid bill that doesn't including russian sanctions or imf progressions. let's hear about what the imf had to say about all of this and what strings could be led to any potential imf bailout. >> ukraine's quarter would increase so that potentially its access to imf resources would increase other things being equal. of course i want to is add the caveat that quarters are just one relative metric in terms of an overall potential financing package. it is con ti it is con tingent on policies.

it's around this time on the sheer we have now also the landslide over western parts of the washington step one find is not settled on going with this area. the distance and only one of the worst and are forced to leave they will likely continue at least until early next week with the west coast of the washington re themed areas of strong low pressure center coming in and a series of low pressure system lies in giving into this area for the next several days for the new locations are expecting winds and heavy snowfall up to thirty centimeters likely for the northern rockies this one the cascades and s release and also accompanied by quite gusty conditions. that's how the strong winds full on three conditions are happening over fixed and we have some interesting video to show you can collect. as the storm coverage of the minx arizona on tuesday you can see the crew moving on with the cd has to be a queens of up to seventy two kilometers per hour cause of problems with the stability of the show's instructed the sense to stay inside and on the nose because of the poor weather. now on top

quickly want to take you out towards western portion of washington.earch efforts taking place. you see the before and after perspective out here. this occurring on saturday. we know fatalities about 24 now and missing people up towards of 176. one thing to note here, if the fatalities get up to 25, this would be the deadliest since 1982 as far as landslides in the u.s. nationally about 25 feet lose their lives to land slides every single year. it shows that this many people already being confirmed this puts it in a unique area as far as landslides. >> the concern is it will move above 25. >> with the amount of people missing, yeah. >>> in the next hour of cnn news room we'll take you back for the latest on the search for that missing malaysian airliner. >>> the candy crush craze will investors crave it as much as the gamers do? we'll be back in a moment. capital to make it happen? without the thinking that makes it real? what's a vision without the expertise to execute it... and the financing to make it grow? whatever your goal, it can change more tha