jinah kim explains why the mud continues to run. >> it's a surreal scene. mangled cars on the pristine coastline of santa barbara. >> 101 full of mud and water. family members feel like they're trapped in a nightmare. >> i don't know how far she could have been swept. i don't know where she is. >> his 69-year-old mom is among those still missing. many of them young children who didn't have the strength to stand up to the mud that tried to bury them. >> i don't know where my parents are. it's a horrific feeling. >> total devastation. this place looks like a war zone. >> among the missing, a brother and father of 14-year-old lauren whose rescue yesterday made headlines around the world. among the dozens still stuck is this couple. 8 months pregnant. >> the fires and now this. it's been insane. we're completely trapped now. she literally could go into labor at any time. if she does, other than calling 911 and trying to get someone in here, we don't know what to do. >> focus remains on the rescue efforts. the effects will last long beyond -- highway 101 will re

nbc's jinah kim is live in santa barbara county. what is the latest?> reporter: pat and leon, we are standing on the 101 freeway which is a major artery between santa barbara and los angeles. officials don't expect it to reopen until monday at the earliest because of all of the mud and debris. near here, as you said, 100 homes have been destroyed. 300 more were damaged. rescuers continue the search for those still missing or trapped under yesterday's devastating mudslide. >> literally ripped apart by that flow of mud that made its way off the mountain. >> reporter: it came as people slept early on tuesday morning. left bare from last month's wildfires. >> the entire building was shaking. we really thought the entire thing was going to go down into the streets. >> reporter: cars and homes slid away. more than a dozen people are dead with many more unaccounted for. >> there were four of them in the house. two were found. they are in the hospital. two are still missing. so they are just going to keep looking. >> reporter: survivors, some trapped for hours

jinah kim reporting from southern california, thank you, jinah. miguel almaguer will be live in montecito, california, in our next half hour. >>> the country is waging a war against opioid addiction and now one local police department is expanding access to a miracle drug. today, officers learned how to carry and administer the drug narcan. it counters the effect of an opioid overdose. it's the reason that cynthia is alive today. >> i wanted to say thank you to them. a lot of addicts want help but you don't really necessarily know where to go and for the narcan, if it didn't save me, i wouldn't be here. >> reporter: a few years ago, were trained. >>> the i-team has learned that investigators are expanding their review of the travel habits of scott pruitt. scott macfarlane broke the story on twitter. the epa says it is reviewing the frequency costs and extent of secretary pruitt's travel. this was requested by members of congress. outside watchdog groups say true wit traveled extensively, including 43 days of travel to his home state of oklahoma. >

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thank you so much, jinah kim in the midst of downtown l.a. ladies, welcome to all three of you.a, i was reading a report by emily's list. the number of women who have contacted them to help with funding, organization and the like as they try to run for office, what are these numbers, 400, more than 400 women are running for congress right now this year. that's so far, just the ones who have announced already. did this women's march movement, did it accomplish what it set out to do? >> that's a great question, something that we've been looking into a lot at vox. i wrote something about this yesterday, kind of looking at really how the women's march has evolved from a single day last year to something that's really much larger, and something that i think has been really striking to see, is how much political and electoral mobilization we've seen, and something that we saw on the ground today was a ton of focus on women running for office, and really a lot of excitement on being part of the political process. >> so caroline, with regard to women being candidates, should women vote