this summer, they were awarded the federal law enforcement conal badge of bravery. >> we didn't haveng on it, but we knew people needed help. the call comes out you go out and help people. >> we eat had a flashlight and a pocket knife. >> there's also use for rope, i grabbed a rope. >> they used the rope to tie themselves to the truck to keep from floating away. each hour the water got higher, and each mission into the floods more treacherous. >> there was the manager at the i hop. they were standing on the tables inside the restaurant. when she got in the truck, she was pretty defeated. >> this is just pure working to help people that needed help. i mean, it's probably one of the most rewarding things i've done on s.w.a.t. >> the calls for help didn't stop for days. they lost track of how many people they rescued. they'll never forget the faces in the storm. ed lavandera, cnn, houston. >> that's it for me, newsroom with brooke baldwin starts right now. >>> brianna, thank you. hi, i'm brooke baldwin, you're watching cnn, thank you for being with me this monday. the impeachment inquir

sure on the horror scenario that became reality in sicily and 992 and one mafia judge giovani for conal was assassinated in an infamous bombing. further similar and deadly attacks were perpetrated in the following months 20 years later the authorities arrested a fisherman who had retrieved the explosives for the mafia from the city and theoretically this is a similar threat lurking off germany's north and baltic sea coasts an estimated $1600000.00 tons of old munitions slowly deteriorating on the seabed even decades after being dumped dropped or fired into the water the ordinance can still be so explosive that it has to be blown up directly where it's found. but it's a solution that comes with its own devastating impact. each detonation triggers a huge shockwave and the sound pressure is lethal for creatures with lungs marine mammals that live in the water such as the porpoises native to the region. once the shock wave just keeps on going through the water column and can still be lethal 10 kilometers away so you'll be doing it to people falling. where possible the old bombs and shells a

what's happening in the country is part of a regional conflict that began when conall gadhafi. ousted in libya. armed groups crossed the sahara desert and started an insurgency in northern mali and then spread across the sahara region until 2 years ago but was largely safe now hundreds of people have been killed and many more displaced this is one of many villages we've seen along the way in this homestead for example it appears people left in quite a hearty this food it seems that they were preparing to eat these pots and pans everywhere and they also left the animals and animals are very important to the people who live in this area some of those we talked to saying that they fled after hearing that other villages had been attacked. this man brought their families to safety after their villages ambushed and several people killed they believe the fighters have inflamed tensions between rival hardass and farming communities. the beginning before it was a continuation of ethnic conflict that has existed for a long time but now we believe it's beyond that. police tell us hours af