. >> those survivors were evacuateed to the shelter in nearby alcapulco although people are safe here, they say it's impossible toll forget what happened. >> translator: i never want to go back to that town. they took t it took away my mother and sister but i need to go back to give thaepl prop oher purial. >> reporter: more than 50 communities have been without food or water for a week. washed out bridges and flood-damaged roads means the only way in to these mountain villages is ^py air. here, too t there are challenges. >> translator: we're doing all we can to bring much-needed assistance to these remote villages. biggest problem we face is the weather. >> reporter: on thursday, a rescue helicopter went missing in stormy conditions. two days later, it was found crashed with no survivors. at the operation will continue and with help from the government in could recover but for residents of la canarra, their neighborhood no longer exists. >> making his way to the south east of the country. expected to hit hong kong late sunday or early monday. >> bracing itself over the arrival of so

unstable conditions wreak havoc up and down the stretch here and hundreds of people who need to be evacuateedvia helicopter but the weather is so bad they will be grounded for quite a while. but choppers did fly friday and saturday rescuing hundreds and the sheriff justin smith got up in the air for a tour to survey his county. >> how can we ever recover from this? i know exactly, inch by inch, mile by mile, community by community, they are taking this stuff back. >> reporter: on saturday president obama designated three colorado counties as disaster areas. colorado's governor is asking that 12 more counties be added to the list. >> rebuild better than it was before and that is a community we are going to come out stronger after this storm than we were before. >> reporter: in the meantime, the county sheriff is asking people to be patient. >> my message to folks is take it day by day, colorado is coming together and no doubt the nation will be pouring in assistance and help. >> reporter: help that many people here need desperately. tamra banks, al jazeera, fort collins, colorado. >> reporter:

. >> we have evacuateed pulling firefighters back.d to pull operations out of the area. >> crews got the fire under control but we will continue to watch for any flareups. >> today is three years since the deadly pipeline explosion and a service will begin at 6:00 tonight at the blast site. pg&e gas line explosion and fire killed eight people and destroyed 38 homes. 16 of the homes have been rebuilt and 16 others are empty lots. >> ahead the 49ers home opener is marred by tragedy. >> first, forget the new eastern span, today the western span is the center of attention with a name change later today. >> a hook outside at the fire bunking from mt. diablo and you can see the flames look like they are about to crest mt. diablo. we will talk about the weather conditions as we shhhhh! in our day, we didn't have u-verse high speed internet. yeah, our babysitter didn't have a million ways to serve mom up on a silver platter. we had to count sheep to fall asleep. and i always worried that i was creating an overcrowded sheep farm. in my head...