. >> reporter: volunteer firefighters seth jeffords helped find his own wife and granddaughter. >> goingss my wife and granddaughter. i love them so much. >> reporter: it's been a week since the last live victims were rescued, and hope has faded to a flicker. but the search goes on. brian mooar, nbc news. >>> at 8:30 tonight, iconic buildings around the world went dark. it wasn't a normal blackout. it was earth hour, part of a global moment to raise awareness on climate change. for 60 minutes, could you see it was lights out at the eiffel tower. vatican city was lit with paper lanterns after they turned off the lights in st. peter's basilica, and here in washington, d.c., the national cathedral went dark. millions of people in more than 150 countries took part this year. you know, they called off the cherry blossom kite festival earlier today because of the rain. they say they'll go tomorrow. >> yeah, rain or shine. i saw that, too. >> i guess forget about the shine. >> the good news, at least, trying to fly a kite tomorrow. i don't know how successful you can fly a kite in the rain, but

it's dangerous work that seth jeffords knows all too well. >> turn around and come home and it's all gone, the neighborhood, my wife, my family. >> reporter: the volunteer oso firefighter helped find his wife christina and his granddaughter in the rubble. >> i'm going to miss my wife and my granddaughter. i love them so much. >> reporter: tonight jefford shares his grief with families who have lost loved ones wand so many others who are still waiting for someone to come home. a week ago today, seven survivors were rescued from the mud slide. tonight five of them remain hospitalized, they are slowly recovering. lester? >> so much sadness there, miguel, thank you. >>> today for the first time in four weeks floating objects were recovered in the indian ocean that were suspected to be related to the missing malaysian jetliner. nbc's kerry sanders is following that story for us from washington. >> reporter: it's the first time anything has been fished from the ocean since this investigation began, but almost as quickly as the chinese shared news that their naval crews had located somethin

seth jeffords, a volunteer firefighter, has sifted through the dangerous conditions. he lost his wife and granddaughter. >> i'm going to miss my wife and granddaughter. i love them so much. >> reporter: with 49 homes destroyed, at least 11 were built since 2000. a year after this report prepared for the u.s. army corps of engineers warned "the potential for a large catastrophic failure" here. >> nobody warned anybody. we had no knowledge. we built -- we bought that place specifically because it was a quarter mile from the river and it was up on a bench above flood level. there is nothing that should have hurt us there. >> reporter: with many here still in shock, this tight-knit community is mourning together. the first funeral for town librarian linda mcpherson will be held next week. >> we're grieving for our loss, because she was such a wonderful sister. she was like a rock in our family. >> reporter: today, 17 families share that loss, while so many others wait for word on loved ones still missing. at 10:37 a.m., the time this mudslide hit, the governor has asked f