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>> for the moment, it has stopped raining at our emergency center, but we are expecting more rain this afternoon. we're hoping the worst of it is behind us. we currently have approximately 52 enclosed, six of which transportation will be closed for a minimum of three months due to the extensive damage that's been done to them. we have a number of sinkholes that have occurred due to the rain and the number of water rescues that our emergency responders handled this morning. >> tell me about the swift water rescues. we're looking at youtube video in hickory, north carolina of someone's backyard. it looks like a river, just unbelievable to think -- to look at this amount of flooding there. what has the situation been with the rescues, how many people? have people been heeding warnings to stay off the roads? >> it has gotten better as the day has progressed. i don't think anybody anticipated this happening when they got up this morning, so some people were out and about and happened to get caught. we've been very, very fortunate. we have not suffered any serious injuries because of the swift water. we did have two citizens that had to be rescued from a stream because of the swift water, but the information i have is that both of them or neither of them received any serious injuries. >> okay. mark petit, thank you so much. we want to continue monitoring this situation here. we have someone else on the phone. he is actually deion burleson with lincoln county, and he is going to update us on the situation now. he's a public information officer there. deion, what can you tell us? >> right now, the lincoln county emergency services are steadily still working to sort through the damage that we've had in this disaster area. we've had between 8 and 10 inches of rain here in the western portion of lincoln county over the past 12 hours, and this has certainly devastated this area. there have been multiple water rescues that have taken place out here as well as roads that have washed away, and the bridges have been washed away as well. right now the biggest problem that we're having is trying to keep people away from driving through flooded areas. there have been a couple vehicles that have washed off the roadway and have flipped and gone downstream. luckily those people were able to be rescued or they self-rescued themselves out of that situation. we have no fatalities or injuries noted right now, but the damage assessment is still ongoing and it is quite substantial. here in lincoln county, we do have one shelter that is opened up for residents that are either cut off from their homes or they have no power or they're heavily impacted by this disaster. >> dangerous situation there, deion. it seems like this would have happened suddenly. you knew the rain was coming, but were you all expecting this kind of flooding to happen there? >> absolutely not. as the local forecast was, a significant chance of storms, but it seems the storm system just came and it became stationary and constant rain just continued training right across this same region. it was just heavy, torrential downpours and it was not predicted to be like this. we understand that situations like this or difficult to predict. >> right, of course. and we're just fortunate that there aren't any serious injuries and we hope that it stays that way. thank you so much, dion burleson there in lincoln county, north carolina. i want to move to where a bride-to-be is dead. their party barge crashed in new york. they found her body in the hudson river earlier this afternoon and the best man is still missing at this hour. in addition to the groom-to-be, three others were badly injured in the accident. alena cho is following this story in new york. alena, so tragic to think the bride-to-be, her body was found two weeks before her wedding. what else do you know, alena? >> reporter: since we last spoke a few hours ago, pamela, we were able to confirm that searchers did recover the body of one of the two people missing in this boating accident. that body is that of 30-year-old lindsay stewart, a bride-to-be who was due to be married exactly two weeks from today, her whole life ahead of her. the search is now on and continues for the other missing person who is said to be the best man in the wedding. we should tell you that this is officially a rescue mission, but as the hours passed, even officials admit that it becomes less and less likely that this man will be found alive. meanwhile, here is what we can tell you about what caused all of this, what happened last night. from what we know, a small speedboat carrying six passengers in all left a nearby marina at about 10:00 last night, just minutes after this small boat hit a barge connected to the tappan zee bridge behind me. two people were ejected, four people suffered massive head injuries but survived. among those survivors was the groom, who apparently at the time was knocked unconscious, and when he came to, called 911. here's what officials said happened next. >> the 911 center received a call about 10:41 last evening from the boat that they had struck an unknown object in the river, and they needed help. they had two people overboard, four people on board with serious injuries. it is difficult to see barges which are low in the water and dark at night, and last night was pretty hard. >> n >> reporter: now, this barge apparently did have lights on it both in the front and in the back, but as you just haireard, was very, very dark last night. i did get just off the phone with a stepfather of lindsay stewart who was obviously in a state of shock, and after a few minutes he said he had to get off the phone to speak to the coroner. >> just a horrific story there, alena cho, and as we mentioned, the best man who was supposed to be in this wedding in two weeks still missing. let us know what happens out there. thank you. san diego's mayor is hoping therapy or behavior therapy, as he calls it, will be the answer to saving his career following a flood of sexual harassment allegations. bob filner announced yesterday eliaterani not step down from office, opting instead for two weeks of therapy. he is accused of groping, kissing and other forms of inappropriate conduct, and here is how one of his accusers reacted to his decision to get help. >> i think where you can detect whether he's sincere or not is s in his commitment to action, and right now he's committing to only two weeks of therapy to address years of republrehensib blaif behavior, and i think if he was serious about that, he would step aside and take the time needed to address this inappropriate behavior. >> i want to talk to a psychologist who treats this type of addiction and ask her whether the position of mayor stands in the way of this recovery. a judge has overnight to decide whether to officially charge the engineer in the train wreck in spain. he is accused of reckless homicide. carl pinhall joins us from the crash site with an update for us. hi, carl. >> reporter: hi, pam. i just want to set the scene for you. we're now actually down at the police station about three miles from where the accident actually happened. it's been a poignant scene here for part of the afternoon at least, because relatives of some of the dead and badly injured have been coming here and picking up their suitcases and other parts of their luggage. i think that's one of the things that rarely we think about after an accident of this type, what happened to the luggage? what happened to the belongings of the people that may have died? but the other significance of this building also is this is where the train driver is being held, and this morning the police announced they were formal allly accusing him of reckless homicide in the case of this accident, but still, it's the judge who will decide whether to press formal charges, and he has until tomorrow evening to decide whether he would also share the interpretation of the evidence and decide to press ahead with those charges, so we have to wait and see what his decision may be. but we have heard from the minister of the interior earlier today that so far the train driver is refusing to cooperate with him. he hasn't spoken to them to give any of the details of what happened in the seconds around the crash time. pam? >> all right. carl penhaul there for us in spain. thank you for an update on that story. nearly 70 years after world war ii, there is a new push to track down any surviving nazis. we're going to have details on what's been called operation last chance. also ahead, new home movies of president richard nixon. a new documentary features a never-before-seen film taken by his aides. we're going to talk to one of the producers of that documentary right after this break. ♪ ♪