This is the cbs evening news. Good evening, everyone i am jeff glor with the western edition of the broadcast and one neighbor said it took three seconds for everything to get wiped out, the mud slide happened 40 miles outside of seattle near oso, washington, an area covering more than three football fields was gutted, take a look at that, burying homes below in up to 20 feet of debris. Tonights families continue to wait both to find out what happened to relatives and their homes. From northwest washington, we begin with lee stoll of our affiliate kiro. Rescue crews are scanning half a mile wide mud slide at this hour, continuing to sift through the remains of entire neighborhoods. Oh, my gosh. This eyewitness was driving when the mud slide hit and captured the aftermath on his cellphone. I just saw the darkness. Thats all i could see, everything from one side to the other side. Basically everything is gone. Recent heavy rains caused the groundwater saturation that triggered the river of mud, trees and rocks that Officials Say came out of nowhere. T least three people are dead and more than a dozen injured. Evacuation orders were issued last night and at least 18 people were, remain unaccounted for. A travis hots is the snohomih county fire chief. I was up there yesterday afternoon and i was in awe, it reminded me of the video we saw when mount helens erupt, trees on their side, massive mud debris, there is substantial. Robin youngbloods home was caught in the middle of it all. This is no way what we went through we should be alive. We got only a few bruises. It blocked the north fork of the river creating a severe flooding threat and tonight there is word rising water is slowly breaking through the dam. We go want to ask people to remain in a state of heightened awareness because there is not total predictability about how this river is going to behave. Reporter we are at a checkpoint near the mud slide where Law Enforcement is only allowing people in who want to check on their property or loved ones. Everyone else is being kept out, that is how precarious this situation is. Those people who have been displaced by the slide, though, are getting help from the red cross. They have set up two shelters in the area. All right, that was lee stoll of cbs associate kiro. With the threat of more flooding looming we want to bring our affiliate eric fisher from wbz. What is next in the Pacific Northwest . Jeff, still a developing situation here. We have a Flash Flood Watch out for snohomish county. And there is a Flash Flood Warning and zero have all of this debris from the mud slide itself in the way of that river. Eventually that debris is going to let go and expecting flooding a far down as arlington. The weather is not expecting catastrophic warning but wants to make sure everybody is in a safe spot and minor flooding is expecting when that releases. It has gone from dry to stormy in the last few months. Seattle picked up nearly 14 inches of rain the last two months more than double what they normally would expect. Meanwhile back further east more cold weather, another storm on the way . Another storm on the way, and a lot of cold. That is the guarantee. High temperatures into late march, twenties in buffalo and boston. Below the freezing mark in new york city. We will watch a strong front that will develop, this one a little further to the east, and might not be looking at widespread impact but where it brushes the coast you will be tracking snow, perhaps from North Carolina right on up toward maine. The biggest potential, southeast massachusetts, and blizzard conditions not out of the question by wednesday morning. Eric fisher, thank you very much. Damage control continues in texas tonight after a Major Oil Spill off the coast this weekend. It happened in galveston bay, when a barge collided with a tanker. Tonight crews are dealing with not only an environmental mess but a logistical nightmare. Here is manuel bojorquez. Reporter the leaking barge had nearly a million gallons of marine oil on board when the accident happened but only one of the barns oil tanks sprung a leak. Crews have drained the oil from the damaged barge and they are towing it to a nearby shipyard. It is continuing to move. We have got, i believe over 60,000 feet of boom that is out therthere protecting environmenl sensitive areas as well as containing the oil and trying to get it into places where we can recover it. Now the focus is on skimming the thick sticky oil off the water and parts of the shoreline. Oil residue has already been spotted 12 miles away from the accident scene in the gulf of mexico. It is too soon for investigators to say what caused the accident, but there was fog in the area when the ships collided so visibility could have been a factor. The cleanup operation has shipping traffic at a stand still. More than 60 vessels including three crew ships are waiting to pass through the area where the accident happened. The coast guard plans to let those ships pass through one at a time, but there is no word yet on when the channel where the spill happened will reopen to all traffic. The first of those crew ships will head here to the port of galveston. There is still no word on exactly when it will arrive. Manuel bojorquez, cbs news, galveston, texas. Malaysia air flight 370 has been missing for 16 days now. Today in beijing a team from malaysia briefed families of missing passengers for six hours but there was little concrete progress to report from the search area. Far in the southwest of australia, Holly Williams is in perth. This american search crew flew back to base in their aircraft after nine hours scouring a sector of the southern indian ocean, 1,500 miles of australia, off australias west coast but once again they found nothing. Lieutenant commander adam schantz told us the crew from jacksonville, florida is contending with difficult weather conditions that forced them to fly extremely low over the water. The aircraft was flying down 300 feet, the visibility was extremely limited. That has got to be tough. It is very. It is tough, frustrating but the crews did the best they could. Images captured by australian and chinese satellites appear to show large objects floating in the search area, one of them up to 80 feet long. And yesterday, a civilian aircraft reported seeing a wooden pallet in the same waters, an item that is commonly used in the cargo hold of passenger planes and also in shipping containers. The Australian Authorities coordinating the search have warned that they cant be certain that any of the objects cited are linked to the missing yet but so far they are only the credible leads in its disappearance and tomorrow the operation will be bolstered with more planes from china and japan. How long will you keep up the search . How long will you stay here . We are here at the request of the Australian Government and we will stay as long as we are operately supported. Reporter the french government said today it captured radar echoes indicating debris inside the search area, but, jeff, there are still no confirmed sightings of the wreckage of 370. Holly williams, thank you. Russian president Vladimir Putin and german chancellor merkel agreed in a phone call today on a plan to send western monitors to ukraine. Vehicles smashed the ukraines last remaining base in crimea yesterday, on the Eastern Ukraine city of donetsk today. They had a. Voted on a referendum to join russia. This will top the agenda in a summit that begins tomorrow in the hague. Chief White House CorrespondentMajor Garrett joins us. Major. Jeff, russias military menacing of Eastern Ukraine will dominate this summit and already prompted a sideline meetg of the g7, that is the top economies on what to do next. The United States and europe knows russia pose as significant and unnerving threat to what remains of free ukraine. They also know existing economic sanctions and the threat of war have done nothing to force russia to reassess its crimean land grab. President obamas strategy of the diplomatically isolating russia and more economic costs. European nations are reluctant to impose tougher economic challenges. And also asking china to. China is neutral but, jeff, the white house would like to see much more. Major garrett, thank you. One person is dead and 16 hurt after a tour bus accident over in virginia. Police say the bus was cut off by a car traveling at a high rate of speed which forced the bus off the road where it turned over in a ditch. The driver of the car was later arrested and charged with felony hit and run. The tax scamers, just a phone call away, when the cbs evening news continues. Glor the irs says it is the largest tax phone scam ever, more than 20,000 cases so far, nearly every state in this country, scamers calling people pretending to be from the irs, they are not, even though irs comes up on the caller id. Jordan goodman is a personal finance expert and here with more on this. Jordan they are calling people and asking them to pay the debit card or wire transfer. A classic scam in this case how do they get irs on the caller id . You can get the one use phone and program them where you are calling from, so it might say irs or department of homeland security. And threaten to. And throw the phone away and get another one. Glor very threatening and very scary on the phone. If you are looking to avoid getting scammed how do you do that . If the irs is calling you usually it is not the irs calling you. They will typically send you a letter. If you have any questions you can call the irs yourself and say do i in fact owe money. If they are pressuring you you have to wire money right away or do all kinds of terrible things to you that is a sign it is not the irs so that pressure is really the sign, the telltale sign to stay away from them. Glor they often target the elderly. Yes. Glor and irs is worried about identity theft. Why are they worried about that . People are filing a false tax once and false w2s to get refunds to their Bank Accounts instead of yours. Last year one with. 6 Million People got hit by this. They are estimating about 21 billion are going to be falsely sent to people, getting refunds. The irs is not o on top of this yet so if you are not getting your refund it may be because it went to somebody else and you didnt know about it. Glor one way to file is it is to file early. As early as you can. And if you dont get your refund and you filed legitimate somebody may have already gotten it from you. Glor thank you. Thank you, jeff. Glor the nations most wellknown character actors has died. James remember rebhorn had 21 credits to his career, it is da who sent the gang to prison in the seinfeld role. The last role, the father of chain dane in homeland. He was battling cancer since 1992. Next, an american mall. Glor american tradition, the trip to the mall may be living on borrowed time. Many of the countrys 1,200 malls are going under, thanks in part to online shopping, and in part to the great recession. But a few are still thriving by reinventing themselves. Here is mark strassmann. Reporter the woodville mall is coming down. The retailing fixture in toledo, ohio since 1969 closed three years ago, the roof fell in, first on its allure for customers and then under the decaying structure itself. It was condemned. It was unsafe. Dayne bihn is overseeing the demolition. For him, this i dont know is personal. Yeah, i used to come to the mall, sit on santas lap, go see a movie, have a hot. Kids things do when the parents take them to the mall. The classic american mall with its chain stores and food courts began a golden age of retailing in the 1950s. That era is over. No new and closed mall has been built since 2006. How many do you think will be around in ten years . 20 years . Probably 50 percent of them will be gone. Robin lewis is the author of the new rules of retail. What you are saying is for some of these malls to survive, it cant be cookie cutter anymore . No, it cannot. You have got to give them a reason to spend the time to go and make the effort to drive there, and the only way they are going to do that is if there is a fun thing going on. This is plaza fiesta in atlanta, once struggling regional mall and now a mexican town square, 280 mostly Family Stores and more. For the citys booming hispanic population. This is the best station, there is the ticket sales for the buses. Jose legaspi transformed fiesta and nine other dying malls across the country, all of which cater to hispanic communities. 4. 4 Million People visited here last year and found benches to sit and stores they want and services they need. They will spend a lot more money, right. The whole family will eat and then they will buy their shoes. They will do their dentistry because we have dental offices and do their medical and do their groceries. So it is one stop shopping in every sense of the word. Reporter legaspi says all struggling malls need to learn who their local customers are and what they want. And cookie cutter malls like woodville will keep crumbling. Mark strassmann, cbs news, atlanta. Glor from the american mall to the great wall, First Lady Michelle Obama and daughters malia and sasha toured chinas great wall today. The section they walked along looked over a rock inscription that reads loyal to chairman mao still ahead the surprising hazard posed by one type of golf club. Glor for golfers in california these days, getting stuck in a rough spot on the course is no longer just a nuisance for the player. It could be a hazard for everyone living nearby. From los angeles, teri okita explains. Reporter before they rage out of control, most wild fires start with a single spark. Cigar, cigarette, intentionally set fires. Reporter but few thought this could be a culprit. Investigators were baffled over what caused fires at two golf courses, and then says Orange County fire captain Steve Concialdi we found the smoking gun. Two separate golfers was using the exact same club, a hybrid titanium three iron. The theory was that this golf club hitting rocks sparked a fire in Mission Viejo in 2,011 and larger one in irvine in 2010, but it wasnt quite mystery solved. When the idea was presented to the top brass the chief, fire investigators were laughing at us and couldnt believe it. But just in case the Fire Department commission add study at uc irvine. I was still skeptical. That is until they began testing. It is pretty dramatic. I mean it is light a 4th of july. You can see there are a lot of rocks below. Yes. One of the wild fires started right here. News for golfers. I certainly recognize there could be a danger now. Like chris mears, if his ball winds up here the Fire Department is willing to give him a break. If they need to move the ball they should do the right thing and move the ball away from the rocks. But purist say that is a one stroke penalty. So the danger pose as dilemma. You think your buddies will let you take a mulligan . Well, maybe not for that reason. A gentlemans game, only goes so far. Teri okita, cbs news, Mission Viejo, california. Glor coming up, surfer bethenny hamilton, a champion once again. Glor ever since surfer Bethany Hamilton lost her arm in a shark attack when she was 13 years old she rightfully has been called an inspiration, getting back in the water was remarkable enough, but this past week hamilton did more than just show up, she won. Don dahler reports. Reporter she was always something special, Bethany Hamilton won her first surfing championship at eight years of age, her second at 12. A few months later, her life was changed forever. She had been lying on her surfboard her arm dangling in the water when a tiger shark bit it off at the shoulder. So this is where i lost my arm. She also lost 60 percent of her blood, but hamilton not only survived, she thrived, seeing her injury as a challenge, not a setback. I look back on that and i think how i wouldnt even change that if i had the opportunity to. I just see all the doors that it has opened. Absolutely unbelievable. A movie was made based on her best selling autobiography, her courage inspired millions of people. Hamiltons foundation holds retreat for teenage girls with similar injuries to show them missing a limb doesnt mean missing out on life. It is really just cool opportunities to let them open up and share what their struggles are. Reporter even with all of the public responsibilities she kept competing, but hadnt won in over a decade. Last thursday on a oahus north shore Bethany Hamilton outscored everyone, a champion in her sport, a champion in life. Don dahler cbs news, new york. Glor that is the cbs evening news tonight, later on cbs 60 minutes. 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