Reporter good evening. This is our western edition. Rescue workers are risking their lives tonight in oso, washington, searching ground that has been compared to quicksand for victims of the mud slide. Three days after it buried this Village North of seattle, 14 people are known dead but dozens more are still unaccounted for among them, 30yearold billy spillers, father of four, a Career Counselor for the navy. Three of his children are missing, as well. The fourth child, fouryearold jacob, was rescued from the debris. Cbs news correspondent Danielle Nottingham is on the scene for us tonight. Danielle . Eporter scott, more than 60 members of the Washington National guard joined the search today. Were told teams are pinging for cell phone signals in the hopes of finding anyone under the debris and mud. Harch teams moved in heavy equipment, but they also had to resort to using their hands in some places to dig through the thick mud. Cameras are being inserted into air pockets in the hope of finding survivors, but the only thing search dogs seem to find are bodies. Elieigns of life have been detected in three days. Emergency management director john pennington. I believe in miracles and i believe people can survive these events. Theyve done it before, they can do it again. Reporter this view of the mud slide was recorded shortly after it buried oso, the village on the bend of the river at the base of a 600 hill. Whats your emergency . The houses are going reporter the current list of missing includes names and descriptions of the people spotted in the area just before the landslide, so officials suspect there are mistakes and duplications among the 176 on the list. Ite smiths daughter summer was last seen driving through oso. Do you think theres hope to still find people alive in all of this . To no, the rescue efforts were too little and too late. There arent going to be any more survivors. Reporter the threat of another mud slide and more rain prolonged the search and agony. My son, his two sons and my 16yearold daughter, they dug till dark saturday till they were threatened to be arrested. Hey dug with their bare hands. Th reporter scott, this area has had 15 inches of rain this month, but we also learned today that seismologists detected a 1. 1 magnitude earthquake on march 10 close to the site of se tlandslide. Authorities are trying to determine what role that might have played in the disaster. Pelley still raining there this evening. Danielle, thanks very much. Now to the search for the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines flight 370. Today, galeforce winds grounded the planes looking for debris. The search zone is in the southern indian ocean west of australia, the middle of nowhere. Holly williams is in perth, where its wednesday morning. Holly . Is reporter the search is due to resume in Western Australia this hour with 12 planes and two ships all headed to an area 1,500 miles off the coast known for its very difficult weather conditions. Its one of the most hostile and remote areas in the world. Reporter professor charitha pattiaratchi. Is an oceanographer who spent more than two decades studying the treacherous waters of the indian ocean. The rolling 40s very strong winds and big waves. The waves are 15 feet on average, or more than 30 feet when theres a storm. Reporter hes used satellite data to build a computer model that predicts where debris from the boeing 777 may end up. Ath as little as two weeks battery life left in the black boxes, he told us it is unlikely lley ever will be found. They will have to be extremely lucky. It will take a lot of time before they can find it. Reporter and hes not surprised the search planes have, so far, sighted very little on the oceans surface. Most of the wreckage will have sunk. Reporter the water where the plane went down ranges up to 20 20,000 feet, 7,000 feet deeper than where the titanic was found. This is good to 200 meters. Ns teporter which means this erarch and recovery operation will probably rely on hightech tools like this u. S. Navy robotic submarine that uses sonar to find objects at extreme depths. One will arrive in australia on wednesday. Another piece of equipment elled a pinger locator has been sent from the u. S. To try to find the planes black boxes. It cant be used till april 5, three days before the black boxes batteries run out. Reporter holly, thanks. Chip reid has been looking into the pinger locator holly mentioned and other hightech gear the u. S. Has sent to the search. Reporter curt newport is urying to find flight 370. What is this exactly . A small tow vehicle and htsigned to detect the acoustic beacons attached to the flight data recorders from commercial airliners. Reporter to detect the pinger. The pinger attached to the ack box. Reporter how do you find that on the bottom of the ocean . Mershe way it works is, when this is immersed in fresh or saltwater, it puts out a sound at a very specific frequency at one pulse a second. Reporter but a pinger only emits a signal 30 to 40 days, so they are sending an autonomous underwater vehicle, an auv, is sent to search for debris underwater. Paul nelson is a project manager at phoenix. Days, er the pinger locator, re s is the next step . This is the next step. This is called the artemis auv. Reporter this does what . It has side scan sensors and nemeras. So the tail cone drives it. You put it in the water, it does checks and spirals down to the bottom. Then, based on the pre programming, it will run a search pattern if you think lectt mowing the lawn, up and back, up and back, and collects data for 20 hours. Reporter but if theres no a plr indication of exactly where a plane went down, scott, hhe search can becoming agonizingly slow. Five years ago, when an air france passenger jet crashed in the atlantic, it took three of those auvs two years to find it. Chielley a troubling thought for the families involved, chip, thanks very much. In beijing, the families marched an ehe Malaysian Embassy today to protest what they consider to be the mishandling of the disaster. Ayey say malaysian authorities have lied. Twothirds of the 227 passengers were chinese, three american. The 12member crew was malaysian. In washington today, the president s healthcare law was 12ck before the supreme court. The issue for the justices is es iher a Health Insurance plan can be forced to cover overaceptives over the religious objections of an employer, in this case, a corporation. Chief Legal Correspondent jan crawford was in the court. Reporter the arguments were unusually intense and divisive. The courts three female justices, all liberal, defended and law and dismissed arguments s owusiness owners that the contraceptive coverage requirement violates religious freedom. Gan,a kagan, a top lawyer in the obama administration, clashed repeatedly with attorney paul clement. Suppose an employer refuses to fund vaccinations for her employees, or blood transfusions . One religious group could opt out of this and another could opt out of that and everything would be piecemeal. Clement, a top lawyer in the george w. Bush administration, pushed back, saying those cases were different. His clients provide coverage for most Birth Control methods, and argue the government should make an exception in the law so they enould not permit pills and devices that stop an embryo from implanting. Puday, the chief justice s prested the laws contraception requirement forced religious Business Owners to violate their conscience. Said roberts, they have to pay for methods of contraception they believe provide abortion. But the wild card is anthony kennedy, a conservative, but sometimes votes with the toberals. Today in court, he seemed sympathetic to the Business Owners, but also expressed some concerns about whether a religious objection could trump a womans access to healthcare. Pelley jan, thank you very much. Today, president obama vowed to ned nd nato countries should any but hem be threatened by russia. But he all but ruled out military action to force the russians out of crimea, which they seized from ukraine last ceek. In a News Conference in the netherlands, mr. Obama belittled russian president vladimir putin, calling russia a regional power. Russias actions are a problem. They dont pose the Number One National Security Threat to the united states. I continue to be much more concerned when it comes to our security with the prospect of a Nuclear Weapon going off in dnhattan. Co pelley today, mr. Obama also ff iosed changes to a Controversial Surveillance Program in which the National Security agency scoops up the plone records of americans. Heres bob orr on the new plan. Reporter under the administrations proposal, Telephone Companies like verizon and at t would collect the phone records of millions of americans and retain the data for 18 months. The government could only access specific records with court orders in terrorism investigations. President obama said today the new approach would balance privacy and security concerns. En i am confident that it allows us to do what is necessary in order to deal with the dangers ddom a terrorist attack but does so in a way that addresses some of the concerns people have ised. Reporter the proposed overhaul of the key Surveillance Program comes ten months after rsrmer n. S. A. Contractor Edward Snowden first revealed its existence. Intelligence officials have stressed the n. S. A. Only collects lists of numbers and lengths of calls and does not arnitor content. Still, privacy advocates warn the program could be abused, and so have called for an end for bulk collection of americans phone calls. But House Intelligence Committee ngmocrat Dutch Ruppersberger says phone records must remain available in some form to preserve a key tool tore neacking terrorists. Its like finding a needle in the haystack, the terrorist , yog the needle. And to find the needle, you need the haystack. Reporter a bill is backed that largely mirrors the president s proposal. Its obvious the n. S. A. s reach is likely to be reined in. Police have determined the cause of the crash that killed fast and furious star paul walker and baby salmon get a lift where they are heading when the western edition of the cbs evening news continues. Pelley today was the pelley today was the deadline for gm and the ngrernments Auto Safety Agency to Tell Congress what they knew about a deadly defect in some gm cars. At least 12 people have died and 31 have been injured in accidents linked to faulty has tion switches. Jeff glor has been investigating this. Reporter after the Chevrolet Cobalt was introduced ten years ago, there were problems from the start, including a defective ignition switch that could suddenly turn the engine off, disabling power steering, power brakes, and air bags. Both gm and the National Transportation safety board said, despite numerous reports of the problems, it was difficult to see a growing trend. But we analyzed data from the governments Early Warning reporting system, which car d orfacturers use to report accidents when someone is injured or killed. It shows, in model years 2005 and 2006 the first model years for the car gm reported more claims of injury and death with air bags as a contributing factor than any other car in its class. In 2006, cobalts had 50 times as many air bag claims as honda civics and five times as many as Toyota Corolla and ford focus. In another data base, 2005 and 2006 cobalts had the highest fatality rate of vehicles sold in its class and highest rate of fatal accidents when air bags didnt deploy. Today, senator rosenthal co in thered a bill to put more Accident Data in the hands of consumers. When you see the numbers, whats your reaction . These graphs are pictures of death and destruction on a scale that is staggering, when full disclosure could have stopped y fa. Reporter many families of no ile who died in cobalts had no idea there was a problem. Amber would have been. . 26. Reporter Laura Christians amber rose died in a cobalt in 2005. Tianhen you lose your daughter, whether youre the first one or the last one, shes still gone and its still their fault for not fixing the problem. Reporter would you let your kids drive your cars . Till wouldnt allow my children behind the wheel of one of these you. T should take these cars off the road. Reporter gm says theyre still doing an internal investigation, but told us today they believe the vehicles are safe to drive with just the ring and key only and nothing else. We received a statement which said nhtsa repeated data was not sufficient to warrant a full investigation. Scott says, based on new information theyve gotten from gm, theyre taking another look. Pelley nothing but the key on the key ring. Thanks very much. Police investigation has concluded that speed caused the car crash that killed Actor Paul Walker in los angeles last fall. According to the associated press, the report says the porsche was going about 90 Miles Per Hour when the driver walkers friend, roger rodus lost control, rodus was also killed. The investigation gowned the car had no mechanical problems. Three men have been arrested after they jumped off americas sllest building. That story is next. [ female announcer ] Research Suggests cell health plays a key role throughout our lives. One a day womens 50 is a complete multivitamin designed for Womens Health concerns as we age. With 7 antioxidants to support cell health. One a day womens 50 . Does your mouth often feel dry . A dry mouth can be a side effect of many medications but it can also lead to tooth decay and bad breath. Thats why theres biotene. Available as an oral rinse, toothpaste, spray or gel, biotene can provide soothing relief, and it helps keep your mouth healthy, too. Remember, while your medication is doing you good, a dry mouth isnt. Biotene for people who suffer from dry mouth. Ld pelley the skyscraper known as one World Trade Center is considered a prime target for brrrorists, yet we learned today of a Security Breach there. A group of men got inside the building still under construction and parachuted off of. Roof. Heres jim axlerod. Reporter the video recorded by the sky divers is breathtaking, but new york citys mayor, bill de blasio, doesnt find anything amusing about the stunt last september de che World Trade Center. Its obviously not an acceptable state of affairs, but we think its one that, together, we can resolve. Reporter it was 3 00 in the say ing. The three men say they had no tr trouble gaining access to the construction site of this 1,776 foottall tower. Marko marcovich was one of the jumpers. We found a hole in the fence, ershed it open, walked in, got n thhe top. Didnt see a person the entire way up to the ground. Reporter police dispute that, saying one of the men was an ironworker with access to the site. The n. Y. P. D. Used surveillance cameras to identify license plates in the immediate area, leading them to a suspect. They turned themselves in lipperday. H a week, a 16yearold slipped through a fence and climbed to the top of the tower. Laza know that both city hall thisone police plaza are concerned about this situation, and were going to deepen our coordination with the port tthority police to address it. Reporter hundreds of officers are assigned to the area in and around ground zero, still considered a top terror target. The port authority, the Agency Responsible for securing the site, declined our request for an interview, providing a statement instead that police will go to any length to bring those who defile the World Trade Center site to justice. A source at the n. Y. P. D. Tells me its not a serious security concern now, its a construction site. The jumpers have a court date in july. Reporter jim axlerod downtown, thanks. More on the baby gorilla delivered by csection a couple of weeks ago at the san diego zoo. Dowcame down with pneumonia, lst today, the zoo tells us shes all better and met her mom inr the first time yesterday. Since then, they have been inseparable. Msd we will be right back. O the pacific. But turns out the fish wont have to make the journey alone. Heres john blackstone. Reporter at the coleman fish hatchery, the first of 12 million baby salmon were loaded into trucks this morning. Californias long drought left gg across america, people like Basketball Hall of Famer Dominique wilkins, are taking charge of their type 2 diabetes with noninsulin victoza. For a while, i took a pill to lower my blood sugar, but it didnt get me to my goal. So i asked my doctor about victoza. He said victoza works differently than pills, and comes in a pen. And the needle is thin. Victoza is an injectable prescription medicine that may improve blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes when used with diet and exercise. It is not recommended as the first medication to treat diabetes and should not be used in people with type 1 diabetes or diabetic ketoacidosis. Victoza has not been studied with mealtime insulin. Victoza is not insulin. Do not take victoza if you have a personal or Family History of medullary thyroid cancer, multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 2, or if you are allergic to victoza or any of its ingredients. Symptoms of a serious allergic reaction may include swelling of face, lips, tongue or throat fainting or dizziness, very rapid heartbeat, problems breathing or swallowing, severe rash or itching. Tell your doctor if you get a lump or swelling in your neck. Serious side efcts may happen in people who take victoza including inflammation of the pancreas pancreatitis which may be fatal. Stop taking victoza and call your doctor right away if you have signs of pancreatitis, such as severe pain that will not go away in your abdomen or from your abdomen to your back, th or without vomiting. Tell your doctor about all the medicines you take and if you have any medical conditions. Taking victoza with a sulfonylurea or insulin may cause low blood sugar. The most common side effects are nausea, diarrhea, and headache. Some side effects can lead to dehydration, which may cause kidney problems. If your pill isnt giving you the control you need, ask your doctor about noninsulin victoza. Its covered by most health plans. Next on kpix 5 weather talent appears at wx center with generic pinpoint filling monitor the take special sp ia pelley finally, tonight, californias been dry for going on three years, and that is interfering with one of natures wonders the annual migration of salmon from streams and rivers to the pacific. But turns out the fish wont have to make the journey alone. Heres john blackstone. Reporter at the coleman fish hatchery, the first of 12 million baby salmon were loaded into trucks this morning. Trufornias long drought left r soriver so low that, for the first time in two decades, the hatchery cant release the fish raised right at the hatchery. Eyey will be carried more than 200 miles down river, where they will have an easier time reaching the ocean. John mcmanus leads the golden gate salmon association, which urged the government to truck the fish. Survival will be much higher than if they were released into the drought stricken river where the hatcheries are. Some estimates suggest the survival will be up to 18 times higher than if released at the hatchery. He salorter at the end of the journey, the salmon are released in pens to get accustomed to the river, then swim to the ocean just over 60 miles away. How do you know whether or not these are a success . They have tags implanted in them. When they come back as adults, those tags will be recovered and ter ill know what the survival is as a result of covering these tags. Reporter in the next three weeks, dozens of truckloads make ishisame journey, essential to the 1. 4 billion fishing industry in california. Captain John Atkinson runs a ter ter boat out of San Francisco bay. Salmon is our money maker. Reporter if you put a salmon in a truck, does he know where his home is . Ur mhey know. Weyre smarter than we are. Reporter sometimes nature just needs a lift. John blackstone, cbs news, rio acsta, california. Pelley thats the cbs evening news for tonight. For us at cbs news all around the world, good night. Captioning sponsored by cbs captione your realtime captioner is linda macdonald. It is just the start of our lodgest stretch of wet weather in a while longest stretch of wet weather in a while but its too little too late to avert crippling water cutbacks. It is yet another sign of just how serious californias drought really is. One bay area water supplier has made it official. It simply cannot provide the same amount of water it has in the past. Kpix 5 reporter mark sayre is in san jose tonight and tells us one group is being cut of altogether. Reporter the santa clara Water District says it has to cut Water Supplies by 20 and some customers are getting no water at all. Efficient way to deliver water. Reporter tim says he was more than surprised when he received a letter notifying him that his family farm in morgan hill would lose all of its public Water Supplies. We just thought it was kind of harsh to just cut us off. Reporter this 300 acres of garlic is irrigated using untreated water from the santa clara Water District. Theres a drip irrigation system to deliver the water with 98 efficiency. But due to the districts need to save every drop to purify and send to muni cipal customers, he and 100 other customers will lose their supply. Everyone is nervous. Whats next . We cant grow anything without water. Reporter this is where the farm gets its water supply from the Santa Clara Valley Water District. Come may 1 that water supply goes away. This impacts everyone. Reporter marty grimes with the Santa Clara Valley
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