Southern california and nevada are for a second evening under flash flood watches after thunderstorms trergered a massive earth slide burying cars and trucks under five feet of floods. Hundreds left stranded. Some trapped in cars after heavy rains in the deserts outside of l. A. Turned the ground to a boulder filled soup and closed down 40 miles of the busy interstate 5 which connects northern and Southern California. Miguel almaguer is about an hour north of us in lake hughes where people are trying to dig out before the next rain comes. Reporter this was the moment of impact. Torrential rain, pounding hail, waves of water. Panic and chaos for hundreds stranded on the road as flash flooding triggered fastmoving mudslides. Scramble to stay alive. Help it is just the most frightening thing to see. A mountain of mud just comes barreling down on you. Reporter in just one hour, six inches of hammering rain. The duluth hampering homes and highways. Interstate 5, one of the busiest and most vital freeways shut down. Portions buried under five feet of mud. I must have pulled out 10, 15 cars, pulled out another 1520 today. Reporter the gridlock snaking for miles just as school was letting out. 120 fourth graders rescued from their bus, sleeping in a gym, no place to go. Other children were trapped at school. It is pretty scary. And then all of the water just flooding the streets. Reporter today, after the mayhem, semis buried on the highway, cars gone. It is still too early to know the true scent of the damage. Yesterday many left vehicles on the side of the road when the floodwater was just rising and this is what it looks like today. Bulldozer moved in to clear blocked roads. Firefighters going doortodoor checking on the stranded, assessing the damage. It is all the way through. Reporter Kelly Coleman is cleaning up three feet of mud. How bad is the damage. You have to ask my land lady. I think it is a complete loss. Reporter tonight while the storm system is not connected to el nino, the swift damage is such a short wend is what is headed our way this winter say forecasts. A developing store delivering a forecast calling for even more rain. When you see Elizabeth Lake road which turned into a lake, it is incredible to realize no one was injured or killed in this area. The mud here is still tacked 12 teet high in some areas thx vehicle was pushed off the road. And adding insult to injure, lester, this entire region is under a Flood Warning hit with round two. Lester. Miguel almaguer in lake hughes. To the east of there in texas, a growing disaster of a different kind. A ferocious wildfire that has burned dozens of homes and other buildings to the ground. And again today hot and dry weather conditions fanning the flames. Nbcs Kerry Sanders is on the fire lines where hundreds of firefighters are now on the attack. Reporter on day three, no letup. But now a clear picture of the devastation. Gone, more than 40 homes. Incinerated in this fastmoving fire. Those among the last to evacuate could hear the blaze hitting homes. Some people have guns and ammo, like i do, and could you hear all of the ammo going off and it sounded like fireworks. So you know they were burning houses then. Reporter today, with 30 volunteer firefighters on the ground and the National Guard overhead, a d. C. Ten that can drop 12,000 gallons of fire retard and. We joined this deputy in the hardest hit areas. He said most evacuates, but not all. People are lucky. Lucky because . They actually survived the fire and everything. Reporter this Community Knows what it is to lose everything in a horrific wildfire. Four years ago bastrop texas was hit by the worst fires in the state history. More than 1600 homes destroyed and three people died. Tonight they hope this is put out before that record is challenged. Lester. Kerry sanders. Thank you. More weather whiplash on way. Including more rain here in the west and the first real cold blast of the season in the east. Al roker is monitoring it all for us in new york. Al, lay it out for us. Lester, here you go. You can see on the thunderstorms firing up in Southern California and spreading to arizona and new mexico and that is what were watching over the next 48 hours. Through sunday, all of the pacific moisture, flash flooding is likely and the threat now includes arizona and nevada. We have flash flooding watches from california all the way into colorado. Were going to be watching this very closely. Rainfall rates of 12 inches per hour. This includes phoenix, tucson and las vegas. Plus we have a big change coming. Big massive arctic air dropping out of canada. 57 Million People under some sort of frost freeze advisory. Temperatures from 1020 degrees below average through sunday morning and to add insult to injurey, lester, snow into new england and parts of upstate new york. Some areas could be looking by sunday morning, 13 inches, lester. Al, thank you very much. Back inside with other news. Including the scary scene in houston when a massive scaffolding collapsed at an apartment complex under nstruction. At least six workers were rescued and placed on stretchers and rushed to the hospital. None of the injuries are considered lifethreatening. No word yet on what caused the collapse. With one controversial seemingly settled, detroit has ignited a new fire storm. The frontrunner minced no words when he suggested that former president george w. Bush is partly to blame for the 9 11 attacks, something that did not rival jeb bush. Nbcs katy tur has reporter donald trump once again speaking his mind, taking on george bush over 9 11. Bloomberg news. When you talk about george bush, say what you want, the World Trade Center came down hold on. You cant blame him. He was president. The World Trade Center came down during his rairn. The frontrunner using the president to needle jeb bush in the past calling the iraq invasion a mistake. This afternoon, jeb fired back, tweeting trump was quote, pathetic and his brother kept us safe. Late thursday we got a peek into the moguls Unusual Campaign financials. Im much richer. Reporter of the leading candidates, he spent the least between july and september at 4. 2 million, compared to Hillary Clinton 25. 8 million. And half a million for the make America Great again hats and shirts. But perhaps the most notably, despite what he repeatedly says im selffunding my campaign. Okay. Im the only one. Reporter detroit reporter detroit is spending more money than others. He hasnt put any cash in his campaign since june. Bringing in 3. 9 million from donors averaging 50. Hes speaking for me. That is my money. I want him to spend my money. The only candidate with the higher percentage of cash from small donors is bernie sanders. Jeb bush continues to struggle pulling in a disappointing 13 million. Katy tur, nbc news, new york. On the democratic side, sources say Vice President joe biden wants breathing room to make his decision on running even as his team appeals to supporters not to give up on him. But Hillary Clintons latest poll numbers have many asking did biden wait too long to make up his mind. We get our report from andrea mitchell. Reporter has the window closed for joe biden . He was camera shy today but does he owe it to fellow democrats to decide soon . I think you can direct those questions to my very able Vice President. Reporter but biden sent a personal message to former aide ted kaufman who wrote he is determined to take and give his possible to work this through. He signed off, if he decides to rub, we will need each and every one of you yesterday. His signal to supporters is the door is not closed. To rivals, stop the pressure and back off. Hillary clinton in New Hampshire today was asked by biden by cnn. There does come a point where a decision has to be made but im not in any way suggesting or recommending that the Vice President accept any time table other than the one that is clicking inside of him. Reporter is it too late . After her debate performance, clinton has inched ahead in a New Hampshire poll. And in an nbc survey Monkey Online Poll nationally, clinton has a doubledigit lead. Does have bill there help her. We celebrated our 40th anniversary on sunday last, so the fact he could come and keep me company and keep my spirits up and drill me on some of the things he thought were important meant a great deal to me. Tapper . Im not going to sit here and tell you and your viewers that it has been a path filled with rose blossoms blossoms, it is but looking back at the 40 years, im so grateful that after he asked me twice i finally said yes and have spent these years with him. Reporter some supporters argue that biden is better off waiting since once he declare for president he has to pay for air force two and with the crew a wroping 43,000 an hour on political trip, a huge burden for a campaign. Lester. Thank you. Breaking developments concerning the condition of former nba and reality tv star lamar odom. After days in a coma fighting for life, word is that he is awake. Jacob rascon is at the hospital. Tell us what youve learned . Reporter sources close to odom sell our Sister Network he is off of life support and breathing on his own. He woke up and spoke for the first time in three days. On tuesday, odom was found unresponsive at a brothel in nevada after an apparent drug overdose. Family and friends rushed to his wife, including his estranged wife Khloe Kardashian and kobe bryant. Doctors found melt pull drugs in his system and he suffered a stroke and brain damage and was in a coma. While many are calling the improvement in his condition remarkable, his motherinlaw kris jenner released a statement saying he is still in very, very critical condition. Lester. Jabock, thank you. A michigan family has filed a federal lawsuit over a traffic stop gone wrong. A teenager was pulled over and defied the orders. It was caught by cameras until he was shot dead. We get our report from rehema ellis. Routine traffic stop. 17yearold devon gillford was stopped by sergeant frost. It was recorded on frosts body cam. I was going to crash. You had your brights on, sir, im not lying to you. Frost asked repeatedly for gillfords documents. Reporter eventually gillford admitted he didnt have the license and when he refused to get out of the car, the officer arrested him. Get your hands behind your back. Frost fires his stun gun. They fought. Frost shot the unarmed teenager seven times and killed him. The deputy was treated for facial injuries. After an investigation, the county prosecutor decided not to file charges against frost and determines that the sergeant used his firearm within the limits of michigan selfdefense law. But this week, gillfords parents filed a federal civil lawsuit against frost and the county saying the officers action was illegal and in violation of devons constitutional rights. It would have been more appropriate for the facts to be brought in front of a jury to ultimately decide. A motorist, when stopped by a police officer, should comply with the Police Officers question and should definitely not become argumentative. Today the Sheriffs Office called it a tragedy for everyone involved. This case once again highlighting the national deebt over confrontation with police and the use of force. Rehema ellis, nbc news, new york. Nbc news has learned the federal government will announce a new plan within days that will require anyone who buys a drone to register it with the department of transportation. 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