this is still an emergency situation. we are in search and rescue mode. again, that count is going to continue to go up and we don t lose this many people in flooding. it is a real tough one. rescuers are working around the clock. the national guard from kentucky, tennessee, and west virginia are lifting hundreds from the floodwaters. more than 600 already. washed away roads and bridges adding to the already very complicated recovery efforts. cnn s evan is at a command center for the research and rescue efforts. how are they coordinating what, is going on? reporter: well, hi, fred, when they say command center, they mean a place people gather. this is a parking lot of a shopping center here in jackson, kentucky, that is in the middle of where the floodwaters happened and behind me agencies are coming from all over the country, all over the state to work to try to help find people who might be trapped or still need help in the floodwaters and they re also working with a
doing our very, very best to live alongside this. a one, two, three. well done. and, actually, everyone can do a little bit to help make these shared spaces feel like a comfortable place to be. well done, everyone. i bet you re a brilliant big brother. every time someone engages instead of turning away, every time someone gives us the space to take our time, it helps us to feel like we still belong. thank you so much, guys, thank you. see you next time. # we drop into a quiet little place and have a drink or two. - and that can protect those important human connections for as long as possible. # then i go and spoil it all by saying something stupid like i love you #. well done, nina. lovely to see chris out and about and nina will be here later with a representative of the
wife. oh, we were probably flying for about two hours, and something didn t seem right. i could smell smoke, and then i looked back. and i could see flames flickering up. it was not the way i wanted to smoke marijuana, and i yelled at chris. the plane is on fire, and we realized that we had covered the pump and it overheated and caught the marijuana on fire. jim, put it out. as i grabbed it and then i realized that the thing was empty. didn t check it. it was not checked. it was not recharged.
we were in mexico illegally and no visa and we did not file a flight plan and then we real iz ed we crashed on an island. and there s no way off of the island. that is when it really set in that we were in trouble. what do we do now? we knew with the plane being on fire, and big flames, that everybody must have seen it come down. so we thought that it was a matter of time that the military was going to be coming up, and arrest us and we were going to be busted. we had to get off of the island. we are going to have to swim. chris went into the water