tree of life. go up there and see if this is true. i tried to get up. i only live a block away from the synagogue. i tried to get up shady avenue and was police cars everywhere. guns drawn, rifles, i was surreal. we first thought it was a training, a drill, whenever it came over the police scanner. we thought we couldn t even believe it. have you heard about any victims inside, their positions? if you knew of them? no. i m sure i know everyone there. i know everybody in the building. i know that this i almost don t want to know but i have to know the tragedy that occurred inside. what have you been talking with with the other people that are past presidents or, you know, in a position of power within the jewish community here in squirrel hill? what has everyone been saying to you? well, i mean, all we had up until now, we had a i tried to call the i couldn t reach,
languishing in detention the government is trying to make it seem as if they re only going after hardened criminals, national security three. it s not these people. it s at the expense of the since last week. they termed it as released. these which were that you are involved in their cases? right. so we always have trouble figuring out exactly what the members are. the one thing i would say, the progress we made since last week, when i was here last week, he had 67 kids we couldn t reach and now there is 31. that s a huge step. you are getting in touch with the parents. exactly. we are hopeful now that putting aside the 31 that is still a problem, we will either reunify or the parents will make a decision for their kids in the next few weeks. we are having a lot of trouble with the government moving the kids quickly to their home countries and coordinating.
her, there were trees in the road, and they couldn t we ve her. also a man couldn t reach here. and a man in len or county who was lenore county who was pronounced dead after running into electrical cords. we have more from nick valencia. he started the morning in myrtle beach, now has moved across 501 into conway near one of the rivers that authorities are most concerned about. all the flooding in north carolina, going to come through the rivers into the state, making this a threat over the next several days. nick, what are you seeing and hearing? reporter: yeah, we re about 20 miles inland as we mentioned in conway, south carolina. an area according to managers that is more money to flood that happen myrtle beach more prone to flood than in myrtle beach. we wanted to see what we re dealing with. this is the first time we ve seen daylight today. this is the river here. this is the waccamaw river, a
me, lord, i was swimming as fast as i could. i couldn t reach, i could not reach the life jacket. she had to swim to the rescue boat. i swam over to the boat, my legs and arms were so heavy from trying. it was so heavy. she was then transferred to the hospital and is still in the process of recovering. coleman toll me about the ten family members she was with, starting with her sister-in-law. she was there with her 13-year-old, her soon to be 3-year-old i was there with my husband and our three children who were 9, 7 and 1. my inlaws were there. my mother-in-law, my father-in-law and the uncle who lives with them. she also told me there were life jackets on board. they told us, they re up here. this is where they are. they showed us where they r. they said, don t worry about it. you won t need it.
they are trying to save. everybody get out now. this is the santa rosa police department. it s time to go. [bleep] [bleep] oh, god, you guys. stir, out your feet up. this is like life and death right now. what about all the houses. all of these are cleared. what about this one? that is cleared. not these. okay. so this fire moved 12 miles in four hours. garage doors wouldn t open and the residents couldn t reach the cars to get out. others waited too long. some refused to leave. all reasons why some 44 died. it s not that police didn t try. get in my car, ma am. get in my car. fire. it s so terrifying. tell me it s just the neighborhood. no, it s not. it s the whole hill. all of santa rosa is completely on fire. i m not joking.