campers. a big task ahead of everyone today here on this third day, with state officials and local officials. we have with us bud dunson. he s with howard county emergency management agency. and he is in charge, as you can see, with all of his papers here, trying to organize this monumental effort of searching along this river. some 25 miles they ve been looking at. what are you concentrating on today? i understand you ve brought in some specialty teams? we re bringing in extra canines today, what we designated the northwest arkansas task force warrant, which is washington and franklin counties, we re bringing in some special equipment today. reporter: land movers, those type of things, to help get through that thick to help get through some debris piles. reporter: all right. and i understand you re still considering this very much a search and rescue effort? it will be a search and rescue effort until everyone s
defense of pittsburgh steelers quarterback ben roethlisberger. a 20-year-old woman has accused the quarterback of sexually assaulting her last week at a club in georgia. well, the officers say they re friends with roethlisberger. an attorney for one of the policeman says that the two men did not see anything inappropriate while at the bar. roethlisberger denies the assault happened. and more violent weather is in the forecast from tennessee to florida after at least five tornadoes touched down if arkansas and louisiana. the storms killed one person and seriously injured at least three others. also damaged a lot of homes, thousands of people are still without power as i speak and one of the twisters was even caught on tape. you see the video there. nbc s ron loma is in celine county. i imagine folk there is pretty shaken up by what we saw just on tape. they had to experience it. they did. and it was quite intense. this is just one of many debris
first look starts right now. good morning, and thanks so much for joining us today. i m betty nguyen. severe weather in the south again. it s on the ground again. i m getting it. this tornado touched down in southeast texas inside the flood zone. new heart ache. at least eight people dead. 12 still missing. in houston, flood waters inside a popular mall. the city hit with almost 12 inches of rain in may. along the border a killer twister. cars thrown on top of homes. we want to search some of these large debris piles. reporter: a desperate search for the missing as this historic flood sinks in. i would describe it as a flood of biblical proportion. it s nothing like wife ever experienced. reporter: in the air on the
there are a few oil field workers here, a few coast gua guardsmen and others going out on airboats with pontoons and other devices to try to capture some of the oil. so it s a remarkable change in the economy here. it s at a standstill for people who make a living off the coast. right. well, helpless residents and business owners just can stand there and watch it all happen. okay. thank you very much, charles hadlock. for an in-depth look at the devastation caused by this oil spill, watch disaster in the gulf. we ll take a look at the economic and emotional toll. that s top of the hour noon here eastern time on msnbc sunday. right now in arkansas, the search for victims of friday s flashflood has entered a new phase. rescuers have finished searching the camp pound groupd washed away by two overflowing rivers. chainsaw crews are tackling massive debris piles building up in the bends of those rivers. john yang is live in a steamy arkansas.
two bodies and a spokeswoman saying the work is very slow going. there are some search and rescue dogs on foot at the calm ground looking at those today. and crews working on debris piles and i guess that s the newest information we have. trying to dismantle the debris piles. juliet: mike tobin is following the story live in langley, arkansas. mike what s going on there? juliet, cadaver dogs found another body buried deep in the debris and the search continues, as the search continues the focus tends to get on the river itself and i joined the dive team from the murphiesboro fire department engaged in this grim, but ever more important task. well, the process out here is a lot more rugged than sophisticated. what the guys are doing, pretty much, is forming a line across the river and floating down, looking for anything that doesn t belong. so far they ve seen a lot of