is a rescue performed, make sure there is nobody left behind or any parties left behind and we are searching through debris piles and such and extensive, talking debris piles almost 20 feet in the air, in the tree lines. so that s pretty significant scenario for us. you said hundreds of missing homes, we haven t seep the area washed off their foundations, destroyed, floated away? correct. not there anymore? correct. and i. in wimberly? yes, sir. and wimberly through fisher. if you give me a second i will let carly smith with the ace county emergency management get a little bit more detail on the county piece and i will see if i can clear anything here with the other question i know we were having stuff as we were walking in. we are listening to a press conference there out of hard-hit hays county texas. you heard that official talking about the fact that there have been homes that have either been wash aid way or simply blown
hello again, everyone thanks so much for watching i m fredricka whitfield. much more on breaking news coming out of texas and oklahoma very severe and dangerous weather there. we just listened to a press conference moments out out of hays county in san marcos, texas, a hard hit area. one death has been reported. three people remain missing. alina machado is in san marcos texas. behind you, we see the debris piles, the danger still exists. yeah, the danger is still there. why officials are going to have this curfew tonight. they don t want people out here. look at what s happening.
area of the town where approximately 17 to 20 homes were leveled to the foundation. nothing, nothing left. huge debris piles. chad connell, thank you so much for speaking with us. we appreciate it. no problem. when we come back two teenagers still in comas after being poisoned at a resort on spring break. we sent our own cnn investigative reporter to find out how this happened and what she uncovered is disturbing. that s next. plus he s been to remote islands and the top of the french alps but bill weir says the most surprising place he visited was right here in the u.s. he tells me about it coming up.
appliances. you see cables that were perhaps attached to telephone poles or something like that that are all twisted and mangled. it s just a sad and messy situation in there. and because you can see just how high some of these debris piles are. it gives you a better understanding, gives me a better understanding of why this search effort is taking so long, because there is just such a vast amount of area, and such a depth of debris to get through, brooke. that brings me to my next question, because i ve been following this story very closely, reading that some of the tough crews had such a tough time getting to the bodies that are marked with orange ribbon because it s too tough to recover them. can you give me an update on that process? are there still bodies in the mud? reporter: officials believe there are still bodies in the mud, but they haven t even found all of the bodies that are possibly there. we were told that there are some areas in that large debris field, we have som
the mountainside swept over the rural community. 18 people have been declared dead. the teams say they ve encountered a wide range of conditions in the wreckage. what you have out here is houses that have been picked up, run through a blender and dropped on the ground. you have everything out here. we ve had to go piece by piece through the debris piles and also piece by piece through each house to make sure that we look for everything we can find. officials still believe there are many people missing. they have reduced the possible number from 90 to 30. there have been three medium sized earthquakes in the last two weeks in southern california. friday a 5.1. another on saturday reached 4.1.