so that may mean at some point that the family needs to be transitioned to another organization that can help. but definitely the red cross will be working with these families for at least a year. now, this must be very jarring for you, rene, how could go from disaster scene to disaster scene, you and the people who work for you have to stay strong and help these families out. what is that like? red cross volunteers and red cross staff are a different breed of people. my volunteers are the most amazing people. they re incredibly resilient but you do raise an important point. part of our responsibility is to work with them. one of the reasons that we ask for so many volunteers is that we have to rotate people in and out of disasters. since this derailment occurred we ve also responded to over 30 fires in our territory. so every single day we need volunteers to go out. and the more volunteers we have,
investigations. it looks like a horrible situation there. yeah. clearly. we ve lost. complicates the whole investigation. we had wolf blitzer. we lost his signal for a second. we re going to see if we can get his signal back. there s wolf. do you hear us okay? i hear you fine. i just wanted to bring peter into this conversation. talk about how complicated this whole situation, the investigation has been because of the way the disaster scene has unfolded. well, we have no dale what the local rebels, what the local people have been doing to the scene. i mean, reggie from a investigative standpoint,ing i mean, you want to lay that scene out. you want to set up grids. you want to identify where each and every body landed. you want to mark it. then you want to remove the human remains, the victims as
that will make it all the harder to find. another story we re following closely. a rescue official in washington state now says he has not given up hope of finding more survivors from saturday s deadly land slide. at least 16 people were killed and 90 others are still missing at this hour in the rubble. the official death toll is expected to rise today as authorities identify bodies pulled from the debris. now more from the disaster scene. these are the latest pictures from the disaster zone. the mud in many places. some three to four stories high that came crashing down from the hillside and within a matter of seconds, one square mile of what was once a community, now coated and covered. gary mcpherson remembers, it felt like being in a blender. instead of making a margarita, you just kept mixing it and mixing it. when it got going fast enough,
very interesting, chuck todd. thanks so much. search and rescue efforts continue in washington state after a huge mud slide killed eight people. there are more than 100 reports of people still missing for the latest from the disaster scene in the small town of oso washington, i m joined by jennifer bokland. this is t rescue crews themself are in danger? reporter: they are, we heard earlier on when they were hearing voices in the mud, trying to wade in they found themself in chest deep quick sand. after 12 hours voices from the mud stopped and as you said, we re hearing the most troubling news of all this morning in a press briefing that up to 108 names of people missing or unaccounted for. that doesn t necessarily mean they won t turn up somewhere else or haven t been contacted, but 108 names have been reported
proved what it really means to be a super hero. good job, bat kid. reporter: it was just last month when miles had a tube taken out of his chest used to dispense medication. the director of the make a wish foundation, said today i think we gave him back a little bit of his childhood. erin. dan simon thank you and thanks to all of you. have a wonderful weekend. have a wonderful weekend. i ll hand it over to anderson. captions by vitac www.vitac.com good evening i m anderson cooper reporting live from manila. we ll have reporters from all over the disaster scene. this is day eight since super typhoon haiyan hit. its easy to think by day eight with the aid that s coming, with the increasing improvements in