this is two years after another devastating flood there. can you confirm at this point is it still the case there are no reported deaths or injuries? yes. thanks for having me on. we are not aware of any deaths or injuries at this time although you have seen reports of potential missing person. what can you tell us about the 39-year-old named edison herman we learned apparently visiting the area. any update on his condition? i know that all first responders are aware of potential missing person or actively looking for them. we are here to support them. we know that your team the emergency management officials told people to stay away from main street from this downtown area last night. is that still in effect this morning? one of the first things that officials will be doing today
arthel: rich edson is live in ellicott city with the latest. hi, rich. good afternoon. police say they are still searching for the 39-year-old missing man, edison herman, severn, maryland. this is a town close to ellicott city. he is in the army reserve, the national guard and the police have been searching for him since he was eating at a restaurant. he was last seen at 5:00 in the afternoon on main street. there have been salvage crews since the morning. if you look at the tunnel here where the stream is going through. a couple of hours ago there were rescue crews or the salvage crews pulling from there a tree, a dumpster and three separate cars. there were cars littered throughout here. you see the path that the a advantage crews took the salvage crew took. the water had reached the first porch there, destroying
this will cost yet. 24 hours ago this was a bustling downtown. if you look at an area behind me is a parking lot with a dozen, dozen and a half cars. the crews have cleared all the mud and the soot. and the dozen plus cars from the area. people have been down here looking to see what has happened to the businesses and what has happened to the homes. we talked to one man who started a brewery about 21 years ago and he said he just celebrated that anniversary. three weeks ago he had just finishing repairs from the 2016 flood. arthel: so tough. rich edson, thank you very much. connell: we have new information coming in on president trump s plan to lower prescription drug prices. his health and human services testify is set to testify about that next month. that will be the first time the lawmakers will get to publicly examine the president s proposal. how will it affect seniors? our own dr. mark seigel spoke
yeah. rescue workers and officials say they re still looking for the 39-year-old, edison herman. an active member of the army national guard. officials say he was eating at a restaurant on man street about 150 yards from here. that s where he was last seen. we talked to residents that were downtown. they said it quickly reached the point where you needed to get to the second story of wherever you were. you couldn t walk out in the street. as you saw here, that video of that water rushing through there. didn t take long to get to the second level. that s where rescues people. people in their cars and on the second level where they american power to get people. they re still searching for him. that s the latest from authorities about 1 1/2 hours ago. leland: back to you. thanks, rich. fast-moving lava forcing more people on hawaii s big island to leave their hopes. more than three weeks now after the kilauea volcano started
restaurant at main street, the street behind me where you see another tow truck. we have seen a steady stream of tow trucks to come through here and take destroyed disabled cars from the downtown street of main street. edison herman, 39-year-old of severne, maryland, a town close to here. if you look at the stream, the recovery workers in the last three or four hours have pulled from the small area there a tree with roots on it. the floodwaters came through and destroyed much of what you are seeing here. the recovery workers have been busy here through the large part of the morning. we spoke to one man who started ary started a