know of it, and we have all committed to judge irving that we will maintain the confidentiality of the mediation. reporter: now, this did not have to cost taxpayers money, filner could have stepped down like an adult, but he s 70 years old, and, martha, he probably couldn t cover his legal bills. martha: isn t the city essentially letting him off the hook if this deal happens? reporter: yes. and it s a very tough political pill to swallow, but the city is trying to protect taxpayers and here s why. eighteen women, as you said, have come forward describing in detail how he groped, grabbed, licked, touched inappropriately, treated these people like a personal play toy. when gloria allred, the attorney, sued the mayor, the city turned around and sued the mayor as well. so if he resigns and the city drops its lawsuit against him, now the monster and disgraced ma mayor is gone. allred would 078 be suing
you can see the force that the river is moving with today. now, understand that all of this area, about the level where the camp grounds were were consumed and swallowed up by the water. now, i can show you how difficult things are for the rescuers. that is because of all of the trees knocked over and the conditions brush deposited. they literally have to go like this on their hands and knees searching through the thicket to try to find the victims and they know very well, they could come right up upon a victim and not see him as he is hidden by this brush. one more example of just the kind of force that the water had as it came through. this tree important up by its roots. this river just came up so quickly and with so much force that it tossed around a camper like this like it was a play toy. the people who were sleeping inside there probably never knew it was coming. probably never knew what hit them. those are the kind of people that these rescuers are searching for right now.
you can see the force that the river is moving with today. now, understand that all of this area, about the level where the camp grounds were were consumed and swallowed up by the water. now, i can show you how difficult things are for the rescuers. that is because of all of the trees knocked over and the conditions brush deposited. they literally have to go like this on their hands and knees searching through the thicket to try to find the victims and they know very well, they could come right up upon a victim and not see him as he is hidden by this brush. one more example of just the kind of force that the water had as it came through. this tree important up by its roots. this river just came up so quickly and with so much force that it tossed around a camper like this like it was a play toy. the people who were sleeping inside there probably never knew it was coming. probably never knew what hit them. those are the kind of people that these rescuers are searching for right now.
you can see the force that the river is moving with today. now, understand that all of this area, about the level where the camp grounds were were consumed and swallowed up by the water. now, i can show you how difficult things are for the rescuers. that is because of all of the trees knocked over and the conditions brush deposited. they literally have to go like this on their hands and knees searching through the thicket to try to find the victims and they know very well, they could come right up upon a victim and not see him as he is hidden by this brush. one more example of just the kind of force that the water had as it came through. this tree important up by its roots. this river just came up so quickly and with so much force that it tossed around a camper like this like it was a play toy. the people who were sleeping inside there probably never knew it was coming. probably never knew what hit them. those are the kind of people that these rescuers are searching for right now.
know with the conditions treacherous and the devastation as it is, they could have passed a victim and missed him. this is the thickest that the rescuers are trying to get through right now. that is why it is so slow. ter trying to cover 20 miles of this next the river. the river is 20 feet in that direction, ten feet down and you can see it is swelled up with such force that it came up here, things like this camper here tossed around like a play toy. anyone inside that camper probably didn t have a chance to get away, probably didn t know what hit them. those are the people that the rescuers are trying to find right now. and harris, you mentioned the statistic that the river came up 23 feet above its normal level but what that statistic doesn t cover is the amount of distance it covered outside its banks and what we saw there is the distance of three football fields. anything within that swath of land including the campground and one dump truck that we saw