Today september 14th. This is today with lester holt and erica hill, live from rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on a saturday morning. Im lester holt. Im erica hill. Thomas roberts is here this morning in for jenna and dylan dreyer is out in boulder covering the floods. You are back and nice to have you back. Back for a full weekend while i was on vacation last weekend. A welldeserved vacation. Thank you. Filling in and topsyturvy and things are back to normal. All is right with the world. Im back to sleep deprived something i know well. Lot to cover on this saturday morning. We beginning in colorado. Devastating scene out there where some neighborhoods are under water and others simply cut off from the rest of the area because the roads are impassible. Or washed out. In some cases, just gone. Here is the latest for you this morning. At least four people are confirmed dead. Now, there is concern that number could rise. 181 people still unaccounted for in Boulder County
about 40 feet. he was conscious and clinging to the rock for four and a half hours until help was able to arrive. a man who was saved from raging flood waters now could sue the very people to saved his life. anna kooiman is here with more. rory ortiz was saved from flood waters. his car plunged into a creek after hitting a section of the roadway. he survived finding a pocket of air. but now ortiz is filing an intent to sue the county and the people who saved him for half a million dollars. it took longer than it had you had have because divers didn t know ortiz was still in the car. he also says the road shouldn t
even have been open in the first place. that was a mistake. ortiz says he wracked up 40,000 dollars in medical bills and needs help paying them. his lawsuit now sparking a firestorm of criticism. i can understand why there is a lot of fewer or over people thinking he is fighting the hand that feeds. personally like i am a bad man. ortiz attorneys said if rescue divers didn t realize he was still inside the car that was flipped upside down those rescuers were negligent. hannan gnaw, thank you. video shows justin deaner full of bad attitude and arrogance while being grilled under oath in a lawsuit filed by
speculation about the cause cannot be determined until they find the black box and the flight data recorder. they have an accuse cal beacon attached to the voice recorders. they are salt water activated. they are only good for about 30-days the battery so to speak. when that boot reruns out it will be harder to find. it is incumbent on the search parties to try to locate that beacon. mal lash yaur airlines said all angels are being looked at. the search continues not only on land but sea as well. thank you so much. now for the crisis in the ukraine. nieto sending surveillance cranes to the ukrainian borders to monitor the troubled region. they will discuss taking new measures against russia. they will tighten it s grip with a naval hospital and military base in the western part of the region. this map showing the areas where russia currently has control. they will vote in five days on a referendum to remain part of the ukraine or join russia. that brings us to look whose t