it s just amazing the magnitude and force this slide has created and what it s done. it s not just done that to cars, it s done that to these buildings. and so your carpeting and photo albums and streaks and boats and woodpiles and all these things, and all this mud that s heavy. one part of the mountain collapsed saturday morning north of seattle. a wall of mud buried everything in its bath. the debris field is a square mile. here are two 911 calls that have been released by authorities. we have a freaking mudslide. all i see is dirt. we watched hundreds of trees come falling out of i m on sea post road highway 530. and there s not even a house here anymore. are there any injuries? yes. there s people yelling for help. my neighbor s house and their neighbor s house have been completely taken out. and it s collapsed on several of them.
on saturday morning, a massive chunk of a mountain collapsed and within seconds a wall of mud buried everything in it path. here are two 911 calls that have been released. we have a freaking mudslide. all i see is dirt. we watched hundreds of trees come falling out of i m on sea post road highway 030. and there s not even a house here anymore. are there any injuries? yes. there s people yelling for help. my neighbor s house and their neighbor s house have been completely taken out. and it s collapsed on several of them. they re trapped. you know they red inside th home still? yes. i m standing in the location right now and i can hear them tapping underneath and yelling at us. tapping underneath. 14 people are confirmed dead. that does not include the victims found today. again we don t know the number. last night as many as 176 people
unitedhealthcare. welcome back to early start. we re going to return to flight 370 coverage in just a moment. first, the search for survivors continues this morning after that deadly washington state mudslide. it is growing more grim by the hour. fire officials now believe up to 24 people are dead. scores are still missing. investigators admitting chances of finding anyone else alive are pretty slim. i want you to listen to this 911 call, it comes from the moment right after the landslide began. followed by the fire chief s sobering assessment of the devastation. it s a big mudslide. all i see is dirt now. we watched hundreds of trees come down. i m on sea post road. highway 530. are there any injuries?