our new york city newsroom with more on this. reporter: yeah, very sad story. the mother and her daughters, ages 8, 5 and 2 years old, all presumed to have drowned when their family van was swept away by raging flood waters on a washed out section of mountain highway. the van went into the creek between 1 and 2 in the morning and submerged up to its rooftop. as you can see there, that is what it looks like after. only their father, alex, survived after he managed to escape. the rest of his family, his life lawrl and their three daughters later found inside the van by emergency officials who say that they were all wearing their seat belts or in child seats. can t even begin to imagine what he s going through right now. you know, you re on a family vacation, you re enjoying life, you re having a great time, and a couple hours later you ve lost everything. reporter: minutes after the
issues that have stemmed from it, issues which to a certain extent, heather, have painted both the police in this country as well as the government, david cameron being pressed again about his decision to hire former news of the world editor annie kohlson as his chief of communications as number 10 downing street. his judgment really being called into question over this because colson had already resigned from news of the world when cameron hired him. colson still claims he knew nothing about the phone hacking at news of the world, and cameron said he believes him. but colson was arrested week before last, and cameron lashed out today at the british opposition for trying to take him down over this. stop hunting feeble conspiracy theories and start writing to the level of events. reporter: yesterday, of course, was a big day in the big picture of the story where
her drop to the ground or did he pull her off and bring her into the room? how did her body end up in the courtyard? that s something we haven t heard anybody talk about and that is very significant. heather: good questions. thank you so much. we appreciate you joining us, rod wheeler, thank you very much. bill: a bizarre story. heather: lots of questions there. bill: we have questions in washington too that every american is asking now. in a moment the meeting that features the gang of six, those six senators, it s just taken a break and senator kent conrad is report of that group. he is our guest in a moment. we ll see whether or not this plan can fly, next.
soldiers, preparing to deploy overseas and, he was then shot and he s paralyzed from the waist down and he faces, as you said, 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 other counts of attempted premeditated murder. back to you. bill: kris gutierrez on post, fort hood, texas. heather: we have new developments surrounding operation fast and furious. that is, if you don t know the botched federal program that allowed 2,000 guns to be smuggled in or from the u.s. to mexico. 20 people who bought those weapons were arrested on gun trafficking charges, nearly all of them are now free and william lajeunesse tracked them down for us. william? reporter: heather, the mystery in the story is the buyers. who are they and where are they now and how did they get 20 to $50,000 a week to buy a million dollars word of guns?
programming. according to the tbi, an arizona student accused of illegally hacking an fbi web site. his father saying he had no idea about the arrest. he d never been in any trouble at all. you know, this is a big shock to me and his mother. the kid hasn t called me, no one s called us, nobody s told us, so we re in the dark until we find out what s going on. bill: the fbi says he hacked into their program uploading three different fileses from that web site. heather: we ve heard about the extreme weather, this is a horrible story. the weather being blamed for a tragic accident, claiming the lives of almost an entire family. be wyoming police say that a raging mountain creek tore through a road washing a family s camper downstream killing the mother and three little girls. julie banner the as is live in