got swept up by the, literally, rapids. reporter: her dog and two other family members survived. main street here in highland falls is just smothered in all of this thick mud, because the flash flooding came through, wrecked businesses and homes, pushed all those cars in the parking lot around. debris filling this town. tony guarino now calling a hotel home tonight. my place is disaster. i lost everything. reporter: in stony point, swiftwater teams bringing richie beyers to safety. his neighbor cindy beyers says her family has owned this home for more than a century and they ve never seen the water this high. i just grabbed the bag and i got my car and i sat out on the road, and just within maybe 20 more minutes, it started going around the house. reporter: and it was taken over. yeah, then it just kept coming. reporter: debris blocking commuter rail tracks. even amtrak service was halted from new york to albany until further notice. david: frightening images these last
probably about 9 feet up. reporter: for rescue teams it s a battle against time as rising flood waters stop californians in their tracks. this person got trapped in santa clarita as he tried to cross the roadway. just waited and put a ladder down and grabbed him out of the passenger window. reporter: in ventura firefighters also plucked drivers from their cars. officials say at least 14 people were pulled from an island in the ventura river using ladders and rescue helicopters. the river rose 17 feet in just 12 hours, reaching an all-time record, cresting over 25 feet. there s a lot of swift water rescues going on currently. a lot of people are getting trapped in the water with their vehicles. please turn around, don t drown. reporter: thick mud and debris is also a problem. heavy storms left it behind forcing highway 101 near state route 33 to close. mud put the brakes on this
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following developments. the landslide struck at about 2:00 in the morning when people were asleep on the campsite. it appears to have been very fast, and people who survived it described feeling the earth shaking and hearing a huge rumble before this torrent of mud and rocks and trees came down the hill at some speed, it seems, and buried some of the tents. search and rescue teams were able to get there pretty quickly, they were alerted almost immediately so they were there within an hour, but of course it was dark, they were dealing with, you know, thick mud, and it is quite a painstaking business for these teams. they ve got about 400 people now looking around the area to try to dig through the mud, a fight to see whether there is anybody still buried there. around 17 people are still unaccounted for and it is not clear whether they think they are actually buried or whether perhaps they moved off elsewhere. it ll take them a while before they know exactly what the full casualty figur
people stranded in puerto rico as we have been showing you. government working with religious groups, nonprofit and others raving landslides thick mud and broken asphalt to try to provide food water and medicine for people in need. about 850,000 people in puerto rico still have no electricity. more than 400,000 customers are still without water tonight a malaysian defense contractor who orchestrated one of the largest bribery scandal in u.s. military history has been arrested in venezuela. the u.s. marshal service says leonard glen francis, also known as fat leonard, was arrested tuesday as he was about to board a plane in caracas. francis under home arrest in san diego when he cut off his g.p.s. ankle bracelet and escaped in early september prompting an international manhunt. russian and ukrainian forces exchanged artillery fire today as both sides refused to exceed