the last advocating devastatine here, they found a man alive seven days after the earthquake hit. jon: we just heard what sounded like optimistic screaming behind you, i don t know if you were able to interpret that from your position, doesn t mean anything? the shouts will go up quite frequently, when they are pulling out some of the huge pieces of concrete and steel. you can see these lines over there, the way you are hearing the noise, those are all volunteer workers and official rescue workers, passing buckets and wheelbarrows full of tons and tons of rubble. they are clearing a path and telling each other what to do, while that may have sounded like an optimistic shouts, it wasn t, that was just them telling each other what to do. when they feel optimistic, conversely is when silence falls on this crowd, that s when they feel they might have something.
two volunteer workers lost their lives helping others, and now the death toll is at least 38 tonight. authorities expect that unfortunately to rise. fires and two explosions rocked a chemical plant today. harvesting is dumping its seemingly endless supply of rain further east. let s begin with steve harrigan. good evening, bret. east of houston, what we are seeing our continuing rising floodwaters. that means for some people who thought they made it through the storm, they are still on the ru run. rescue after rescue continues in texas, even as harvey has downgraded. rising water still nearly impossible to escape. agencies are on hand to help. an agent with the u.s. border patrol wearing a body cam
cleaner today. we are, however seeing some of the first signs of wildlife impacted. pelicans covered in oil. they have also told us that they re seeing lobster coated in oil. off here people actualably go shellfishing. they ve banned that for this memorial day weekend. wherever these official and white-suited cleanup croups can t get we re seeing volunteers. and you get a sense how mucky and gooey the mess is with the oil. as you see, the volunteer workers putting some of this oil literally into buckets offshore. it s a lot of work to do and then out at sea, they re going after the oil with these booms or look at them as floating fences corralling it skimming it and getting it into boats. it s a multipronged effort now and they have collected out at sea some 7,700 gallons of oil mixed with water, jake. what do we know about the company that own and operated the pipeline and how this happened?
remain missing or unaccounted to. some volunteer workers we spoke to said bodies need to be recovered from inside the mall itself. we don t really have an official number on how many hostages are still inside. happy to have you there, arwa. that you have. the fbi is investigating the reports that americans were involved in that mall attack in kenya. federal authorities have been concerned about efforts by al shabaab, the terrorist group, to recruit here in the u.s. particularly in the minneapolis area where there is a large community of somalia-americans. cnn s brian todd spoke to one family who lost a son to that terror group. reporter: it was thousands of miles away on her tv screen but it might as well have been at her front door. the attack in kenya has torn open this lady s deepest wound. translator: i got traumatic memories of my son and what has
more than i can right now. i m seeing what else i can do, go out and volunteer and maybe down nate and send out supplies to other volunteer workers to just really have all the aid workers. there is a lot that still needs to be done. we re hoping for the best for your friends, for your family, for everything in moore. tyler menge on the line. thank you very much. suzanne? the system that spawned these deadly tornadoes is not done yet. our meteorologist ivan cabrera is at the weather center to explain. what are the conditions that people are hoping for tomorrow morning, or this morning, rather, later in the day to be optimum conditions to find people or to rescue and sort out what they re dealing with? yeah, the severe weather threat, suzanne, is going to move east, okay. so in moore i think we re going to be fine for tuesday. we had a repeat here on monday. we had severe weather, as you know, in shawnee rolling through the day on sunday. that is because the center for the severe w