paul has more on the harrowing rescues. >> reporter: the wall of mud came in the middle of the night. >> just obliterated this little neighborhood. turned houses into matchsticks. blew them off the foundations. >> reporter: survivors became heroes. >> we heard a little baby. we got down and found a little baby. we got it out, got the mud out of its mouth. i'm hoping it's okay. they took it right to the hospital. a baby four feet down in nowhere, under the mud, in the rocks. who knows what else is out there. >> reporter: there were many more in need out there, like this family surrounded by floodwater. the youngest survivor, a newborn baby. all five in the family rescued. others still searching for their