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Fears also turn just north of houston to the town of midlothian where a dam is on the verge of collapsing. last night, part of a dirt wall came precariously close to actually breaching. let s take you to rosa flores who s standing inside. talk me through how badly damaged it is. reporter: brooke this is a new homeowner s nightmare. imagine buying a home about a year ago and then water starts rushing in. big appliances like a refrigerator are floating in your house. now it s balancing, literally on one leg. other big appliances also floating in your house. and let me add this. you have two small children also. all of this happening very fast. that s the case and the situation of dana. she s joining me now here. first of all, thank you so much ....
Louisville/michigan tonight with the ncaa title on the line. go michigan! come on. go louisville! now you want both. i m conflicted here. welcome back. thank you. welcome to early start. i m john berman. i m zoraida sambolin. it s monday, april 8th. we start with breaking news, a frantic search for two small children buried when a dirt wall collapsed. it s now turned into a recovery effort. it started sunday afternoon, rescuers have been working around the clock digging by hand but they now fear the worst. a 6-year-old girl and a 7-year-old boy were playing in a hole being dugout for the basement of a new home when the dirt wall gave way. after hours of digging this morning, rescuers say what had been a rescue effort is now a recovery effort. they dug down 20 feet with no sign of the children so far. we will bring you the latest as we learn more. a developing story, a ....
We begin this hour with breaking news a recovery effort is underway in north carolina where authorities belive two young children were killed when a dirt wall collapsed on top of them. it started late sunday afternoon in rural lincoln that was being the basement of a new home. the dirt wall there gave way. a short time ago we heard from the lincoln county department of emergency management. this is a very systematic and slow, tedious process to try to get to these children. we have to go down layer by layer through the dirt to try to get down to the children. the efforts have been ongoing overnight, and they will continue until we can bring closure to the family from this tragic accident that has occurred. the incident is in the infancy from a standpoint of an investigative stance. the local sheriff s department will be conducting the investigation, so they will be the ones that will be able to answer the circumstances ....
6-year-old girl and a 7-year-old boy could have survived that. they were playing in a hole at a construction site when the dirt wall gave way. the public information officer with lincoln county emergency management is on the phone with us this morning. thank you for joining us. we know you re busy. we understand the workers have been digging all night. at one point we heard they had gone down more than 20 feet with no sign of the children. where does this stand right now? right now, with this just like you said this is a systematic, slow, tedious process to get to these children. we have to go down layer by layer through the dirt to try to get down to the children. the efforts have been ongoing overnight, they will continue until we can bring closure to this family from this tragic incident. let s backtrack a bit. woe we re watching pictures of the recovery effort that s underway. ....
. welcome back. 50 minutes past the hour. breaking news from north carolina, firefighters in lincoln county are trying to recover the bodies of two young children trapped after a dirt wall collapsed around them. after hours of digging, authorities say there s just no way the children, a 6-year-old girl and a 7-year-old boy, who are cousins, could have survived that the children were playing in the basement of house that s now under construction when the dirt wall gave out. the body of anne smedinghoff is coming home from afghanistan today. the young american diplomat from chicago was killed saturday along with four other americans by a suspected car bomber. smedinghoff was bringing books to afghan school children when t incident occurred. two boaters are missing on the mississippi after some windy ....