JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK — The search for 25-year-old hiker Trammell Evans ended Jan. 25 when national park staff found his remains in the Black Rock area of the park.
reporter: well, george, two helicopters were, in fact, sent up earlier today, early sunday morning local time in india. they ve now recently returned back. they conducted aerial surveys here around the mountain in the ind lan himalayas. it s about 24,000 feet, about 7,400 meters tall. choppers were trying to locate the climbers. they didn t have much louck. three ground search teams are up there, a fourth one will be dispatched there. officials say where the mountain is located, they ve told us they re hoping to send up the choppers once again to do further aerial surveys if the weather allows, either later today or tomorrow as they try and locate these climbers. as you say, they ve been missing since may 25th. they were part of a larger group of 12 climbers who all left together. the other four returned successfully back to base camp. but these eight did not.
breaking news. after two days missing in this remote part of nevada, a couple along with four young children have been found. such encouraging news. the family disappeared sunday after heading out just to play in the snow. consider the conditions. temperatures, they were dropping to well below zero. you had 200 search team members scouring the air and the ground trying to find these children and this boyfriend/girlfriend and then just this hour, we heard the incredible news they were found alive. casey wian broke this story at the top of the show. walk me through what you know as far as their condition and how they were found. well, we don t know a lot, brooke, but it s an obviously incredibly good news. we know they were found by ground search teams who found them looking through binoculars. we don t know if they were close to the vehicle, a jeep they had
even bait to lure police to that scene. the heavy snow up in the mountains have been piling up all day, likely burying any new evidence that could be out there. one former new york city cop and wilderness expert to boot says the bad weather will play into the suspect s favor. i talked to him on studio b. if you are the suspect and you are hunkered down on the mountain dan, you don t care if it snows 12 inches or 36 inches. what that snowfall does is for the people trying to track him it makes it harder for them to move around, right? they have to worry about hypothermia and worry about their gear getting wet and heavier. if they are not trained to hike around on those mountains it s a bigger threat to the searchers than it would be to the suspect. with each our passing and no sign of that suspect, police admit they don t know if dorner is on that mountain at all a. dominic di-natale is live in big bear with the latest. dominic, what s happening now? we have just had a briefin