This is the cbs morning news for friday, september 13th, 2013. Good morning. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. In the words of one colorado resident, the flooding thats hit his state is like something out of the bible. At least three people have been killed by powerful flash floods thats cut off several towns, washed out roads and swept away homes. The torrential rain continued overnight. Late last night thousands of residents in western boulder were told to evacuate. Flood watches are posted in colorado, new mexico and western nebraska. It poured up to 8 inches of rain from the wyoming border to the denver foot hills yesterday. Last night president obama approved federal Disaster Relief for several colorado counties. Adriana diaz reports from the flood zone. Reporter 4,000 residents living along Boulder Creek have been ordered to evacuate. Rain falling down mountains scarred from wildfires proved to be a deadly mix. One of the fatalities occurred close to my house. A woman was
Rosa. What about the weekend . We have some changes coming too. Well have more on that in a moment. Right now lets check on the roads with elizabeth. On this friday the 13th at least one person is feeling unlucky the driver of this big rig now stuck in one lane of westbound 580 approaching North Livermore avenue but its got a brokendown wheel and anyway its right there blocking one lane. There are some backups looks like they are growing behind it. The drive time is still about 16 minutes and we are beginning to see that usual slowing right now coming off the 205 out of tracy so the commute has definitely begun there. If you are heading towards the dublin interchange westbound 580 looks good even past 680 all the way towards the Castro Valley y. Another live Traffic Camera we have them all over the bay area and heres another one in the south bay, this is in milpitas, the Silicon Valley commuters 880 and 237, no delay out towards sunnyvale. The nimitz freeway 880, 5 01 this morning, at
Today september 14th. This is today with lester holt and erica hill, live from rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on a saturday morning. Im lester holt. Im erica hill. Thomas roberts is here this morning in for jenna and dylan dreyer is out in boulder covering the floods. You are back and nice to have you back. Back for a full weekend while i was on vacation last weekend. A welldeserved vacation. Thank you. Filling in and topsyturvy and things are back to normal. All is right with the world. Im back to sleep deprived something i know well. Lot to cover on this saturday morning. We beginning in colorado. Devastating scene out there where some neighborhoods are under water and others simply cut off from the rest of the area because the roads are impassible. Or washed out. In some cases, just gone. Here is the latest for you this morning. At least four people are confirmed dead. Now, there is concern that number could rise. 181 people still unaccounted for in Boulder County
This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Tt pelley. Pelley good evening, torrential rains sent walls of water crashing down mountainsides in colorado today. In many places there was nothing to stop the water because wildfire r destroyed the vegetation. At least three people have been killed and at least one town is surrounded by water. As much as eight inches of rain has fallen since yesterday. Flood watches and warnings are up throughout much of the state and Barry Petersen is in boulder. Reporter it was a day of frightening moments as roads turned into rivers. This section of highway collapsed when a culvert washed out just as rescuers were about to pull one of the motorists out the Swift Current toppled the car. They managed to get him out but the day became more dangerous with each additional inch of rain. Meg foster heard horn honking at about 1 30 a. M. He recorded this video. A neighbor was trapped in a car. With roads cut off, there was no help so the First Responders ha
Were continuing to try to extinguish the fire. We have approximately 37 companies here, over 400 personnel firefighters trying to do their job. When we talked earlier, you had said this was a fire over basically an eightblock area. Is it contained still in that eightblock area . Yes, it is. The fire has been contained or stopped the spread of the northern advancement of that fire in Seaside Heights. In terms of the status of the fire, though, it is still very much out of control, correct . Theres been no declaration that it is under control. But i will say to you just from my observation that it looks like the good efforts of the Fire Companies and the responders and the coordination and teamwork have this thing where its starting to diminish. Can you explain just how it was able to spread so quickly for people who havent been there, a lot of the buildings are all connected, correct . Well, they are all connected. But probably the most significant situation was there was a 25 or 30mile