A newscast reviewing and analyzing top stories of the day as they happen. So an engineer has stabilized the dam for now. You heard them state their plan. Claire stagers with us from the university of lynchburg. Good to take to you, claire. Good to talk to you. How are you doing today . Shepard good. Might have been frightening when they said 125 houses could be under 17 feet of water. Yes, sir. Im not part of that but im close to it. It would turn my tenminute commute to 30 minutes if i had to reroute. Shepard i guess three inches of rain in an hour, thats a lot for anybody, even your part of the world. Yes, sir, a lot of water. Came into our basement as well last night. Shepard thanks, claire. I know theyve been trying to shore it up. They have taken a 3 x 3 foot area, a spillway, to relieve the pressure. The problem is theres rain on the way. Lets get to Rick Reichmuth live
in the extreme weather center. How are they looking in lynchburg . We have one bad batch of storms but things g
in the disappearance report that it happened at the same farm that investigators searched last week. when she went missing two weeks ago, someone law saw her on a run. at the time they say she was wearing a pink athletic top. people from the day care where she works say that at that day care, everybody wears red shirts. so that s why they re interested in this. her mother says the family is exhausted. we re all holding in there. you know, leaning on one another. so we re doing okay given the circumstances. shepard: the family offering a reward to anybody with information that helps bring tibbets home. our matt finn is on assignment in brooklyn, iowa this afternoon. matt? shep, right now no major break in the case because of the reported red shirt. we ll keep you updated. police are keeping their eye on
hanging up homemade signs that read pray for our miners and their families. neighbors consoling each other and supporting each other. leaning on one another. i ve seen it, the strength of that community. in the days that followed the disaster, e-mails and letters poured into the white house. postmarked from different places across the country. they often began the same way. i am proud to be from a family of miners. i am the son of a coal miner. i am proud to be a coal miner s daughter. [ applause ] they were always proud. they asked me to keep our miners in my thoughts, in my prayers. never forget, they say, miners keep america s lights on.