Near capital expressway and 101. It caught many people by surprise. Christien kafton is out there live. That water is still on the rise. We do know that five people were rescued in your last live report. Have more people been rescued. Reporter at this point, no. They have drawn back the response. You see the water is still moving quickly. It might be tough to see but there is debris. That is what remains of some of this homeless encampment that was in the area. We had heard initial reports of 20 to possibly 40 people that called this their temporary home. The water started rising at 6 45. Fire officials got the call to come on out here to the golf course to try to pull people out of the water. We heard reports of people in trees on high water, desperate for rescue. Now at this point though fire Officials Say that they have scanned the water with the helicopter. They have scanned the water with boats. And they say at this point it seems that there is no one else out there. We have video
Relatives who one of our crews met outside a residential building here that in fact patrick was the man who was steering that plane. Patrick sondenheimer. Weve known from lufthansa that he was a captain who had been flying with the airline both lufthansa and germanwings as well as another German Airline called condor for ten years. He had 6,000 flying hours. By all means a very very experienced pie lt. He was also the one who tried to get back into the cockpit, first knocking a little bit normally obviously and then trying to kick the door down in the end as the plane descended down there. So we know his identity now. We have talked to his relatives, but they at this point say they are not comfortable speaking in front of the camera because, of course they are still in a state of grief, fredricka. And what about those who knew, the copilot particularly the girlfriend who has been quoted in a german newspaper there in interviews. What more is being said . Reporter well theyre trying to