mexico. the mudslide is another blow to mexico as it faces unusually heavy rains from tropical storm matthew that triggered massive flooding. swollen rivers forced evacuations of thousands of people from their homes. high waters also flooded sugar and coffee farms and blocked roads. to the south, torrential rains were behind this mudslide in colombia. dramatic pictures caught on amateur video, it buried about 30 people alive. colombia s president inspected the devastation. our hearts are with the families of the people who have disappeared here, he said, and promised, we re doing our best to locate them. it will take at least a week to recover the bodies. alex stone, abc news. now to the tropical trouble that could have a big impact on southern florida. tropical storm warnings are now in effect for miami, ft. lauderdale and the florida keys. preparations for what could become tropical storm nicole are now well under way because the system could dump several inches
south of mexico city. there s a village to the east in the mountains of the east about three, four hour drive and the last mudslide earlier today that reportedly took out 200 to 300 homes and we re fearing there s about 1,000 people that may be trapped in a mudslide that has mud and debris as tall as potentially 900 feet. so that s a scary proposition there. obviously search and rescue is on the scene in this very pretty rugged terrain out here to the east of oaxaca. obviously, reports are sketchy. that does not sound very good. i can tell us this between tropical storm karl and tropical storm matthew, we ve had a tremendous amount of rain in this area and that s probably what did it over the past 16 days. another tropical storm later in the hour we might be seeing nicole developing in the northwestern caribbean. back to you. correct your vision with laser precision and little down
austin that no one else has been injured in any of this, whether it was one shooter, two shooters, nobody else hurt or injured, just the gunman dead. we re also following breaking news with rob marciano on the weather front talk about mudslides and tornadoes. a lot of stuff going on in norpt america and central america. we got all this rain happening across southwestern mexico, the state of oaxaca has seen over a foot of rain in the past several days. a lot of this is caused by leftovers of tropical storm matthew. because of that there s been a landslide that we ve been reporting on all morning long. we re up to 300 homes have been potentially affected if not completely buried by mud and debris, potentially as high as 900 feet in height. that has a fear of as many 1,000 people may be trapped by this mudslide. three to four hours east of