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I understand there was a news conference. what did you learn? >> that was the last scheduled press briefing in this case. theyve had two a day at the church across the street from the skyline school where kyron was last seen. theyre scaling back the search and investigators are moving their command post to the main office but vow this will not turn into a cold case. they resolve to bring it to an ended a the next time we hear from the media, it will probably be a major development. its lines of ...

Western part of arkansas. and you told us, just a little bit ago, theres going to be a lot of activity there as the day gets started and the search gets going. how do they even go about this monoumtal task now of covering so much area, and quite frankly, theyre not even sure how many people theyre looking for. >> reporter: right. its organized chaos here. people have really started pulling in here the last hour and a half. and we are at the command post, as you mentioned, a little corner gas sta...

Get something productive done. >> reporter: finally the joint command has a sign from local representatives. >> were here to help you folks trying to get communication going between here and the command post. i will provide any service i can to do that. i have 110% commitment to help you folks get communication going and doing a better job. >> reporter: the oil may not be here yet, but neither are the requested supplies. >> theyre not planning ahead. unfortunately thats the way they operate. wer...

Hes a chicken. >> she says her son has gotten anger management help from psychiatris psychiatrists. we want to turn to arkansas and the deadly flooding disaster we saw at an arkansas campground. a lot of questions about the warning system that was supposed to be in place, that that was supposed to work and keep a tragedy like this from happening. the agricultural secretary says hes going to review the policies for all national parks in the u.s. in arkansas the search still on for the mising. a...

He said, save me. im drowning. my husband wouldnt let go of me. we was clinging for life. >> reporter: yeah, that was just one family member, one survivor talking about their ordeal yesterday morning. weve heard so many stories of rescues of children on top of cabin roofs, people on top of the cars, wedged between cars. there were rescues and hope there will be more today, suzanne. >> you were saying that this is a very rural area. obviously, complicates the search because you were mentioning co...

There were four people in the immediate area of that camp ground who are now missing. the search is very intense for them. there are 19 others who may or may not have been in the flood zone, but the fact is, no one can reach them right now. here at the command post, i see the volunteers. theyre tired, theyre dirty. theyre hot and they know they need to keep going. >> its a terrible event out there. but its good to see people are still reaching out trying to find some people and just what a frigh...

Also washed away the official logbook to show who was at that campground in the first place. julie martin is live in langley, arkansas, with us. we can see the emergency officials back there on the scene today. this is still officially a rescue effort, right, as opposed to recovery effort? >> reporter: right. at this point theres still hope, of course, but that keeps dwindling by the hour. ive seen dozens of volunteers and professional searchers head out this morning. they have atvs, they have h...

Want to take you straight to robert, louisiana, as promised, there is a press conference under way involving bp and the department of interior. in fact, thats ken salazar right there, interior secretary. lets listen in. >> -- to deal with this disaster which is creating huge problems for everybody who lives here in the gulf coast. we feel the pain. we are frustrated, and we want to make sure that at the end of the day, that no stone is left unturned relative to the effort that is concentrated on...

Being deployed by helicopter, by boat and land, to evaluate reports of oil and act as dictated by the response plans. we also remain ready to respond to any wild life that might have been impacted. so far, we had two oil birds cleans and they will be repeated. we received word friday of two dead birds and three dead porpoises off louisiana. we are working to identify whether the deaths are a result of this spill. in st. petersburg, florida, our command post is up and running. i would like to cla...

Others certainly more than washington. it just really depends on the situation youre in whether you need that concentration. weve had it in the uk over a long period of time for a variety of reasons. partly to do with terrorism, partly to do with the detection of just ordinary crime and partly actually to deal with things like car fines and speeding and there has been traditionally a greater tolerance in the uk of that. >> and, rich, youre starting to see more activity with the bomb squad. can y...