Laramer County News Today

Welcome to "weekends with alex witt." just past 1:00 here in the east. colorado is issuing a stern warning to anyone considering staying behind. leave now or be prepared to endure weeks without electricity, running water, and basic supplies. more than 1700 people have been evacuated from laramer county and the flood zone has expanded to nearly the size of the state of connecticut. >> peoples entire lives, everything that they own just fell off of a mountain into a river and down. >> theres been ...

If they can find anymore people who are unaccounted for. alex? >> it would be extraordinary to see a video from inside those because part of what you provided for us yesterday, you remember that inside from that fire truck? all the water that was sloshing up on that huge fire truck and their front windows. thats got to be an extraordinary thing to see. joe, can i ask you about that warning that was put out for residents saying that if you dont get out now, you may be going for weeks without any ...

>> right. in laramer county at this point in time, to my knowledge, we have had no one injured and no one killed. >> all right, john. we wish you the best. again, extraordinary pictures coming in from your area. we know that homes have been washed away. people have evacuated. its a life threatening situation. we appreciate you giving us a few minutes to update our audience on whats happening there. thank you. >> youre welcome. still ahead, key testimony today in the double murder investigation...

Also challenging for your rescue crews who are going in and around the area to try to assist people. ive seen video of a couple of incredible rescues from people who wiere overwhelmed in their vehicles. >> yeah, we havent had any of that in laramer county. i know boulder has had quite a bit of that. we have had situations where the deputies who were up helping with the evacuation, the roadway degraded and collapsed and they were stuck in between two places where the roadway had collapsed and wer...

Look at jefferson county, laramer county and arapajo county. but those are three really key countie counties. they swing and were working very hard in all three of them to get out the vote. its now, krystal, about getting the vote out and as i said earlier comparing and contrasting the records of these two candidates. >> senator, tell us from someone, you know, on the ground in colorado, what was your post-debate reaction? we can talk about the media spin all we want but you, i assume you watche...

Spread over a 4500 square mile area. thats almost as large as the entire state of connecticut. many residents say theyre in complete shock. >> the houses were just crumbling off of the mountainside. and peoples entire lives, everything that they owned just fell off of a mountain into a river and down. >> the water force coming down this road was so intense that it tore up six inches of tarmac and asphalt. >> we painted sos on the driveway this morning in big orange letters, and not an hour later...

Quickly. the rain has actually picked up here in boulder in the last few minutes. because of the rain and the low visibility, those helicopter rescues weve been seeing over the last few days, well, those are on hold right now. the helicopters are not taking off. as you mentioned, in the last few days the national guard and military have been able to rescue about 1750 people. still, the recovery is far from over. alex, apologies there. a little audio issues. we can also tell you the laramer count...