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Good morning. im carol costello. thank you so much for being with me. weve got some amazing video to show you of a very scary and dramatic video that happened outside of boulder, colorado, after flash flooding in the last hour. rescue workers risked their lives as they freed this man from his vehicle. all the while, the water was moving very rapidly, endangering all of these rescue workers because they could have been carried down the stream. just minutes ago, the authorities described this very...

Not the effect. >> trace: the effect is that this kid needs help. so, is that up to a judge or does this go somewhere else? if the jump says this is not up to me, where do you take it next? >> the judge can rule that the child needs to see certain counselors, needs to go through certain counseling, marsh even needs to go to inpatient counseling and thats up to the judge. also up to the approach it may be part of -- up to the prosecutor. if the parents have something in mind and the defense attor...

Washed away labor day plans for many along the east coast. for some parts of the country the wettest summer on record. abcs steve osunsami has more. >> reporter: across much of the northeast, more blinding rain. >> reporter: why cant it rain just a little in lake county north carolina heavy rains were dramatic. rescue workers had to pull a set of parents and their young children from their car. after it started sinking in the floodwaters. same story, lexington, kentucky, where a police cruiser s...

>> rescue workers find the drivers body in the devastating wreckage thrown outside his truck. but hes alive. his fall is cushioned by his trucks load of salmon and ice. he escaped with two collapsed lungs, a broken arm, finger and collar bone. on the other side of the north sea, englands roads are much tamer, but driving can be just as dangerous. >> oh! >> jack and his son raj depend on cars to make their living, installing custom exhausts in their shop minutes from londons heathrow airport. t...

>> all right, lets take a look at your tuesday weather now. it is going to be a stormy day in the northeast. several, severe thunderstorms are possible from southern new england to coastal maryland and virginia. it is going to feel like fall in the midwest. cooler and drier air. >> temperatures could climb to 100 in dallas, austin, san antonio. it will be in the low to mid 80s in oklahoma. honolulu and new orleans. just over 90. well you may have seen our reporting last week about a mysterious...

In none of them. >> maybe it was a mistake. thats the only explanation i have, because i didnt hide and i just stood there waiting. praying. >> reporter: father dowling does not want credit for the rescue. he said a higher power deserves that credit, along with the hard work and diligence of the rescue workers on the scene that morning. >> this is almighty god who interve intervened, because there was something exceptional there in the manner of her rescue. >> reporter: he described rescue crews...

A closer look at the video shows the man flying out of the crashing truck into the grass. rescue workers find him still alive. >> im up in the helicopter. i have no idea that theres a passenger and he was blown out of the truck right away, as soon as it hit the guardrail. so it took awhile for us to sort of piece those things together. >> the destroyed semi stops burning briefly but the leaking fuel reignites the truck until firefighters bring it under control. no lives are lost. an unbelievable...

>> the driver also has a passenger who is nowhere to be found. a closer look at the video shows the man flying out of the crashing truck into the grass. rescue workers find him still alive. >> im up in the helicopter. i have no idea that theres a passenger and he was blown out of the truck right away, as soon as it hit the guardrail. so it took awhile for us to sort of piece those things together. >> the destroyed semi stops burning briefly but the leaking fuel reignites the truck until firefigh...

In front of the building when suddenly, it explodes. the powerful blast blows out several storefronts and causes the ceiling to collapse on to firefighters still inside. other rescue workers rush to aid those caught in the fireball. >> i know i had injured firefighters down on the ground that were clearly hurt, laying in front of me. >> battalion chief kenneth mcswain isnt sure how bad the injuries are, or if any in his company are missing. >> after the explosion, we were definitely unsure wheth...

Katie lins out of this car to no avail. the metal on this older metal mer say deese dulled the departments equipment. >> the materials it was constructed of were probably better than how cars were constructed today. it was a very well built car. when you compact materials like that one was compacted, they become even stronger. because youre cutting through multiple things instead of just one layer. >> reporter: about an hour into the rescue, katie told rescue workers shed like to pray out loud w...