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>> all right. john, former ntsb board member, joining us tonight, making sense of some of the latest information thats coming in and that report that well work to firm up ourselves that the plane may have pitched as low as 12,000 feet as it was turning back towards malaysia. thank you for joining us tonight. >> thank you for having me. fox urgent. tonight, rescuers in washington state are trying to get survivors out. its this mud slide scene we showed you last night, and now new pictures comin...

They had never seen alfred do any drugs. >> i still know and believe wholeheartedly that someone -- someone did this to my husband. >> despite heavy rains, thick mud, brambles, underbrush, barbed wire and wild animals that devour flesh and bones, alfreds body was found surprisingly clean and virtually intact, 19 days after he disappeared. >> if that body was there for 19 days, it would have been in a much different state than we would have found. >> alfreds body was stretched out, and he was wea...

>> reporter: saying there was no foul play, sheriff tom maddox called off the search after only four days. leaving family and friends to find the body on their own. >> and his spirit spoke out to me and said daddy, i knew you were going to find me. >> reporter: just as the sheriff had foreseen, an autopsy did find drugs. three kinds, including meth. though his family insists they had never seen him do any drugs. >> i still know and believe wholeheartedly that someone, someone did this to my husb...

Days, it would have been in a much different state than what we found. >> reporter: alfreds body was stretched out and he was wearing a pair of black boxers, two tennis shoes but just one sock. his father and the volunteers who had searched for him on the other hand were caked in mud an their clothing was torn. which made alfreds appearance even stranger. >> what was weird about his sock is that in this area, his socks were clean and his sock was pulled up as if he was in a sunday school class. ...

Including meth. >> i still know and believe whole heartedly that someone did this to my husband. >> reporter: despite heavy rains, thick mud, brambles, underbrush, barb wire and wild animals, his body was found virtually clean and in tact, 19 days after he disappeared. alfreds body was stretched out and he was wearing a pair of black boxers, two tennis shoes, but just one sock. his father and the volunteers who had searched for him were caked in mud and clothing torn, which made his appearance e...

A pair of black boxers, two tennis shoes but just one sock. his father and the volunteers who had searched for him on the other hand were caked in mud an their clothing was torn. which made alfreds appearance even stranger. >> what was weird about his sock is that in this area, his socks were clean and his sock was pulled up as if he was in a -- with a phone stuck in it as if in a sunday school class. neat. his tennis shoes looked very clean. >> what about his car keys? >> i was told by the mort...

Habitable. >> its ruined. the basement is gone. it stinks so bad in there, you can barely stand it. >> reporter: jeff larsons wife, nina, watched as their suv was wash add way by flooding water. >> our basement immediately started flooding at that time. i took my son and his wife, wyatt and cole, and we went to the third level with the belly boats. >> reporter: evacuated nine hours later, they consider themselves lucky. thick mud and war move through lyons, shifting entire homes from their found...

>> the water was this high. >> reporter: oh, my god, oh, my god. what else can you say? two feet of thick mud and sewage covering the area here in limon, colorado. covering the area for days. this is where abe vasquezs 78-year-old mother barely escaped from. we tried to step from the living room, our feet slowly speaking as we spoke. do you understand standing here how people could have lost their lives? >> oh, yes, easily, thank god it didnt happen but it could have. >> reporter: is it hard loo...

As we do every day. i dont have a whole lot of great news to bring you. we told you about the smog in russia. now i have to tell you about ongoing massive mud slides in china in the northwest part. theyve killed more than 330 people. but more than 1,100 people are actually missing. they were triggered yesterday by torrential rains. the mud is so thick that they havent been able to get the excavators in. 45,000 people have been forced to leave their homes. the mud slides have clogged a major rive...

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