sarah lee, thank you very much. now to the west coast with a massive mud slide north of los angeles that swept away cars and heavily damaged at least 41 homes. hundreds of families have been evacuated. our thelma gutierrez is live in la canada flintridge where people are dealing with a muddy, mud by mess right now. >> reporter: yes, that's absolutely true. right now what we can tell you is that there are more than 500 families who have been evacuated, and most of the residents out here have spent most of their day shoveling mud and debris just like this right out of their driveways. now, 43 homes have been damaged. 12 completely destroyed. and some of that devastation is up the road from where we are standing right now. now, that area has been closed to traffic because authorities say that there are cars up there. there are boulders that have started to slide, so they are not letting anybody in right now. but we talked to a homeowner earlier today, she told us to come on in. she wanted to show us just how