Sister who was on the phone with her as the house was being swept away. And well speak to the First Responders who have thrown themselves into the floodwaters who have thrown themselves in to pull others away. Dozens of counts in texas counties were in emergency evacuation declarations and many evacuated in oak. And turns many streams into rivers flooding residential areas and leaving over 80,000 residents without power. In wimberley, southwest of austin over 400 homes swept away. We have roadways like i just described, there are a road full of slabs. We dont have any structures on them at all. The blanco river, located in the town surging to a record 44 feet. We saw an increase a rise in the river in a 30 minute period of 3040 feet. They searched for those still stranded. At least three in houston are confirmed dead and at least 12 more missing. She was a good person. She was always there. This was one of the victims. At just 18 the student counsel president and homecoming queen was driving home from prom when her car stalled. She called for help but her car was swept away before it could arrive. She did the right thing. She called 911 and called her father and it was too much and too quick. And now we also have more breaking news. Cnn confirming from the Fire Department here in houston. There was an overturned rescue boat earlier today and three people inside one person accounted for, and of course they are telling us now that some of those people who are missing from that boat could be part of the rescue team. Anderson. It is horrific. I appreciate the update. More on the dangerous work that rescuers have been doing. As rosa said. Jay horden and captain and swift water rescue worker and the rescue began at 4 00 a. M. When the crew decided to shine a light and spotted an arm. The captain joins us to tell the rest of the story. Captain thank you for what you are doing and for being with us tonight. And the death we got of a First Responder on the capsized rescue boat in houston, it underscores the risk that you and other First Responders are taking in weather like this. Correct. It is a shame. And i hate to hear that kind of stuff. We lost a brother, a First Responder in oklahoma who got sucked into a storm drain. It is a shame. And it is something that i hope we can do something to prevent. The woman that we saw you rescuing in that photo, what happened after you saw her in the water. How did you get her out . I didnt see her. Kurt shuttle and brad mason, two coworkers shined a light to see how high the river was getting and they saw a hand and waving and they said did you see that and they stopped and she was speaking only spanish and they didnt know she what what she was saying and she knew she needed to get out. And the town was being sect orrized and closed and we couldnt get people in there and we tried the boat attempt and we couldnt get the boat in and did a shorebased walk and found out that we could access her position from the river right side but we couldnt get the boat around there and that is when i figured i had some makeshift throwbags and i lapped to be i happened to be wearing them and i had my pfd, my flotation device and we hooked them together and it was just enough length to make it to the tree to put a pfd or a life jacket on her and my shore crew pulled me in. Just incredible. Yeah it was pretty harrowing. This is a tough question but what is it like to be in water like that. No one expects it to be as strong as it is. There is the current and objects in the water you cant even see. How tough is it . I teach swift water rescue and have so since the mid80s and i liken it to a crash course in physics. If you are standing in 3 mileperhour which is up to your pockets you have 20 pounds force on your legs. If you double that speed to six, you dont have double the force on your legs you have quadruple the force on your legs and now that is six Miles Per Hour and that is like a jog. Still not fast water. You get to 15, 20, 30 Miles Per Hour in fast water and you have exponential pressures and people dont understand the force and you can see some of the debris behind me, by ripping free trees and floating houses and away and people didnt grasp the force of the water at that point. And as you said you teach the water rescue, and some of the biggest mistakes people make even the firefighters it is easy to get killed out there. If you are a firefighter, and you are wearing firefighter gear people dont take that into account sometimes . Well actually it is appalling to see your newest newscast with agencies trying to do the best across the country, standing on a boat or close to the store and bank of the river in their turnout gear that is the gear we use to fight fire to protect us from extreme heat. Do not use that to go into the swift water. Once you fall in it floats at first, but once it absorbs the water it is ten times as heavy to begins with and then it absorbs the water. You see the brim. You take that into a water and it can snap your neck in swift and powerful water, you need a helmet like a kayaker helmet and you notice i have a brim on this to keep the sun out of my eyes. That is incredible. If a firefighter, if the brim of the hat gets under the water it can snap their neck . When you talk about water this fast and powerful, you dont want anything that catches the current and you want to have like gear like here is the fins that we use, they are not scuba fins they are shorter because they peel you off the rock so you have to have a life jacket with 23235 pounds of flotation to keep your face above water to breathe and if i could do anything anderson it would be to beg, plead with anything First Responders my brothers and stirss out there, emt, First Responders take a course on swift water rescue, you need to learn the power of water where your instructors can keep you safe and get the gear and the training and get prepared for it because it is too late to just do it on a whim at the last minute. And weve seen some of the results of that. Captain horton i appreciate your training and helping others and being with us tonight, thank you. I appreciate all of you. Just incredible with so many First Responders, trying to do that now in texas, oklahoma and mexico. The total number of confirmed fatalities now to 14 and talking about in texas, and oklahoma. And despite the best efforts of a lot of emergency crews, the force of nature was too much in some places. And you saw Rosa Lisa Ramirez lost her life returning from the prom when the floodwaters overtook her car. She was able to call 911 and her dad but nobody could get to her in time. She was the homecoming queen and Student Body Council and joining us tonight is her aunt. What do you want people to know about he niece. What kind of person was she . She was just in a way your typical 18yearold young lady. She was beautiful. Full of life. Ready to take on the world. Cheerleader, volleyball tennis. On the other side of it she just had a dreep rooted faith and belief there was a higher being that she answered to and that her desire was to just show people more love and to be able to bring that message to the people around her. On saturday night, did she have any idea the weather was going to be that bad . No. Anderson i dont think anybody really expected it. Texas is tumultuous that way. One minute the sun is shining and the next you have rained. The kids had met, about 50 of them at her house before. All dressed up and ready to go to prom and celebrate and the storm hit while they were inside and im not sure they understand the depth of it. And she was nearly home. Yes. In fact where the accident happened from the house, you could see where it happened. The home is on a hill on some acreage and it is about, excuse me about two miles away from where it happened. So she did everything that she knew how anybody would do. She found herself in distress and called 911 and called her dad and said dad, im stuck, what do i do called 911. He said sit tight and ill be there and within the 1012 minutes it took him to get there, the watters were just raging and it was too late unfortunately. It is so awful and just so stunning how quickly life can change and everything changes. Yes, it is. Her father the family is very strong in their faith and her father is a practicing attorney but he also dough votes his time to the church and he had the opportunity to speak to the senior class the week before and he was talking to them about how important the decisions this they made in life were going to be for them and they needed to get a good bible and get them into the word and read and make sure they were making the right choices because they were not guaranteed another tomorrow and they dont know if tomorrow was going to come and ironically their daughter was sitting in the front row listening to the same message and here we are a week later we are going through the same tragedy. Roberta, im sorry for your loss and we appreciate you sharing with us tonight. Thank you. Thank you so much, anderson. We appreciate that and appreciate the prayers and condolences. Well follow the weather throughout the hour and the night tonight. 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Our community has been devastated by a tsunami of water, a historic tsunami of water that came down the blanco river very quickly in a very powerful way. And in this small county people have lost their lives and many are missing. Among them a mother and her two children laura mccome and 6yearold son andrew and 4yearold daughter lay ton. The husband and father is in the hospital. Right now he is heavily sedated and in the hospital. John was tossed in the river with his family. We dont know how long he was in the water and being tossed around and slammed up against the rocks and things. She called her sister when the cabin was floating. The house is floating i just want to tell you all i love you. I dont know what is going to happen but i just wanted you to know i love you and im with my kids and my husband and that was the last of the phone call. So far no signs at all the mother and of the mother and children. About 70 homes have been destroyed in this county. Some 1400 houses damaged. This home owned by a woman who that said in 40 years of coming here shes never even had minor flooding. Could you ever imagine this much destruction from this river . No. But i respect it now, ill tell you that. The furure of these waters tossed vehicles like they were toys. This was a volkswagen jetta. Police and emergency officials are still hoping for miracles. They still consider this a search and rescue mission. Gary what is the river level right now . Is it still high and still dangerous . It is still well above flood stage anderson and that is a great concern considering the forecast a few days from now of more heavy rain and concerning is the current. This is a placid river. I want to show you. I can ill state by walking in up to my someones to my shins. And i have to hold on to the searchers are behind me. And one can only imagine in the dark as they anded up with the river. The floodplain was 13 feet and in 1926, 89 years ago the level was 32 feet and this weekend, not 32, 44. 5 feet demolishing the old record. And in the dark with that stuff in the water. Just devastating. I spoke with her sister julie shields and i was struck by someone experiencing such profound loss can show poise and strength and love she is showing tonight and as you listen to our conversation i think youll agree. I cannot imagine how difficult this is for you and your family. If you can, walk me through what happened. I understand you were on the phone with your sister laura when she was floating down the river. What did she say. She called me and she said were in wimberley and were in it a house and we have water coming in. And i said okay. And then she started to look outside and sees how high the water was getting. And i told her to call 911. And she was surprised, she didnt fathom that 911 was what she was supposed to call. And she called and they told her help was on the way and after 1 00 in the morning she called and said i just want you to know the ceiling has caved in and the boat the house is floating down the water, and tell mom and dad that i love them i love you, and pray. Im trying to imagine what was going through your mind while these telling you all of these things. It must have just been terrifying . It was surreal. But the strangest thing about it was she was so incredibly calm. Which you are not calm in these type of situations. And i had been calm with her that evening. And i would say that its it was a sign of her faith in god and god and her faith were just so incredibly important to her. She has deep faith. She has deep faith. And she was at that moment that she knew she needed to be there for her family and she knew what was coming and she was ready to accept that. And i understand that the cabin actually split apart and separated your brotherinlaw jonathan from your sister and your niece and nephew. Your brotherinlaw is being treated in the hospital. Have you been able to speak to him . How is he doing . He is not if you can imagine, if you are the one person that is not left behind you dont know how to process. He lost everything. He lost everything when my sister and his two children disappeared. And i dont know how you live with that type of grief. He did everything he possibly could to save them. My mom talked to him yesterday, when he was in the hospital and he told her that a wall of water separated him from my sister and that was around the time that the house the house hit the bridge. And the house then split in two. What do you want people to know about your sister . She was loved. She was loved. She had a very big personality, she was a good wife. She was a loving mother and and her and sher kids were her life. And her kids are so beautiful. I dont know if there is any consolation in this but that they were together has got to be some source of strength right now. That is a source of strength and it is somewhat comfortable because she would never leave her babies and the fact that they are together is very very important and something that i dont know what to say. Julie, im just so sorry for what youre going through and your thoughts of everybody here are with you and your family. And i just wish you peace in the days ahead. Thank you. Thank you. There is a lot of people in need right now in texas, oklahoma and down in mexico. Just ahead. New questions in the quadruple homicide in d. C. New details in an assistant, Text Messages and a lot of money. , but you can still move it around. Now that i have a tempurflex, i can finally get a good nights sleep. When i flop down on the bed, and its just like, ah, this is perfect. Wherever you put your body it just supports you. 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