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0 you could do worse. he ll always have the official endorsement of the ridicu-list. that does it for this edition of 360. thanks for watching. early start begins right now. we have taken our heart and soul, taken my only child and please let hannah go. a family s debt pratt plea for the man accused of killing his friend and kidnapping her daughter. h s now believed to be armed with bombs. storms from the midwest to the southeast. firefighters saving families from the rising floodwaters. i m not going to be one of those people that says i m going to keep working. i m not working for anybody else anymore. a minnesota man claiming a third of a power ball jackpots. he s one of the coolest winners you will ever see. what do we know about the other two winners? no longer in the dark. welcome to early start. i m zoraida sambolin. it s friday, august 9th in the east. a man suspected of killing a friend and kidnapping her daughter. james dis still on the run. authorities are chasing down leads and desperately trying to find them. reporter: this morning, more sightings and more concern about the fate of hannah anderson in the hands of her abductor. sightings of the nissan versa. amber alerts lighting up the u.s. from mexico to the canadian border. nine out of ten calls related to hannah anderson. it s a very high priority for us. reporter: he may have built his own explosives, ditched his own car, wiring it to explode, urging caution. for civilian and officer safety, if you see the car, do not approach it. call law enforcement. reporter: the human toll is taking effect. talking to the mother and stepfather of kristina anderson, grandparents to hannah and ethan. please let hannah go. let her come back. we need her home. she needs to be home. reporter: they believe hannah is alive. they hold out hope 8-year-old ethan is alive as well, but they fear the worst. little e is he s just the best little guy you can imagine. mr. fisherman. hannah, our honey bunny. reporter: now they are wearing pray for hannah t-shirts preparing for one funeral, possibly two. you never plan to bury your child or your grandchildren, if that s what it comes to. something you just can t comprehend or cope with. reporter: for now, all their emotion and energy devoted to the hope that hannah, their granddaughter is alive and they will soon be reunited. what a story that is. now the other top story, the torrential rain sweeping across the nation causing more flash floods from missouri to tennessee. the area in tennessee is wet. flooding turned roads into lakes. some cars buried up to windshields. the rising water trapped people in their vehicles and inside their homes. emergency responders in other places wading in waist deep muddy rivers. a lot of residents saved, including a 5-week-old baby. that s a lucky kid. as the floodwaters recede in some areas, the damage is evident. we have a close look at nashville after the deluge. this is where the flooding was pretty bad down here. you can tell right there that got moved all the way from across the street. everything around here looks horrible right now. so, this is just part of the flooding this morning that happened. yeah, this is pretty bad around here. what a mess. in missouri, upwards of ten inches of rain fell flooding the streets leaving a lot of people stranded. this water rescue happened south of springfield. the floods left at least one woman dead. a creek overflowed washing away her car. in waynesville, authorities continue their search for the body of a young mother. she s presumed drown after a flash flood hit the area. she was in the car with her 4-year-old when the river began to rise. his body was found tuesday. the town received three plus inches of rain on thursday. obviously a lot of weather out there. a lot to talk about. indra petersons is talking about it. one foot of water makes you weigh 1500 pounds less. don t walk through, especially a car, an average of 3,000 pounds, two feet of water is going to sweep it away. it s important. turn around, don t drown. look at the rain, bran son, eight inches of rain. madison, tennessee, seven inches per hour. that s causing flooding. in addition to that, we are talking day after day of rain just like this. here we go again. this is the current radar. the last six hour loop, oklahoma city seeing heavy rain and arkansas. not as much in missouri. still rain in the forecast especially the southern portions of missouri. what s going on? notice where it s blue, it s the cold front. notice how quickly the rain moves through the northeast. the stalled front does that. it stays here. look at the flooding potential again over the next several days. we talk about where it went faster. you can still have heavy rates per hour. new england, two to four inches. maybe one to three inches for d.c. and new york. we ll talk the southern portion. it s where we re looking for a threat of flash flooding. then it s day after day of rain and heavy rain. look at that stalled right over nashville, right over tennessee where they don t need it. all over again. thanks so much. another weather story to tell you about. riverside county, california, the silver fire is the fastest burning wildfire they have ever seen. hundreds of people have been evacuated near palm springs. crews are attacking from all angles. so far, this fire burned 14,000 acres, more than two dozen homes destroyed. the fire 20% contained. we are seeing fire behavior we haven t seen in a long time. the fields are so dry. add a little bit of wind to that and it makes it a challenge to catch or keep up with the fire. 500 personnel are battling the blaze. five firefighters have been injured. officials expect it will be a couple days before they can get the smoke and flames under control. the u.s. consulate in pakistan is being evacuated after a specific terror threat. the state department says only emergency personnel will stay behind in pakistan s largest city. no details have been revealed. it was a threat worthy of taking this action. u.s. citizens are warned not to travel to pakistan. embassies in the middle east and africa are still empty. three u.s. drone strikes left 13 people dead in yemen. seven believed to be al qaeda fighters. security officials in yemen tell cnn u.s. drone strikes killed at least 34 people in the last two weeks. a lot of activity there. north korea stepping up their nuclear program? new satellite imagery suggests the country is increasing their uranium enrichment efforts, doubling the size for processing nuclear material as well. the king jong-un government said they were restarting their work at the previously moth balled facility. morsi says he will be back making the claim at a surprise appearance in a pro-morsi rally. this is the first time his wife has been seen in public since he was released from power. morsi s children joined their mother calling on the military to release their father of military arrest. secretary of state john kerry and chuck hagel will meet with their russian counter parts. president obama decided not to meet with putin in moscow next month. today s meeting will likely include a discussion of granting temporary asylum to edward snowden. they have a lot to talk about. yes. a change in student loan rates. president obama will sign a measure to drop rates to 3.9% for undergrads. future rates will be tied to financial markets meaning they could rise if the economy improves. loan rates doubled last month. tell me how my tomatoes were? they were the heirloom tomato tomatoes. the little ones were what? cherry. unbelievable. you didn t know you were growing tomatoes. once i found out, i was part of the operation. thank you. ten minutes after the hour. this is awful. a teenage girl brutally bullied online hangs herself. how two teenage boys are being charged in the case. he will never work again. a man holding one of three power ballwining tickets. what he will do with the money plus what we learned overnight about the other winners. i ve got something for you too. 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