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Tonight we are with frantic family members braving the muddy ruins in search of their loved ones he that theyre thought been swept away. Heres abcs matt gutm josie reporter calls of the desperate ringing out. Slogging through two feet of mud, gower and friends frantically search for his mother josie. I dont know why she didnt stay upstairs. Reporter she was here in her home with her boyfriend when horror stroke. The mud just came strai through. It was just it just happened too quick. And she couldnt hold on. Reporter josies friend doug has been searching too. You look at disaster, you watch it. Watching it. And youre seeing it and feeling it theres no comparison. No. Oh my god. I cant even imagine josie, a horrible experience oh my god. Reporter in montecito, california where mudslides have molded that tortured landscape, already there are 17 reported dead including roy router founder of the st. Augustines academy. Here comes a flash flood Reporter Video of one of the mudslides here. Oh my god, mom reporter tonight in the Santa Barbara county community, 17 people reported missing. 100 homes completely destroyed. Ged. The only words i really think of to describe what it looked like it looked like a world war i battlefield. Reporter none of the boulders you see in this field of boulders was here 12 hours ago. They have literally submerged entire homes. You can see the chimney poking through. It doesnt feel real. Reporter last night we found Robert Risken searching for his mother rebecca. Theres clearly no one searching here now. I know they searched the houses theyve been checked, but i dont get the sense that anyone looked downstream. Reporter light was fading and his hope was too. You know, its my mom. Im fighting with all my heart to find her. But like i cant focus on shes most likely dead out here you know. Just push my way through. Reporter he felt theres no option but to keep searching. Just last month, the thomas fire the biggest in california history, charred nearby hillsides. Scorching that hillside burning the trees, shrubs all the vegetation. Now you have basically a naked hill that has nothing to hold all that dirt and mud in place. When you get rain on top of that its going to slide with gravity. Reporter today the skies have cleared. But montecitos plight only intensifying. The storm took out montecitos water main. Taps are dry. Power is out. Follow my treads okay . Reporter for many here the only option is to evacuate. At the 101 freeway, which was hacked up by debris flows, closed through monday over a 30mile section. Montecito is one of the nations most exclusive neighborhoods filled with multimillion dollar homes. But no one was shielded from the damage here not even oprah winfrey. There used to an fence right here. Thats my neighbors house. Devastated. Reporter winfrey also sharing a video of a blazing gas fire and helicopters searching for the missing. Destroyed it looks like several vehicles and that rv there reporter with the hop finding those swept away alive dimming, those search and rescue efforts are intense fying. Overnight the coast guard rushing to rescue a family of five. They carefully place the mother and her baby in a basket then lift a child up to the roof away from that churning sludge. They even managed to save the family dog. In just the past 24 hours, the coast guard has assisted in 29 rescues. 14yearold Lauren Canton miraculously pulled from a pile of rubble. She was coated in mud but alive. Shes now recovering in the hospital. Her father and brother are believed to be missing. And also among the missing, sisters sawyer and morgan corey. A cousin of the family posting this photo. Their mother and sawyers twin sister summer currently in the icu. Summers heart reportedly stopping not once but twice. You can only see the scale of this from the air. This debris field goes down hundreds and hundreds of yards. Almost every house in its path obliterated. And what has made this recovery and rescue so difficult is the thickness of this mud. And right in there is an actual pool. Rescuers have fallen into it. There are so many pitfalls and traps here for them. A pitfall i experienced firsthand. These catastrophic mudslides and flash floods are not precedent here. In 2005 a mudslide just south of here in la cancita, california killed ten people. What you see immediately after a mudslide is basically mud that youre able to get through, able to dig out. Over the next few days as it drys out, its going to become more or less cement. Must have much more difficult to remove. If you think things are ba bad now for people affected by this mudslide its only going to get worse the next few days. Reporter this search and rescue team going house to house, relying on zeros nose to sniff out survivors. Some of the spaces they navigated were so tricky that zero needed a ride. Theyre taking zero in through the reporter for hours, some family members like teresa tried to flag down professional rescuers. Finally she found a sheriffs deputy. He saw her go in we know shes down there. Reporter as she continues her search she comes across doug scott, who is still looking for josie gower. Thats all you can do. Is close your mind off to pain and anguish. Reporter josies son hayden in anguish over what he says could have been prevented. Voluntary evacuation. If only she was in the mandatory, she would have left. They screwed up. They screwed up bigtime. They should have they should have said anyone in the floodplain should get the hell out. They should have said Something Like that. You know . Reporter later, hayden gower would tell us his mothers body was found. But for those two families a fleeting respite from their grief with that shared embrace. For nightline, im matt gutman in montecito, california. 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A former hitman for a Mexican Drug Cartel brutally killing strangers on command. Now hes asking his victims families for forgiveness. Isssible . His answer may surprise you. Heres abcs nick watt. The suspects drove up on first avenue parked out of eyesig victims were out the middtreet talking to a subject in a car. Reporter the Mexican Drug Cartel hit on an l. A. Street. The assassin. Broad daylight 9 00 10 00 in the they hado anticipation of wha happen. Reporter Martin Corona a hitman for a Mexican Cartel in this Rare Television interview tries to explain what its like to kill for a living. Ive s that you reporter he speak to him in shadow and Martin Corona is not his real name. This was revenge. Thats why they carried it out with so much drama and aggression. You didnt get away with anything. Know what i mean . Reporter steve duncan was a probation officer who started working with dea on crossborder drug cases. One of to get back hoo the house, ands he was walking up the steps towards the front door. Reporter revenge for on his Cartel Bosses the arellano brothers. Youve a guy on the ground whos inju begging not to be killed. Hes begging for his life. Dont kill me. Or his life i did this is from ramon arellano. I later talked to the fro i wanted him todying. An assassin a multipl murderer. Reporter steve duncan had no idea corona would lacome part of his life. Wouldw friends . We share a fondness. I have wanted him 1997. Reporter corona admits ters. Be more. Did you end up actually killing people in while i was in ipe that. Reportee was born he beautif socal coastline just outsideve anybody is just born a natural gangster. Nobodys born a charlesmanson. Reporter corona says he ran away from home jtreet gang. And that became my family. Are you involved i at this point . Uhhuh, absolutely. Reporter in and out of ost inevitablith the mexic and absolutely the cartels. You either accept that you e the a third subject the alley their number came up. Andy, it was time for them to go. Reporter firalled Arellano Felix cartel. Inspraffic. They controlled the cocaine smuggled through tijuana, locked in a turf war with the notoriousaqui el chapo guzman. Chapo guzman was killi their family memberslling family the fbi has added name to its tenlist, ramon oar reporter ramon decided who got wh u. S. Official put it. Ested a gun byrian he happened to in his car. He led a death squad for ramon. How does it changeuve taken a something ramon used to sknl say, were already damned, wereanyways, so ther having a conscience about it. Reporter in san diego he shot a pregnant suspected of talking to the cops. Along with her sister, a fashion model. When i shot the two people i heard her scre and i looked back there and i seen a little girl back there in the back seat. Reporter the girl was okay. But a month later, across the border in tijuana, corona and killed her father. We hogtied him with his han his back, covered him with a sheet. All of a sudden we hear this sound. Ike a watermelon bein y they you hear radios thethey get off on it. Reporter a life the 2015 movie thats hitman in spanish. Did the movies get itly loyalty. Youre sacrifimoment. Reporter his friend and mentor was killed on thjob. Corona violence. The day i away mexico was the day my daughter was born i held her in my arms. And i told my wife right and there, done. Reporter not so easy. I wasnt in long before i got arrested. Reporter after a weapons corona found himself in an inter room opposite ableut steve duncan. He had just gotten back fromg near where i go camping. We tal fishing. You know we hit ioff. A was potentially facing murder charges. Life in prison. One of the things that theystill talk dont talk dont rat. And i decided, im do th for my children. Rona ratted. We used him withr witnesses to indict the Upper Echelon of the tijuanaorona served 13 years for a weapons charge and dealingcocaine. Got out in 2014. He should have got the depenalty. Martins the the death penalty. Reporter instead, he tours country with from time to time schooling law latino i want to be able message out there. Reporter wrote a book confessions of a Cartel Hitman. He lives in a secret location declines witness when my time comes, my times going to know . I know defend myself. Reporter martin to be reformed. Claims remorse. For those he hurt. Out and apologizing. Reporter that former model he shotnk in the head survived. Corona reads from a letter he wrote to her. I can never find the words to apologize for my acts. Nor can i ever expect any emotion other than hate from you. But i truly am sorry. Reporter she says she does not forgive him. Apparently others do. You hear somebody tell you that they didnt blame you for doing the things that you did, its its a little overwhelming. Still hurts, still bothers me. Reporter as far as i can tell, martin is one of the worst of the worst. Yeah. Yeah. He was. Not anymore. And lets hope that you know he stays that way, you know . Reporter after our interview, corona violated his probation, tested positive for cocaine and meth. After a short stint in jail hes about to be leased again. Mornings i wake up and i wash my face and look in the mirror. And i can stillhe monster at i once was. You can never make amends for taking a life. You can never pay that back. Reporter im nick watt for night up next Tonya Hardings triu before that other figure skating moment. Lieve how much is new at r. That til you taste our new menu. Ways to enjoy seafood with small plates, with big flavor like yucatan shrimp in chililime butter an and if you like hot, buttery maine check out ther roll. 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Tell me what you were thinking. Holy [ bleep ], i just did it. Nobody else did it. Nobody helped me. Nobody helped me land that triple axel right there in that moment. You made history. I did. I did. Truth and lies the Tonya Harding story, a twohour documentary, airs tomorrow at 9 00 8 00 central here on abc. Thanks for watching nightline. As always were online welcome to whiz kids week. Weve got a bunch of young people with big brains and equally big dreams here today. All of them determined to win that million dollars. So what are we waiting for . Lets play who wants to be a millionaire. [cheers and applause] [dramatic music] hey, everybody, welcome to millionaire, its whiz kids week. And oh, are we in the middle of a great game. From ponte vedra beach, florida with an iq in the 99th percentile, please welcome back chase magnano. [cheers and applause] welcome back. Thank you. Last we saw y one of the best runs i have seen in a long time on this show. 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