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A tense situation in colorado. right now, hundreds of people are awaiting rescue after being stranded in record high flood wa waters. check out these images from boulder area. roads are washed away, 218 people are reported missing from days of unprecedented rainfall in northern colorado. the boulder area the hardest-hit, got the year's worst rain in a matter of days. ten miles away in longmont, the challenge is getting through the flood waters. watch these firefighters in their vehicle are undergoing wakes of water there, splashing against the truck's windshield. so now let's move 10 miles nor...

Future. >> and plans to rebuild. >> unbelievable. governor christie doesn't know how much damage. they will wait until daylight before they try to assess and put some figure on the damage and the cause of the fire is under investigation. they are worried about putting out the hot spots. it is under control but right now the priority is making sure it stays out. >> it started at 2:00 p.m. and as of 1:30 in the morning it was still burning. hot spots under control but still a fire. >> what a shame. all right. parts of northern colorado still soaking wet after swamped by deadly flash flooding. ...

At all possible stay off the roads. the colorado department of transportation has issued a essential traffic only restriction, and that's for jefferson, larimer, boulder and enclosure creek counties. we're having trouble getting the emergency management vehicles around. the congestion has been such, so we're trying to get people at least for a couple of hours to stay off the roads so that we can get help to where it most needs to be. i've got a bunch of our cabinet here, i don't know where they all snuck off to -- >> governor hickenlooper in spite of the fact that we just heard from mike seide...

Future. >> and plans to rebuild. >> unbelievable. governor christie doesn't know how much damage. they will wait until daylight before they try to assess and put some figure on the damage and the cause of the fire is under investigation. they are worried about putting out the hot spots. it is under control but right now the priority is making sure it stays out. >> it started at 2:00 p.m. and as of 1:30 in the morning it was still burning. hot spots under control but still a fire. >> what a shame. all right. parts of northern colorado still soaking wet after swamped by deadly flash flooding. ...

Water coming down trapping a firefighter in a tree. the water you see rushing over the roadway behind me here inside the city of boulder is six inches deep. this is mild. really not anything compared to the stories that we're hearing. hearing of water 6 to 8 feet deep, debris walls up to 10 feet high. the national guard is now on its way. we have new information about their numbers. 65 national guard troops on their way to the boulder area to assist in some emergency rescue efforts. entire communities isolated, cut off, from anybody coming and going because of the dangerous and deep floodwater...