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Hundreds of people waiting right now to be rescued in california. these deadly mud slides, flash floods, have already killed 15 people overnight. officials on the ground in santa barbara say 300 people are sheltering inside their homes. rescuers trying to get them out. and officials say they have no idea exactly how many people are missing at this point. on top of that, you have sections of the 101 closed for at least 48 hours while this rescue work continues. >> our paul vercammen is in montecito, california. the center of all of this. paul, it looks horrible behind you. what's the very lates...

Utah, yes? >> he would be hard to beat, no doubt about it. >> congressman chris stewart, we do like you. that's why we like having you on the show. >> and we appreciate your time. come back. come back when you make up your mind and tell us first. >> thank you. breaking news, hundreds of people are awaiting rescue in southern california following deadly mud slides. cnn's paul vercammen there following the latest for us there. paul? >> reporter: that's right, john and poppy. coming up, we're going to show you the devastation first hapha. this is what it looks like, vast debris fields after thi...

Telephone polls they were describing to me. so as you might have heard yesterday, there were a lot of what they call hoist rescues, where the coast guard or others go in and use a hoist to pull people out. we saw there was a family of five and a baby rescued. that's going to happen today in that romero canyon neighborhood that got cut off. they just told those people, you might as well just shelter there in place. how many homes damaged? they don't know. it's too early to tell. one county official just telling me, we can't even get in to red tag these homes, because part of the focus is, this ...