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She was in the voluntary evacuation. >> reporter: what made this horrendous. the steepness of the terrain. look up there, the fire burns, and goes from 3,000 feet to sea level in just several miles. so, the water came off the ash call it. you can look right over here, and can you see where the waters just a little bit more than a mile from the ocean, took a house right off its foundation. >> reporter: other hois houses swallowed by mud or destroyed by fire. highway 101 in a moment was turned into a river of mud and boulders. in all, hundreds of homes destroyed or damaged in a natural disaste...

Loved ones. >> we just go down the creek and see what we can find. >> reporter: this man's mother was swept away while clinging to the back door of her home. >> she was in the voluntary evacuation. >> reporter: what made this mudslide so horrendous, the steepest of the terrain. look up there. the thomas fire burns above montecito. it goes from 3,000 feet to sea level in just several miles. the water came off the ashy hillsides and just poured right through here. it had a high velocity, as they call it. and you can look right over here and you will see where the waters just a mile from the ocea...

See what we can find. >> this man's mother was swept away while clinging to the back of her home. >> i thought she would be all right. she was in the voluntary evacuation. >> reporter: what made this it goes from 3,000 feet to sea level in just several miles. the water came off those ashy hillsides and poured through here. it had a high velocity and you can look here and you'll see where the waters, just a little bit more than a mile from the ocean, took a house right off its foundation. other houses swallowed by mud or destroyed by fire. highway 101, the main freeway connecting los angeles an...

The strategy for containing the oil. >> reporter: bill, in the short-term it will determine whether they can close the cap and contain the oil until they come up with a permanent solution of drilling the relief wells and pumping it with mud or, if they need to use the cap, to funnel oil to ships waiting on the surface. in the long term, it will determine whether or not they can pump the well with heavy drilling mud, that in itself creates a lot of pressure in the well and if there are breaches, they will not be able to do it and want to know if the well is intact. bill: jonathan serrie, grand ...