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Site you attest to that and you are given some amount of extra time. doug luzader live in washington. thank you. new this morning the death toll is climbing in the devastating mud slide in washington. as many as 24 people now dead. crews are battling treacherous conditions searching through quick sand like mud and debris. we have this dramatic new video take a look from a rescue helicopter. it shows the moment the crews pulled a 4-year-old boy from the mud. the boy is now out of the hospital and he is with his mother. his father and three siblings, they are still missing along with dozens of...

David montgomery, a geologist at the university of washington and the author of "the rocks don't lie: a geologist investigates noah's flood." fantastic title there. sir, simple question, how do mud slides happen? >> well, the basic problem is that we had a lot of rain, a very wet winter. and the basic physics are that the strength of the hillside decreases the wetter it gets. you can think of the water filling all the porous spaces, the voids between the particles that make up the hillside, adding a buoyant force that literally helps to float the hillside off. that slide started to rotate, t t...

We didn't locate anybody alive. and so that's the disappointing part. our condolences go out to the families who have lost people here. i say that on behalf of every single person that is working this scene and putting in a tremendous amount of time and effort and hours and they're doing a great job. >> before this announcement today, the death toll was 14. they say they covered to more bodies which brings the total death toll to 16. the true terrible news, though, is they believe they have located an additional eight bodies. eight additional bodies that have not yet been recovered so they hav...

Congressman peter welsh, thanks so much. up next, the latest in that deadly mud slide. workers digging with their bare hands and making a miraculous recovery, next. it says your afib puts you at 5 times greater risk of a stroke. that's why i take my warfarin every day. but it looks like maybe we should ask your doctor about pradaxa. in a clinical trial, pradaxa® (dabigatran etexilate mesylate)... ...was proven superior to warfarin at reducing the risk of stroke. and unlike warfarin, with no regular blood tests or dietary restrictions. hey thanks for calling my doctor. sure. pradaxa is not f...

>> ken armstrong is an investigative reporter at "the seattle times." he's been covering this story. so ken, mr. pennington, we just heard speaking there, he talks about millions and millions of dollars of work being done in that region to shore it up a after the 2006 mud slide. but in your article, a man named dan miller, talks about seeing construction work there just weeks after that landslide. there some kind of a disconnect between this statement that millions were done to shore it up and the work that continued to be done right up until what happened this past weekend? >> there is. in fa...