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We do have another spot of good news with the weather starting to cooperate a little bit. the rain has let up, which is going to mean a chance to dry out a little bit in the mudslide zone. but the rain yesterday and the day before left behind a sticky mess that is still very slow going for crews. >> okay. >> coming in up to waist deep in mud that they've been going through. they've seen things that most people shouldn't have to see. >> there's people out here that you can't get them to go home. they're looking for loved ones. so the mental toll is just having to sift through this and what they...

So they have access through the middle and working their way out. there are specific areas that some people in -- you know, some of the family members, some of the relatives are looking in for their specific loved ones. as they find them, they're continuing the search for other people. they want to give everybody the closure that they have. we've heard stories like that coming out of mudslide zone. that number, 90 missing, is a pretty much number now. those are people who all have been verified as to, yes, they were probably there, and they haven't been contacted or made contact with anybody s...

News. they were out there in the mudslide zone doing the recoveries themselves. some of the numbers that we have are directly from the families, because the rescue workers and the recovery workers haven't been releasing any new numbers. they have a state mortuary crew here working with the medical examiner, but until the medical examiner gets all the records complete and does all the paperwork and recovers the bodies, actually into the medical examiner's office, they can't add those to the official toll, so we are expecting since they've been working around the clock at the press conference th...

There are 200 people that live in that mudslide zone, and it was a saturday, so a lot of people were home and there were also people who were passing through. people who might have been initially reported missing, but then checked in with family. officials are saying, please, let us know who we can take off that list so we know exactly how many people we're looking for. so that 176 number, they say, is definitely going to go down, but the death toll of 14, as the search intensifies today, can go nowhere but up, because they know there are many people unaccounted for that will not be found aliv...