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Montecito, california. paul, what's the latest? >> reporter: as you look behind me you can see just one of the many homes damaged or destroyed, some 100 homes completely destroyed and 300 damaged by this mudslide just to give you a sense for the depth of it. if i take one little step in this direction, you would see how deep i would sink in right here. this is just a slushy mess and this is what these search and rescue crews are going to have to deal with today, john, when they go through places like this and houses and creek beds and debris basins and debris flows. you'll note that there's th...

Meet the needs of the people of columbia, south carolina and the midlands. peter, our primary mission, we have a number of important things we are doing right now. mission number one is the preservation of human life. we are working every single day, every single hour to make sure we are doing everything we need to do so we have officers out in the field. this morning we sent out a team of firefighters, police officers and sheriff's deputies, 60 of them, canvassing house to house just in case there are people in those homes who they have lost contact with the outside world, maybe lost power an...

This a thousand year event. a warning from officials, stay home. emergency responders have made hundreds of water rescues. crews in columbia going door to door right now. we're going to be knocking doors as we check, we'll be marking them with an orange x. just making sure that we've crossed every t and dotted every i in trying to preserve human life. >> simply stunning rain totals. two feet falling in mount pleasant in a couple of days. 18 unchs inches in charleston. columbia, 20 plus inches of rain recorded there. nick valencia joining us now. some residents have lost everything. >> report...

Authorities at the center of the storm damage shortly. there's a news conference scheduled for mayflower city hall. we'll bring you the news conference live when it happens. >> we'll bring in chad myers. he's in the town, mayflower, devastated by the tornadoes. we see you standing amidst of twisted metal and debris. give us a sense of what it's like. >> irony is there's a smoke alarm going off right behind me that hasn't gone off all day. i got closer to it to give you perspective. i can show you the wide shot. it doesn't give you the scope of what we're seeing here. what people are doing. the...

>> shepard: and on the ground look now owe incredible cefings of monday's tornado here in moore, oklahoma. police have rejoint exhibited media access to some of the hardest hit neighborhoods so get in there to clean up and restoring the power. they did allow our own casey stegall into the damage zone. he has been driving around in our quick response vehicle. casey? >> yeah, shepard, good evening to you. heather ellayna is where we are. not far from your location in our quick response vehicle, a qrv. we are going to now cut to live cameras on the very truck that i'm riding in. they are on the r...