rewe are following. the on going search for su vie divorce north of seattle. we know that at least 14 people are dead. 176 people remain unaccounted for. while they are treating this as an active rescue operation, hope is certainly fading fast. we re live in arlington, washington. hope is certainly fading. reporter: yes. but people are hanging onto that a little bit of hope. good morning to you. this mudslide is about a whole square mile wide and deep and about 15 feet deep in somepla plac places. this is as close as we re going to get on the west side. any closer we re told conditions are still treacherous. we re also told that there s still potential for even more slides. for the families of those missing, it really is a helpless feeling as they await answers.
here to pepeka. no fatalities. nine people were injured there. one person critically injured. governor of kansas is declaring state of emergency there. let s get right to our meteorologist rob marciano who is tracking these storms for us. that same line that produced the tornadoes last night across parts of kansas and missouri moving into parts of kentucky and indiana and illinois. dangerous storm with a tornado dropped down to harrisburg, illinois, damage there and search and rescue actually under way. that s with this line and this cell moving just to the south of evansville, indiana, just to the north of hender son, kentucky. another storm just northeast of paducah. another one just southwest of that. these are strong storms moving quickly. 65 to 70 miles an hour. and in somepla places it s stil dark. tornado watch is up until noontime central for parts of kentucky and also it s kind of sliding back through just north of memphis. this storm is a big one. it stretches all
there. reporter: the unemployment rate is routinely higher than 15% and a lot of it is because of water rights and a big problem with water and the cost of it and a lot of the farm land is barren and like the country, the republicans are looking for 39 seats for the majority and they only need a handful, to shake things up in california, and there are 53 congresspeople from california, the nation s most populous state and this is certainly a battle ground not only for governor and u.s. senate but house races and of the 53 house seats from california, right now, 33 of them are in democratic hands and 19 republicans and one is vacant and four incumbent democrats are considered vulnerable and in every, single case are swing districts where republicans have had chances and held the seat in years past and now the economy is really the drag and the jobs problem, in california, over 12% unemployment and somepla places the directly held districts, unemployment is the worst in the state and s