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Mud Slide Death Toll Raised to 14
Aired December 29, 2003 - 08:23 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
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SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, ANCHOR: People in mountainous California areas that were scorched by wildfires last fall are being warned to get ready for rain that could trigger more mud slides.
Searchers yesterday discovered three more victims from last week's mudslides in the hills of San Bernardino County. As Miguel Marquez reports, that raises the death toll now to 14.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
ROCKY SHAW, DEPUTY CORONER, SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY: The only who are still outstanding and have not been recovered is a -- approximately 8-month-old male infant, and one male who is approximately 12 to 13 years of age.
MIGUEL MARQUEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A shoe, a scrap of clothing. It's all searchers need to locate the dead.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're in a recovery mode and just looking.
MARQUEZ: The search for the living clearly over, it's now only a search for the bodies.
RAMIRO PLACENCIA, SEARCHER: We're sifting through the rubbage (ph) to try to find anything we can of, you know, any human remains or what have you.
MARQUEZ (on camera): Searchers are now hurriedly combing through Waterman Canyon below the church camp where all of the victims were from through debris piles like this, hoping for any sign of the dead.
Why the rush? Rain is in the forecast.
TRACEY MARTINEZ, SAN BERNARDINO FIRE DEPARTMENT: The rains are coming. Throughout the year, or throughout the winter, I should say, you know, January's our heaviest rain time. We're going to have more floods. People need to be prepared.
MARQUEZ: As the search for the last of the victims continued, their relatives and friends visited the site where they were swept away, and prayed.
Miguel Marquez, CNN, San Bernardino, California.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
O'BRIEN: That San Bernardino County official says last Thursday's mud slides struck after the area received a month's worth of rain in just one day.
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Aired December 29, 2003 - 08:23 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, ANCHOR: People in mountainous California areas that were scorched by wildfires last fall are being warned to get ready for rain that could trigger more mud slides.
Searchers yesterday discovered three more victims from last week's mudslides in the hills of San Bernardino County. As Miguel Marquez reports, that raises the death toll now to 14.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
ROCKY SHAW, DEPUTY CORONER, SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY: The only who are still outstanding and have not been recovered is a -- approximately 8-month-old male infant, and one male who is approximately 12 to 13 years of age.
MIGUEL MARQUEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A shoe, a scrap of clothing. It's all searchers need to locate the dead.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're in a recovery mode and just looking.
MARQUEZ: The search for the living clearly over, it's now only a search for the bodies.
RAMIRO PLACENCIA, SEARCHER: We're sifting through the rubbage (ph) to try to find anything we can of, you know, any human remains or what have you.
MARQUEZ (on camera): Searchers are now hurriedly combing through Waterman Canyon below the church camp where all of the victims were from through debris piles like this, hoping for any sign of the dead.
Why the rush? Rain is in the forecast.
TRACEY MARTINEZ, SAN BERNARDINO FIRE DEPARTMENT: The rains are coming. Throughout the year, or throughout the winter, I should say, you know, January's our heaviest rain time. We're going to have more floods. People need to be prepared.
MARQUEZ: As the search for the last of the victims continued, their relatives and friends visited the site where they were swept away, and prayed.
Miguel Marquez, CNN, San Bernardino, California.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
O'BRIEN: That San Bernardino County official says last Thursday's mud slides struck after the area received a month's worth of rain in just one day.
TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com
