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A frantic teacher and her terrified pupils sent text messages to relatives stating that they were trapped after their school disappeared under a huge mudslide in the Philippines. "We're still in one room, alive," read the message from the teacher to her mother, Pamela Tiempo. One of the pupils wrote: "We are alive. Dig us out." Only 57 people out of 1,857 survived the mudslide But the messages stopped on Friday evening, hours after the mudslide, leading rescue workers to conclude that the school had become a tomb for everyone inside, with those who sent the messages probably suffocating. Only...

Sacramento area TV news is reporting that I-80 between Truckee and the CA/NV border is closed due to a massive mudslide. Caltrans estimates closure for several days until cleaned up.

Breaking: (Warren County - CBS 6) — A mudslide has closed down a part of I-87 (Northway). Both the northbound and southbound lanes between exits 25 and 23 are closed. State police are advising motorists to use Route 9.

A landslide in Scotts Valley today destroyed a home and came within seconds of burying its owner and a friend under a sea of mud, police said. The landslide at 7:55 a.m leveled the home at 612 Bean Creek Road near a wooded area. Two vehicles were buried in mud. Lt. John Weiss. said it appears heavy saturation from recent rainfall sent mud barreling down the hill from the area of Millsite Road. The owner of the house, 32-year-old John Parr, had just exited the house with a friend when he heard a tree snap. Weiss said Parr and his...

There have been huge disastrous floods in Guyana and the nation is openly appealing for help from the American military. This may seem like an old story, but it's not. I hope we help Guyana. There are good reasons, and it's in everyone's interest. The tsunami relief effort got word to the world that when you are in deep trouble, America is the one, the only one, you can reliably turn to. Swift efficient help to impossible areas, soldiers who are friendly and compassionate, soldiers who won't shake you down, soldiers who will treat you with dignity and help you...

Searchers looking for more victims of a deadly mudslide in La Conchita, California, stopped work today, after geologists warned the hillside above the coastal community may be moving. Geologists painted a stripe on the hill where the mudslide had ended. A few hours later, they discovered that the line had moved almost six feet, officials said.

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No one lost more than (Jimmie) Wallet, who had gone out for ice cream when the mudslide hit, killing at least 10 people. His wife, Mechelle, was the first to be found. Around 2 a.m. Wednesday a group of firefighters and several of Wallet's friends carried her to the makeshift morgue at the town's gas station.Two hours later, his youngest daughter, 2-year-old Paloma, was removed on a stretcher. Her older sister Raven, 6, was next, soon followed by 10-year-old Hannah. The three girls were found next to each other, apparently sitting on a couch when the slide broke apart their...

LA CONCHITA, Calif. - A huge mudslide crashed down on homes in a coastal hamlet with terrifying force Monday, killing at least one person and leaving up to 12 missing as a Pacific storm hammered Southern California for a fourth straight day. Ventura County Fire Department Chief Bob Roper said at least six and as many as a dozen residents were missing in the mudslide that pummeled a four-block area of homes in tiny La Conchita, about 70 miles northwest of Los Angeles. Nine people were injured, including a 60-year-old man who was buried for three hours. "It lasted a...

Calif. Mudslide Kills One, Damages Homes 1 hour, 6 minutes ago By LAURA WIDES, Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES - A huge mudslide furiously crashed down on homes in a coastal hamlet Monday as a deadly Pacific storm hammered Southern California for a fourth straight day, boosting rainfall totals to astonishing levels. At least one person died and several were injured in the mudslide that pummeled a four-block area of homes in tiny La Conchita, damaging 15 to 20 homes, said Ventura County Fire Department spokesman Tom Kruschke. That brought the death toll in California from the storms to 10....

Democratic presidential front-runner John Kerry (news - web sites) received the endorsement of the 13 million-member AFL-CIO labor coalition on Thursday, a move that could help him rebut rival John Edwards (news - web sites)' challenge on jobs and trade. "Today we know the time has come to unite behind one man, one leader, one candidate," said John Sweeney, president of the AFL-CIO, an umbrella organization of 64 unions. "Throughout his distinguished political career John Kerry has been a friend of working families." Outside AFL-CIO headquarters two blocks from the White House and beneath a huge sign reading "America Needs...

As the waves of mud and debris swept him down a California hillside, Woodinville resident Stephen Phillips' life was reduced to single struggles: dodging the mobile homes that tumbled toward him, grabbing at logs and utility poles that offered fleeting respites and counting the time between breaths. In the few seconds when fear was not all consuming, he begged God to please let him again see his children, who were also in the mudslide's path. Phillips recounted his survival story by telephone from his hospital bed in San Bernardino, Calif., where the 43-year-old software developer and outdoor enthusiast lies recovering...

SAN BERNARDINO – Authorities on Sunday found the bodies of five more people caught in the flash floods that engulfed a church camp on Christmas. Two children washed away from the St. Sophia Camp were found tangled in debris more than four miles below, in a cement catch basin in downtown San Bernardino, said Chip Patterson, spokesman for the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department. Two women and a man, all in their 40s, were found closer to the camp in the San Bernardino Mountains. It took a bulldozer and other heavy equipment to find those bodies in the deep mud....

<p>SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- The Greek Orthodox Church Friday asked for prayers for the victims of a deadly mudslide that struck a church youth camp in southern California.</p> <p>Metropolitan Anthony, the head of the church in the western United States, said in a news release that the victims of the slide and their families would be remembered during Sunday services.</p>

Up to 20 Missing in Southern California Mudslide By Ben Berkowitz SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (Reuters) - At least ten and as many as 20 people were still missing here on Friday morning after waves of mud up to 12 feet high overran a camp in a local canyon, fire officials said as rain and cold weather hampered search efforts. Officials of the San Bernardino county fire department were forced to call off their search in Old Waterman canyon shortly after 1 a.m. PST (4 a.m. EST) because of inclement weather and conditions made worse by wild fires here two months...

LOS ANGELES Dec. 25 — A mudslide swept over a Greek Orthodox youth camp Thursday, trapping at least 15 people as heavy rains triggered flooding in areas ravaged by wildfires last month, authorities said. At least seven people were rescued from the Saint Sophia Camp in Waterman Canyon, just north of San Bernardino, and needed medical attention, authorities said. Details about the victims, the extent of their injuries and the status of the other eight people were not immediately available. Flood waters in the area were getting worse, forcing officials to pull back some emergency personnel, county fire officials said....

POSTED: 10:36 a.m. PST November 12, 2003 UPDATED: 12:11 p.m. PST November 12, 2003 SAN DIEGO -- The National Weather Service has issued a flash-flood warning for central San Diego County, specifically singling out the areas of Julian and Cuyamaca. Julian and Cuyamaca, of course, were heavily damaged by the recent firestorm, making those communities especially susceptible to mudslides. The NWS also issued the warning to Southwestern San Bernardino County. The warning, which will be in effect until noon on 'Wednesday, said that Doppler radar indicated very heavy rain over the mountains of San Bernardino, Riverside and San Diego counties....

Mudslides Roar Down Fire Damaged Mountain Force Evacuation in Santaquin Sep 12, 2002 8:45 pm US/Mountain Two days of heavy rains on a fire-denuded hillside loosened mudslides onto a Santaquin neighborhood Thursday night, flooding basements, moving cars and depositing 500-pound boulders. Three-foot-deep slides filled, overflowed and breached a drainage canal before hitting the homes. No injuries were reported, but dispatchers said about seven to 10 homes initially were thought to have been affected, and an evacuation was ordered for the subdivision. Officers searched to make sure no one was trapped, but it appeared everyone was accounted for. Residents had feared...