CNN news 2010-08-12
Emergency crews in the northwest of China are still searching for survivors after a landslide over the weekend swept away houses, bridges and cars. A wall of mud flattened three villages in Zhouqu County. At one point more than 2,000 residents were believed to be missing, but slowly survivors are being pulled from the sludge. In parts, the mud is two meters deep according to state media, making it impossible for vehicles and heavy machinery to get in. So the government has ordered in thousands of troops using shovels and their bare hands to search for the missing.
This morning, at 6:20 this morning, Tracy Allen Province was arrested by U.S. Marshals in the Meeteetse, Wyoming.
“I would like to make a plea or give some good advice to Mr. McCluskey that, if he is hearing my words and sees us to turn himself in, because no good is going to be coming out of this at the very end. And let's put an end to this and let's move on.”
I just, you know, I just must never give in, never never never must I give in to anything that traumas me. The people with the head strokes, I see them, and some of them, they are weeping all the time. But you got to be strong, you really have to be. I'll give them a little bit of sounds of weep but then you got to be strong, you got to make a comeback.
Actress Patricia Neal has died, she was 84. Neal won the Academy Award for her performance in the movie Hud.
This was a big win for the country, not just for New Orleans, because 5 years ago, this team played its entire season on the road. It didn't have a home field. The Superdome had been ruined by Hurricane Katrina. Back then, people didn't even know if the team was coming back. People didn't know if the city was coming back. Not only did the team come back, it took its city’s hands and helped its city back on its feet. Now this team took the hopes and the dreams of a shattered city and placed them squarely on its shoulders.