[Bolduan:] And welcome back to NEW DAY. The death toll is climbing in Colorado from the severe flooding there. Eight people now confirmed dead, 648 remain missing or unaccounted for. Finally, though, Mother Nature giving rescue workers a much- needed break, allowing them to search for people who have been stranded and cut off for days. CNN's George Howell has the latest for us this morning from Colorado. You've been following it from the beginning, George. How's it looking this morning?
[George Howell, Cnn Correspondent:] Kate, good morning. So, I'm sure you can see here, this river still rushing. Just a few days ago from where I'm standing right now, I would have been under water. So fair to say the floodwaters are starting to recede. We're also seeing the number unaccounted for slowly go down. And for the first time, people are returning to their homes to see what's left.
[Howell:] New images emerged overnight. Choppers once again taking to the sky, evacuating at least 100 people. Emergency response out in full force. Searching homes, a desperate search for anyone still stranded in the mountains or unaccounted for, following Colorado's deadly flash floods.
[Unidentified Male:] Some areas in Larimer County experienced a 100- year flood, others experienced a 1,000-year flood. So, something that would only happened every 1,000 years.
[Howell:] This is what the region looked like from space, just days before, compared to this image taken after the massive flood that inundated northern and eastern Colorado. Returning to a devastated community, residents in Longmont seeing their homes for the first time since Thursday no longer habitable.
[Unidentified Male:] It's ruined. The basement is gone and it stinks so bad in there, you can barely stand it.
[Howell:] Jeff Larson's wife, Nina, watched as their SUV was swept away by rushing water.
[Unidentified Female:] I watched it being swept down the road. Our basement immediately started flooding. And so, I just took my son and his friends, Wyatt and Cole, and we went to the third level with the belly boats.
[Howell:] Evacuated nine hours later, they consider themselves lucky. Thick mud and water moved through Lyons, shifting entire homes from their foundation. This woman unable to reach her home on the other side of the river, in utter disbelief that it was picked up and moved several feet.
[Unidentified Female:] Today is our first day up here since we've been evacuated. And I feel like it's worse than I thought it would be. We lost absolutely everything we own.
[Howell:] So, when you look at, you know, this entire story, the past five days that we've covered here on NEW DAY, some 12,000 people were forced to evacuate because of the storm system. Just in the last day, we know of some 250 people who were rescued in Boulder County. And, Kate, those rescues continue.
[Bolduan:] And still, hundreds of people unaccounted for, hopefully with a break in the weather that number will drop dramatically today. George, thank you very much. We'll talk to you later in the show. Let's get straight to Indra Petersons, though, with the latest forecast and what they can be expecting in Colorado today. How it's looking?
[Indra Petersons, Ams Meteorologist:] Yes. I mean, it's really amazing the amount of records they've broken. Getting a breather today but it's not going to say that way. They broke the record for the most amount of rain in a day, for the month of September, and for the year so far. So, they really need this dry air moving in today, still an isolated threat for shower here and there, but the bigger concern were really be into tomorrow, and through Thursday, as another cold front makes its way into the Pacific Northwest, Wednesday night through Thursday and enhanced amount of rain. We are going to be seeing some dry air behind that for the rest of the week does look. But, of course, all this rain has to go somewhere. That's going to be the concern. As we make this way to the South Platte River, we're going to be looking at major flooding now spreading into places like Nebraska where they didn't see the rain. But now, they're worried about that debris blocking the river, and all that flooding heading their direction.
[Bolduan:] Yes. And still coming their way.
[Petersons:] Unfortunately.
[Bolduan:] All right. Indra, thank you so much. We'll get back to that later today. But, also coming up next on NEW DAY, it took 19 long hours to get the Costa Concordia fully upright. Take a look at this time lapse video. An operation, though, 20 months in the making. The question now, how do they get the massive ship out of the water altogether? We're going to go live to Italy, just ahead.
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