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And now, Preston and Steve's news update with Kathy Romano.

Today is Tuesday. It's the 18th day of July. Good morning, Kathy.

Good morning in the news this morning. Cruise in Bucks County have intensified the search for a missing nine-month-old boy and his two-year-old sister swept away after weekend rains swelled the banks of a creek while they were driving to a barbecue with their family.

Upper McPhail Township Police released names and photos of the family on Monday. The missing children were identified as two-year-old Matilda, Maddie Shields, and nine-month-old Conrad Shields.

The children are members of a Charleston, South Carolina family that was visiting relatives and friends

when they got caught in the flash flood Saturday evening along Route 532 in the area of Stonebridge

Crossing Road.

Upper Makefield Township Fire Chief Tim Brewer said Monday the effort to find the

children would be a massive undertaking and that the 100 search crew and numerous drones would be

looking for the siblings along the creek that drains into the Delaware River. As they tried to

escape the fierce floodwaters, dad took his four-year-old son while the mother and grandmother

grabbed the two additional children, said the father and son were

miraculously able to get to safety however the grandmother the mother and the two children were swept away by

the floodwaters brewer said their mother 32 year old katie seeley was later found dead the grandmother

survived and was treated at a local hospital so during our uh we do a conference call every evening to talk about what we're going to

about on the show.

And just before that last night, footage I had not seen surfaced of that search road.

And the guide rails on the side, the recording is kind of panning around, you're seeing the water

there.

And then the guide rails on the side of the road are gone.

That's how quickly the, obviously you know, a flash flood occurs quickly, but to see it

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