Desperate families are still waiting for word about missing loved ones, days after the flooding disaster in Tennessee. Some of the missing worked at a plastics factory that was inundated by the flooding. NBC News' Kathy Park reports.
September had been a month of celebrating Bertha Mendoza’s birthday, as well as her son's and grandson's. It's now also the month she died. Mendoza, 56, was one of the employees of Impact Plastics Inc. in Erwin, Tennessee, who were swept from the open bed of a truck trying to bring her and other workers to safety from the floodwaters of Hurricane Helene. Her birthday was Sept. 2.
Six days after the birthday celebration, on the morning of Sept. 27, Guillermo said Bertha had called him urging him not to go out in the storm and not to take her grandchildren out. She was calm at that time. Later she called her eldest son to tell him things were getting bad and she wasn’t really sure how she was going to get out of the plant. The next call was to her daughter. Bertha told her that it would probably be their last conversation and that she loved her, Guillermo said.
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