TRENTON — The leader of a New Jersey legislative committee investigating the George Washington Bridge lane closings said newly uncensored emails released today are “disturbing” and that the two officials at the center of the controversy acted like children. 
 
 “There’s no new ground been broken,” state Assemblyman John Wisniewski (D-Middlesex), the co-chairman of the committee, said today at the Statehouse. “But what it does show is kind of a juvenile, cavalier attitude toward their official responsibilities and joking about the power they had to create traffic or delay flights.” 
 
 The records released this morning show David Wildstein, a top official at the Port Authority, and Bridget Anne Kelly, who at the time was a deputy chief of staff in Gov. Chris Christie’s office, joked about causing traffic problems for Rabbi Mendy Carlebach of the Chabad of North and South Brunswick. Carlebach, who is Orthodox and a close Christie ally, is a chaplain for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department. 
 
 "And he has officially pissed me off," Wildstein told Kelly in a text message. 
 
 "Clearly," Kelly wrote. "We cannot cause traffic problems in front of his house, can we?" 
 
 Wildstein replied, "Flights to Tel Aviv all mysteriously delayed." 
 
 "Perfect," Kelly wrote. 
 
 Wisniewski said he had not spoken to Carlebach and did not understand why Wildstein and Kelly would have wanted to cause him trouble. He said it was “inappropriate” for government officials to talk about a religious leader in that way, and that it “speaks to the need to reform this agency.” 
 
 “It seems like they really felt comfortable in talking about how they could utilize their authority to apparently get back at people, which is disturbing,” he said. 
 
 The 20 pages of documents, released today, also reveal that Kelly was the unidentified recipient of many of the text messages originally provided by Wildstein, the former director of interstate capital projects at the Port Authority. The committee’s attorney, Reid Schar, negotiated the release of the records with Wildstein’s attorney, Alan Zegas. 
 
 Wisniewski said most of the documents were redacted appropriately because they had nothing to do with the September closing of lanes leading to the bridge in Fort Lee — something Democrats have called an act of politically retaliation against the borough’s mayor. 
 
 One redaction, for instance, was of text messages about a crane failure on a Port Authority job, he said. 
 
 “Not part of this investigation, not part of what we’re looking at,” Wisniewski said. “We don’t need to see that.” ||||| Image copyright Facebook Image caption The couple touched a contaminated item with their hands but police have not identified the source 
 
 Police have launched a murder inquiry after a woman exposed to the nerve agent Novichok in Wiltshire died. 
 
 Dawn Sturgess, 44, died in hospital on Sunday evening after falling ill on 30 June. 
 
 Charlie Rowley, 45, who was also exposed to the nerve agent in Amesbury, remains critically ill in hospital. 
 
 Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia was "deeply concerned" about the incident - but said accusations that it was involved are "absurd". 
 
 The UK government previously blamed Russia for the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia with Novichok in Salisbury in March. Russian authorities denied any involvement in the poisoning. 
 
 Investigators say the possibility that the two cases are linked is a "clear line of inquiry". 
 
 Theresa May said she was "appalled and shocked" by the death of mother of three Ms Sturgess, from Durrington. 
 
 Home Secretary Sajid Javid will chair a meeting of the government's emergency committee Cobra later today. 
 
 A post-mortem examination of Ms Sturgess is due to take place and her family has been informed, police said. 
 
 The investigation is being led by detectives from the Counter-Terrorism Policing Network and about 100 detectives are working on the case alongside Wiltshire Police. 
 
 Officers are still trying to work out how Ms Sturgess and Mr Rowley were exposed to the nerve agent - although tests have confirmed they touched a contaminated item with their hands. 
 
 Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu, the head of UK Counter-Terrorism policing, said: "This is shocking and tragic news. Dawn leaves behind her family, including three children, and our thoughts and prayers are with them at this extremely difficult time. 
 
 "The 45-year-old man who fell ill with Dawn remains critically ill in hospital and our thoughts are with him and his family as well." 
 
 Mr Basu said the death "has only served to strengthen our resolve to identify and bring to justice the person or persons responsible for what I can only describe as an outrageous, reckless and barbaric act". 
 
 He said: "Detectives will continue with their painstaking and meticulous work to gather all the available evidence so that we can understand how two citizens came to be exposed with such a deadly substance that tragically cost Dawn her life." 
 
 Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Footage shows Ms Sturgess in Salisbury days before her collapse 
 
 Dr Christine Blanshard, medical director at Salisbury District Hospital, where Ms Sturgess died, said it was "desperately sad" and she expressed condolences to her family. 
 
 She said: "The staff here at Salisbury District Hospital worked tirelessly to save Dawn. Our staff are talented, dedicated and professional and I know today they will be hurting too. 
 
 "They did everything they could." 
 
 Mr Rowley is also being treated at the hospital. 
 
 A police officer who was tested for Novichok poisoning was given the all clear. 
 
 'Murderers' 
 
 Mrs May sent her "thoughts and condolences" and said officials were "working urgently to establish the facts". 
 
 She said: "The government is committed to providing full support to the local community as it deals with this tragedy." 
 
 British diplomat Julian King, the European Commissioner responsible for the EU's security union, said: "Those behind this are murderers." 
 
 Home Secretary Sajid Javid said: "This desperately sad news only strengthens our resolve to find out exactly what has happened." 
 
 Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said he was "shocked", adding: "A full and thorough police investigation must now establish the facts, provide support to the local community and bring those responsible to justice." 
 
 Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The couple collapsed at a flat on Muggleton Road in Amesbury on 30 June 
 
 Public Health England said the risk to the general public "remains low". 
 
 Professor Paul Cosford said: "As a precaution we still advise the public not to pick up any strange items such as needles, syringes or unusual containers." 
 
 He also said people in five locations between 22:00 BST on 29 June and 18:30 on 30 June should continue to follow advice, namely: "Wash your clothes in a washing machine and to keep your items double-bagged and securely fastened, if they are dry-clean only." 
 
 Those locations are Muggleton Road, Boots pharmacy and the Baptist church in Amesbury, and John Baker House and Queen Elizabeth Gardens in Salisbury. 
 
 Baroness Scott, the leader of Wiltshire Council, said the residents of John Baker House - the hostel where Ms Sturgess lives - have been rehoused and are being given support. 
 
 'Unwilling victim' 
 
 Angus Macpherson, Wiltshire police and crime commissioner, said he was "horrified and appalled". 
 
 He said: "Ms Sturgess was an innocent member of the public who should have been able to go about her daily life without becoming an unwilling victim in such an unprecedented, international, incident." 
 
 Analysis 
 
 By BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner 
 
 The working hypothesis is that the pair became contaminated after touching a poison container left over from the March attack on Sergei and Yulia Skripal. 
 
 The death of Dawn Sturgess, a British citizen on British soil, now changes the investigation to a murder inquiry, with all the diplomatic and security ramifications that carries. 
 
 Britain has been blaming Moscow for the original attack in March, saying there is no plausible alternative to the Kremlin having ordered the assassination attempt. 
 
 Russia has denied any involvement, suggesting instead this was the action of a weak British government looking to undermine the success of the current World Cup being hosted by Russia. 
 
 The next few days are likely to see further accusations and counter-accusations. 
 
 The poisoning of the Skripals, both of whom spent weeks in hospital before being discharged, was blamed by the UK government on Russia. 
 
 Russian authorities denied any involvement. 
 
 Mr Skripal, 66, is a Russian former double agent. He was accused by Russia of spying for Britain's MI6 and jailed in 2006. He was later pardoned and allowed to settle in the UK. 
 
 After the hospitalisation of Ms Sturgess and Mr Rowley, Mr Javid accused the Russian state of using Britain as a "dumping ground for poison". 
 
 The Russian Embassy hit back, accusing the government of trying to "muddy the waters" and "frighten its own citizens". 
 
 Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Yulia Skripal and her father Sergei were exposed to Novichok in Salisbury in March 
 
 Russian media has suggested alternative explanations of what happened in Amesbury, including claims the UK government staged it because it is finding the World Cup "hard to swallow" or to disrupt the Russia-US summit on 16 July. 
 
 According to BBC Monitoring, other theories in the media include the claim that Porton Down or a former employee of the research lab are to blame, or the Amesbury couple poisoned themselves. 
 
 In a statement, the Met Police said the possibility the poisoning of the Skripals and Ms Sturgess and Mr Rowley are linked is a "clear line of inquiry". 
 
 A spokesman said the investigators are "not in a position to say whether the nerve agent was from the same batch that the Skripals were exposed to". 
 
 He also said: "There is no evidence that (Ms Sturgess and Mr Rowley) visited any of the sites that were decontaminated following the attempted murders of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in March." ||||| Emergency officials say they expect the death toll from a massive mudslide in rural Washington state to rise as volunteers and responders pick through rubble. 
 
 The mudslide, which struck the town of Oso on Saturday morning, has left 14 people dead and 176 missing, Snohomish County Fire District 21 Chief Travis Hots said Tuesday. 
 
 Hots said authorities offer their “deepest sympathies and condolences to the families affected by this disaster.” He added that authorities believe the death toll will increase. 
 
 “We are expecting that number to go up throughout the day,” he said. 
 
 There are 156 people in the field looking for anyone who may be trapped under rubble, Hots said, but rain forecasted for Tuesday afternoon may hamper search efforts. A 50-member National Guard team is also en route to the area. 
 
 Earlier in the day, officials looking to narrow the number of people unaccounted for said the operation is now shifting from a rescue effort to a recovery mission. 
 
 "I never lose faith and a lot of the people in this community will never lose faith, but there's a realism element that's entered in,” John Pennington, Snohomish County's director of emergency management, said Tuesday on NBC’s “Today” show, according to Reuters. "We have responded as well as we can, and we will continue to do that, but ... we are turning that very delicate corner in the recovery operation.” 
 
 Emergency responders and volunteers resumed searches Tuesday, but so far have not been able to locate anyone who still may be trapped under the rubble. 
 
 A 22-week-old baby injured in the mudslide remained in critical condition Tuesday, Seattle’s Harborview Medical Center said. His mother was also among the injured. 
 
 Late Monday, authorities announced that the official death toll had increased to 14 after searchers discovered six more bodies in the rubble. 
 
 The main focus of the search operations has been to pin down the exact number of people unaccounted for after the disaster. Pennington told reporters late Monday that officials were working off a potential list of 176 people, but he stressed that authorities believed that included many duplicate names. 
 
 "I believe very strongly [176] is not a number we're going to see in fatalities," Pennington said. "I believe it's going to drop dramatically." However, other authorities said they have not been able to determine whether there were multiple calls about the same missing person. 
 
 The 1-square-mile mudslide struck Saturday morning. Authorities have described the search for additional survivors to be "grim" as crews battle uneven ground and rising waters. Monday’s search included specially trained dogs, firefighters, law enforcement, aircraft and search-and-rescue teams. Heavy equipment from the Washington State Department of Transportation helped to move trees, boulders and earth. 
 
 “Most of us in these communities do not believe we'll find anyone alive,” Pennington said Monday, but then added, "I'm a man of faith and I believe in miracles." 
 
 Authorities believe that the mudslide destroyed 35 homes, as well as 13 manufactured homes, including RVs, and at least one cabin. Part of the difficulty in determining the exact number of missing people comes from authorities not knowing how many of the homes, some of which are kept for vacationing visitors, were occupied at the time of the slide. Authorities also believe some nonresidents may have been working in the area, while some victims may have been passing through in their cars on nearby State Highway 530. 
 
 Another obstacle has been the chaotic nature of the debris field itself. In some places, the ground is covered by 15 feet of rubble. 
 
 "It's muddy in areas, it's like quicksand," said Hots. "One of the folks out there told me, 'Chief, sometimes it takes five minutes to walk 40 or 50 feet.'" Searchers are also running into gasoline and septic discharge and dealing with ground that geologists warn remains unstable. Authorities believe the slide was caused by ground made unstable by recent heavy rainfall. 
 
 Ed Hrivnak, who was co-piloting an aircraft that was first to arrive at the scene Saturday, said a lot of the houses weren't buried. When they got hit, "the houses exploded." He said cars were crushed into little pieces, their tires the only signs that they had been vehicles. 
 
 He said he saw people so thoroughly covered in mud that searchers could only spot them by the whites of their waving palms. His helicopter rescued eight people, including a 4-year-old boy, who was up to his knees in concrete-like compressed mud. 
 
 The mud was so sticky, the rescuers were worried about getting stuck so the helicopter hovered about a foot away and the crew chief tried to pull him out. "He was suctioned in that mud so much that his pants came off," Hrivnak said. 
 
 The boy was taken to a hospital and was reunited with his mom. Hrivnak said the boy's father and three siblings are still missing. 
 
 Friends and families immediately launched their own rescue missions. 
 
 Elaine Young and her husband, Don, picking their way through the devastation, heard tapping, a steady beat. They got closer and realized it was coming from their neighbors' buckled home. 
 
 Trapped in an air pocket, Gary "Mac" McPherson, 78, was banging away for help with a loose stick. The Youngs managed to pull him out, but family members said his wife, Linda McPherson, 69, a former librarian and school board member, did not survive. 
 
 Chainsaws buzzed as friends and families cut toppled houses open on Monday. Buddy, a large chocolate Labrador, was pulled muddy and cut from under the ruins Sunday after a house was searched. His owner has not been found. 
 
 Gail Moffett, a retired firefighter who lives in Oso and works at the hardware store in Arlington, said she knows about 25 people who are missing. Among them, Moffett said, were entire families, including people with young children. 
 
 Moffett said some of the people who are missing were working in the area Saturday morning. 
 
 "There's so much pain going on in the community right now," she said. 
 
 President Barack Obama Tuesday asked Americans to send their thoughts and prayers to Washington state as search operations continue. He said first responders have acted bravely and people have come forward to help fellow citizens. 
 
 Obama says he's spoken with Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and signed an emergency declaration for the state, adding that his administration is in ongoing contact with state officials. 
 
 Evacuation shelters were set up at Post Middle School in Arlington and the Darrington Community Center. 
 
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 FoxNews.com's Cristina Corbin and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
– With dozens of people still missing in Washington state's devastating mudslide, Gov. Jay Inslee tells CBS today that "we're hoping for a miracle, and we're working for a miracle. We're doing everything humanly possible if that opportunity exists." Rescuers are "performing Herculean tasks right now. They're working beyond the point of exhaustion, and we intend to exhaust every possible avenue to look for that miracle. But we do know that these are going to be dark days ahead." Asked if his state missed warning signs, Inslee acknowledged "geologic instability" and said "we are going to get to the bottom" of that question. Elsewhere on your Sunday dial, as per Politico: Dianne Feinstein on the Malaysia jet: "So far, there's been" no indication that terrorism was involved. "There's speculation, but there's nothing." Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak on Crimea: "Crimea is a part of Russian Federation. We have said so many times that we have no intent, no interest in crossing the border. We have our forces conducting exercises in the territory of Russian Federation." NJ state Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg on Chris Christie: "If Governor Christie comes before our committee under oath and brings all these documents with him, I’d be more than satisfied."