One dead, 70,000 stranded at Burning Man after massive rains

One person has died and some 70,000 people are stranded in the remote Black Rock Desert of Nevada where the annual Burning Man festival was set to take place before rain turned the retreat into a mud pit. Festival organizers say their main focus is safety and getting people out. NBC’s Dasha Burns reports for Sunday TODAY.

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