MINNEAPOLIS - Overnight thunderstorms hampered the search Saturday for missing victims of the interstate bridge collapse, as Navy divers were held out of the water for several hours because of a dangerously fast current in the Mississippi River.

The predawn storms brought as much as 2 inches of rain and wind gusts of 70 mph, delaying the divers' normal start time by about three hours. They were back in the water by 11 a.m., but coordinators had a wary eye on the skies, with more storms possible later in the day.

"If they feel they're not safe anymore or conditions change, they'll stop again," said Randy Mitchell, an Army spokesman working with the Navy team. If conditions hold, he said divers would probably work until 8 to 10 p.m.

The brief delay came after a two-day flurry of activity that saw Navy divers recover three of the eight people on a list of known missing. That brought the confirmed death toll from the Aug. 1 collapse to eight.

Family and friends prepared for a double funeral on Saturday for a mother and daughter killed in the collapse. The bodies of Sadiya Sahal, 23, and her 22-month-old daughter Hana, of St. Paul, were among the three recovered Thursday and Friday.

Sadiya Sahal, who was five months pregnant, had her daughter in the back seat of her car as they sat in the bumper-to-bumper traffic on the bridge. She had been on the way to pick up a friend who needed a ride to work.

Sahal was a nursing student who emigrated to Minneapolis from Somalia in 2000, and graduated from the city's Washburn High School. She became a U.S. citizen last year.

Omar Jamal, a leader of Minnesota's Somali community acting as spokesman for the Sahals, said Sahal's husband Mohamed was still devastated by the loss of his family but that he felt deep gratitude to divers and others for the search.

"There is a huge relief to bring this into closure," Jamal said.

Mother and daughter were to be buried at a Muslim cemetery in a Twin Cities suburb. Jamal said the service would include a prayer over the bodies before they are buried. Sadiya and Hana would be buried side by side, he said, after which there would be another prayer.

"They will stand together and ask God to forgive the dead and the living," he said.

While some families of the missing were able to start moving on, others were still waiting for word on their loved ones. Lisa Jolstad's husband, Greg Jolstad, was a member of the construction crew working on the bridge when it collapsed.

"My biggest fear is that he's going to be the last one, and they're going to give up before they find him," Jolstad said Saturday from her home in Mora, about 90 miles north of Minneapolis. "It's really hard when there's no news - I can't even think about anything else."

Jolstad said she was spending the day with her husband's brothers and sisters, cleaning out the 1910 farmhouse where Greg Jolstad was raised and where he continued to live with Lisa and her kids, for whom Greg had been stepfather since 1995. "We're just trying to keep busy," she said.

Saturday was the last day of operation for a victims' assistance center that had been staffed by Hennepin County and the Red Cross.