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There you are. >> reporter: hi carol. thats right. german chancellor angela merkel french president francois who will hollande and they are meeting with emergency workers and i overheard them asking if they had been among the first to respond to the crash site. this visit seen as extremely important for these countries, a show of solidarity and respect for the victims as well as the countries mourning the loss of 49 people that were on board that plane were of spanish nationality. 72 were of ger...

Identified. victims families are arriving near the crash site. and because they are small villages many are hosting families in their own homes. and claudio lavanga is in the rugged ravine in the alps. what is the priority for the search crews. >> reporter: the first is recovering the bodies and this is a remote area in the mountains and we heard five emergency workers, the night after the crash there is five emergency workers that camped out there in the freezing cold and they set up fires so t...

There were two americans among those killed in the crash. cnns erin mclaughlin is at the staging area. tell us more. >> reporter: hi carol. thats right. the ceo of germanwings made that announcement in a press conference earlier today that there were two u.s. citizens onboard that ill fated flight. 15 nationalities in total among the 150 people that were onboard that plane. just a short while ago the leaders of some of those countries arriving here at the staging area behind me. french president...

Thats tonight 10:00 p.m. eastern. runners battled record breaking temperatures to compete in the los angeles marathon. i have run this before. it was never this hot when i did it a really long time ago. more than 36,000 people from more than 50 states or countries participated in the 26.2 mile race. runners from kenya won the mens and womens races. the temps quickly rose to 91 degrees today. emergency workers treated at least 46 of those runners along the marathon route, 15 had to be taken to ...

Police officer coming up to me and yelling, dont move, dont move, ill get you some help. and some time shortly after that, i had firefighter nick harrison, firefighter tony jolly came over to my aid and between them and officer ward, they were able to get me up and over the guardrail to where it was actually safe. >> the captain is transported to a local hospital where hes treated for broken ribs and a broken leg. the other drivers involved in the crash escape without injuries. six weeks after t...

Them and officer ward, they were able to get me up and over the guardrail to where it was actually safe. >> the captain is transported to a local hospital where hes treated for broken ribs and a broken leg. the other drivers involved in the crash escape without injuries. six weeks after the incident, the captain is able to return to full active duty. after seeing the dashcam video, he knows that the outcome could have been different. >> i think this was a whole series of unfortunate events that ...

>> more headlines. four people are dead and dozens trapped after a collapse at a construction site in bangladesh. officials say emergency workers rescued dozens of people from the wreckage two years ago a clothing factory collapse thread, killing more than a thousand people. a man charged with murdering his pregnant girlfriends mother says the mom attacked him first. the american couple on trial in bali, indonesia, where the killings happened last year. cops found the mothers body in a suitcas...

The street to record the inferno using his cell phone camera. he captures emergency workers spraying a special foam. the flames draw back, belch thick plumes of smoke and steam. the firefighters disappear inside the cloud. as scary as that looks, in just two minutes, the foam does its job and the fire is out. >> as soon as they got it foamed, the entire area filled with smoke. it was smoldering for quite some time. >> inside the incinerated vehicle, firefighters discover remnants of toddlers clo...

Movie. one man saying the smoky air smelled like the fourth of july. the chaos and the carnage in the aftermath here caught on tape by a wounded spectator. frantic emergency workers try to treat the most seriously injured first. the jury also heard from this boston police officer rescued a 3-year-old boy, from a man who lost both legs carried off by stranger in a cowboy hat. and from bill richard, whose family watched the marathon steps away from tsarnaev and the backpack bomb. his 8-year-old so...

We had to go down the slide and slide off the side of the plane. we were standing in snow for a few minutes while they were getting all the buses and emergency workers there. a few of the ladies were pregnant. we had them get on the first few buses and obviously the men followed suit. they made sure all of our luggage stayed on the plane. so it was just our phones and wallet we could take with us. >> jared, did you have any warning from the pilot as you were coming in for the landing from atlant...