administration announced the stepping up of u.s. military operations in that country. there is news that the u.s. military will be running an evacuation drill for americans in south korea next week. this is a drill called courageous channel. you know, tensions are so high in the korean peninsula right now that they felt the need to issue what the new york times called a rare news release stressing that the noncombat tanlt exercise is a routinely scheduled drill. it s scheduled from next monday through friday. it s aimed to train people to respond to a wide range of crisis management events such as noncombatant evacuation and natural or man-made disasters. what could that possible whether i be on the korean peninsula. that drill evacuation of american noncombatants will take
there are hundreds of u.s. special operations forces currently operating in niger. we also have hundreds of american troops operating in somalia. somalia just suffered one of the worst terror attacks anywhere in the world in recent memory. the death toll from this massive truck bombing this weekend in mogadishu, right in the middle of the capital, the death toll is well over 300 already. witnesses have described an area the size of two or three football fields where buildings were reduced to rubble. again, in a civilian area. nobody s claimed responsibility yet for this attack. but the al qaeda-affiliated group al shabab said earlier this year they would increase their attacks on civilians after the trump administration announced a stepping up of u.s. military operations in that country. there s also news today that the u.s. military will be running an evacuation drill for americans in south korea next week. this is a drill called courageous channel. you know, tensions are so high
belief they will not cede this notion that the u.s. and its allies can conduct what they consider to be normal routine operations. these happen almost every month in some form or the other. summertime events, for example, when north korea launches some sort of missile, intermediate range ballistic missile. sometimes you will see the u.s. will fly up the b-1 lancers. the most recent one they did in the dead of night. this part of the drill, this evacuation drill to get the u.s. citizens, the families of those serving there, out, is done annually. they go through it every year. so this by itself isn t timed, isn t in response to a specific event. i have to tell you, if the defense department, also the state department, there s a broad consensus the u.s. needs to be able to continue to conduct what they think are routine military operations. i don t see and i didn t hear anything from president trump just there now that they plan to curtail that simply because the chinese and north korean
you an idea of the magnitude. now the aftershocks, when you have a 7.1, historical speaking you have one that s over 6.1, you can have as many as 10 that are above 5 and even 100 over 4.1. so againny structure that s been compromised,ny shaking anywhere, and those aftershocks could be any where, wolf, can create more problems. i wand yt you to stand by. but joining us now is in mexico city experienced the earthquake. tell us where you were, what you felt? wolf, i was in the espn mexico building at 10940 the building had scheduled a mandatory evacuation drill. and it happened we were going down the stairs and the building started to shake. and people started to run.
are completely survivable, marshall says. here they come. crucial to survival, human behavior. flight crews are better trained than ever to get people out. marshall pointed to the 2009 overrun of an air france jet in toronto and the hudson river landing. number of people killed in those incidents, sezero. she took me through an evacuation drill. why are you blocking the aisle to get you carry-on? leave it behind. okay, your closest exit, right here. two things i went the wrong way. how do you open that? okay, did you look at your briefing card? do you know how the exit opens? no. did you know there was an exit right behind you? no. in about 20 seconds, i made three very common mistakes that could get me and others killed. but many passengers do get it. in little rock, 134 out of the 145 people onboard survived.