stairwells to find an exit route but weren t able to. so kevin was the last person who spoke to christopher. neil: and it didn t look good? correct. neil: do you feel better the building is not there, but not immediately evacuating people? i think the events of that morning were really unfathomable that two planes would fly into the trade center and certainly there were things that probably should have been done differently. it s hard to criticize individuals. i really don t think it was in the scope of our consciousness that something like what happened actually happened that morning. it s difficult to process. neil: you worry though after this, it subsides? it s natural with the passage of time, people s memories become a little less clear and natural to put it into the
colleagues at discovery communications and helping to get me and my fellow whosages out safely. the hostages really remained very calm under very close quarters with the gunman and it was to their credit that they helped escape alive. martha: you watch all those people coming out and it could have been a lot worse. what s the status of this investigation? reporter: the building will open in about an hour s time. the company will address employees and everybody can go back inside to collect what they left behind. one of our producers on the scene was saying to me the back end of the building there is a parking garage, you can see almost every one s cars are left there from yesterday. that happened to be the exit route for the people in the building yesterday to escape
most of the day yesterday. the people taken hostage went back into that building to work today? reporter: they opens up discovery communications to let people back into the building briefly and to address the employees. people left behind a lot of their belongings and cars in the garage that ultimately became the exit route for them. the investigation is focused on that lobby area where james lee was yesterday with his three hostages. he has three weapons, two guns and explosives strapped to his chest. today we are learning what happened when they tried to evacuate the building. let s listen to shelly fletcher as she describes the heroism of her colleagues. he put me on his back and took me [inaudible]
estimated 400 have been rescued. torrential monsoon rains have left thousands stranded in the northwest region of the country and rescuers are struggling to save lives daily. over 1 million people have been affected by the floods and rivers have wiped out villages, triggered destructive landslides and cities have been cut off with water block entry and exit route and it is majority of farmlands have been destroyed. in northwest province, it has been flooded and the pakistan military is concentrating efforts to rescue people, accepting boats and helicopters to nearby towns and villages to aid people. but that has not been enough. other relief organizations are pulling resources and the u.s. any of government is providing rescue boats and food and prefabricated bridges to assist those. numbers dead from some areas
why is biden talking about running against hillary? well, first of all because barbara walters can get anybody to say anything. that s the gift that she has had. look, the reality is he wants to be relevant for the next three years. he knows it s possible she won t run. he also i think this is less about politics than psychology. the guy looks at his resume as vice president, as chairman of foreign relations, as chairman of judiciary. he looks at his ability to campaign, which he thinks in his own mind is comparable to bill clinton s and i think he believes superior to hillary clinton s. and he looks at a democratic party that is pretty loyal to this administration, as howard suggested. so i think psychologically, he wants to say that he ll do this. he wants to be prepared to do it. he wants to be the leading choice if she doesn t run. but in the end, i still believe, as we ve discussed before, chris, if she runs, this is it s going to be easy for him to find an exit route becaus