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Put their lives on the line. >> but the situation quickly goes from bad to worse. >> oh, thats horrible. good lord. oh, fellows. my goodness. youre watching this live, folks. if you know a prayer, say it. >> and now its the rescuers who need help. just moments before the rescue chopper came crashing to the ground, its arrival was the most welcome sight to selena maestas, one of the climbers waiting on the ice, hoping for a miracle. this is her first trip to mt. hood. and just before the climb th...

Might be a terrorist act. john? >> thats horrible. to be clear. there is a suspect in custody, jim? >> reporter: yes, according to what were hearing from reports from afp, there is a suspect in custody. apparently, the two men, according to again, reports, tried to break into the plant with a car. they rammed through the gate. there was an explosion. this plant makes all kinds of compressed air products. there was an explosion. it did not apparently do further damage to the plant. the member of ...

Their friends or their family, at least reasonably well. in that if theyre not able to do that, they should be shunned and demonized and marginalized. >> agreed. most of the firemen are known for their cooking. we cook some outstanding meals. weve learned to shop, weve learned to shop with less to feed more. you dont want to be a belly-robber. you better bring some food back for the boys. >> firefighters in my experience are a lot like the marines ive met over the years. no matter how badly led,...

Underfunded, underequipped, often badly and incompetently led, and up against what seems like a never-ending war. a city on fire. their safety equipment, their boots, their clothes, are often moldering and shambolic. but they fight on. this is the second time theyve been to this house. if it happens to be arson, chances are no one will ever know for sure. given the ever-shrinking resources available to the department, most fires cant even be investigated. this fire is out within an hour. and aft...

Here. >> the man escapes, but not without zeiter taking one last swing. the other would be robber is disoriented. he attempts to steady him. >> he was coming around again. so one of my customers, he saw it. so he came in there and just made sure like he would stay down, basically. so he gave him a few nice kicks and kicked the knife away. >> the customer then steps out of store and signals for help from local firefighters who just happened to be across the street. >> so they came over. and then ...

Down. he was really strong because there were four or five firemen just holding him down. in the beginning, he was stupid, but the more conscious he got the more he just wanted to get out of the situation. >> a few minutes later, police arrived and the masked man is taken into custody. he is charged with robbery and possession of a weapon. he hasnt pled yet. his accomplice is not caught. the men strike out on this apparent robbery because zeiter strikes back. >> i do not play baseball, but it wo...

So were getting conflicting. the mass plan has been activated. we havent heard of any fatalities do you know whether there have been been? i >> cant confirm that. all i can say is that the two cars in front of me sustained a lot more damage and i didnt see any survivors coming out. >> what did you see in terms of first responders around those cars? >> i mean we saw some like one kind of went down the side of the car. we started to see some firemen and you know police officers i mean, then they c...

Information. we want our families -- this was a northbound train from washington, d.c., to new york city. many of these folks do not live in philadelphia. >> lets take you now to the derailment site. msnbcs adam reese is live in philadelphia this morning. adam, what is the scene like where you are? >> reporter: good morning, betty. the mayor, as you just heard, called it a disastrous mess. the scene behind me mangled trains mangled wreckage. he also said he cant be sure that everyones been accou...

Speed of the train, the throttle position, the braking. all of those things are very important. as this train was coming around a curve at the time that it derail derailed, or that is what were led to believe. so much is going on. were trying to figure out that in addition to making certain all the passengers who were on board this train, amtrak 188, that all of them got out or have been accounted for. jose? >> nbcs rehema ellis, thank you so much. i want to turn to msnbcs adam riess at the medi...

It should have been high-speed. >> we never let it go to waste or whatever. i would rather like look at the tragedies like these serve as a reminder of who the first responders are. they are not tv hosts like us or the student activists or the paramedics that are there or the firemen who show up as these grisly events. abject fear. pat murphy democratic congressman, he was helping people. he left no one behind. and where did he learn that? from his military training. he was in the service. >> ye...