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Learned about rescue workers and what theyre doing is theyve been listening through cracks in these buildings that have collapsed, listening for signs of life, and then following those signs, trying to calculate how they can remove this rubble carefully, so that they can preserve life. but remove the rubble from above them. its a very delicate dance. and one of the biggest fears from family members that ive talked to here is that rescuers will go from doing this by hand, to using machinery. that...

I have spoken with the speaker of the new york legislature and we know mayor bill de blasio has already committed to sort of putting boots on the ground. by this i mean paramedics and rescue workers, because we need additional hands in order to get to the people that will need it the most. also i know that people from virginia and other states, rescue workers, fema, are already here and they will be sent throughout the island nation of puerto rico to wherever there is more devastation. but what ...

At the sly picture of mexico city where a school was leveled. rescue workers have been listening in that rubble softly for voices, any movement coming out of that rubble. what we are learning as a small child, a girl was just found and rescued. they located her alive under the rubble. this school collapsed from the earthquake. youre looking at this being broadcast by mexican media. obviously youre seeing the helmeted workers they are working in the debris trying to rescue anybody, desperately lo...

It. every where you look you can see damage from minor damage to shattered glass to buildings destroyed. if you look around at some of the people here, you can see theyre passing buckets, taking rubble away, looking, searching for bodies, searching for people. now its only been some seven or eight hours since the earthquake so many people could be there injured, struggling for their live, ultimately in need of medical help. earlier i saw a man running with a young girl, she looked maybe 7 or 8 y...

The next hurricane coming through. and they were told to stay. they had no idea. they had us, they dont usually sit and hunker down and wait out a storm. they had no idea it was coming this way. it was very different for the first responders. theyre just waiting to get out there and help. >> lucky they are there. we have to take a turn now to the mexico city earthquake. as we speak, rescue workers and volunteers are digging through rubble to find survivors. some with their bare hands, rock by ro...

It did yesterday. >> ron mott for us there in mexico city. ron, wed like to check back in with you a little bit later as well. keep us updated on the search and rescue effort there. josh is the mexico bureau chief for "the washington post." hes on the phone with me. hes also in mexico city. hes at the school ron referenced where theyve been trying to rescue people all morning long. josh, bring us up to speed on the rescue effort at that school specifically. >> yeah, this school is in southern me...

Again, our concern was to get people out of flooding regions, have food and water assessable to them. and making sure that everybody in puerto rico is at a safe shelter. >> is there still time for people to get to shelterss at this point? i believe the hurricane is expected to make landfall early in the morning? >> it is. but right now the conditions are starting to deteriorate. early in the morning were going to have the eye of the storm and hurricane type winds. but we implemented a protocol. ...

Already. the bodies, unfortunately, of 21 children and 4 adults. >> but there are 30 other children still unaccounted for. . and as our colleague steve patterson mentioned a few minutes ago, it wasnt at this school, but it is a place nearby where there was a mother saying shes in contact with her adult son who is in a pocket. he was safe. he hasnt been hurt. >> he could communicate. >> but they couldnt find him. the hope, the prayer right now is that that is the case at this school. youre seeing...

Yesterday 7.1 magnitude earthquake. shes correspondent jonathan hunt is in mexico city. >> bret, we are standing at one of the staging post for the hundreds of official rescue workers and the hundreds of civilian volunteers who are involved in what is a desperate operation now to find anybody who may have survived beneath the rubble of the 40 or so buildings that collapsed here in mexico city. they have gathered here. the bikes you see may look incongruous but they are often the quickest way to ...

Earthquake in mexico city. the rescue workers -- billy searching for any remaining survivors from that school. well bring you more news as we get it. >> harris: president trump and vice president pence are personally working the phones, urging lawmakers to pass the last-ditch obamacare deal. the president also taking to twitter today. while senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is sounding optimistic about the bill, he would not bring it up before the crucial deadline. >> i suspect you already ...