Page 656 - Rescue Workers News Today

This man said. at 12:42 inside another shelter, people huddled together, listened as volcanic debris rained down. officials warned another blast could send boulders up to 2.5 miles from the crater. survivors making their way through a moon scape, carpeted in a thick ash nearly two-feet deep in places. ontake is one of some 450 volcanos that make up the ring of fire in the pacific ocean, responsible for 90% of the worlds volcanic eruption. we saw their power firsthand when we traveled to indonesi...

Wet, and unharmed, at a home in richfield, 13 miles from where they disappeared. police say they were dropped off by the suspected kidnapper. a homeowner recognized the girls and called police. the search was made much more difficult yesterday because there were no photographs of the girls. photography is forbidden in their amish order. >> a dramatic night in the washington suburbs with two men rescued from a collapsed trench. they had been working in that trench along side a home when it fell i...

Refrigerateded train cars. theyre now scheduled to arrive in another city controlled by the central government in ukraine. from there, theyll be flown back to amsterdam, identified and released, repatriated. 16 people remain unaccounted for. a team of international investigators were given access to the crash site and praise the recovery work done so far. >> i think they did a hell of a job and hell of a job. >> armed rebels blocked and intimidated european observers sent to secure the crash sit...

Here in gaza city as rescue workers and volunteers moved into the building, the building collapsed on top of them. at least 20 people were killed. and its events like these that show how important a cease-fire could be. richard engel, nbc news, gaza city. >> joining me now, msnbc contributor and editor at large for the atlantic steve clemens and william taylor. he helped negotiate conflicts between israelis and palestinians and is currently a vice president at the institute for peace. ambassador...

>> grief is now accompanied by outrage as we witness grotesque violations at the crash site. this demands a response. that is why australia has brought this resolution to the security council. today the security council has responded. >> to my dying day i will not understand that it took so much time for the rescue workers to be allowed to do their difficult jobs and that human remains should be used in a political game. if someone around the table talks about a political game, this is the polit...

>> the doctor heads to the e.r. children on gurneys seem to be everywhere. >> this is a palestinian child, guilty of the most horrible crime to be born palestinian in gaza. >> this ground offensive has lasted only a few days. already hundreds are dead. and thousands wounded. >> and just tonight, israel struck an apartment building here in gaza city as rescue workers and volunteers moved into the building, the building collapsed on top of them. at least 20 people were killed. and its events like ...

>> council members are furious over the handling of the human remains and evidence at the crash site as well as the trouble international investigators were having getting to the site. they voted to demand the investigators be given full access. heres what the australian foreign minister had to say at the u.n. >> but grief is now accompanied by outrage. as we witness grotesque violations at the crash site. this demands a response. that is why australia has brought this resolution to the security...

I see daisy. i see them in my head. i see it. >> reporter: at the security council, a unanimous vote, including russia, calling for an international investigation. the dutch foreign minister visibly outraged. >> to my dying day, i will not understand that it took so much time for the rescue workers to be allowed to do their difficult jobs. >> reporter: at the white house, president obama ratcheting up the pressure on vladimir putin to rein in those rebels. >> russia and president putin in partic...

From overnight. they tend to try and recover the bodies that may be in buildings. there is one particular story today thats certainly grabbing a lot of headlines here in gaza. this was a residential building struck late last night. it seemed that the israeli airstrike was targeting an apartment in that building. and as rescue workers and paramedics arrived to evacuate some of them, a big part of that high-rise building collapsed, trapping workers, trapping other people there. that was also caugh...

>> reporter: christine, international monitors from osce had been visiting the crash site day after day accompanied by civil aviation experts. they announced a delegation landed in the government controlled city to the north of here with dozens of experts on board, including people from australia, germany, poland, thats the largest delegation. several american officials all presumably would be trying to get to the crash site to start to investigate it in person now four days after mh17 went down...