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Impossible for the rescue helicopter to actually reach the ship. so the crew has marked the spot on the ice where it can land. now all they can do simply is wait. heres more from matthew chance. >> suzanne, its the new plan, in fact, its the only plan say rescue workers that is going to work right now. theyve abandoned all attempts at this stage to reach the stranded research vessel by sea. the pack ice is simply too thick around it for the ice breakers to break through. instead, theyre going to...

400 miles north of the game site. another setback in an attempt to rescue 74 people on board an ice lodged research ship in australia. a ship had to turn back after ice became too thick to cut through. this is the third ice breaker which attempted. it has been stranded since christmas day. a helicopter evacuation would be the last option. formula one driver michael shoemaker fighting for his life after suffering a head injury skiing in the alps. the 44-year-old arrived to the hospital in a c...

Gets world of the perilous situation and heads to the bridge to take pictures but hes not prepared for what hes about to see. >> they try to call, please get me water. im thirsty. i really thought they must be dying. >> rescue workers desperately try to dislodge people one by one from the crush. and is pinning them down with incredible combined forces. >> think of it like dominos. its the momentum of the entire mass. it only takes five people pushing against one to break a rib or smash a childs ...

Misses the collision. >> i heard the whistle blowing and i spun around and caught it just at that instant. i kind of had a sinking feeling because i thought, oh, man, this guy could be dead. >> the train engineer and conductor check on the truck driver. he survives. rescue workers arrive quickly and take him to the hospital. hes released the next day. >> he was fortunate that the train wasnt going any faster. it could have been much worse. >> and in the southeastern united states, another train ...

>> all i could remember seeing is feeling a burst of power hit my chest and explosive hit my chest. a big ball of orange. a flame. >> i thought i saw three people die. i really did think i saw three people die. >> incredibly, moments later, the sheriff is back on his feet. then he sees rossland emerge from the burning vehicle. >> he was totally engulfed in flames. >> rossland falls to the ground when a second bomb in the back seat of the car explodes. rescue workers spring into action and transp...

>> trying to free up vital room on the bridge, many decide to take their chances in the river. >> these young men and women who are willing to jump off of a bridge that they didnt know the depths to and a lot of whom didnt even know how to swim, just to make room for other people to have a chance at catching their breath, i thought that was pretty extraordinary. >> as the minutes pass, panicked faces begin to look exhausted as rescue workers and journalists gather around them. >> i apologize to ...

Injured. the hospitals were overwhelmed. >> despite the efforts of rescue workers, 347 people are killed and hundreds are injured. >> the overwhelming cause of death according to hospital authorities were people suffocating in the sheer crush or broken bones. people having their bodies crushed in the crowd or in some cases throwing themselves in the river and drowning. >> while the number of cases is staggering, it could have been higher if it werent for those who jumped from the bridge. >> one ...

Which is nice to have time to ask god forgiveness before -- ask him to forgive you for forgiveness for anything that you have done to anybody else. >> but first responders arent about to give up. helicopters attempt to approach the top of the crane. >> were going to make a couple of passes just to see what we can do with it. >> the heat and 40-mile-an-hour wind prove to be difficult to overcome. >> we tried to hover up to it but its hot. we didnt get that close to it. >> firefighters brainstorm ...

>> the doctor and the other first responders quickly survey the scene. >> translator: the only thing we could see were faces staring at us. i had 140 faces staring at me. just the faces. >> and so begins the work of extricating the living and the dying. >> translator: the fire chief asked me to get vaseline from a hospital near where we were. >> rescue workers used vaseline to ease people apart so they could be pulled from the wreckage. >> translator: they did it with the first ones that were mo...

Be compelling to look through all of these stories to see exactly where they fall. but thanks for all the great work that you did with everybody over at msnbc.com to put this together. our dafna linzer. once again check out the new series on msnbc.com. we urge all of you to go there, check it out, read these stories. thank you. a nevada family missing since sunday after being stranded in frigid temperatures has been found and found alive. this family met with cheers as they were escorted out o...