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Ba bar bar barnabus. they are the people who are being treated. there are others being treated at other medical centers now. >> you were at the crash earlier today. watching it from afar, it does appear that the response by medical assistants and divers was incredibly fast. what was your sense of the way things played out there this morning? >> caller: equally fast. as we approached the scene i could see a lot of rescue workers literally swarming over the train. within 15 or 20 minutes getting c...

Terrifying moment. it really did plunge at huge, huge pace towards the ground and it was completely out of control. there was absolutely no -- i wouldnt believe for a second that the pilot was in control. >> investigators searched into the night for the others who might be buried in that rubble. cnns richard quest is tracking the story in glasgow. >> reporter: the police were asked out at the news conference earlier this evening. they said basically that the helicopter had crashed through the ro...

Hours, weve seen a long crane. in fact, you can see it now over my shoulder. a long crane with rescue workers very gingerly going over the pubs roof, going down to the helicopter. but being careful not to disturb it because obviously the entire structure is very fragile and extremely unstable, rosa. >> and, you know, time is definitely of the essence in this situation. and i know that youve been out there. any idea from investigators what the cause of this crash is in the first place? >> reporte...

Playing, and all of a sudden, there was a whooshing sound and a lot of dust that came down from the ceiling. then more of the ceiling fell, and people started running out. hours after the crash, the helicopter bearing the word "police" on its damaged tale was still smoldering. there were three people on board, two police officers, and a civilian pilot. people remain trapped inside the one-story pub. urban search and rescue specialists are working to make the bar safe so firefighters can get to t...

Eight just a little while ago. do they still think they could possibly find bodies inside? >> reporter: well, t.j., the rescue mission is continuing, as you said, behind me, police are continuing to pick through the rubble describing this as a very dangerous and complicated situation. the helicopter crash landing onto the roof caused a partial collapse of the roof. obviously they need to be very careful, the rescue workers, that they dont destabilize the structure of the building any more as the...

Health evaluation but then released. right now senator deeds is in fair condition at uva hospital. and now south africa, a shopping mall under construction collapses, killing at least two people and trapping as many as 450 others. rescue workers working into the night to find survivors, dozens of injured people have already been taken to the hospital. the cause of the collapse not known and thats is tonights speed read. and this one is disturbing. a cyber security expert sounding the alarm sayin...

The storms are fairly rare this late in the year and this far north but it was unseasonably warm. at least seven counties have been declared disaster areas. there are grim reports out of the philippines where officials believe the death toll will dont rise this week. as of yesterday government officials announced they have confirmed 3,976 deaths related to typhoon haiyan. u.n. officials say rescue workers have not made it to some of the more remote islands suggesting the number much dead will ...

>> another obstacle for rescue workers and aid in the area. thank you very much. jon: russian investigators pulling apart the wreckage of a plane after it crashed yesterday, killing all 50 people on board. the airlines flight on the way from moscow to kazahn. the black boxes have been recovered. now safety experts are trying to determine if the 23-year-old plane, yesterdays weather or possibly pilot error are the reasons for the crash. peter is the former managing director of the national transp...

Minister who i guess also was under the impression that i said this because he came looking for me when i was on the ground in tacloban. but i dont really know. shes some sort of radio host or something and this is what she said. you know, obviously, having been on the ground there, we were reporting what we were seeing and of course, theres plenty of philippine military and police presence at the airport and at roadblocks. one of the things i was saying is that out in the field, even half a blo...

On to land. early estimates over quarter of a million people are left homeless. a half-mile from the shoreline where our cnn crew was sheltering the surge was waste deep as we rescued a family trapped in their hotel room. >> get international help to come here now! not tomorrow! now! . this is like, really, really bad, worse than hell. >> reporter: the aftermath a humanitarian crisis of enormous scope. rescue workers began the grim task of finding the dead in the rubble. >> its really horrific. ...