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See you. thank you. friends of a new york university student stay he had been missing for nearly two days. turns out he had apparently fallen ten stories and gotten wedged in between two buildings. believe it or not this man is alive and in a hospital. he discovered the victim, the nyu sophomore in a scrawl space. the crawl space is between a 17 story dorm building and a five story parking garage. it took rescue workers an hour and a half to break through the wall and pull the guy to safety. d...

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 casualties is staggering, it could have been higher if it werent for those who jumped from the bridge. >> one of t...

After that i just asked somebody, what has happened. nobody can answer that. >> after hearing rumors of what is happening journalist carmichael races to the scene to file a report. by the time he and his friend arrive, survivors and the dead have nearly all been removed by rescue workers. >> were on the bridge. shooting some video and images to help me out. there for hundreds of personal possessions lying on the bridge. there were dozens of people dead. the hospitals were scrambling to receive a...

Hes not prepared for what hes about to see. >> please get me water. im thirsty. please help me. i really thought they must be dying. >> rescue workers desperately try to dislodge people one by one from the crush. it is pinning them down with incredible combined forces. >> think of it like dominos. its the momentum of the entire thing. it only takes five people pushing against one to break a rib or smash a childs head. >> the government said there were maybe as many as a thousand people on that b...

Plane in nashville. 28-year-old adam marsh was on duty at the time. he admittedly taking the pictures and told police he had done it before. hes charged with disorderly conduct and the tsa is in the process of suspending or terminating his employment. san francisco could be a commuting nightmare this morning. because of a strike by bay area rapid transit workers, they have walked off the job at midnight after the latest round of contract talks broke down. some 400,000 riders could be affected....

>> firefighters brainstorm ways to reach sims, but many ideas are impractical under these conditions. >> we had ideas of trying to throw a line to him or shoot a line to him. there was an idea of somebody crawling up the inside of one of the smoke stacks next to the crane. and then the idea -- so whos going to be able to jump that far? >> rescue workers decide another airborne attempt is the only way to reach the top of the crane. the plan calls for firefighters matt moseley to dangle 80 feet be...

She was air lifted to a local hospital. the sheriff declined to identify the dead. rescue workers were halted yesterday after engineers said the area was too unstable. today the hope of any other survive hes, lost. >> this is a recovery effort at this point. >> reporter: officials told the denver post they were able to visually confirm the others among the group were among those buried. the sheriff told the paper, there is no one alive up there. >> for 13-year-old gracie johnson, she suffered a ...

You can still be catholic. god looks at a gay person does if he endorse the existence of this person with love or reject and condemn this person. he says you simply dont have to talk about this things all the time. now to mexico where more than 100 people have died after both a hurricane and tropical storm hit the country. the resort town of acapulco was one of the hardest hid areas. dozens of people still missing. cnns chaft that darlington is there are >> reporter: weve seen some of the most...

Even who could say they have the presence of mind in that chaos to start cpr. i imagine there are a lot of people just in shot. >> she said she was a medical specialist to have that training so it must havent instink tiff f instinctive for her. what a heartbreaking emotional story. >> and just became a grandfather. well continue to follow the developments there. coming up, in other news, the pope says that he is a sinner. in a new interview, he talks about everything from homosexuality to divo...

Even though visitors are starting to leave, the outlook for people who live here is very bleak. rescue workers will be going back to some of those hard-hit communities, trying to find the disappeared, still today, kate. >> thanks so much, shasta. lets go around the world now, starting in hong kong where a super typhoon, the strongest storm to hit the planet this year, is threatening taiwan and the philippines. lets get the latest from pauline chiou. >> reporter: kate, what looks like the most ...