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The bridge to take pictures, but hes not prepared for what hes about to see. >> they call out, please get me water, im thirsty. of please help me. and i really -- im really shocked. who is under, i 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 dominoes. as you start to knock them over, they gain momentum, but its the momentum of the entire mass. it only takes...

>> 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 crowds or in some cases throwing themselves into 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 the survivors is told by some ...

>> they had to stand on the pile. they had to stand on people and take one person at a time off the pile and pull them in to safety. they were in cardiac arrest. they were technically dead, and they worked on them and resuscitated them and got a heartbeat and brought them back to life. it takes time for the rescue workers to get there. unfortunately, these people didnt have any time. they were being asphyxiated from all the pressure that was up against them. they had minutes. not tens of minutes...

The end you say, wow, i have six white people sitting here. but i do have to criticize the prosecutions strategy in picking a jury. theyve been doing this a long time. they should know better. they should know how to play the numbers in picking a jury and to set it up -- >> exactly. >> -- that you would have more minorities on that. so, i absolutely do agree with the gentleman that that was their deficiency. >> we are -- were up against one hard break for this hour. we affected by oil spills, re...

After that, i just asked somebody there, why? 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. hes shooting some video and taking some images to help me out. there were hundreds and hundreds of personal possessions lying on this bridge. then down the other side, they h...

Pereira. egypt, looks like its getting worse. >> good morning to you. egypts military holding a news conference at this hour discussing the fatal clashes and aculas vegases that it conducted a coup when it removed morsi from power. the muslim brotherhood rejecting the interim leadership transition plan. it included fast-tracking changes to the constitution and holding parliamentary and presidential elections next year. right now western china dealing with its worst flooding in some 50 years. h...

Stopped. then the emergency slide popped from the first door on the right and popped inward. thats when i knew that the situation was not normal. >> reporter: the cabin managers kicked in. >> translator: my brain was clear and i planned what i had to do immediately. i was not thinking but acting. as soon as i heard emergency escape i conducted the evacuation. when there was a fire i was thinking to extinguish it. >> reporter: rescue workers arrived quickly to assist the evacuation. they were imp...

Rescue workers struck one of the girls with their vehicle after she had survived the crash. claudia is live at sfo. claudia, investigators tell this news conference in the last hour. bring us up to date on what was said. >> well, shepard, by all accounts there were no problems with the aircraft until just seconds before it landed here at san francisco international airport. investigators with the national transportation and safety board , the lead federal agency, on this plane crash investigatio...

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 smokestacks that was next to the crane. 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 firefighter matt moseley to dangle 80 feet beneath the helicopter through the heat and smoke, then be lowered onto the burning hot crane and attach himself to simms. >> i can remember...

Ask him to forgive you 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 ways to reach sims, but many ideas are impractical under these conditions. >...