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Washington. coming up later this hour, well talk to democratic congressman ben bennie thompson in mississippi. he was briefed by the fbi on the boston terror attack. well see what he has to say. meanwhile, well go back to zoraida for more news. a story developing while you were sleeping in bangladesh. an eight-story commercial building collapsing in the capital city of dhaka. at least 70 people killed and hundreds more injured. rescue workers are digging through the rubble. just devastating. ...

Will be key to piece this all together. phil black in moscow, thanks so much. here later today, a memorial service for another one of the victims, at noon vice president joe biden will attend a service for sean collier. he is the m.i.t. officer killed during the manhunt for the suspects. meanwhile later this afternoon, the house intelligence committee will receive a full briefing on the terror attacks. in our next half hour well talk to democratic congressman benny thompson of mississippi. he ...

China while you slept, rescue workers racing against time to find survivors from saturdays powerful earthquake in sichuan province in southwestern china. at least 188 people were killed. more than 11,000 were injured. cnns david mckenzie talked to one family whose lives are shattered. >> they are trying to take anything valuable from their house. this house was almost absolutely destroyed when the earthquake struck at 8:00 in the morning. the house started shaking, windows fell out. and they tri...

Monday, and now its just been a week. this is going to go on for an awfully long time before that first day in court and before the last of the appeals is over? >> once this case starts to make its way through the legal system, then it really is going to move and im sure much to the consternation and frustration of lots of americans, not simply the victims. its going to move slowly, youre going to see legal challenges i imagine to the interrogation that has been discussed, this suspect has not b...

First time since the explosion levelled parts of their small town. wednesdays blast destroyed buildings and took the lives of 14 people and 200 people were injured. in china, rescue workers are searching for at least two dozen people who are still missing after saturdays devastating earthquake. the death toll now stands at 181. more than 11,000 people are injured. now the u.s. geological survey put the earthquakes magnitude at 6.6. look at how its shaking there. it was so strong it sheared off...

Continues to rise following saturdays devastating 6.6 magnitude earthquake. just five years ago a massive quake in the same region killed nearly 70,000 people. joining me now from beijing with the very latest on this, ian, with a sobering good day to you. where do the numbers stand right now? >> reporter: alex, the number of dead has now gone over 200 with several thousand injured. there are reports in the chain hes press of villages flattened back in 2008 in that massive kuwait, quake, flattene...

Well see where the immigration battle goes from here. >> thank you. thank you for is staying on top of this. youre doing great. >> thank you, congressman. get to headlines now to tell you what else is happening in the news. new video out of china where the rescue workers struck to reach survivors of a massive earthquake. the 6.6 quake hit yesterday killing at least 179 people. and injuring more than 6,000. it also triggered lands that cut access to roads. in some cases crews had to blast bould...

Im fredricka witfield field live from the newsroom in atlanta. first the headlines. the massachusetts governor devalue patrick said authorities believe there is no longer an imminent threat related to the boston bombings case. the chairman of the house intelligence community says the bomber that was killed, tamerlan tsarnaev may have been radicalized by islamic extremists when he went to russia last year. rebels deny any link to the bombings. now to west texas, where residents are beginning to...

The search and the rescue effort and move on to the next phase of search and recovery? >> reporter: it was late yesterday everything governor rick perry held a news conference in which he said it had turned to a search and recovery effort. texas task force one, the elite search and rescue team here in texas, has pulled out of here. they packed up their expensive gear and have headed back to texas a&m their home base. the search and rescue is over. its now a means of search and recovery right now...

Devastated. the rescue workers went through and they put xs on some of these homes to basically show that a search and rescue had occurred there and that people had gotten out of that particular home. but it was somewhat eerie. again, there are probably neighborhoods closer to the explosion site or at least areas that were more significantly affected but i think you see the school there, piers, thats a picture of the school that is an intermediate school. its a brick structure and you can see ju...