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Rescue workers scrambling to pull people from the wreckage. two other accidents killed 27 people on the same stretch of road back in 2007. taiwan, nightclub up in flames. nine people dead and 12 injured. authorities saying somehow lights from a performance sparking the fire and apparently people died trying to escape the second floor. their bodies were found near a staircase. afghanistan. an emotional crowd protesting foreign military intervention. hundreds of demonstrators carrying pictures...

Facing not knowing, its agonizing. and again, i give my utmost assurance that a very large team is being very well led and is working as hard as they possibly can. >> civil headquarter sess home to governors. >> they have not looked for volunteers coming forward. >> the people in these rooms working tirelessly to put christchurch back together. while outside on this day of prayer, these men still have faith in a miracle. >> the weather conditions for new zealand and beyond, jill brown is at the ...

Atlanta bank she gets a little too curious. >> were in closedown this evening, customers had left the bank, toddler walked off and walked into the vault just about the time the vault closed with its time lock. >> reporter: what comes next is a desperate attempt to free her. the vault doors arent set to unlock until the next morning. theres only a nine-hour supply of oxygen in there. >> we want to make sure the toddlers safe, okay? that was the most important thing. >> reporter: with rescuers pow...

9/11. trying to keep hope alive here. a quarter of the downtown church may have to be demolished. >> what keeps you going is that this city is my home, this is where we live. this is everything to us. >> and to anyone who calls him a hero, he has this response. >> the real heroes are out there. its very embarrassing to be talked about in those terms. >> among the real heroes, he cites the international team of rescue workers, including a team from the los angeles county fire department. they say...

Still missing. nbcs george lewis joins me live from christchurch new zealand now. george, good morning. what are rescuers saying about finding survivors? >> well, rescuers are saying that they still have hope of finding survivors alive, that the cool weather will aid that, that in haiti, its a week after that vigorous earthquake. there has been a lot of people -- there have been a lot of people trying to keep hope alive. chief among them, the mayor of christchurch. maybe bob parker has been goin...

The quake left those bodies in. those crumpling buildings all over, the bodies have done a lot of damage. a lot of people had to be taken out after having their limbs amputated as well. it hit on tuesday if you remember. authorities say theyve given up the hope of rescuing up to 120 people they believe were trapped in that ctv in christchurch. theyre 100% certain no one in that building is alive. the same difficult news of another major building there in the same area of the city. >> that is so ...

Trapped under the rubble at two different sites. they got their team in there, high-tech equipment and dogs and they discovered that was not the case. theyve got teams from all over the world. australia, the united states, taiwan, singapore, and there, of course, japan as well. japan has brought in quite a big team because in that foreign language school that i spoke a little bit earlier about, the majority of those students are believed to be japanese. the japanese has tried everything. they ar...

Department, the s.u.v. that he was in is the same one used by a rival drug gang. six are in custody after being paraded in front of reporters. the number of people killed in the new zealand earthquake up to 98. 200 people are still missing. new video released overnight shows how difficult it is for rescue workers to move around the collapsed building. good news, though, a woman who was buried alive in the rubble for more than 24 hours is recovering today. she kept in touch with her family on her...

Its shameful that all of these countries knowing what a dictator gadhafi is have been selling weapons to him. protect libyan people today. that is the most urgent thing. >> thank you so much for your time. christchurch, new zealand, is in ruins now. 75 people are confirmed dead after a 6.3 manage tud earthquake. hundreds more are missing beneath the rubble. out of the dust and debris, we are seeing signs of hope. ann allen took cover under her desk and after 24 hours of digging in the citys ce...

Loyalties opened fire on a crowd at sanaa university. two protesters were killed. and this, a mothers joy in bahrain. king hamid frees 25 political prisoners following bahrains biggest protest yet. and 100,000 people jammed bahrains streets on tuesday. the king flew to saudi arabia today for talks on the unrest that has shaken the monarchy. in new zealand, 75 people are now confirmed dead. 300 are missing. in the chaos in the wreckage of the earthquake. there was applause, however, as rescue w...