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Of toxins that were floating into the air. we could, on television, actually see that stuff floating in the air. and yet most of the first responders that we saw there and most of the people we saw working in the aftermath didnt seem to have any breathing masks on. they didnt seem to have anything that was protecting them from what was in the air down there. >> for several hours after, the whole entire day, i had been exposed to those toxins. and i can tell you firsthand, as i would breathe in, ...

Have not been counted. and those rescued are suffering from disease and hunger. doctors say some had diarrhea and others had marcos their skin, causing itching. but children and the elderly seem to be most affected. reports of those who tried to save others, drowned in the raging water flow and lost their lives. but rescue workers have also been injured. entire families have been missing and their bodies have not been found. the lack of equipment has affected the rescue operations. with 12 inche...

More than 800 people have been killed in the worst floods in pakistans history. than estimated 400 have been rescued. torrential rains have left thousands of people stranded and rescue workers are working to struggle lives daily. over a million people have been affected by the floods and rivers overflowing have wiped out villages, triggered destructive landslides. cities have been cut off with water blocking entrance and exit routes and majority of farm lands have been destroyed. at this hour, t...

Feel, the passion does not come from politics, at least from the democratic side. but from the humanitarian issue of these rescue workers running into flames and crumbling buildings and what they are suffering from physically and emotionally with post-traumatic stress disorder, et cetera. so in this instance i dont agree with the cameras rolling on this. i do agree with dana on most. i think when cameras rolling we are all very different human beings. >> juan: you realize that peter king voted y...

Some cases. and its quite unfortunate that we didnt have the preparedness necessary. >> now, you saw that the 9/11 bill last night won a majority, a substantial majority in the house of representatives, but was still defeated because it needed the procedural two-thirds vote to go forward. what do you think needed to be said on the house floor that wasnt said? what do you think the people who voted against that bill last night need to know? >> i think what needed to be done was, you needed to get...

Has pulled out while this gets sorted all out. >> we want to tell you about some breaking news thats going on right now, outside south of pittsburgh in baldwin, pennsylvania, there are some trench workers there and clearly that trench collapsed, a man is buried up to his waist and rescue workers are there working on him. the fact that hes buried up to his waist is probably a good sign, you know, theyre able to take their time and try to work and to get him out. were going to keep our eye on that...

Witnesses say they saw a fireball shoot hundreds of feet into the air. the air force says the giant plane was a local training mission. no word yet on whether anyone survived. it is a day of mourning in pakistan as investigators look into the cause of that nations worst air disaster. 152 passengers, including two americans, died as their plane tried to land in bad weather. nick schifrin reports from islamabad. >> reporter: in the hills above islamabad, an airbus plane is in thousands of pieces...

>> this is a fox news alert. im ainsley earhardt in new york. a breaking story just in from pakistan. officials there report a passenger plane has crashed with more than 150 people on board. this happened in islamabad. police telling us the plane went down in the marginal hills. rescue workers are headed to the scene. we will update you as soon as more information becomes available. b.p. setting the stage for a new corporate image as robert dudley prepares to take over as ceo. he will be the fir...

Dead on a plane crash in pakistan. thats the report from the united states embassy tonight in islamabad. a government official in pakistan says 150 other people died when the air blue jet crashed into a hill near the capital this morning. another official says the planes crew was trying to land in bad weather. rescue workers at the scene say they saw twisted metal from the plane and lots of pieces of people. but no survivors. investigators are now saying or not saying what caused the crash but p...

Rescue workers are battling fires and muddy conditions, searching through the wreckage. the cause of the crash is thot known, but pakistani officials dont suspect terrorism. pakistans minster said visibility was bad and the plane should have been diverted. significant developments in the leak of 91,000 classified do you means in the war in afghanistan. the do you means contain highly sensitive information on afghan informants who are critical to the u.s. mission in afghanistan. the times of lo...