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>> reporter: we have seen story after impossible story of survivors beating the odds. this 5-year-old boy was pulled out after eight days and was severely dehydrated. this clerk at a hotel store was found after 11 days. he survived on food and drinks left in the stores wreckage, and thats according to his brother. this man said he was intombed in the rubble with a fractured hip. he survived from rationing water from a 2-gallon jug. and then there is the seemingly impossible image of this girl, r...

Britain has raised its terror threat level from substantial to severe. a government official says that terrorist attack is "highly likely." now, this raises their level to the second highest level that it could possibly go to. and intelligence officials add they dont have any intelligence to subject an attack is imminent. it comes after the failed christmas day plane bombing in the u.s. also days before two international conferences are set to take place on yemen and afghanistan there in great b...

—— film that won the palme dor... wait, wait, wait! and nervous laughter in cannes as the director spike lee accidentally lets slip the name of the winner of the palme dor. hello and welcome. rescue workers searching for victims of the devastating floods across western europe have warned that more bodies may be found in submerged cars, cellars and collapsed buildings. at least 170 people are known have died, most of them in western germany. chancellor angela merkel is due to visit affected a...

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Prayers and others held a silent vigil but it also enabled them to get a deeper understanding of the rescue operation and the challenges, the great challenges that rescue workers are facing. now we are told that 240 many women are currently working on that pile, trying to get people out. they have the personnel they said but what they needed some luck. you can see behind me it is raining and has been raining very hard here and also very hot and very humid so the work is in difficult conditions. ...

Essence, and the difficulty is that we have no idea how many people might still be out there because a lot of the roads are impassable, you cant get through them, they have collapsed, and a lot of the bridges have gone as well. so it is a difficult situation for those rescue workers who are looking for people still out there.— still out there. damien mcguinness there. landslides caused by heavy rains in the indian city of mumbai have killed at least twenty people. twelve of the victims died wh...

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Who continue to search through the rubble of a collapsed apartment block may soon have to contend with a hurricane. under a new plan, teams are working for now through only three of nine grids marked in the ruins of the 12—floor building. authorities are eager to make as much progress as possible before the expected arrival of hurricane elsa this weekend. sophie long sent us this update from miami. well, the search and rescue operation is now in day nine after it had to be pulsed for some 15 h...

Search and rescue effort. she had no idea. do you have any idea? is anyone talking about that? >> reporter: no. i think officials here are being very delicate about making that distinction between a rescue effort and a recovery effort. they dont want to let these folks down. the rescue workers here, weve talked to officials over and over again about the stress that they must be feeling, braving the elements, risking their own lives to try to make a miracle real. they dont want to let these folks...