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The death toll from a horrific collision of two trains in southern pakistan now stands at 65. government officials say rescuers pulled 15 more bodies from crumbled cars a day after the crash. more than 100 passengers were injured. take a look at this. french president emmanuel macron slapped in the face by a man during a visit to a small town in southeast france. macron was greeting the public after a visit at a high school training students to work in hotels and restaurants. video shows a man s...

They say thankfully the river has started to go down which is a sigh of relief for everyone here. whats concerning is the water spilling onto the highway and everyone hoping and praying, as you just heard from the state representative, that it doesnt cut off these communities. that is going to complicate relief efforts and people wanting to get back to their homes. >> mariana, well be talking to you over the next couple hours. for now lets go over to nbc meteorologist michelle grossman tracking ...

Themselves. some chimneys separating from the structures of homes out there as well as losing power. they also did experience several issues with roads being blocked, cracked asphalt from the major thr thoroughfares from in and out of the community. none of it limited access. we were able to get around those obstacles and worked with california highway patrol as well as caltrans to make sure that was corrected immediately. >> you mentioned the power outages. its some 100 degrees fahrenheit so we...

Disaster survivors wish to stay in place, its going to be very challenging for us. if theres no access to those areas, such as, as you mentioned, roads being washed out or bridges being taken out, were doing everything possible positive get in those areas and stabilize that situation until we can get them into shelter. >> i have two more questions for you. one is, do you have enough people on the ground? after the earthquake in haiti, two weeks later there were 20,000 federal first responders do...

Department of defense accelerating response efforts of puerto rico. hoping to get aid and supplies to isolated communities cut off by the devastation from hurricanes maria and hurricane irma. it has not been easy. listen to the fema administrator. >> you had to be able to pump them down the roadway systems. we been working desperately to get them open. we have 11 major highways open but this morning there are over 3200 different problems reported with the roadway systems from bridges missing, ro...

Exactly what we were looking at earlier, roads being washed out, houses being loft. in hurricane irene, you had about 1,100 homes lost in this general area. and of course, there was damage, and as this storm may do the same, went all the way up the eastern seaboard, brianna. >> and thats one of the concerns here. its a category 2, which some folks say, well, that could be worse, but youre looking at flooding of 3, 4, 5 feet depending on where you are, you have a high tide, and that really increa...

Home to an infrastructure that is not ready for them. that does not have programs for them. to employment that doesnt, a job market that will be. and we have nothing, you know, there are small -- in roads being made. but the, its just not set up for it. and this -- guy that i spoke to at west point, the head of west point. this its so funny. i want to say, generalissimo. a lot of stuff on his plate. >> a lot of salad. >> a lot of salad. i said something about ptsd. >> he said we dont use the ter...

In tunisia will spread to a country like egypt is much lower. >> okay. >> yeah, and interestingly hillary clinton reacted today. >> what did she say? >> in a way some people might say is just a bit tepid coming from the united states. hillary clinton said the egyptian government, is quote, stable, and its looking for ways basically to respond to the demand of its people. so, you know, its not necessarily encouraging protests there. >> sure. secondly, weve been watching also lebanon. >> yes. >> a...

Is the fighting is occurring, particularly the south and east of the country, you are meeting many afghans who are very sick of the fighting and theyre not seeing the building process. theyre not seeing what was promised to them. all theyre seeing is death. theyre seeing their family members die, theyre seeing their neighbors die, whether it be by the hands of the taliban or the nato coalition. but when you come to places like kabul, places in western afghanistan or other cities in the country t...

State that wants a bridge thats below code, and a lot of them out there, and say go build them, go fix them. why dont you start with monahan station in new york. start building rapid rail from the big cities so we can catch up to the europeans. why dont we do big stuff in the federal government anymore like eisenhower did, like lincoln did? >> thats exactly what we are doing in the recovery act. there are billions and billions of dollars in transportation investments that will be -- that are bui...