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It began. >> if trump is charged in connection with the stormy daniels payoff, it would be the weakest case of all the investigations, federal and state, that are pending against him. the big question arises, if these facts occurred six or more years ago, why is trump being charged now? >> reporter: allie raffa, nbc news. and we have breaking news from south america. a deadly earthquake has hit off the southwest coast of ecuador. were looking at the damage left behind and the death toll is ris...

Steph, from some people here on the ground with me. isabella gomez is a 10th grade student here. she was here when this happened yesterday. shes unfortunately lost friends. alicia has been teaching for 18 years here. isabella, you were in class yesterday. tell me what happened. >> we were in class, and it was a normal day. the fire alarm went off. we thought nothing of it. i just thought, wow, this is a really late fire drill. so we all started rushing outside. people were screaming. we were lik...

Safe bet. thank goodness that was a helicopter that just flew by. im just a little nervous right now when you hear aircraft go past. they have, in fact, evacuated that portion of the building. usually, they have sirens that go off in the building alerting you to the fact that its time to get out. i havent heard those yet. but just judging by the pictures, its clear that that part of the building that is not damaged at least has been evacuated. like i said, in the hallway, it was pandemonium. peo...

Grenades and gunfire. did hostages stream out immediately? did police have to go in and get them? can you give us a timeline as that went down? >> reporter: we had five hostages that released or escaped this afternoon. there was a long period of nothing happening. i mean it was very quiet. we were told by police they were in negotiations with the gunman. we were waiting and waiting. it was shortly before 2:00 a.m. our time, so a little over an hour ago there was a loud banging noise. what we thi...

Thank goodness that was a helicopter that just flew by. im just a little nervous right now when you hear aircraft go past. but they have, in fact, evacuated that portion of the building. usually they have sirens that go off in the building, alerting you to the fact that its time to get out. i havent heard those yet. but just judging by the pictures, its clear that that part of the building that is not damaged at least has been evacuated. like i said, in the hallway, it was pandemonium. people we...

Thank goodness that was a helicopter that just flew by. im just a little nervous right now when you hear aircraft go past. they have in fact, evacuated that portion of the building. usually they have sirens going off in the building alerting you to the fact that its time to get out. i havent heard those yet, but judging by the pictures, it is clear that that part of the building, that is not damaged at least, has been evacuated. like i said, in the hallway, it was pandemonium. >> uh-huh. >> repo...

Pentagon? >> reporter: well, nobodys given us the official word yet. but i think that is probably a safe bet. thank goodness that was a helicopter that just flew by. im just a little nervous right now when you hear aircraft go past. they have in fact, evacuated that portion of the building. usually they have sirens going off in the building alerting you to the fact that its time to get out. i havent heard those yet, but judging by the pictures, it is clear that that part of the building, that is...

From their offices, rushing outside. >> and youre in your office at the pentagon right now reporting to us, mik? >> reporter: i am in the office, but im at the opposite side of where this crash occurred. >> all right. why dont you see if you can gather more information and please be careful, and were going to go to matt whos going to be talking with jamie. >> yes, thank you. i am joined by tom brokaw and we are going to recap on whats been going in washington, and new york as well. we want to go...