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>> bill: we understand south korea is making a humanitarian gesture toward the north. what is that about, greg? >> this is significant, bill. announced today here in seoul $8 million humanitarian aid package to north korea via unicef and the world food program. south korea has been knocked by president trump and ally japan for being a little bit too close to pyongyang. according to seoul, this aid will not go to the regime itself. will only go to the people. on the other hand, it is guns and butter in south korea for north korea. those exercises we watched firsthand earlier in the week involvi...

Get back and forth to their homes. they're coming back. this is their home and they're not going anywhere. >> some real inspiration and resilience on display there. thank you so much. i want to go now to nbc's blake mccoy, in port arthur, where they are in a very different phase here. we were just watching some pictures of live rescues of people in port arthur as they try to get out of the way of those rising waters. blake, what are you seeing? >> reporter: yeah, still in a rescue phase here in port arthur. the water has started to go down a bit, look just how much water is still on the ground...

And we begin this hour with breaking news in japan where rescue efforts are underway right now after days of heavy rainfall that's triggered widespread flooding. >> at this stage, reuters reports that 90,000 people have been ordered to evacuate after river banks burst in cities north of tokyo. local media recorports the floog is so widespread they have not started to grasp how dire the flooding it. the water has washed away a number of homes. one person is missing and we saw moments ago military helicopters air lifting residents one by one in what is certainly a frightening situation for so ma...

The key question is how calm the situation is for this kind of work to continue. and also, quite whether this delivers enough of the aid that people need. country of millions on the brink. this a drop in the ocean. badly needed from unicef. so much more has to come. nick paton walsh, cnn, sanaa. >> nick paton walsh, live from abu dhabi. i have one taken a unicef flight, air lifting aid into mogadishu. dropping the aid. getting it out. flying out because of the danger russian si dangerous situation there. how difficult is it to get air lifted in. >> the unicef, a bureaucratic challenge, they ha...

Break news tonight. "the new york times" reporting that one of the two pilots had been locked out of the flight deck. first knocking and trying to break down the cockpit door as the plane is descending. eventually crashing. the time citing a senior official and investigator familiar with what is on the cockpit recorder. medical emergency or something else. we don't know. was it a nefarious desire on the part of the person behind the controls or did they become unconscious due to a medical emergency. meantime the process of airlifting remains from the crash site has begun. for more tonight from...