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Tonight 99 souls are listed as unaccounted for officially. Theres been one fatality. Crews have been on the scene for almost 24 hours now using extrication tools, their hands, search dogs, microphones. Earlier today a boy who was trapped in the debris was pulled out alive. For the very latest, were joined tonight by telephone by charles briquette, the mayor of surfside, florida. Joining us by telephone, because the weather has turned so suddenly severe, we cant get a tv signal out of there, which also means think of the underground rescue effort and how that will be slowed down and hampered by...

Neither did we rule it out. we identified critical indicators of an impending collapse of afghan defense forces. we tried to account for a complete collapse of the afghan security forces. the secretary took action in may to make forces available to me for planning. on july 9th i requested that our base neo force the core package that would go in be put on 96 hour prepare to deploy orders. by august 11th it was evident kabul was at risk and i requested the 82nd airborne decision and our premra*nd force package and requested they be deployed into the kabul air fort. the forces flowed into theert...

Potential security threats, too. when people see something wrong, when people are crowding in an area. but i worry one thing the u.s. military can't do right now is have human intelligence, eyes on the ground. i actually don't know to what degree we are still able to partner with the nds from the former government, their cia, if you will, and with the commando units and others. these people are trained to get out the same as anybody else. that's where i think the blind spot is. the geography, the physics of the situation make it so desirable and make it difficult to prevent every attempt at a ...

This monday night as we start a new week. our thanks for being here with us. on behalf of all our colleagues at the networks of nbc news, good night. if we can, we're battling technically difficulties, but we're going to try to start tonight live in kabul. it is 5:30 in the morning, tuesday morning right now in kabul, and's chief foreign correspondent richard angle, should probably know he has spent big portions of the last decades of his life in afghanistan during the war there. richard also just weeks ago, before some of the last fierce fighting by and the afghan commando units, fighting aga...

Western backers but the afghans themselves. this is an army with combined security forces of the army and police which was supposed to number about 300,000. that's far more than the taliban numbers, on paper, at least. and it's had billions and billions of dollars poured into it. i think the u.s. alone has spent something like $68 billion in the past 20 years. it's fought very hard at times, in the last few years. but in the last couple of weeks, it's given up, it seems. apart from some stout defenses by well-led commando units, we've seen time and again the afghan army and the afghan police h...