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After days of torrential rain collapsing houses, toppling cars and turning streets to waterways. here, you can see rescue teams working relentlessly in a town in western germany. >> and this astonishing footage from the height of the flooding. take a look here. this is when water literally carried away an entire house in a place about six hours away from >> joining us now is nbc news correspondent claudio on the ground. claudia, what is the recovery process look like right now? >> hi, erin. while the search for the hundreds of people still reported limiting continues here. only an hour ago rig...

And in nice last july and in berlin at christmas time and in london a handful of people or just one person using the means closest at hand, a vehicle to kill as many people as possible. the isis media outlet has claimed today's attack. it is unusual for them to claim responsibility for an attack before we know that all of the perpetrators of the attack are dead. they don't like to give investigators a way to pressure their interrogation suspects in to giving up their isis contacts. if this was isis, what does that tell us about what might happen next? and if this was isis, why are they claimin...

When on wednesday night an explosion took place. on wednesday night they thought it was because of a face leak. but as you mentioned in the intro at the top of your program, now they believe there could be a connection between that explosion and today's attack in barcelona and perhaps the one in cambrils. could have been a bomb making factory where the explosion went off and they had to rush these two taye tacattacks. the fact that these two towns are not far from each other, that could be an indication that all these three towns could be related, rachel. >> reporting tonight from barcelona. c...

Rachel. >> let me just ask you one question about this second attack, claudio. thank you for that understanding in terms of what we're looking at behind you and how eerie it is in barcelona. it's hard for me from this distance to get any kind of sense of what might have been the target of the second attack. if in cambril that wasn't just a police action chasing down the perpetrators but in fact that was a second attempted attack, one police responded to or were able to interrupt. do we have any detail or understanding of what might have been the target for the second attack? >> reporter: well,...

To leave his bulletproof popemobile is causing controversy. for the latest on that, nbc news correspondent claudio. >> reporter: hey, richard. everything is ready here ahead of the pope's arrival tomorrow. a massive stage was set up on the copacabana beach right behind me. the pope will be meeting on thursday night about 1 million young pilgrims here. the sentiment is growing. nevertheless, security still a major issue. thousands of policemen, army officers deployed in what one official is calling the biggest police operation in the city's history. and yes, the biggest concern here is the pope...