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And i proceeded to continue to stand there and request an ambulance, assistance or some police assistance to assist my son because i know he's still alive. i see him moving, but no one would reply to help my son or ms. jones. >> his son's funeral will be held saturday. i'm brooke baldwin, thanks for being with me. "the lead" starts now. thanks, brooke. north korea shakes the ground and shocks the world. "the lead" starts right now. nuclear backlash, the world reacting in emergency fashion to north korea's claim that it has successfully tested the most powerful weapon every made, the hydrogen...

Gangs of young men, many described as appearing arab, are accused of raping, sexually assaulting and robbing women on new year's eve, dozens of them. was this a coordinated attack? hello and welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. we're going to begin with the shocking development from north korea rattling the world literally and figuratively with the announcement that the rogue nation has successfully tested a hydrogen bomb. if this claim is indeed true, if the communist regime now has its hands on something that is thousands of times more powerful and more destructive than an atomic bomb. ...

During the previous and after the previous three nuclear tests have not stopped pyongyang so far. but we know that japan has sent two aircraft into the area of the sea of japan, or the east sea, which is just east of north korea where they believe any radioactive material would have been blown given the wind direction. they're going to collect that dust. they're going to analyze it and find out if that gives any clues obviously that the amount of kilotons that have been used would suggest how big the explosion was. but of course they don't know what the underground casing is like. they don't k...

Streets following their government's bold announcement of a first for the isolated nation. a successful test of a hydrogen bomb, many times more powerful than the atomic bombs pyongyang has already developed. this man telling a reporter his heart is happy and he wants to dance. pyongyang believes photos of north korean leader kim jong-un signing the order for the test while international monitoring work to determine the exact power of the blast. >> signals were detected on numerous seismic stations. and these signals were immediately made available to all of our member states. >> reporter: but...

Intelligence says it wasn't necessarily one. what would president cruz be doing right now with you by his side? >> well, what i would be advising him to do would be to make it very clear north koreans that there are ramifications for this behavior. the problem we have is that there have been no checks on them over the course of the last seven years, even perhaps longer than that. and so they've been testing, testing, testing. if nothing else, last night they signalled that they are going towards a hydrogen bomb. and this is intolerable. so the chinese should know that we will not stand for thi...