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It's so sad. >> reporter: this grandmother in tears after she said her grandson drowned seeking shelter. >> what's your biggest fear right now as a dad? >> my biggest fear right now is my son's safety. >> reporter: robert monroe's son, part of the bahamian military stationed in abaco. his last message, "the weather is picking up". since then, silence. >> the storm came and then all communications was lost as this time. >> all right. so that was just part of nbc correspondent morgan chesky's report from the bahamas last night. let's check in with msnbc meteorologist bill karins. >> hey, guys. j...

Caused as it collapsed on that building. again, according to cnn affiliate ktvt, there are two injuries. we have reached a witness who saw this happen. her name is bianca harper kelly. bianca, can you hear me? >> caller: yes. >> what did you see? >> caller: we were on our way to the 230 corral performance. we were trying to drop our baby off. only 5 months. with a friend of ours that lives in the apartment. so we had made a u-turn, missed the turn. we were at the intersection of live oak and i don't recall the other street. but the crane was directly in front of us. and the apartment complex t...

Those babies were even sometimes called the untouchables. laura bush remembers the photograph that we all saw of first lady barbara bush picking up, quote, a dieing baby named donovan and snuggled him against her shoulder to smooth him. my mother-in-law never viewed her embrace of that fragile child as courageous, she simply saw it as the right thing to do. so we are at another possible first lady moment. a moment where the first lady can actually do something that none of the rest of us can. in the jails that donald trump is now running on the southern border for children and toddlers and bab...

Photograph that we all saw of first lady barbara bush picking up, quote, a dieing baby named donovan and snuggled him against her shoulder to smooth him. my mother-in-law never viewed her embrace of that fragile child as courageous, she simply saw it as the right thing to do. so we are at another possible first lady moment. a moment where the first lady can actually do something that none of the rest of us can. in the jails that donald trump is now running on the southern border for children and toddlers and babies, the rules say that none of the people working there can touch the children. it...

Say drive that wedge between the two and any thoughts that we had that this crisis was going to get easier that president trump might become more neutral or less provocative in 2018, well forget it. because we saw from that tweet, president trump personalizing the issue again with another rocketman taunt at that extraordinary tweet, minds you, your button is bicker than your button. but this gesture from kim jong-un in advance of the winter olympics in pyeongchang saying he will reopen dialogue and the hotline apparently has been reopened. >> that has been confirmed by south korean officials. ...