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Every landmark obliterated. even finding where his home stood isn't easy for this 12-year-old. this is the first time he's been back. but house number three on his street, there's just a void. >> translator: my desk was up there. my bed was over here. this is where my bookshelf was. >> reporter: this is all his sister, a 10-year-old, found, her school bag. she used it for trips to the beach with her father. >> translator: because we live near the sea, i could play there. i would go with dad. it was fun. when the tsunami came, it was scary, but i like living by the sea. >> reporter: her father ...

Killer quake. this amateur video shot by a rescue worker captures the drama, the hope. late tuesday a welcome triumph. a woman had been kept alive with small sips of water freed from the ruins of this collapsed building. it was a much needed boost for a devastated city. more than 75 people are confirmed dead. 300 others still missing. >> we just had one niece that's not accounted for. >> how old is she? >> 25. >> hampering rescue efforts violent tremors continue to rock the city. the monster 6.3 quake struck without warning at busy lunchtime. streets crowded with office workers and tourists. o...

>> shep: another deadly explosion at a coal mine, this time in colombia. sfiashs say it happened this morning during a shift change. blast said to have killed four miners just outside the entrance and trapping another 16 inside. the mine's manager refuses to speculate had a caused the explosion but the rescue worker says it may have been methane gas. they believe methane caused another explosion at the same mine three years ago that killed more than 30 workers. >> there is word that united states homeland security will scrap the nation's color coded nation's alert system. this was introduced a...

Artificial light, so protecting the eyes of the miners. these are the things you'll see, everything from lack of vitamin d to not being exposed to germs and viruses in the last few months, it seems that they're not leaving anything to chance. >> just in the last few minutes, dusk has settled in, they're preparing the phoenix capsule. it's still lying on the ground, that will be stood, it will be dropped in, a rescue worker will go down with it, and the current plan is for five rescue workers to go down, one to go down first, one miner comes out, another rescue worker comes out. many have hoped...

Tonight from the gulf. the cap overb.p.'s oil well is still holding but the government is extending the trial run for another day. officials want to ensure there are no ruptures in the well's network of pipe. after the testing is completed, the cap will be hooked up to pipe on the ship on the surface. it might release some crude in the water temporarily. caught on video. mexican drug gang using a brand new deadly tactic against security forces across the border. cops in juarez say the traffickers on thursday used a human deep rig to lure rescuers with car bombs. a gang dressed a bound and woun...