you, andrew stevens reporting from taiwan. new information into cnn. chinese state media is reporting three people are dead and at least 16 are still missing at this hour. landslide triggered by heavy rains caused a nine-story residential building to collapse in china wednesday. rescue crews are sifting through mangled rubble trying to find more survivors. government officials say 98 people have been found safe. you see though the collapsed building there. they say cell phone signals of some of the missing have the been traced back to the site of the collapse. well the heavy rains that led to this disaster are all part of the seasonal storms that batter east asia every may. meteorologist pedram javahari covering this. keeping a close eye on what is happening. pedram, the devastation?
story residential building to collapse wednesday. now, rescue crews are still shifting through the mangled rubble trying to find more survivors there. shocking images. authorities say 98 people have been found safe and they say the cell phone signals of some of the missing have been traced back to the site of that collapse. for more we want to bring in meteorologist pedram javahari. he joins us. the imagery is shocking enough isn t it? it is. every may, june, we see this in the part of the world. seasonal rains are responsible. we know it is coming. fascinating story behind how this happens. ancient chinese, hundreds of years ago would talk about the setup. they would call it, a mayu bayou. tremendous rainfall. time to harvest plums. population rising. a lot of people populated in small areas.
evidence. if the car was recovered, likely there s going to be you know possibly some dna, some fingerprints, hair and fibers. all of these things can give law enforcement significant clues as to who these people are. and evan, one thing that we re hearing reported is that these individuals may not have spoken with a french accent. what other intelligence are french authorities working with right now? well, look, aside from the closed circuit tv cameras, also cell phone signals. they re trying to see if they can track cell phone signals and see if they can identify who these folks are. if you look back a few years ago at the tiger tiger, the failed bombing of the tiger tiger nightclub in the uk they managed to escape. and authorities managed to zero in on their cell phones and then actually tracked their cell phones as they were moving along the highway. they knew exactly where they were and how they were able to stop them. and don, this seemed by all accounts to be an extraordin
evidently we did lose laura s signal from australia. you can just imagine the chaos from the scene and overwhelming amount of cell phone traffic. there were reports about possibility of a explosion. you see a bomb be tech. often times they jam the cell phone signals. heather has more. heather: the local police say this is over. we do not have all the answers yet. greg palkot has been monitoring this throughout the night. joins us live from london with more. greg, what do we know and do we know if they got the suspect yet? reporter: heather, that is unclear. we have had not a physical glimpse of him being brought out we assume not in good condition with the rounding of gunfire. they confirmed to fox news that the siege is over with a real bang. we ll tell you what happened in the dramatic climax. the 49-year-old iranian refugee
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