you can hear the dickens and the jackhammers well i can go away. the sound is terrible. that affects you more than watching it. and i rita and her sister me mum were lucky they own a flat in the center of genoa and were able to move there it s smaller than their home near the bridge but they had to leave a lot of their belongings behind anyway they were only permitted to return to their old home accompanied by officials a few times it lies directly under the bridge which at that stage was in danger of collapsing. and i. believe that like grave robbers because there was no sign of life there anymore it s an awful feeling when you don t recognize your own home you know vehicle most in some ways going back was part of the process of letting go. some memories are painful for the 2 sisters but not all of them there were light moments among all
instead, he gets the berlin crisis. in july, 1,000 east germans escaped into west berlin every day. now in august, they re coming out at the rate of 2,500 a day. as a result of khrushchev s threats and demands. east germany is being bled of its best-trained people. i went to berlin to cover the bureau, and the nbc news desk in new york called in the middle of the night and said, what s this about closing off the border at the brandenburg gate? at 2:00 a.m., the communist regime issued a new case. no east german could go to west berlin without special dispensation. the sound of jackhammers erupts in the night. suddenly east german police appear, tear up the sidewalk and street. a small crowd gathered, and the east germans were unrolling barbed wire and starting fences. they were sealing off the border. i thought, my, god, this is, you know, unbelievable. president kennedy was in hyannisport for the weekend. a telephone call from washington
lived. out in the street it was a zoo. reporter: reporters like jeff proctor were staked out for three days while men with jackhammers and backhoes began tearing up the garage floor. we continue to follow breaking news right now. reporter: if you lived in albuquerque, you would have to wear earplugs not to hear about it. we just spoke to the police chief and he is here looking for the remains of michael snyder. reporter: a longtime friend of ellen s was at work when the news broke. i believed it. reporter: you believed he left her and was in phoenix? yeah. reporter: the job of finding mike snyder s remains proved difficult. the garage floor was a solid foot of steel reinforced concrete. police say they will resume digging tomorrow.
the search-and-rescue effort only beginning in italy after that highway bridge collapse that killed dozens of people west of genoa. the death toll climbing again moments ago. our ian lee is live in genoa for us. the pictures are just devastating. what do we know? reporter: it s really hard to describe kind of the tragedy that we are seeing unfold behind us. they re still searching, going through that rubble, trying to find if there s any survivors, though they said the last survivors that they were able to find was about 10, 11 hours ago. let me step aside to give you a better picture of what we re looking at here. you have that search-and-rescue operation right now. you can hear jackhammers trying to penetrate that massive pile
become. i guess that makes them feel better. that s their idea of victory. if they re going to chop up everybody s star who has done something they don t like, they might as well rent a bunch of jackhammers. there are a lot of people on that sidewalk who represent some pretty crazy views and things that have gotten them landed with the me too movement. there we see good-bye from kevin spacey or roman polanski. how many elites will have their stars chopped up because they didn t exactly do the right thing to be charitable about it? it s a double standard. we have the if you re a star like james gunn like director of guardians of the galaxy and you had bad tweets you get an excuse. but if you are a conservative, they never forgive you.