by gunman in matamoros was a case of mistaken identity. u.s. official tells cnn a mexican cartel likely mistook the americans for haitian drug smugglers when in fact they were tourists there for medical procedures. at least three of the victims were from lake city, south carolina. the mother of one says there is not much to to ndo now but pray wait. the waiting is the worst part. it has its advantages and disadvantages. but however, no news is good news. that is the way i m staying with it. no news is good news. reporter joining me live from bogota. what are the governments doing to get the americans back? reporter: the authorities are conducting search and rescue operations across the border area in particular in matamoros. and you can see from the images that yesterday there was increased police presence especially from federal mexican police. and at the same time the fbi is conducting their investigation on the northern side of the border. and they visited the hotel
they re striking over plans to raise the retirement age. rising tensions, tough new talk from china s foreign minister who warns that u.s. and china are headed for confrontation and conflict, unless the u.s. changes course. state of emergency. the situation increasingly dire in communities in the southern california mountains. residents remain trapped after that unprecedented snowfall. and we re about to get an update from the state department on the late news that two of the four americans kidnapped in mexico last week are dead. what we re learning now about the whereabouts and conditions of the other two americans. our nbc news reporters are around the country and world with the latest developments. we want to begin at the state department where we re about to hear from those officials for the first time since we learned of the american deaths in mexico. nbc s morgan chesky is in brownsville, texas, just north of where the americans were kidnapped. what are the big un
their remains. here is spokesperson ned price at the state department just a moment ago. i understand we may have more so share from the fbi at the appropriate time. but from the department of state it s important for us not to impinge on investigative equities especially in an investigation that implicates the kidnapping of four americans, the death of two americans and two americans who survived what by all accounts must have been a traumatic experience. there are still so many questions about why these americans were targeted. they just only crossed the border from brownsville, texas, to mexico when their car came under fire. in newly-confirmed video of the incident, you can see a group of unknown men, believed to be connected to a cartel attack the car and drag the americans on to the flat bed of a pickup. two appear to be bleeding badly. we do have source reporting on what the u.s. officials officials in the u.s. believe could be the motive. and statements from the
and voters in berlin head to the polls in a referendum on whether to make the city climate neutral by 2030. nato has condemned russia for what it called its dangerous and irresponsible rhetoric a day after president putin said moscow would deploy tactical nuclear weapons in belarus. ukraine said the move would make belarus a nuclear hostage, destabilise it and strip it of its sovereignty. kyiv is also calling on the united nations for an urgent meeting of the security council. the secretary of the ukranian national defence council said on twitter that the move was a step towards the internal destabilisation of belarus. and he said the kremlin had taken the country as a nuclear hostage. ukraine says the deployment violates non proliferation commitments, something mr putin has denied. translation: we have already transferred - to belarus our well known, very effective complex iskander. it can be a delivery vehicle as well. on april 3rd, we will start training the crews. o