magnitude earthquake, the strong oft to hit the north african nation in more than a century. the quake struck late last night, centered in the high mountains around the tourist destination of marrakech. the quake brought down buildings and homes and people ran into the streets. look at this video, two men run when they begin to feel the shaking. moments later you see panicked people running by and then rubble falling where those men were just moments before. look at that. there you go. there s the rubble falling. nearly 700 people were reportedly injured in the quake. and now there is a race to reach the victims in the most affected area. but officials say rescue teams are struggling to get to some of these places. cnn s ben wedeman is joining us now, he s following this story, ben, we know that this large earthquake hit around 11:00 p.m. local time so a lot of people must have been sleeping. what are the latest on the rescue efforts and tell us about the concerns that mo
rescue operation in the channel. the rnli exists to save lives at sea. yesterday saw our crews do all they could to prevent people from drowning. sadly, it has been confirmed that four people have lost their lives. such is continued throughout yesterday and all of the lifeboat crews from dungeness, ramsgate, doverand lifeboat crews from dungeness, ramsgate, dover and hastings is also inshore lifeboat crews from warmer lifeboat station. the rnli contribution was part of a multi agency rescue search and search and rescue operation with other emergency services and to search and rescue assets, all under the coordination of his majesty s coastguard. we are grateful beyond words for the selfless dedication of our crews, howeverthis words for the selfless dedication of our crews, however this is a stark reminder of how dangerous this stretch of water can be. in recent months, rnli crews have undergone additional training and this has been provided with specialist equipment in preparations fo
welcome back to our breaking news coverage in wilmington, north carolina. i m george howl. we re awaiting the eye wall of the storm. as it continues to track here towards wilmington, north carolina. moving at snails pace. moving six miles per hour. equal to a person walking down the street. as it does that it s dropping a great deal of rain and causing storm surge along the coastline. many hour long events as we continue to stay with you. and bring you the very latest. here s the thing, we re covering the storm right now as it s coming in. after the storm comes through, there will be an assessment of course among rescue personnel. what they need to do to go into the areas where people decided to stay to ride it out. and according to fema here s what we know. they have 1,100 rescue search
funnel cloud on video. several tornadoes were reported in kansas, we ll have more on the severe weather from the cnn severe weather center in just a couple minutes. rescuers are scouring the waters of mobile bay in alabama today. they are searching for three members of the u.s. coast guard missing after their helicopter crashed. crews recovered the body of a fourth crew member. this morning rescuers located the helicopter partially submerged in several feet of water. the chopper was on a training mission when it went down last night. terrified school kids calling 911 when a fellow student started shooting this week in ohio. now we hear their voices. police released the phone recordings. just take a listen. 911 what is your emergency. we just had a shooting at our school. we need to get out of here. okay, ma am we got a school shooting what school? chardon high school. chardon high school? yes, ma am. all right. can you get administration? everyone is run
any reports of workers actually finding survivors in the rubble. well what we know so far is that as the rescue search and rescue operations are continued today they have managed to put four people out alive and so with that in mind they are continuing the efforts through the night the death toll at the moment stands at twenty two but they expect that figure to rise that s because there have been reported some missing people reported that are still not accounted for and those that have been injured some of them are in a very serious condition so they could succumb to the injury now as you mentioned all we saw in that report this is the eve of a major public holiday here in italy for the summer period people could have been on that bridge heading out to the beach or to the mountains it s a major important bridge in motorway for the city or genoa and so they were on there at that time now four hundred forty people have also been evacuated from that