expressed concerns about the opioid crisis. we caught up with two on the watch list. [ inaudible ] there are many concerns that i have about the graham-cassidy proposal. they include the fact that they make fundamental changes in the medicade program for the first time in more than 50 years. reporter: with kentucky s rand paul a firm no, gop leadership can only lose one more republican senator and pass this bill. harris? harris: mike, thanks for the update. russia s military generals are showing they are ready for war, putting on fire power for president putin. is this the real reason he skipped the united nations general assembly this week? the message he may be trying to send. and a live report on earthquake rescue efforts in mexico as we continue to watch the frantic movement to try to rescue children entering their third day trapped under the rubble 37
believed that there are more people alive. we believe they re still missing at that location, at least 14 people. how many of them could be alive in that rubble is of this point anybody s guess. mexico s president has made it very clear that this remains at the moment across mexico city and other areases of mexico, a rescue operation. he says his teams of official rescue workers and the thousands of civilian volunteers we have seen will not rest until they are absolutely certain they have done everything in their power to find anybody who may have survived this 7.1 earthquake which happened some 48 hours ago. you ll continue to see pictures, harris, over the next 24 hours at least. nobody in mexico is willing to give up on those beneath the rubble quite yet. harris: we made this point yesterday. it s hot there.
the executive order, which i have just signed. reporter: production, oops. he was supposed to say xi said he announced china s central bank told other banks to stop doing business with nor korea. that s a big move and something the united states really wanted. because china is the country that holds the strings over north korea. if they cut them off financially and it s a quick road downhill for kim jong-un. harris: we have more movement. reporter: there s always room for people to cheat but they re gonna try to tighten it up. harris: thanks for coming in. big topic today. breaking news in mexico. we re staying with the story. it is the on going rescue mission to save victims who may be trapped under the rubble of a collapsed school. one major world leader is not at the united nations this week. well, at least one. there are a couple. vladamir putin is putting on a show of force for a powerful
amazing speed, coverage and control. change the way you wifi. xfinity. the future of awesome. harris: generators are back on and drilling what they need to do. that will make sense in a moment. i m going to ask our next guest where three students, children may be alive buried under that rubble. joshua partlow joins me from mexico city. the generators are back on. can you tell us what s happening and why that s important. reporter: yeah. here in the courtyard of the school, hundreds of workers, dozens of workers looking for
these children. every 15 minutes or so, you can hear a pin drop. they ll lower a microphone into the structure. then we ll wait to hear from the children. last time they did it they screamed out negative after a few minutes of silence. that s what s going on here. it s between extreme tension in this courtyard and then people go back to the construction work of trying to sift through the rubble. harris: there r there parents we haven t heard that human element of, can you imagine this parent standing outside the school? i m wondering who exactly is allowed into that tight area that we see pictures of. reporter: yeah. i have not been able to