Out the scope of the damage down there. The earthquake struck late last night. 61 miles off chiles northern coastline. We have Team Coverage on this. Lets start with rafael romo. Reporter as many as 900,000 people had to be evacuated for fear of a tsunami last night. Now authorities are waiting for daylight to assess the true extent of the damage. Sirens blaring, people running into the streets as a powerful 8. 2 magnitude earthquake hits off the coast of northern chile causing landslides, power outtajs and triggering warnings. Items crashing to the ground. The initial jolt sending shoppers and employees running for the door. The massive quake proving deadly and forcing officials to evacuate the nations entire coastline according to chiles interior minister. Also saying, about 300 prisoners escaped. In a News Conference, chiles president warning that officials will not know the full extent of damage until inspectors are able to assess during Daylight Hours, though initial reports show
Malaysia airlines has released the full transcript of the planes final communication. Heres what we know. The jets sign off was not all right, good night. Instead good night malaysian 370. At 12 26 a. M. , air Traffic Control, ams 370 welcome over to ground. Cockpit ams 370, good day. At 12 40 a. M. The plane gets the go ahead for takeoff. Air Traffic Control 370, 32r cleared for takeoff. Good night. The cockpit 32r, cleared for takeoff. Ams 370, thank you. Bye. 1 19 a. M. The last time anyone would hear from the plane. Air Traffic Controlle. Malaysia 370 contact, o chi minh 120. 9. Good night. Cockpit, good night malaysian 370. Its unclear who said the last words. Jim clancy has seen the transcript. Tell us more. Reporter carol, you look at this and it really stands out. What this transcript shows us is that the conversation between the control tower and that cockpit of flight 370 was entirely routine. This transcript while it doesnt break new grounds may actually add to the mystery.
Confirms no one in the cockpit ever said all right, good night. Instead the final voice transmission actually was guide malaysian 370. For three weeks they sate it was, all right good night the copilots said before they lost communication. When we got the last transmission from the cockpit that says, at all right, good night. Initial investigation says it was the copilot. Malaysias transport minister offered the last words revision yesterday, but gave no explanation between the two quotes. A cnn expert says the new language is routine. The rest reads like a normal cockpit transcript. Someone saying good day and good morning while the plane was taxiing. Then during the flights takeoff, someone said departure malaysian 370. About 51 15 minutes, main tining flight level 350. And then just before the final words were recorded, malaysian 370 contact good night. This as they tell cnn theyre treating the planes sharp left turn as a quote, criminal act carried out by one of the pilots or someo
And a School Bus Driver takes off with a students backpack caught in the door. While the teens mom says it was intentional and racist. Good morning, and welcome to early start. Im dave briggs. And im christine romans, it is 4 00 a. M. In the east, 4 00 p. M. In beijing, and today is the day, tariff day, the Trump Administration raising tariffs on 200 billion of chinese goods. That is thousands of different items, including dish washers, frozen fish, baseball caps. Tariffs hit roughly half of the products that china sells to the United States. How did we get here. Thats thanks to three rounds of tariffs last year starting with march, starting with the u. S. Hitting all steel and aluminum, including from china. The u. S. Then singled out beijing in july 2018 hitting 50 billion of chinese goods. Thats mostly hightech goods and then it goes on, china retaliated with tariffs on 50 billion u. S. Goods, mainly ag products which have big markets in china, and cemeseptember, 200 billion in chin
Now. Good evening once again from our nbc news Head Quarters here in new york. Im Steve Kornacki in for brian williams. Day 8 40 of the Trump Administration and the legal and political challenges facing this white house are multiplying. It has been six weeks now since the special Counsel Robert Mueller ended his investigation which had loomed as a potential giant threat to the trump presidency. Now the drum beat from democrats is getting louder for mueller to appear before congress and to testify about his report. The question . Whether trump and the white house will try to stop him from doing so. Heres what the president had to say about that today. Will you allow Robert Mueller to testify . Well, im going to leave that up to our very great attorney general, and hell make a decision on that. Bob muellers no friend of mine. I had conflicts with him. We had somebody that is in love with james comey. He liked james comey. They were good friends. This is a potential reversal from one he w