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
it comes down again to john mccain and lisa murkowski. that s what it looks like. harris: can t wait to bring you guys back. thank you. thanks, harris. harris: the dire situation in mexico. search and rescue teams frantically combing through the sea of slab for survivors. children trapped under a school. they ve been momentary listening, then silence, then trying to get to those signs of life they have with at least three children. we re live at the scene. stay close.
identify [ audio difficulty ] reporter: teachers that are here from the school. vast majority of rescue people, police, army official, school officials from the education ministry. lot of construction workers. you re not getting dramatic emotional scenes that, like you say, you might expect. harris: it looks very, you know, work oriented. they re just doing what they can. there may be what we do in countries, we ll have a command post. we ll have a center where people can be. that is a curiosity point. joshua partlow giving us more details on this situation where they re trying to rescue these children. it is one of the big stories we are watching this hour. one that is just leaning so hard on hope. we ll continue to check back. a big no-show at this year s u.n. general assembly.
harris: what is the biggest weapon russia launched during this exercise in reporter: yesterday russia test fired an icbm with a 7500 mile range capable of hitting any city in the united states. pentagon officials say if u.s. was warned in advance about the launch in accordance with longstanding arms treaties. russia continues to upgrade its nuclear fleet at a time when the u.s. only recently started to upgrade its nuclear missiles which date back to the 1970s. meanwhile in eastern syria a flash pointed on the banks of the aou euphrates river. the u.s. military accused rug jets of bombing u.s. backed fighters last weekend with u.s. special operations troops nearby. no u.s. troops were hurt. today a russian general warned the united states russia would attack if his port came under fire. yesterday russian generals met face to face to defuse the
seen, water 20 feet higher than that which is such a catastrophic thing. harris: on an island. surrounded by water. on an island that gets a lot of rain. harris: wow. a very dramatic storm. we still don t have images out from those worst hit areas. when those do come in, they will be grateful. all indications are that we have impacts across the dominican republic and a little in toward turks and caicos mostly with some rain. winds aren t that bad. this is our last land mass. still some big rain across the dr. lot of mountains. even a little in toward haiti. that will cause localized flooding. go up toward the north. we had this other hurricane. it was jose. now a tropical storm jose. about a 60 mile an hour storm. it s been lingering across parts of the northeast. this will dissipate in this area just wind down drip here and all